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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting opportunity to do a #PhD in #politicalscience at Stockholm Uni, focusing on AI and politics: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI

The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an

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David Larsson Heidenblad @dlheidenblad.bsky.social · 16d

Input önskas! Nytt blogginlägg om en ny bokidé som börjar ta form. 👇

davidlarssonheidenblad.substack.com/p/uppfoljare...

#tadintid #görettgenombrott

Uppföljare på gång. Behöver er hjälp!

Planerna på en uppföljare till "Ta din tid" börjar ta form. Men än finns det chans att vara med och påverka. Läs om vad som är på gång och ge din input när den kan göra som störst skillnad.

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · 16d

🔊 CfP for the NERA 2026 conference in Denmark: nera-conference-2026.via.dk/registration. Deadline for abstracts: Nov 3, 2025.

Registration

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · 16d

🔊 CfP for the NOKSA 2026 conference (Stockholm) on social science education: www.su.se/institutione.... Deadline for abstracts: January 9, 2026.

NOKSA: Nordisk konferens i samhällskunskapsdidaktik – Call for papers - Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik

Deadline för bidrag är den 9 januari, 2026.

www.su.se

Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · 22d

Tickets bought to Refused's farewell gig in December. Millencolin to support. Almost feel like 15 again.

Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · 24d

Riktigt underhållande!

Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · 27d

🔊 Controversies of AI society conference in Copenhagen in April 2026. CfP and deadlines: www.dasts.dk?tribe_events...

Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Sep 8

Intressant seminarium för dig som är i Stockholm 7 oktober: barns och ungas medborgarskap - www.iffs.se/kalendarium/...

Mötesplats barnkultur: Barn i vår tid - vad betyder deras medborgarskap och delaktighet?

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Sep 6

Inspired by @roberttalisse.bsky.social, I tried to find some of my old concert tickets the other day but haven't found the right box so far. One of my social media apps then reminded me of this, posted on this day 12 years ago. Cornell's voice and lyrics are dearly missed.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cool new Call for Papers from Algorithm, Data & Democracy project:

Conference April 9-10, 2026, Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Deadline December 1, 2025

🚀

algoritmer.org/call-for-pap...

Call for papers - Algoritmer

ADD-projektet arbejder for, at demokratiet styrkes af den digitale udvikling gennem forskning, øget teknologiforståelse, digital dannelse og dialog.

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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · Aug 30

Braving myself for impact with this blog post: thesiswhisperer.com/2025/08/30/s...

Stuck in the middle with you

The middle is a hard place to be. The middle of a thesis or a book can be excruciating. Things are underway, but not finished. The end is in sight, but not yet reached. In the middle, it’s easy to …

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Aug 29

Bluesky is for sure the (?) top platform for scientific chatter currently (with LinkedIn).

But frankly, more engagement is needed here and transitioning from #academictwitter is part of broader fragmentation. And 🦋 is still incredibly US based, also for research.

www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

www.wired.com

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Aug 29

Friday morning's pop-up message with data-for-training pre-selected. I prefer the typical "Claude and Coffee" welcome message. Opting out. #Claude

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · Aug 13

Democracies often fail to reverse authoritarian takeovers.

"Autocratizing leaders have an inherent advantage over their democratic counterparts: They may simply break the rules to achieve rapid political change."

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Aug 12

I agree. I just can't shake the feeling that Bluesky isn't really taking off, at least not in my field where most migrated to LinkedIn. While you can see quite some reposts (your original post an example), these generate comparably little dialogic exchange, generally. That's what's missing, I think.

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Aug 11

Läsvärt ang. lärarutbildningsutredningen. Bitvis är debatten rejält polariserad just nu.🤦‍♂️ Lärarutbildningarna, lärarutbildningsprofessionen och inte minst läraryrket förtjänar bättre.
#skola #lärarutbildning

Högskolepolitik @hogskolepolitik.bsky.social · Aug 11

Slutreplik. Det verkligt oroande med regeringens lärarutbildningsutredning är inte att den vill stärka kunskaper om lärande, utan att den gör det genom ett snävt kognitivt raster, samtidigt som skolans bildningsuppdrag marginaliseras. www.gp.se/debatt/larar...

DEBATT: Läraryrket kräver mer än verktyg – det kräver motståndskraft

Blicken riktas mot individens hjärna – som om skolans kriser vore kognitiva snarare än strukturella, skriver Adam Droppe, lektor.

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Aug 10

Enjoyed this conversation between Adam Grant and Ed Helms. Might resonate at times with academia - applications for funding, rejection, peer-review, etc. - learning to deal with "a festival of failtures", "building calluses" and the importance of community: youtu.be/hYYNCYmlbVA?...
#AcademicSky

Ed Helms on The Office, comedic snafus, and learning from failures | ReThinking with Adam Grant

YouTube video by TED Audio Collective

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · Aug 9

This.

When people throw around "evidence-based practices" and "science of ______," they aren't engaging in conversation or nuance. They aren't acknowledging complexity or, consequently, reality.

These have become euphemisms for "My way or the highway" in education. And they're being weaponized.

Nate @jessenathaniel.bsky.social · Aug 9

Exactly. My gripe with people’s focus on “evidence-based practices” is there’s no such thing as context-free evidence. And the range of factors that can make implementing a strategy to fidelity ranges to accounting for disability to class size to “did everyone eat this morning?”

That matters.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · Aug 9

We once spoke with a well-regarded dev psych who told us that of course they know & work with actual cognitive scientists and they would be the first to tell you a classroom shouldn't look like a cognitive science lab.

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Aug 8

As people in the northern hemisphere are beginning to return to work, I'm bumping a post about our new paper on #postdigital GenAI literacy that came out earlier this summer. Close to 4000 accesses on Springer already! Hope it can contribute to interesting discussions. 🌱 doi.org/10.1007/s424...

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Jul 31

This. 👇 Only had positive experiences — some only a few exchanged emails, others grew into research collabs. I hope to send more such emails this coming semester.

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 31

When is the last time you sent someone a (quick) email to tell them you appreciate their work?

It takes only a few minutes and means a lot to people, junior or senior, (pony) famous or not.

Particularly important in today’s world, where people get so much negative feedback from anonymous trolls.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Jul 31

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Taken together, the combined effect of these factors means that countries are unlikely to improve their democracies after an authoritarian episode—or even to maintain the level of democracy they had before- hand for very long."

Sobering but important read in @jodemocracy.bsky.social

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Thomas Nygren @thnygren.bsky.social · Jul 29

Available preorder now! 📚 My new book on AI in schools – challenges and opportunities.

It presents the latest research and its practical implications for classrooms. With students’ learning in focus, I show what makes great teaching possible and how AI can both …
www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

Artificial Intelligence in Schools | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

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Alex Örtegren @alexortegren.bsky.social · Jul 29

Den här typen av misstänkliggörande av kollegor inom utb & skola tjänar ingen på. Tänk om vi gjorde hoppet till slutsats åt andra hållet? "Se på skolors resultat, det finns uppenbarligen ett ideologiskt motstånd bland rektorer mot att organisera arbetet enl. x, y, z."

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