All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

Paul Marvin@paulmarvin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dentists are reverse tooth fairies — they steal a tooth from you and make you pay for it

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Retro Computers@retrocomps.bsky.social · 5d ago

Rest in peace, Margaret Hamilton.

Hehe.

Grace@gracekind.net · 6d ago

Holy shit

Unsere Band heißt einstürzende Brandmauern und das nächste Stück heißt: Das BSW hat nur fünf Mandate.

I just discovered that @metallica.com is on Bluesky, lmao

Apparently the extremists are thinking about abolishing the existing bologna system at Magdeburg university. Which would mean no more Magdeburg university. Right wing politics is only concerned with aesthetics and projection, which makes it very stupid politics.

Robert Fietzke@robertfietzke.bsky.social · 7d ago

Welchen kaum reparablen Flurschaden eine AfD-Regierung für #Sachsen-Anhalt haben wird, zeigt auch die Hochschulpolitik. Eine Abschaffung von Bologna würde zum Kollaps führen, weil dann niemand mehr hier studieren würde, wenn der in Sachsen-Anhalt erworbene Abschluss anderswo nichts wert ist. Irre.

Due to current events.

+++ PUBLICATION ALERT +++ My first solo-authored PhD paper is finally out in Network Science! I am so happy that it finally happened! TL;DR: Representatives in Congress do not just disagree on issues, they oftentimes do not even talk about the same things at all. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Measuring issue-level polarization in congressional speech using community detection-algorithms | Network Science | Cambridge Core

Measuring issue-level polarization in congressional speech using community detection-algorithms - Volume 14

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Shit is getting real, but given the unhinged statements Mrs. Reiche has made in the past days, I am not surprised that the left had to call on the constitutional court. Honestly, I don’t know why Reiche is so explicit and obscene; other conservatives are half as nasty.

Tagesschau Bot@tagesschau.bsky.social · last wk.

Linke zieht gegen Reiche vor Bundesverfassungsgericht #Reiche #DieLinke

Ready to free yourself from Big Tech tools? Opt Out October is the time to do it. Once you manage to make some changes, give yourself one of these merit badges and share your accomplishments! www.eff.org/pages/welco...

Do your thing, stats peeps. Also:

Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · last wk.

Re-reading Sam Lucas who has for his entire career insisted that non-probability samples are useless at best for understanding the social world. The vast majority of studies I read do not use probability samples. With big data etc., where are we with sampling theory? Do folks still teach it or nah?

Uh, a new, not cringe trend. I can do that!

Patrick Präg@ppraeg.bsky.social · last wk.

Post something like normal people do Sunday

+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ I know it’s not Friday, but what is currently happening in German politics has me worried. If you only read opinion pieces, you may get the impression that 40% for a fascist party is not as bad as 20% for a socialist party. www.hendrik-erz.de/post/a-moder...

A Modern Red Scare

A few weeks ago, there were two important regional elections in Germany. In the one in Saxony-Anhalt, the fascist party AfD gained over 40% of the …

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No.

A benefit/drawback of being a sociologist is that you cannot answer a survey without noticing all the errors and mistakes they made when constructing it.

+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ All good things come to an end. What's more exciting are the things that follow! In November, I will start a Postdoc in the project SynDIKAT. I will be affiliated with @gesis.org and @cais-research.bsky.social — and I'm *absolutely* excited! www.hendrik-erz.de/post/a-fork-...

A Fork in the Road

In about a month, I will be starting a new position. Time to reflect on six years in Sweden and on this blog.

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The winners of Right Livelihood Award - referred as Alternative Nobel Prize - have been announced in Stockholm The jury chose @timnitgebru.blacksky.app , says von Uexkull, "because she is an extremely prominent critic of the power relations behind the AI development we are currently experiencing 1/

Preisträgerinnen des Alternativen Nobelpreises bekannt gegeben

In Stockholm sind die Preisträgerinnen des Right Livelihood Award bekannt gegeben worden - oft auch Alternativer Nobelpreis genannt. Die Auszeichnung geht in diesem Jahr ausschließlich an Frauen und v...

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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨ Published version ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @olivia.science Thread with highlights 🧵

Good morning!

Endless Screaming@infinitescream.bsky.social · 2w ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Clickbait* has arrived in academic paper titles. (Congrats to @tkeskinturk.bsky.social on the publication!) _____________________________________ * that primarily baits me, a millennial

The magic phrase every researcher should know which will make every infrastructure deployment for sensitive research data a guaranteed success.

Noch heute sind wir auf dem DGS Kongress in Mainz vertreten. Wenn ihr mit der Redaktion des SozMag ins Gespräch kommen wollt, wir sind in der Verlagsausteller-Halle zu finden

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Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

I just tried to cancel my electricity agreement (e.on), and since there were no other options, I tried their chatbot. I asked it to answer in English, the LLM responded: "Hello there! My name is Kim, I can only understand Swedish." They took THE ONE THING LLMs are useful at away from us.

Why is EVERY single app now a gray background with a bunch of rounded boxes on top of it? That gap between the toolbar and the window border on the left side is absolutely hideous. I am rarely complaining about design changes, but that is just … ugly.

The Apple Watch is amazing. It knows in advance when I get ill because my vitals shoot through the roof during the night, and then continues to remind me that, if I don’t do a brisk 12-minute walk I will not make my exercise goal for the day.

To understand the political attitudes of the German cultural and political elites you need to understand that the fascist party won 44% in one region; the socialists won 25% in another; and the hot topic this week in the news and feuilleton is how dramatic the result of the socialists is.

Falls ihr es vor lauter Red-Scare und um sich selbst drehender Berlin-Debatten vergessen habt: In #Sachsen-Anhalt droht die erste faschistische Regierung seit 1945. Gemeinsam mit dem BSW bereitet die AfD bereits die Entmachtung des Parlaments und die Isolation der Opposition vor.

Today I got reminded about a very old article of mine from four years ago. Reading it in today's context, it almost sounds prophetic. All the idiocy we have to deal with today has been foretold in the case of Blake Lemoine. www.hendrik-erz.de/post/is-ai-f...

Is AI finally becoming sentient?

No, it's not. But yesterday, news broke that allegedly some Google chat bot system may have gained sentience. How credible are these claims? While …

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