🎉 New publication in Digital Journalism! The latest study by Paul Balluff, @hajoboo.bsky.social, and @anniewald.bsky.social compares how German alternative and legacy media reported on Nord Stream 2 and reveals both distinctive reporting patterns and substantial overlap. Read more👇

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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My kids have measles, I can't breathe the air, I can't afford gas, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to stop monitoring. But at least now the Saudis have a nuclear program.

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Grüne und Linke haben seit der Bundestagswahl zusammen so viel zugelegt wie die AfD. Es dreht sich aber alles um die AfD. Als wäre eh schon sicher, dass sie 2029 regiert. Das Narrativ des „Rechtsrucks“ suggeriert man müsse sich anpassen und könne gar nicht aktiv progressive Politik gestalten.

Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt@de.whln.eu · 3w ago

BUNDESTAGSWAHL | Sonntagsfrage Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/ZDF AfD: 27% (-1) Union: 23% (-1) GRÜNE: 14% (+2) LINKE: 13% (+2) SPD: 12% (-1) FDP: 4% Sonstige: 7% (-1) Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 19. Juni 2026 Verlauf: whln.eu/UmfragenDeutschland #btw29

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Communities Without Credit: The Political Implications of Deprivation in Access to Banking Services - Pedro Martín-Cadenas, 2026

A growing body of research links public service provision to political geographies. Yet an increasing share of services in Western countries is delivered by pri...

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Aufruf zur TikTok-Datenspende! Welche politischen Inhalte sehen Menschen auf #TikTok tatsächlich – und wie beeinflussen Empfehlungsalgorithmen ihre politische Informationsversorgung? Diesen Fragen geht das @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social nach. www.dein-feed-deine-wahl.de #CitizenScience

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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PostDoc Zukunftsforschung/Digitale Zukünfte (all genders) - Job Bochum - Stellenangebote CAIS

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Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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1/ I'm delighted to share my latest article: The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion: Three analytical pathways, now published in Irish Political Studies www.flyn.to/LopOj99 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion. Three analytical pathways

This lecture, delivered in memory of Peter Mair, discusses how political scientists can account for the far right's evolving relationship with democracy as far-right actors become increasingly inte...

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As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12mo ago

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

Das ist auch wichtig zu wissen, wenn das nächste Mal wieder Skandalberichte über Gedränge und keilereien im Freibad kommen: es ist dort so eng, weil es so wenig davon gibt.

Franca Parianen@fparianen.bsky.social · last mo.

Berlin hat übrigens tatsächlich die geringste Schwimmbadquote Deutschlands. (oder, wie es die Senatsverwaltung im Rahmen der Kürzungen nannte: "grundsätzlich ausreichend")

Klimawandel & Extremwetter: Die Hitzewelle am Wochenende ist zunächst durch ein stabiles Hochdrucksystem erklärbar, so PIK-Forscher @alevermann.bsky.social. Die Häufigkeit solcher Extremereignisse steht im Zusammenhang mit dem menschengemachten Klimawandel. 👂👇 www.radioeins.de/programm/sen...

Klimawandel und Extremhitze: Die Wissenschaft hinter den Rekordtemperaturen

Bis zu 42 Grad Celsius werden in Deutschland am Wochenende erwartet – bereits heute wurde die 41 Grad Celsius-Marke geknackt. PIK-Klimaforscher Anders Levermann erklärt auf radioeins, warum solche Hit...

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[googles] how to write when your brain has become soup

Daniela Stoltenberg@dstoltenberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Prognosticated 40 degree heat over the weekend, wildfires in Brandenburg, and itching all over from the plague of heat-loving killer caterpillars—all while writing about climate justice activism. What a time to be alive. ✌️

"Writing is thinking." This, a hundred times over We learn more about problems and how we understand them when we have to communicate them to others

sophie alpert@sophiebits.com · last mo.

got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...

Prognosticated 40 degree heat over the weekend, wildfires in Brandenburg, and itching all over from the plague of heat-loving killer caterpillars—all while writing about climate justice activism. What a time to be alive. ✌️

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

🚨 I'm thrilled to share a new 🔓 #OpenAccess article out now in Information, Communication & Society: Inaccuracies, omissions, and bullshit: 2024 U.S. elections through the eyes of ChatGPT A quick 🧵:

Bit on the nose.

Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · last mo.

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

Hui. Gestern noch mit Kolleg:innen drüber diskutiert, wo KI-Einsatz in der Lehre erlaubt sein sollte und wo nicht. Das hätten wir uns dann wohl sparen können.

Elif Oezmen@elifoezmen.bsky.social · last mo.

“Wir verbieten das Verbot von künstlicher Intelligenz”. An Universitäten. Bei Prüfungsleistungen. Da bin ich jetzt einfach sprachlos. Was nicht so oft vorkommt. Soll doch halt eine KI für “beide Seiten gewinnbringend” schreiben, was hier stehen könnte. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

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🚨 🚨 🚨 new publication (with @antonialang.bsky.social) klaxon!!! Over the past decade, scholars have increasingly turned to “place” as a key factor in political behaviour — particularly on the far right, in Europe & the US. Urban-rural divides are especially intriguing. But are they true cleavages? 🤔

There’s a fine line between theoretical contribution and renaming things

Sounds like something an AI would write. 😏

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Will Asbestos Make Make Cotton Candy Obsolete?

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...