The "free speech warriors" continue to push for censorship

Die USA belegen jetzt Leute, die sich gegen Hass im Netz einsetzen, mit Einreiseverbot. Das ist kein westlich-demokratischer Rechtsstaat mehr. Ich wünsche mir, dass das auch von PolitikerInnen in Europa so ausgesprochen wird. This is not normal. Nothing about this is normal.

If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.

Sanieren statt resignieren - Fotoausstellung der bayerischen Studierenden baystura.de/kunstausstel... Sanierungsstau als Kunst! Wann deutschlandweit? Das wissenschaftliche Personal könnte sich auch beteiligen! @drlutzboehm.bsky.social #ichbinhanna

New piece from @celinegounder.com about how antivax disinformation tactics are making their way to the CDC via the McCullough foundation.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

„Die Anzahl an Beiträgen mit prorussischen Narrativen sowie deren Reposts ist tatsächlich signifikant gestiegen. Daher gehen wir davon aus, dass russische Akteur*innen gezielt blaue Haken kaufen, um ihre Botschaften zu verbreiten“, resümiert der Forscher. www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/for...

🚨 Servicehinweis 🚨 Nicht vergessen: Meldungen an die #VGWort für Publikationen sowie Beteiligungen an Beiträgen und Werken rechtzeitig eintragen! 🗓 Meldeschluss: 31. Januar 2026 #IchBinHanna

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

"MAGA hat politische Akteure auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks identifiziert, die sich an einem Prozess beteiligen, der das Ziel hat, die Europäische Union zu untergraben und die demokratischen Institutionen zu sabotieren, die der Kontinent seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aufgebaut hat."

Die US-Politologen, die einst das Konzept des „kompetitiven Autoritarismus“ für Länder wie Ungarn unter Orban o. die Türkei unter Erdogan entwickelt haben, sagen nun: Auch die USA sind nach 10 Monaten Trump II in diesem Stadium angekommen. Sie sind keine voll funktionsfähige Demokratie mehr.

„Glückwunsch“ an Impfskeptiker Robert Kennedy zum Rekordstand der Masernfälle in den USA. Man kann ihm eines nicht vorwerfen: Er liefert als Gesundheitsminister exakt das, wofür er steht. Und schlimm, dass RFK Jr.-Anhänger in der Corona Enquete-Kommission des Bundestags sitzen

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Why aren't families having more babies? This brand new paper argues that part of the reason is because childcare is so expensive. "A 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate" abigaildow.com/assets/docs/...

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

“Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT reinforced a single, dangerous message: Stein-Erik could trust no one in his life — except ChatGPT itself," the lawsuit says. “It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies..."

80 % arbeiten befristet, jetzt noch Reallohnkürzung in Millionenhöhe, gleichzeitig Top-100-Marketing und das Gerede von Leistungsanreizen an jeder Ecke … schwierig, das nicht zynisch zu kommentieren... 🫠 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looks like I ain't travelling to the United States any time soon...

Software von #Palantir hat verheerende Risiken. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Risikoprüfung in der Schweiz. Aber für deutsche Polizeien soll die Palantir-Software gut genug sein. Nimmt #Dobrindt diese Risiken in Kauf? netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...

Kryptowährungen: Wie hybride Angriffe finanziert werden www.deutschlandfunk.de/kryptowaehru...

Kick-Off-Event zur Hochschulstrategie 2040 - Wir von @nuwiss.bsky.social sind dabei! 👋

Across the country, police departments have adopted AI-driven platforms to assist with data collection and analysis. But without robust safeguards, these data fusion tools risk generating inaccurate results, perpetuating bias, and undermining individual rights. bit.ly/44nxPlx

This is necessary

Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects: -"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size" -"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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"Schaut man rein auf die Korrektheit der Antworten, beinhaltet ChatGPT zu 51,5 Prozent, Copilot zu 45,4 Prozent, Gemini zu 50 Prozent und Perplexity zu 45,7 Prozent wesentliche Fehler oder Ungenauigkeiten." www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...

My interview with @kyivpost.com by Ugo Poletti "How Russian Propaganda and Disinformation Tools Influence Europe" www.kyivpost.com/interviews/6...

These of course are the sorts of account that get boosted under Musk’s X. If you’re still on the platform for engagement, you are a mug.

'Twitter is not real Britain' latest.

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by....(1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment" which are "uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes" unlike SAT/ACT scores

Herbert Diess: »Die Stromrechnung fürs Auto fällt praktisch weg«: Am Verbrenner-Aus zu zweifeln, ist für Herbert Diess »etwas sehr Deutsches«. Der Ex-VW-Chef setzt voll auf Elektroautos. Deren Batterie könne für manche Fahrer zur Geldmaschine werden.

Makes perfect political as well as commercial sense: after all, the Telegraph is now just as bonkers as the Mail.

Ventilation was one of the original public health measures featured in early building codes in London and New York City. While contaminated water supplies were the real cause of cholera and typhoid outbreaks, airborne disease spread and high CO2 levels continue to plague modern buildings today.

“Sweden…to bolster security measures ahead of a general election next year *** Romania cancelled a presidential election outcome in Dec due to Russian interference, while Moldova recently called in EU assistance ahead of an election featuring cyberattacks it pinned on Moscow.” 11/21/25 … 1/

Neues zum ChatBot: Selbst das gute alte Googlen war eine bessere #Lernmethode. 😀📖 theconversation.com/learning-wit...

Für jene die immer meinen, man solle AfD/FPÖ halt mal mitregieren lassen, dann würden sie eh an der Realität scheitern. Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt das Gegenteil. Schlechte Regierungsarbeit schreckt die Wählerschaft rechtsextremer Parteien nicht ab. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/demo...

I‘m excited to take part in the @zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior at the @hertieschool.bsky.social this week! I'll be presenting first results from a project with @klingelt.bsky.social on the Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems.

Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies? My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm. Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10

Im Oktober erschien in den Salzburger Nachrichten (@sn.at) ein Artikel von @irisbonavida.bsky.social zu personalisierter Onlinewerbung mit Kommentaren von mir. Darin verweise ich auf aktuelle Forschung von Kolleg*innen sowie auf Ergebnisse meines eigenen Experiments: doi.org/10.1177/1940...

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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]

Reading from AI summaries (via LLMs) rather than doing your own minimal reading impairs learning and produces shallower knowledge. "...learning from LLM syntheses (vs. web links) can, at times, limit the development of deeper, more original knowledge." 🧪 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

The State of #Democracy 2025: Fake news, lack of accountability, extremism and corruption seen as top threats to democracy across Europe and the US www.ipsos.com/en/the-state...