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Ever wanted to pan through the latent🌌 space of TikTok videos? Made using the amazing toponymy and datamapplot from @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social and data from mine and @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social 's first complete TikTok slice. link below

Bremen, it was a pleasure! Thank you for the workshop on our book project on why the "data revolution" needs qualitative research and the keynote of @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social

Wer den Unterschied zwischen Deutschland und Österreich etwas besser verstehen will, soll sich die letzten 15 Sekunden vom JJ Sieger-Interview anhören: "Leidl, wir ham den Schas gwunnan." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYMw...

We are happy and proud to present the new Masters program "Data & Society" at Technical University of Munich - Apply now! Create added value for society by applying technical skills with a view to social needs and sustainable processes. Details: www.gov.sot.tum.de/gov/studies/...

Deutschlandfunk radio covering our work TikTok (in German): www.deutschlandfunk.de/social-media...

In the updated version, we can now estimate for the one day: - a total of 269 million posts produced - 176 years of videos uploaded - ~1/4 of videos gets deleted New version: www.arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13279 PS: Thanks for all your comments and questions. :)

Heute zu Gast: @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social von der @tum.de. In seiner #LIfBiLecture drehte sich alles um Herausforderungen beim Umgang mit neuen #Datenquellen, die vor allem auf #digitalen #Technologien beruhen. Für einige Forschende geht's jetzt noch in den persönlichen Austausch.

Researchers reckon they've managed to reverse-engineer access to a single day on TikTok. Among the findings? One in five videos features kids, and uploads at zero seconds past the minute do better. By me for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91323722/ins...

Algorithmisches Management via Smartphone? Software, konkreter Einsatz, Auswirkungen, Handlungsoptionen. Meine neue Studie untersucht digitale Steuerung und Kontrolle von Beschäftigten im Außendienst von technischer Wartung bis mobile Heimpflege, 91 Seiten: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/interessenve...

Zum Anlass 80 Jahre Befreiung der Konzentrationslager berichtet die SZ heute über den Außenlagerkomplex Kaufering und über die Anstrengungen unseres lokalen Vereins, Historisches zu erhalten und würdiges Andenken auch in Zukunft zu garantieren. www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...

"Altan" ist das Wort, das ich heute mit Google's Hilfe gelernt habe: Vom Erdboden aus gestützter balkonartiger Anbau @juortner.bsky.social wien.orf.at/stories/3302...

Humbled to find via @JurgenPfeffer that dataViz of interlocking corporate directories predates my take by >130 yrs:

Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort! w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279

Hallo @faznet.bsky.social -Ich höre Eure Tech/KI Artikel in der Regel und denke, es muss irgendwie möglich sein, dass Eure Text-to-Speech Software das Wort "Daten" korrekt ausspricht. Aktuell ist es ein englisches "Daitn". Ich habe gut Erfahrungen mit Wörter im Text ersetzen, versucht mal "Daaten".

Congratulations to @janineschroeder.bsky.social for her latest publication in "Social Networks" One Result: Online activism remains shaped by geographical and cultural boundaries. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paper alert! 🚨 We investigate Bluesky’s journey from an invitation only platform with a few thousands of users to reaching 30 million users in terms of user activity and network growth. 📄 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12902 💻 Codes: github.com/osome-iu/ris... 💾 Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1506...

If you know what this is… well, then you are old. ;)

Passt! "Die Gefangenschaft in Softwarelösungen großer, insbesondere außereuropäischer Anbieter sei nicht nur eine Sicherheitsbedrohung, sondern lähme auch das Wachstum der eigenen Digitalwirtschaft" www.deutschlandfunk.de/schleswig-ho...

Important initiative from European Research Council: 'If you are moving to Europe (EU Member State or Associated Country), you can apply for additional funding' erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...

I guess the question of learning something becomes hard when the correct solution is only a click away. "... nearly half (~47%) of student-AI conversations were Direct—that is, seeking answers or content with minimal engagement. ..." www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

Wir sammeln alle Wissenschaftler:innen und wissenschaftliche Institutionen, die auf Bluesky sind. Falls wir jemanden oder eine etwas vergessen haben, schreibt uns!

Ein Hoch dem orf.at Mut mit dem Konjunktiv II auch an grammatikalische Orte zu gehen, die die meisten Menschen meiden würden. PS: Dennoch würde ich gerne auch mal eine "tadad" lesen. :) @juortner.bsky.social

Congratulations to Raji for his next Social Networks paper! :) A typology of group lifecycle stages with a methodology for their identification. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zum Thema LLM-Bias versuch ich gerade ein paar historische Themen mit ChatGPT zu besprechen. #digitalhistory @fwenninger.bsky.social @mirjamzadoff.bsky.social

Algorithmus-Forscherin @janalasser.bsky.social im Interview von @claudiazettel.bsky.social futurezone.at/science/soci...

I don't know, but I somehow feel that if this happened to NASA, this DOGE boys would close down the shop, right? edition.cnn.com/2025/03/06/s...

Puha, was die Post wohl mit den anderen Paketen macht? ;) @juortner.bsky.social

Every time I am on X at the moment, I get several negative campaign ads for the German election from paid for reach campaigns from new non-German language accounts with less than 10 followers.

That’s interesting: a random hater can push his message on X to ~30k views and has a little commercial (Werbung) Label. I‘m wondering who pays for these campaigns…

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

This is the playbook. Find single cases of possible errors or fraud in the system as argument for destroying the entire system. Automation will then be used to take away people‘s rights. Read about it in „Automating Inequality“ by Virginia Eubanks.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: weact.campact.de/petitions/sa...

I finished my PhD in 1999 IES funded my career for nearly two decades I will be fine I worry about the young scholars whose work is being knee-capped

I guess using generative AI for education is the future. ;)

I guess the AI-boom is not so self-confident after all ... a little open language model gets released and Nvidia is losing close to 20% in value ($500 billions) in a couple of hours. #AIBubble #DeepSeek

Nice piece on our latest article! :)

Hier genau auf den unteren Teil der Abbildung schauen (Achtung: log-Darstellung): Die Reichweite verzehnfacht sich hier plötzlich!

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

In case you are not in Norrköping today, the talk will be on Zoom as well: liu-se.zoom.us/j/65535789369 #CSS #AI #Democracy

Echt jetzt, Microsoft...?

It seems that ChatGPT has recently become more utilitarian! "...we can show clear evidence for a shift in ethical stances in recent model developments." #ethics #LLMs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Does anybody have positive experience with the pre-print service Research Square (Springer Nature)? After three weeks, the article is still under initial screening and they are trying hard to sell me their language quality improvement service - this feels a bit like a scam.

Sure, I could say some things about social media and politics right now. It’s my job and everything. Instead I ran outside in the freezing temps to join my neighbors who are setting off their leftover stock of New Year’s fireworks. DC needs something to celebrate. #Commanders 🧨 🎇

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

Liebe @faznet.bsky.social Redaktion, hört mal in Eure KI Artikel rein. Euer Text2Speech Tool macht aus "KI" die interessantesten Wörten. Ev. kann man da nachhelfen. Einfacher Trick wäre auch, vor dem Senden an das Voice Tool, Wörter zu ersetzen, z.B. KI -> Kaa-I oder so ähnlich könnte helfen.

#DigitaleGewalt treibt engagierte Menschen aus der Politik und gefährdet unsere Gesellschaft. Schutzmaßnahmen sind daher dringend notwendig. Mehr in dieser neuen Studie @HateAid, @TU_Muenchen, @HfPMuenchen @BIDT_Muenchen. #AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen n.idwf.de/845761

Jede 2. politisch engagierte Person hat schon Anfeindungen im Internet erlebt. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TUM in Kooperation mit HateAid. Die Folge: Digitale Gewalt gefährdet das politische Engagement in Deutschland. Unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p... #AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen

For those of you interested in algorithmic manipulation, this is the Twitter notification today for me (and I assume for many German accounts). No, I am not following this or similar persons.

3/ AI breakthroughs like AlphaFold wouldn’t be possible without decades of work on datasets. e.g., AlphaFold was trained on protein structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), which took 50+ years and ~$20 *billion* to create. This is the kind of foundational effort AI needs.