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PsyComm - Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie @psycomm.bsky.social · 26d

Die #WissKomm ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld. IG-Sprecherin @hendriks.bsky.social und Kommunikations-Lead @lauramkoenig.bsky.social nehmen deswegen gerade an der Jahrestagung der #DGPuK Fachgruppe Wissenschaftskommunikation teil. Viele Grüße aus München! #CommPH @mscl.bsky.social

Friederike und Laura bei der Fachgruppentagung der DGPuk im Münchener Tierpark Hellabrunn

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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · Sep 4

The last two days, we spent in full #SciComm networking mode at #BMFTR (German Ministry of Research, Technology & Space), representing our #TiCS (Trust in Citizen Science) project. Going through tight security checks every morning, makes your research feel ever more more important… 🚀

Marlene and Friederike presenting first results from the TiCS project.

Art installation at BMFTR, producing a rainbow band with steam and light.

Mario, Marlene and Katharina (the Munich project team) posing for the camera at BMFTR.

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Ivar Braten @ivabra.bsky.social · Aug 14

Research is not always easy to read and interpret. And it takes particular vigilance to take ambiguity into account, as shown in this new study.

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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study addressed an issue relevant to information and research literacy: how students cope with the challenges of reading a one-sided informational text that is combined with ambiguous graphical ...

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Anne Geese @physikanne.bsky.social · Aug 8

Bonjour, liebe #MINTEdu Community!

Unterrichtet Ihr Schülerinnen in der Oberstufe in Physik oder Chemie? Da gibt es mal wieder ein tolles Angebot: Role2Role, Dein Einblick in die Batterieforschung.
Wir bereiten die jungen Frauen 5 Wochen lang (wöchentlich, ca. 90 Minuten) online vor.

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PsyComm - Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie @psycomm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ihr habt unser letztes (und erstes) Treffen verpasst, wollt euch aber gern noch einbringen? Kein Problem! Wir treffen uns wieder am 13.8. um 16 Uhr. Tragt euch ins in diesem Post verlinkte Formular ein und wir schicken euch den Link zu! @dgps.bsky.social #WissKomm #PsychSciSky

PsyComm - Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie @psycomm.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...

PsyComm: Einladung zur Interessengruppe

In der fachgruppenübergreifenden DGPs-Interessengruppe PsyComm (Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie) möchten wir psychologische Forschung und Praxis in der Wissenschaftskommunikation miteina...

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Jul 17

All cats are scientists, I will not be taking questions at this time.

A cartoon by the brilliant Tom Gauld.
The first panel introduces us to Science Cat, a black feline, wearing a white lab coat and carrying a clipboard and pen.
The next panels show a succession of events in close-up: a mug perched near the edge of a table as the end of the pen approaches; that same mug captured in mid-air as it heads downwards towards the floor; a big smash when it meets its destination.
We then see Science Cat writing on the clipboard, and musing as follows: "Once again, the experiment confirmed my hypothesis, but further research in this area is required."
In the final panel, Science Cat heads off, pen in the top-pocket of the lab coat, thinking "I love science!".

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TILLREDA @tillraether.bsky.social · Jul 15

WeTransfer verlangt uneingeschränkte Rechte an allen übermittelten Inhalten, um KI zu trainieren.

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

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DGPuK FG Kommunikation & Politik @fgkommpol.bsky.social · Jun 27

‪BEFRAGUNG ZUM WISSENSTRANSFER

Die AG Third Mission und Wissenstransfer der DGPuK bittet um eure Unterstützung:

Ihr forscht aktiv in der Kommunikationswissenschaft? Wie tragt ihr eure Erkenntnisse in die Gesellschaft? Und was kann euch dabei helfen?

www.soscisurvey.de/dgpuk_transf...

www.soscisurvey.de

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Caspar van Lissa 🟥 @cjvanlissa.bsky.social · Jun 24

To be FAIR: Theory specification needs an update! Theories that others can reuse and update help navigate the "theory crisis". The theorytools R-package now has tutorials showing how to make theories FAIR and use them to select covariates, simulate data, etc

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · Jun 19

By the way, this is a pre-registered qualitative study, which reviewers praised as great example of Open Science in qualitative work. So have a look and reach out for questions on our experiences with this 😊

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out our just published study on whether scientists regard #scicomm as part of their professional identity - Lennart Banse did excellent work on this in the first study of his dissertation-so more super interesting stuff to come! ✨

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · Jun 17

...meaning "both practical skills of using technology to achieve high-quality results (*Ways of Doing*) and reflective and critical thinking about the appropriateness of using GenAI to achieve communication aims and potential shortcomings in its outputs (*Ways of Thinking*)."

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · Jun 17

Yael Barel-Ben David, Lennart Banse, @julianfick.bsky.social, Esther Greussing, Inbal Klein-Avraham, Tzipora Rakedzon, Monika Taddicken, Ayelet Baram Tsabari and I reflect on fostering researchers' "Good Working Habits" in science communication training...

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · Jun 17

Are you are researcher, and are you using Generative AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, ...) to help with #scicomm? 🤖🧑‍🔬 Or are you training scientists in science communication?

Then our now commentary in ✨Science Communication✨ might be an interesting read:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Generative AI in Science Communication: Fostering Scientists’ Good Working Habits for Ethical and Effective Use - Friederike Hendriks, Yael Barel-Ben David, Lennart Banse, Julian Fick, Esther Greussin...

Scientists increasingly use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to aid in science communication tasks due to limited time and resources. GenAI can functi...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 9

Ok, time for a short thread about this paper.

My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks.

But how revolutionary is it?

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 8

If I have time I'll put together a more detailed thread tomorrow, but for now, I think this new paper about limitations of Chain-of-Thought models could be quite important. Worth a look if you're interested in these sorts of things.

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The Illusion of Thinking:
Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models
via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Parshin Shojaee∗† Iman Mirzadeh∗ Keivan Alizadeh
Maxwell Horton Samy Bengio Mehrdad Farajtabar
Apple
Abstract
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models
(LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models
demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scal-
ing properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily fo-
cus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy. How-
ever, this evaluation paradigm often suffers from data contamination and does not provide insights
into the reasoning traces’ structure and quality. In this work, we systematically investigate these
gaps with the help of controllable puzzle environments that allow precise manipulation of composi-
tional complexity while maintaining consistent logical structures. This setup enables the analysis
of not only final answers but also the internal reasoning traces, offering insights into how LRMs
“think”. Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs
face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-
intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then
declines despite having an adequate token budget. By comparing LRMs with their standard LLM
counterparts under equivalent inference compute, we identify three performance regimes: (1) low-
complexity tasks where standard models surprisingly outperform LRMs, (2) medium-complexity
tasks where additional thinking in LRMs demonstrates advantage, and (3) high-complexity tasks
where both models experience complete collapse. We found that LRMs have limitations in exact
computation: they fail to use explicit …

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Leibniz-Gemeinschaft @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de · Jun 4

Wie funktioniert gute Wissenschaftskommunikation – und wie wirkt sie? 🤔
Antworten darauf will das neu beschlossene Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk „Evidenzbasierte Wissenschaftskommunikation“ liefern. Ziel ist es, Theorie und Praxis besser zu verzahnen und so die Qualität von WissKomm zu steigern.

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Oliver Genschow @olivergenschow.bsky.social · Jun 2

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field

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PsyComm - Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie @psycomm.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...

PsyComm: Einladung zur Interessengruppe

In der fachgruppenübergreifenden DGPs-Interessengruppe PsyComm (Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie) möchten wir psychologische Forschung und Praxis in der Wissenschaftskommunikation miteina...

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · May 29

Seems even worse after our panel on GenAI in science communication at #PCST2025 today. The problem is humans and how they use tech, not tech itself.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · May 29

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · May 23

Workshop on “Evidence & Uncertainty in Science: Methodological, Philosophical and Meta-Scientific Issues”

10th & 11th June, Uni of Tübingen, in-person only

uni-tuebingen.de/de/281247#c2...

‪With @cruwelli.bsky.social, @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social, @babeheim.bsky.social, & @hendriks.bsky.social ‬

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · May 21

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Oliver Dickhäuser @odickhaeuser.bsky.social · May 15

🚫Rejected?
Was your paper (as first author) rejected after peer review in the past year?
Join our study on rejection and how scientists deal with negative feedback:
👉 ww3.unipark.de/uc/Beyondthe…
Or help us spread the word#Academiai#PeerReviewe#Rejectionon

Picture of e typewriter writing EDIT REWRITE

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · May 3

📣🧪
$25k grants for those who:

1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and

2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.

Early-career scholars prioritized

500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · May 3

🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Friederike Hendriks @hendriks.bsky.social · Apr 28

👋Hey! Bist du Psycholog:in? Interessiert dich #Wissenschaftskommunikation 👩‍🎓💬?
Wir haben eine Interessengruppe in der @dgps.bsky.social gegründet, in der wir uns vernetzen und Expertise sammeln möchten! Komm vorbei am 05. Mai um 16 Uhr - oder trag dich ein und bleib up to date!

PsyComm - Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie @psycomm.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hallo #AcademicSky - wir sind PsyComm, die neue Interessengruppe für Wissenschaftskommunikation #WissKomm der @dgps.bsky.social. Wir möchten Wissenschaft und Praxis vernetzen, Evidenz und Expertise zum Thema zusammentragen und neue Vorhaben initiieren. Jetzt mitmachen: forms.gle/DGpav3jCUHCi...

PsyComm: Einladung zur Interessengruppe

In der fachgruppenübergreifenden DGPs-Interessengruppe PsyComm (Wissenschaftskommunikation in der Psychologie) möchten wir psychologische Forschung und Praxis in der Wissenschaftskommunikation miteina...

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Mario Gollwitzer @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social · Apr 24

🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!

Research Associate (m/f/x)

job-portal.lmu.de

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