Packing for a holiday.

Always check you've got your passport.

Starting the car.

Always check your mirrors.

Looking for a teaching job.

Always check teaching vacancies. Looking for a teaching job?

Always check teaching vacancies.

With 85% of schools signed up to the official government site,

if you're not checking with us, you're not checking. Always check teaching vacancies at Gov.uk.uk.

forward slash teaching dash vacancies. This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkins.

You can tell a lot about people's general state of mind based on their social media feeds.

Are they always tweeting about their biggest peeves or posting picks of particularly cute kitties?

Well, in a similar fashion, researchers are turning to Twitter for clues about the overall

happiness of entire geographic communities. What they're finding is that regional variation

in the use of common phrases produces predictions that don't always reflect the local state of well-being.

But removing from their analyses just three specific terms, good, love, and LOLo-l-l-l-o-l-l-lately

the accuracy of the methods.

We're living in a crazy COVID-19 error, and now more than ever we're using

social media to adapt to a new normal and reach out to the friends and family that we can't meet face to face.

Kokeil Jedka studies computational linguistics at the National University of Singapore.

But our words aren't useful. linguistics at the National University of Singapore.

But our words aren't useful just to understand what we as individuals think and feel.

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