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баклава @baklavabaddie.bsky.social · 14d

wisst ihr noch im t-shirt rausgehen

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Max Zehring @maxzehring.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations 🍾

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DGPuK Methoden @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social · 20d

Die Mittelbauveranstaltung ~Pizza & Perspektiven~ der DGPuK Fachgruppen Methoden und Medienökonomie, moderiert von @buehling.bsky.social und Miriam Bernhard war ein voller Erfolg!

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 22d

Germany knew - every step of the way.

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Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · 22d

Morgenstund hat die 18. Folge Juckt?! im Mund: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdg9YeA4/

Heute geht’s um Migration und inwiefern PolitikerInnen der “Mitte” zur Stimmungsmache beitragen.

TikTok - Make Your Day

vm.tiktok.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

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.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 27d

Euphemising Kirk's politics as 'right-wing activism' is playing straight into the hands of Trump and his attempt at political recuperation of the murder to unleash more authoritarian measures

It shouldn't have to be said but we do not have to accept his narrative or discourse

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Sep 6

Very good and disturbing @spiegel.de article on the links between German business elites, right-wing politicians, and the far-right. Clearly the firewall has become quite cold in the last decade.

Müllermilch Boss with Fringe Friends: A German Dairy Billionaire's Links to the Far Right

The dairy billionaire Theo Müller is friends with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany. She and other fringe figures were invited to his extravagant bi...

www.spiegel.de

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · Apr 25

💡 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 💡

My article with @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kkasianenko.bsky.social, @vishneww.bsky.social, @essideh.com, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social is now out in Social Media + Society.

We introduce a new analytics method: #PracticeMapping.

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

Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks - Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vod...

This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping, using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjun...

journals.sagepub.com

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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wer kommt bei der Nahost-Berichterstattung zu Wort? Eine exklusive Auswertung von 5.000 Schlagzeilen deutscher Leitmedien zeigt: Israels Militär und Regierung dominieren. Unabhängige Quellen werden kaum genutzt.

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Wer kommt bei der Nahost-Berichterstattung zu Wort? Eine exklusive Auswertung von 5.000 Schlagzeilen deutscher Leitmedien zeigt: Israels Militär und Regierung dominieren als Quellen. Unabhängige Quellen werden kaum genutzt.

jacobin.de

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Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ich kann es noch nicht ganz glauben, aber ich habe etwas gewonnen und das freut mich sehr! Gerade in der Wissenschaft sind Bestätigungen rar, daher umso schöner 🥰 für alle Early Career Menschen die das ausversehen sehen: das ist mein 1. preis in 6 Jahren - lasst euch nicht Stressen von sowas ☺️

DGPuK FG Kommunikation & Politik @fgkommpol.bsky.social · Aug 26

MAX SCHINDLER GEWINNT KICKSTARTER FUND 2025

Für sein Projekt „Narrative Muster in Parteinewslettern: Eine Analyse von Claims, Akteuren und Ereignissen in deutschen Parteien“ zeichnet die Fachgruppe @maxschindler.bsky.social mit dem PolKom-Kickstarter-Fund 2025 aus. Das Preisgeld beträgt 750 Euro.

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DGPuK Methoden @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social · Aug 19

🍕 Pizza & Perspektiven: Diss – und dann?! 🚀

Was kommt nach der Promotion? Darüber sprechen wir beim Career Lunch am
📅 17.09.2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:30 Uhr
📍 Ostfalia Hochschule, Salzgitter

Mit dabei: Postdocs & ehem. Promovierende, die über Karrierewege in Wissenschaft & Praxis berichten.

Anmeldung 👇

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Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · Aug 19

Jubiläum 🥳 die zehnte Folge Juckt?! kann nun freudig konsumiert werden: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdCpCsXs/

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Max Zehring @maxzehring.bsky.social · Aug 15

✨ New open-access paper ✨

We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics.

Full paper:

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Protest movements against COVID-19 containment measures, like Germany’s Querdenken, aim to put their position on the political agenda. The German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) acted...

doi.org

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Aug 10

Eine Woche, nachdem BILD und SZ einem Fotojournalisten öffentlich Hamas-Nähe unterstellt haben - eine unbelegte Behauptung, die das israelische Außenministerium und diverse Influencer sofort aufgriffen - tötet Israel zwei weitere Journalisten in Gaza gezielt - und mit *exakt derselben Begründung* /1

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Aug 7

RFK Jr is doing a terrible job convincing people he is not a colony of diseases in a skin suit

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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · Aug 5

President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars: “it is without a doubt that we are witnessing a genocide now in Gaza, and state parties to the Genocide Convention are failing in their obligation to prevent and punish genocide.“

Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?

[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Visiting Scholar with the H…

opiniojuris.org

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Max Zehring @maxzehring.bsky.social · Aug 4

Great choice of name at least

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Übermedien @uebermedien.de · Jul 31

Die Debatte über Fotos hungernder Kinder in Gaza ist ein Ablenkungsmanöver, schreibt @wortschneiderei.bsky.social. Dass einige Kinder vorerkrankt sind, hat mit ihrer katastrophalen Mangelernährung wenig zu tun – wie bei Muhammad, dessen Bild viele Medien nutzen. (Abo)
uebermedien.de/107797/die-z...

"Dieses Kind ist unterernährt": Debatte um Gaza-Fotos soll von Hungersnot ablenken

Viele Medien zeigten das Foto des abgemagerten Muhammed aus Gaza. Die Debatte um seine Vorerkrankung verdrängt, wie schlimm die Lage ist.

uebermedien.de

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Jul 29

Der besagte Siedler Yinon Levi, der gestern Awdah Hathaleen aus „No Other Land“ ermordet hat, lebt übrigens in der illegalen Siedlung Ma'on. Über Yad2 - bis kürzlich 100%ige Tochter von Axel Springer und bis heute finanziell mit Springer verknüpft - können Siedler dort problemlos Häuser anmieten.

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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · Jul 23

Das israelische Wissenschaftsministerium hat nun sein eigenes KI-generiertes Trump-Gaza-Riviera-Video veröffentlicht.

Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social · Jul 22

Fantasies of a post-genocide Gaza. Israeli Minister Gila Gamliel posted an AI video of how Gaza will look like following the genocide, clean of Palestinians, when Trump and Netanyahu and their respective partners can enjoy the boardwalk on the beach.

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Jul 23

Pretty wild that depending on how you search the #tiktok research API, you get wildly different results

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Jul 21

Wahnsinn, wie ausnahmslos alle Outlets – Berliner Zeitung, BZ, BILD, JA – bei ihrer Berichterstattung über die Proteste gegen das Restaurant „Gila & Nancy“ in Berlin unterschlagen, worum es dabei eigentlich geht: die Rolle des Besitzers Shahar Segal als Sprecher der GHF in Gaza.

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐

👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

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