I really just can’t. That’s how many levels of stupid and dangerous this all is…

This whole press conference has big “didn’t do the reading but I gotta turn in the assignment” energy.

Sometimes #ART just speaks to me. #PatriciaShrigley at the #MuzeumSlaskie in #Katowice. 1/2 📸 (c) @claesdevreese.bsky.social

Interesting, first time that I couldn’t google a statue this size. But it’s only been at its place for a few days. Still surprising experience. #ThingsWeGotUsedTo

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

This is not just maths. It's a design choice, supported by benchmarks that reward false certainty. Good to see OpenAI do some of the research, but it's also a reminder that OpenAI shouldn't be relied upon to do all the research.

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Love that part of this era is that enlightened center left journalists have to do a ritual where they post on bluesky about how bad blursky users are, get yelled at by us, and then invariably go back to Twitter to write an op-ed or thread about how bluesky is a horrible leftist echo chamber.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Wie mir der “joke” mit insane asylums schon am Hintern geht… ehrlich.

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Yes, that’s exactly what the EO says.

My thread on the Neurology paper on sweeteners & cognitive health: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... And a follow-up thread on some weird patterns in the Appendix tables: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... Collated by Skywriter onto a web page for easier reading!

Fast ein Wunder, dass dieser Text über Spahn erscheint: Das Gesundheitsministerium torpedierte Recherchen mit irreführenden Infos oder antwortete gar nicht. But here it is: Wie Jens Spahn für mehr als 600 Mio Covid-Arzneien kaufte - und sie klammheimlich verbrennen ließ correctiv.org/dasspahnnetz...

Headlines matter. Framing matters. AP: it’s about democracy NYT: it’s about a political fight

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

I kinda love the fact that I am getting a fake journal submission request from the email address [email protected] – that really has its own on-the-nose self-parody.

3/ Im Rahmen des Herbstfestes der Brotfabrik Wien diskutieren diese Fragen am Samstag, den 20.9. in der Co-Innovation Factory}: - @margitdraxl.bsky.social (Rotes Kreuz) - @jamoeberl.bsky.social (@univie.ac.at) - @vikiklim.bsky.social - Marcus Franz (Bezirksvorsteher Favoriten)

Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense – “Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.” A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳

Ich bin auch sehr gespannt, als wie wissenschaftlich das ganze bei der dazu gehörigen Sendung präsentiert wird, oder ob der ORF transparent über die methodologischen Probleme spricht. Wir haben so tolle Wissenschaftler*innen in Ö, da wäre sicherlich jemand für eine Kooperation offen gewesen.

Wir haben an den österreichischen Universitäten ausgezeichnete Panel-Befragungen dazu, wie Österreich lebt, denkt und fühlt – alles in Datenarchiven frei zugänglich. Dafür braucht es keine Website-Umfrage im #Boulevardstyle. Mag mir das jemand erklären? Rausgeschmissenes Geld.

Allgemein Antwortkategorien from Hell. 🫣

🤔 Do surveys exaggerate democratic support due to social desirability bias (SDB)? ➡️ Using survey-mode variation & list experiments in 24 countries, @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social & @aarslew.bsky.social find no evidence that SDB inflates democratic attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Österreich hat weiter die höchste Inflation in Europa. 4,1%. Leute, so geht das nicht weiter. Die Regierung braucht nichts anderes reden, solange das nicht gelöst ist. Alles andere ist komplett egal. Löst das.

#KeirStarmer – wohl eine der großen Enttäuschungen der Sozialdemokratie, gerade jetzt. Weiteres Beispiel dafür, dass die Übernahme von Themen & Frames der radikalen Rechten nicht funktioniert. Dennoch werden nach ihm viele Sozialdemokrat:innen wieder meinen, genau mit dieser Strategie zu gewinnen.

Remember that tiny window of time when, as a European, mornings weren’t defined by whatever dumb, anti-science, or authoritarian madness Trump and his administration had unleashed overnight? #RememberWhen

ok i'm going to make a thread of bad product demos by rich people because they're terrible and it's funny. please add more in the replies, they bring me joy as not-seth-rogan would say, "what do i do first"

In a meeting that devolved into confusion and near chaos, federal advisers on Thursday voted 8 to 3 against vaccinating children under four years old with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

Wenn ich richtig rechne, macht das Gratisticket für Behinderte ungefähr eine Million Euro pro Jahr aus. Kosten für Inserate der Stadt Wien im Vorjahr: Nicht ganz 30 Millionen. wien.orf.at/stories/3322...

Undermining trust IS the goal.

Right now, somewhere in #Greendale… this is happening. Because we really are in the darkest timeline. #Community #SixSeasonsAndAMovie

So, und jetzt darf man drüben nicht mal mehr einen Screenshot aus dem neuen Indy Spiel posten, wenn sich das in Indy-Manier mit Faschismus anlegt. Selten vertrottelt-gefährliche Zeit gerade.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

📊 Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum? ➡️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki & @drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Spannend von @kimandersen.bsky.social & A. Shehata! Oft heißt es: Menschen bevorzugen 😠 News. Hier zeigt sich etwas anderes: 🔹 Kein Neg.-Bias: Teilnehmende haben häufiger 😀 als 😠 News gewählt. 🔹 Bestätigungs-Bias: Wer 😠/😀 Ansichten hat, wählt 😠/😀 News. 🔹 Wer beides sah, wurde mit der Zeit 😀

3/ Im Rahmen des Herbstfestes der Brotfabrik Wien diskutieren diese Fragen am Samstag, den 20.9. in der Co-Innovation Factory}: - @margitdraxl.bsky.social (Rotes Kreuz) - @jamoeberl.bsky.social (@univie.ac.at) - @vikiklim.bsky.social (FALTER) - Marcus Franz (Bezirksvorsteher Favoriten)

Viktor Orbán's propaganda machine released a pseudo-report dismissing all Jean Monnet professors as "propagandists." 1. We're funded to study EU integration, not promote it 2. Many Jean Monnet scholars are among the EU's sharpest critics - including myself 3. Funding goes to universities not us

You won’t find a clearer example of what “Corporate America” really means than in these recent videos: ferocious against redistribution and regulation, desperate to befriend the autocrat. The question is: is the EU willing enough to be the opposite and continue to fight back? #DemocrativValues

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I’m old enough to remember when a lot of people on social media told me that Vance’s remarks in Munich about free speech were to be taken very seriously.

Great to see this out! Only ~23% of psychology journals have a post-publication critique format (e.g., letter to the editor). Some impose strict limits (e.g., 400 words & 4 weeks to submit). Critiques are rarely published — in two random samples of 101 empirical articles we found only 1 critique.

I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Die erneuten verbalen Auswürfe des russischen Ex-Präsidenten Medwedew gegen Außenministerin Meinl-Reisinger @beate.neos.eu sind scharf zu verurteilen Es ist bedenklich, dass nicht nur anonyme Trolle, sondern auch manch angeblich „friedensbewegte“ Personen auf der Seite dieses Kriegshetzers stehen.

ALSOBROOKS: Did you receive a call from the secretary upon reports an active shooter at CDC HQ had shot at employees? MONAREZ: I did not speak to the secretary on the 8th or any successive day A: So are you telling me the HHS secretary failed to even give you a courtesy call? M: He didnt call me

This year at APSA, several mentors and friends reminded me of something worth sharing: some work just takes longer. It doesn't matter how much you work. The discipline doesn't always reward it, but it doesn't mean it's not important. In a career with so much randomness, ask the questions you want.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Finanzen der Parteien – jetzt nicht mehr nur als Sammlung eingescannter PDFs, sondern gesammelt in einem interaktiven Tool: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

💥 Update! 💥 This paper is now officially published in Volume 30, Issue 4 of The International Journal of Press/Politics! 🗳️ Experimental evidence that voters prefer moderately tailored messages - highly tailored ones can backfire & targeting can be too much: doi.org/10.1177/1940... #IJPP