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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 9d

📢 New Journal Article: AI & Deliberation 📢

What impact does #AI have on democratic deliberation? Together with @adrauc.bsky.social, I explore this question in a new article in Government Information Quarterly. Findings in the thread 🧵👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) promise help for democratic deliberation, such as processing information, moderating discussion, and fact-che…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 22d

Happy 3²/4²/5² day!

(for the US only—it's the less cool 20(5²)-3²-4² in ISO-8601)

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Jan Lorenz @janlo.de · 27d

If you are interested in doing a PhD on Agent-based models of Protests consider this call:

2 Doctoral Scholarships (48 months) ‘Contentious Politics in the Digital Age’ (CoPoDi), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Visit: www.bigsss-bremen.de/academic-pro...

CoPoDi: Research and Faculty

www.bigsss-bremen.de

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 28d

To cite this meme:
Photoshop et al. (2025)

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · Sep 4

My fourth day at #CCS2025 starts in the physics of self-organization satellite, where @cgershen.bsky.social discussed a balance-based narrative to explain complex systems science to the general public. He gave us a historical overview on the topic and then a formalization of his ideas.

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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · Aug 26

realistic Star Trek

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · Aug 23

My daughter knew I would enjoy the evolutionary dynamics (an evolutionary stable state / Nash equilibrium) described in this 3 minute video from KQED’s excellent Deep Look team:

These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years

#evolution #nature

These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years | Deep Look

YouTube video by Deep Look

www.youtube.com

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 15

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

forms.gle

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 14

By far the best alternative I have come across is Matilda: matilda.science?l=en

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Jan Lorenz @janlo.de · Aug 7

Because they are too non-technical and 40 years behind or because they are at the forefront of phasing out latex (for markdown, typst or any more modern thing)?

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Aug 6

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.

It still became a polarization machine.

Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.

The results were… not what we expected.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation

Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · Aug 5

Interesting paper that can extend to digital technologies generally and concludes:
“Understanding the consequences of actual AI for actual democracy, and figuring out how to steer toward the better rather than the worse outcomes, will require new kinds of cooperation than the ones we have today.”

Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · Aug 1

New paper in our AI & Dem Freedoms series: @himself.bsky.social and @hahrie.bsky.social argue that the existing paradigm of democracy driving scholarship about its relationship to #AI highlights the wrong questions, and that we should focus on enduring democratic publics and collective behavior.

AI and Democratic Publics

knightcolumbia.org

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · Aug 5

Super important blog post on large scale scientific fraud through „scientific publishing“ by paying for it in „paper mills“.

Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

reeserichardson.blog

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Jul 28

only a maniac would use a 2-sided test here

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Jul 27

Available in the SMBC store in "mom", "dad" and "parent" variants.
Credit to Richard McElreath for the language and graph on the mug.

MUG ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Part 1 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman gives her father a "#1 Dad" mug, which he refuses for a more exact mug.

Part 2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update where a woman gives her father a "#1 Dad" mug, which he refuses for a more exact mug.

Promotional image for SMBC's "Not significantly different from a good dad" mug.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 26

Men dominate hollywood scripts.

pudding.cool/2017/03/film...

The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever

Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.

pudding.cool

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Jul 25

I think they’re here to stay, but it’s worth remembering (and this will become increasingly apparent in the years to come) that, despite some clear benefits, LLMs/large AI models are a net negative for society and it’s not even close.

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Jan Lorenz @janlo.de · Jul 25

Seltener Fund eines Fun-Content in der deutschen Wikipedia: Das Beispiel zum ökonomischen Grenznutzen ist wirklich besser zu verstehen, wenn man vorher dem Link zum Bratwurst-Artikel und das Bild konsultiert!

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenznu...

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Jul 25

My lab has a name and a website now 🥳
Please welcome the "Psychology of Social Complexity" lab: www.socolab.co.uk

Home | Psychology of Social Complexity

www.socolab.co.uk

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Tobias Galla @tobiasgalla.bsky.social · Jul 16

Review "Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond"
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11521

Lab experiments, data, models, analytical/computational tools. 93 pages, >1k references.

With Fabian Baumann, David Garcia, Gerardo Iñiguez, Márton Karsai, Jan Lorenz, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron. Led by Michele Starnini

Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond

Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like physical systems, soc...

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Marcel Pauly @marcelpauly.bsky.social · Jun 23

The representative electoral statistics show how often each demographic group voted for different parties in the German federal election. This year, I’ve prepared the data as radar charts. What do you think: does this type of chart work well for this kind of data? www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · Jun 19

Haben nicht alle noch nach einem Namen für schwarz-rot gesucht? Wie wäre es mit "Drecksarbeit"-Koalition?

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Jun 16

This was the jumpstart event for a major focus of my research going forward, together with many excellent collaborators (those in attendance and many others). I’m so grateful for the opportunity to put this together, and i hope for more events to come. #culturalevolution

Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Jun 16

Traditional models of cultural evolution haven’t held up in the face of modern-day constructs like social media and easy global travel. Last month, @psmaldino.bsky.social and collaborators convened a working group to build new models for the 21st century.

www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

Holga 120 lomography double exposure of NYC and the Brooklyn Bridge. (image: Sandy Hibbard/Unsplash)

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Jan Lorenz @janlo.de · Jun 12

Definitely, women have to keep up a lot with alcoholism to achieve final gender equality!

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 11

10 years work has led to this:
Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system & bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them. European Review of Social Psychology. @polpsyispp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1046...

Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system and bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them

People holding attitudes are a social information system that can be modelled as a bipartite social identity network, where people are bound into groups via jointly held attitudes; and attitudes in...

doi.org

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