The take-home message when I give talks about race science: “for bad science to persist, you need (1) a core of ethically or methodologically compromised people who are willing to fabricate data or create misleading evidence & (2) a larger group of people who are willing to promote these ideas”

„Ziel ist es, queere Sichtbarkeit anzugreifen und demokratische Grundwerte zu untergraben“, resümiert @researchjd.bsky.social im Zusammenhang mit den rechtsexremen Mobilisierungen gegen CSDs im Jahr 2025. Auch der @tagesspiegel.de hat über die Ergebnisse unseres aktuellen Research Papers berichtet:

🎉 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....

💕Menschenwürde hat kein Verfallsdatum.💞

Die spezifisch politische Unterscheidung, auf welche sich die politischen Handlungen und Motive zurückführen lassen, ist die Unterscheidung von Bestie und Opp. -Carl Schmitt (sinngemäß)

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. - Professor Pangloss

If anyone wants to start a Youtube Channel on Enlightenment Philosophy and Liberalism, I have a name suggestion free of charge: "Locke In".

Das hier sollte heute jeder lesen. www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

🚨 New episode alert! 🚨 Join us as we dive into a fascinating conversation with Dr. Paul Lombardo about the infamous Buck v. Bell case. We’re unpacking eugenics, forced sterilizations, and ethical dilemmas that still hit home today. #Relitigated #BuckvBell #scotus #law #podcast

Kurzer Reminder dass die Opferrolle bei der AfD olympische Disziplin ist.

maybe AI shouldn't do "peer review" to begin with? I dunno; just spitballing here

It’s so much crazier than that. A woman appealed a lower court ruling for her ex-husband, pointing out the court’s order relied on 4 hallucinated or real-but-irrelevant cases. Ex-husband’s lawyer then files a reply to the appeals court with ELEVEN hallucinated or irrelevant case citations!

(CW: SA) Friends, Toya is a very talented and enthusiastic science communicator who has been caught in a horrible situation. If you have funds to spare, please consider using them for good by directly helping someone in need.

Will share this here now: due to some budget struggles at ISD, my position there is getting phased out. I’ll be on the hunt for full time work again come July. Not sure what the future will hold for me in the short-term, but please keep me in mind if you see decent openings and/or freelance work.

We did it! Just submitted the manuscript for the edited volume 'Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right', forthcoming with Routledge, ETA 2026. Edited by Iris B. Segers, @audreygagnon.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social and myself.

Deeply frustrating article. Also, I'm pretty sure Tate's own lawyer argues that Tate is playing a character and doesn't actually mean the most extreme stuff he's saying. Research on the manosphere which doesn't contend with the way it weaponises irony is genuinely worse than useless!

Got an Instagram account really late in the day so I'm just catching the tail end of discourses over there in ways that make me feel insane. Saw one post that began with "you might think vanlife is glamorous, but here's the reality.." Oh no, I actually never thought that about living in a van

🔍 Neu erschienen: Unsere Studie „Mapping the Germanosphere“ 📣 „Die ‚Germanosphere‘ ist kein loser Raum, sondern ein vernetztes digitales Ökosystem, in dem sich frauenfeindliche Narrative systematisch verstärken.“ 📍 Projektpartner: @isdglobal.org 📄 Jetzt lesen: ogy.de/w9p6

„In großen Lettern steht darauf geschrieben: "Nie wieder ist JETZT". Zwei Mal, erzählt die 98-jährige Seniorin, habe man ihr das Transparent [von der Fassade des Hauses] schon abgerissen. Zwei Mal habe sie es wieder aufgehängt.“ #RLP #OgR #fgtFacism

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Carface

Kurze Erinnerung: Die AfD findet IMMER einen Weg, sich als Opfer zu inszenieren. Das darf nie ein Grund für irgendwas sein.

Gen-Z Lana Del Rey be like "Rizz me hard before you go. Summertime menty b."

Research paper titles inspired by Taylor Swift songs (16): I know places: Geoguessr as a community building praxis

I had a joke about Cassandra, but no one wanted to hear it.

I thought of trying a joke about Hephaestus but it was way too cutting.

I had a joke about Argus, but it raised a lot of eyebrows.

Ob #FakeNews, Halbwahrheiten oder gezielte #Propaganda – #Desinformation begegnet uns täglich im Netz. Gemeinsam mit der Netzexpertin @karolinschwarz.de haben wir eine kompakte Handreichung erstellt mit Tipps und Methoden. Reinschauen! 👉 www.fes.de/referat-demo...

How do conspiracy theories spread across digital platforms—and how does their style evolve? A new study by Annett Heft, Xixuan Zhang, and myself in New Media & Society analyzes veiled conspiracism across 4chan, X/Twitter, and far-right partisan media from 2011–2021. 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Hard to take a 'Crisis of Masculinity' seriously when it's just dudes making themselves so offputting & repellent women refuse to be in the same room with them

Wenn wir das nächste Mal über eine Häufung von Anschlägen sprechen, könnten wir vielleicht thematisieren dass zahlreiche Medien seit Monaten terroristische Propaganda reproduzieren. Es ist hinreichend bekannt, dass die verherrlichende Darstellung auch dazu beitragen kann, neue Anschläge auszulösen.

With Germany's election a month away, here's my extremely sophisticated guide for reading polls: - A single poll showing a party gained one percentage point means nothing. - You can't interpret voter movements from a bar chart. - You also can't interpret voter movements from a line chart. thanks

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

Due to being cursed by an evil warlock, everything that will happen in 2025 is now on my bingo card, but I am not allowed to tell.

Achtung: Der Account auch dem Bild ist ein Fake-Account - das bin nicht ich. Bitte nicht mit diesem Account interagieren (folgen, PM usw.) und ihn melden! Danke.

Research paper titles inspired by Lana del Rey songs (2): Did you know there's a Tunnel under Ocean BLVD -Underground structures as embodiment of the sub-concious im conspiratorialist belief systems.

We are delighted to present the latest edition of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social newsletter, the e-Extreme - courtesy of @sabinedvolk.bsky.social @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social and myself 🙂

I lasted 26 minutes in to the new year before mentioning the time Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody was banned from SNL for life because he did a surprise Rasta man character

Interesting findings: "sexist content exposure boosts contact with far-right content over time, which is amplified for fringe environments of exposure" and "is related to behavioral measures for far-right extremism but not to attitudinal measures" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Klar, Knoblauchsalami ist nicht everybody's favourite, aber was soll man sonst zu einem gemütlichen Plausch im Ruhewagen eine vollen ICE's snacken? 🥲

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible brat summer. - Albert Camus

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Tommy Wiseau was ~48 years old, when "The Room" came out. It's never too late to achieve great things!

California forcibly sterilized hundreds of women. Then, it 'allowed' them to apply for compensation. But only ≈15% of the affected women have gotten compensation so far. Many were denied. And the deadline to apply/appeal is in just 10 days, leading to an unfair rush many don't know about: