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Institutet för Framtidsstudier / Institute for Futures Studies Oberoende forskningsinstitut som studerar samhällsfenomen av stor vikt för vår framtid. / Independent research foundation IFFS-list by Erik Angner: https://go.bsky.app/MYc3oH4

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IFFS@futures-studies.bsky.social · last wk.

Job applications with foreign-sounding names are rejected at a higher rate by employers in occupations where the share of employees with foreign backgrounds is low. This is shown in a study conducted at IFFS. Read more: www.iffs.se/en/news/empl...

Employers uphold segregated labor market

Job applications with foreign-sounding names are rejected at a higher rate by employers in occupations where the share of employees with foreign backgrounds is low. This is shown in a study conducted ...

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Nina Lager Vestberg@lagernina.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fancy an excuse to come to Stockholm in September? Open seminar on PICTURE CULTURES with various folks involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/VR). Speaker list in the comments!

A poster of various AI-generated cats accompanied by the following invitation to an OPEN SEMINAR PICTURE CULTURES 17 Sept. 09.30–16.00 Klockan Konferens Olof Palmes gata 29-31 Welcome to a seminar where researchers as well as the advisory board involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/Vetenskapsrådet) will present recent and ongoing research on various of aspects of how mass-produced and mass-reproduced pictures can be interpreted, datafied and studied. Speakers: Realism revisited. The persistence of photography in the age of AI –Estelle Blaschke What Did the Victorians See? Using Multimodal AI to Analyze 72,000 News Illustrations –Thomas Smits What Are Artificial Intelligence Models Models Of? –Fabian Offert Picturing Baskerville’s Punches –Caroline Archer Parré Proto-photographic Reproductive Phantasmagoria –Wolfgang Brückle Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 –Nina Lager Vestberg & Anna Näslund
IFFS@futures-studies.bsky.social · 2w ago

The big AI companies are recruiting more and more philosophers. According to a report from the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, philosophy graduates have a better chance of getting a job than computer scientists, SVT reports. But what do AI companies want with philosophers?

Solimut Mutuelle de France@solimutmutuelle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#LECHIFFREDEMIDI Entre 1999 et 2024 et dans 60 pays étudiés, l'acceptabilité des violences conjugales envers les femmes a décliné de 89% chez les hommes et de 94% chez les femmes Par @futures-studies.bsky.social

Trends in the acceptability and prevalence of intimate partner violence: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys, 1999–2024

Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a major global public health problem. Social norms that accept IPVAW are a key correlate of its prevalence, and recent research has documented a…

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Olle Hammar@ollehammar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thanks for having me on the Policy Implications podcast @olhazadorozhna.bsky.social! Hear our - unfortunately very timely - discussion on Russian support for the war in Ukraine here 👇

OlhaZadorozhna@olhazadorozhna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎧 Today, as RU launched another massive attack on Kyiv, I’m sharing an episode that feels especially timely. Link: tinyurl.com/4fbjbrvs 🎧 Listen as a podcast: 🟢 Spotify: shorturl.at/Ho3jh 🍎 Apple Podcasts: shorturl.at/gOlvb ▶️ YouTube Podcasts: shorturl.at/otJaq #EconSky #PoliSky #EconTwitter

IFFS@futures-studies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI har på kort tid blivit en självklar del av en rekryterares vardag. Argumenten är att AI effektiviserar processen och gör mer objektiva urval. Sociologen Lambros Roumbanis har tittat på hur AI används i rekrytering och vad det snabba införandet beror på. www.iffs.se/nyheter/ai-s...

AI som rekryterare

AI har på kort tid blivit en självklar del av en rekryterares vardag. Argumenten är att AI effektiviserar processen och gör mer objektiva urval. Sociologen Lambros Roumbanis har tittat på hur AI använ...

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Olle Hammar@ollehammar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🥳 New publication in @pnas.org! Happy to be part of this big experiment on AI and reproducibility led by @i4replication.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

IFFS@futures-studies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Svenskarnas attityder till migration har förändrats tydligt sedan 2010-talets mitt – men bilden är mer nyanserad än den politiska retoriken ofta ger intryck av. Det är en av slutsatserna i en ny rapport av Göran Holmqvist, affilierad forskare vid IFFS www.iffs.se/nyheter/rapp...

Rapport: Svenskarnas syn på migration mer balanserad än debatten antyder

Svenskarnas attityder till migration har förändrats tydligt sedan 2010-talets mitt – men bilden är mer nyanserad än den politiska retoriken ofta ger intryck av. Det var en av huvudpoängerna när Göran ...

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IFFS@futures-studies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can future generations be exploited? Nicola Mulkeen presents work arguing that traditional theories of exploitation struggle to account for future generations. She proposes a structural, role-based model that focuses on enduring social roles shaped by institutions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bV...

Nicola Mulkeen: Exploitation & Time - Future Generations, Social Roles and Structural Injustice

YouTube video by The Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm

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Waldemar Ingdahl@waldemaringdahl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Kryonik – nedfrysning av människor efter döden i hopp om framtida medicin – beskrivs ofta som science fiction. Men när företag i Europa redan erbjuder kryonisk bevaring blir frågan mindre teknisk och mer institutionell: hur definierar våra samhällen egentligen död?