"Dass unser Austausch mit Wissen in Zukunft primär über #KI ablaufen wird, die von wenigen Firmen mit verschiedenen Biases kontrolliert wird, ist etwas, über das wir nicht genug nachdenken." Thanks to @wisskomm.de's Inga Dreyer for asking difficult and important questions ... #AI #scicomm #scipol

Warum es Public Engagement „mit Biss“ braucht

Seit mehr als 25 Jahren forscht Dietram A. Scheufele von der University of Wisconsin–Madison im Bereich Wissenschaftskommunikation. Im Interview reflektiert er über fundamentale Veränderungen, plädier...

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all of this

"AI is an accelerant, not the kindling. The kindling is publish or perish." I always learn something from reading Ivan Oransky's work. Borrowing great metaphors to structure my own thinking is an added bonus.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last wk.

"AI is an accelerant, not the kindling. The kindling is publish or perish." "We don't need generative AI to make a dog's breakfast out of scientific literature." Our Ivan Oransky speaks with @cenmag.bsky.social

"What we should be communicating ... is the epistemic integrity of the scientific process itself: not the certainty of any given finding, but the reliability of how findings are produced, tested, and revised." Thanks to Rosa García-Verdugo for a great conversation, parts of which are linked below.

STOA@epstoa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Science communication often fails on polarized topics & #AI may worsen the problem: 👉Interview with expert Prof @dietram.bsky.social of @uwmadison.bsky.social on the challenges of #science #communication today: sciencemediahub.eu/2026/07/22/i... #scicomm #ESMH #disinfo @starvingneuron.com

“… associations are generally stronger in editorial review than in peer review.” x.com/scienceadvan...

Science Advances (@ScienceAdvances) on X

A study of 110,303 manuscript submissions to two elite research journals has identified factors during the editorial and peer review stages that impact whether a paper is accepted for publication. htt...

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"... fear of betrayal by the attention economy.” In analog terms, the revolution devours its children. share.google/FhauSZuFPqBu...

How Lizzo Became One of Pop Culture’s Great Flops

The singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone.

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"@arxiv.bsky.social will spin out from Cornell University, its home for the past 25 years, to become an independent nonprofit organization." blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/a...

My latest co-authored article with @dietram.bsky.social, @farooquema.bsky.social, @almacristalhm.bsky.social + lots of folks I couldn't find on this platform explores how institutions and experts can productively respond to the populist challenge. Now live in @nature.com

SCI Lab investigator Dietram Scheufele (@dietram.bsky.social) joins a group of science communication and policy experts in a new Nature comment (@nature.com). A timely piece in advance of this weekend's celebration of democracy ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Six ways to put the public at the heart of science and policy

Trust in elite institutions is on the wane globally. Building public participation into research and government advice can turn the tide.

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AI is not your friend @meredithmeredith.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/s...

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ | TechCrunch

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

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"Responsiveness or scientific openness to dialogue and conversation is conceptually important but ... [a]ctive listening, public engagement and genuine dialogue appear less often in current science communication practice, especially on social media." When #scicomm doesn't walk its own talk ...

Public Trust in Science | Reports | Wellcome

A landscape review of conceptual and empirical evidence on public trust in science and the qualities associated with trustworthy scientific practice.

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"For now, Trump occupies the White House, where he has built a UFC octagon on the lawn to mark the nation’s 250th birthday, while Biden is speaking at a three-star hotel by the airport in an attempt to salvage his reputation" archive.is/yfH6y#select...

"Every field we have studied shows some signs of the pathologies sketched above: a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria." www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s... #highered #scipol

State of Scholarship Report

Introduction We presume that our readers recognize the value of the humanistic disciplines and their central place in the modern research university. The humanities and the social sciences take as the...

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Optimistic note for the day: Agentic search will seal off filter bubbles and echo chambers to a point where the corrosive effects on deliberative democracy will be difficult to dial back ... www.axios.com/2026/05/19/g... #ai #polarization #democracy #agenticAI

Google unveils broad new push to put AI everywhere

The search giant showcased a range of AI initiatives.

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"[T]he Germany that was the root of his greatness (and that of Goethe) is gone; Germany is dead and perhaps Mann himself, with his American passport, is now a ghost." One of the first movies in decades I wouldn't mind seeing in a theater ... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return

Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller

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Albert Speer, Germania, and Schwerbelastungskörper. I am so glad, America is bringing back “starved neo-Classicism" ...

“Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system.” I am old … www.zdnet.com/article/micr...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Want a blast from the past? Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system, offering a rare insight into the PC's earliest days.

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"Der Traum meiner Generation ist auf eine fast gruselige Weise in Erfüllung gegangen: weniger silbergraue Köpfe, mehr Gegenwart, mehr politisches Engagement, mehr moralische Energie. Nur leider auch: deutlich weniger Kunstverständnis." trigger-warnung.com/holt-die-alt...

Woke im Theater: Holt die alten weißen Männer zurück! | Trigger-Warnung.com

Das woke Publikum zerstört gerade das Theater. Während sich die alten Männer noch beleidigen ließen, stürmen woke Zuschauer bei provokanten Inszenierungen d ...

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Tell me you're working in academia without telling me you're working in academia. 😜 I am also kind of excited that I just learned the term "malicious envy." www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

"High costs, murky admissions practices, uneven academic standards and fears about free speech on campuses, the committee said, are among the reasons for widening discontent over higher education’s worthiness." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u... #highered #scipol #scicomm

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

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Good on @unionberlin.bsky.social! I need to get some swag.

Marie-Louise Eta becomes first female head coach in men's top five European leagues at Bundesliga side Union Berlin

Union Berlin sacked Steffen Baumgart after Saturdays 3-1 defeat to bottom side Heidenheim; Eta takes interim charge for final five games of the season with club still not certain of Bundesliga surviva...

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Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness. Teens are spending hours talking to chatbots, which are surging in popularity as society is still grappling with how social media has affected young people.

What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness.

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"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request." www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Trump administration proposes massive budget cuts to science

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

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Excited to announce a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on science-society divides. We invite abstract submissions by May 15, 2026. Full call is here:  bit.ly/annals_goodf.... #scicomm #scipol

"#AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support ... I feel somewhat embarrassed to admit how tempting this is." www.science.org/content/arti...

The first openings for the fourth cohort of #civicscience fellows just posted ... #scicomm #scipol #engagement

I'll speak on panel "Science Advice and Populism" at #AAASmtg (on @senseaboutsci.bsky.social approach) that follows panel on "path to trust in science" & feel I'm going to sound very repetitive and might have to say a few times "just like @dietram.bsky.social just said in the previous panel..." 😅

"With ... policy reforms and critical academic debates ... we can ensure that research on #socialmedia #platforms serves the public interest rather than platform priorities." @raffaelheiss.bsky.social and @freiling.bsky.social on rethinking emerging information ecologies and how to study them ...

📢 Call for registrations - Science:TBD 📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026 Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes: ⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer ⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social ⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier ⭐Ulrich Dirnagl ⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd

~80% studies about social media have industry COI by author and/or editor — but *only* 20% studies disclose a COI. FYI @thehonestbroker.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @jackstilgoe.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social @wihbey.bsky.social

Dietram A. Scheufele@dietram.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Undisclosed ties to industry are common ... among authors, ... reviewers and academic editors ... industry ties are associated with a topical focus away from impacts of platform-scale features." @jbakcoleman.bsky.social et al. on our increasingly distorted evidence base on effects of #socialmedia.