What kind of #democracy do we want to live in by 2050? That's the question at the heart of #twentyfifty, our new essay competition for researchers from around the world with @w-i-d.de. Submission deadline: 15 June 2026. #CallforSubmissions 👉 Submit your vision here: www.hiig.de/en/call-for-...

A new paper in Science measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dass die @kbv.de gegen die Kürzungen im Bereich der Psychotherapie klagt, ist ein extrem starkes Zeichen. www.kbv.de/presse/press...

KBV - Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung

kbv.de - Nachdem der Erweiterte Bewertungsausschuss letzte Woche die Absenkung fast aller psychotherapeutischen Leistungen um 4,5 Prozent beschlossen hatte, kündigte die Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinig...

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Congrats to the brilliant @leamert.bsky.social and Gerd Gründer on publishing this study after so many years of dedication and hard work! It’s been a privilege and a pleasure to work as part of the team.

Lea Mertens@leamert.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our study on the Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Depression (EPISODE) - now published in @jamapsychiatry.com A negative effect on primary outcome, but evidence for a relevant antidepressant effect of 25 mg psilocybin with psychotherapy in TRD.

a very relevant (equally alarming and motivating) read! it touches on so many worries about the influence of AI on (higher) education that regularly come up in conversations with friends and colleagues.

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

🥁 Exciting news! Our research project "The Therapeutic Game” that works on the philosophy of language of psychotherapy has just published a new paper. It provides a comprehensive overview of conversational scorekeeping, that is the way speech and context interact in the course of a conversation.

Conversational Scorekeeping

Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually i...

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