💯% this! Media literacy and critical thinking are two tools in the "misinformation" toolkit, but they are not cure-alls for a problem that's more systemic.

Right now, everyone is testing and probing to see what they can get away with. Eventually, somebody is going to overestimate their capability. asia.nikkei.com/politics/def...

Interessante Grafik…ziemlich viel grün irgendwie - in Bezug auf die Langfristigkeit gesehen. Die #Union lässt sich auf der linken Seite im Bereich Wirtschaft und Autos einordnen. Gedacht wird immer nur bis zum nächsten Jahr. Dann wird das Denken eingestellt. Ist aber auch anstrengend!🧐

„Putin redet die ganze Zeit mit uns. Er sagt sehr viel, er sagt auch sehr klar, was er macht. Aus irgendeinem Grund wird es an vielen Stellen in Deutschland und Europa nicht ernst genommen.“ Interview mit Claudia Major von Paula Haase @claudmajor.bsky.social www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Die norwegische Regierung hat im November einfach einen E-Auto Anteil bei den Neuzulassungen von 97,6% gemeldet. Die 🇩🇪 Regierung hingegen hat im November vermeldet dass sog. „hocheffiziente Verbrenner“ von nun an auch nach 2035 noch verkauft und gefahren werden dürfen. Können wir bitte tauschen?

Wohlstand, Demokratie und Rechtsstaat werden nicht von Migrant:innen bedroht, sondern von rassistischen, rechtsextremen Staatsfeinden! #AfdVerbot #NieWiederIstJetzt 📷 @correctiv.org

Undichte Dächer, wegfallende Tutorien, eingeschränktes Angebot. Deutsche Universitäten in Zeiten der Austeritätspolitik. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse. 📣Read our new report revealing how abusive legal actions in the UK & Ireland are silencing those who speak out ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...

Wer heuer Frauen tötete: Männer

Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

Called it! "The Coalition attracted votes from just 28% of women in 2025, the lowest level on record. It is very difficult for a party to win government with such a low level of support from such a significant group of the population." #AusPol #AES

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

For added context, see also my article with Alexandra Chalupa: www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

The first snow of the year has arrived 🤗

Wenn man auf einer Klimakonferenz das fossile Zeitalter begraben will, sollte man vielleicht nicht 1.600 Öl-, Gas- und Kohle-Lobbyisten akkreditieren. Nur so ein Gedanke.

„#Femizide: Wann werden #Frauen endlich geschützt?“ Julia #Friedrichs hat ihren nächsten sehr guten, beeindruckenden, wichtigen #Film gemacht. Neue #Folge. youtu.be/FrN_NZnMS8k?...

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "A Voice at the Table", @kaanstoos.bsky.social tests types of women's participation in peace processes as a new variable affecting women's legislative representation in postconflict states. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/ELACFbc

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NEWS Die indigenen Munduruku blockieren den Eingang zur #COP30. Sie fordern ein Treffen mit Präsident Lula und wollen vom COP-Präsidenten gehört werden. Konkret treten sie gegen Bauprojekt in ihrer Region ein, sehen ihre Landrechte verletzt und positionieren sich gegen Kohlenstoffmärkte

[New Research] Pro-Russian channels on Telegram employ long-standing narrative strategies that blame the West for escalating the conflict, emphasize Western domestic crises, & amplify divisive social & political issues such as LGBTQ rights, immigration, & inflation. socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/27/n...

The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives

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"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

This is a new approach, in which Christian rhetoric uses the Bible for its own war propaganda – disgusting!

‚Fortbewegungsmittel‘ #FotoVorschlag Bodensee, Meersburg

Pro-China bots are very active recently and spread misinformation. So it's important to be clear what role China plays in the world. It's the single biggest pillar of support for Russia's war machine and invasion of Ukraine. China is Putin's biggest enabler in his war on Western Europe. The truth...

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Very helpful to get a better understanding of #disinformation system

In-depth investigation from the BBC, which infiltrated a disinformation operation to interfere in the Moldovan elections. This operation is coordinated remotely by pro-Russian actors through Telegram. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 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...

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Indeed. Independent journalism is a resource democracy needs!

Grok is a propaganda instrument that is tuned to cohere with ideological fantasy rather than mind-independent facts. If sums were politicised tomorrow, you can bet that 2 + 2 wouldn’t stand a chance

🙌🏼 ChatGPT is a unintelligent machine not a human. This is why it won’t help in Life challenging questionnaire! t3n.de/news/sam-alt...

Shooters now know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and amplified, @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. The internet's poison is in its very architecture.

Charlie Kirk war nicht "konservativ" oder "rechts-konservativ". Charlie Kirk war ein rechtsextremer Rassist, Sexist und Faschist. Jemand mit Einstellungen, die Teile der AfD moderat erscheinen lassen. Man muss sein politisches Projekt nicht beschönigen, um seine Ermordung zu verurteilen.

🔥Hot off the press: Studie zur Repräsentation weiblicher Forschender in den Medien 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0963... 📰 Inhaltsanalyse: 4.860 Medienartikel 👩‍🔬 Nur 18% der zitierten Expert:innen sind Frauen 📊 Frauenanteil in der Forschung: ca. 31% ➡️ Deutliche Sichtbarkeitslücke für weibliche Forschende

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

🚨 New article in The Conversation from Callum Jones and myself. We wanted to focus specifically on how the white nationalist rallies were supported and amplified online by far-right actors like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson theconversation.com/how-australi...

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

True! 5G La La Land hits it on the nail! The only problem resolve is not using 5G as German citizen

I wonder if the elite political scientists are thinking, "Just one more regression analysis in a Q1 journal and Trump is through!" The dominance of impenetrable quantitative stats as the sole method of academic publishing has helped deliver us to this moment. Total disgrace.

Für die @taz.de habe ich aufgeschrieben wie man mit den Kulturkampf-Kampagnen der extremen Rechten und des radikalisierten Konservatismus umgehen soll. Andere Wange hinhalten und „we go high“ ist der falsche Ansatz, man muss schnell und scharf reagieren. taz.de/Seid-schnell...

What's the definition of happiness? It's in the title of new Australian documentary. Annette Basile reviews. The Definition of Happiness screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival