Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

🎆 The special issue on "European Integration in the Geopolitical Age" is out! Discover all articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3... Guest editors: @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social

Two days of inspiring keynotes, talks and discussions by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on important aspects of digital safety await you at this year's Digitalisation Research Seminar (#DigiSem2026) at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, Berlin. Join in! 👇

Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · last wk.

AI and the Safety Paradox: Convenience, Control, or Compromise? At #DigiSem2026, Prof. Lena Kästner will explore this question in her keynote. Join us for the event: 📅 21-22 September 2026 📍Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin Register by September 7: eveeno.com/digisem-2026

Bientôt de nouveaux billets € dans nos portefeuilles! Vous pouvez voter en ligne et choisir entre les graphiques suivants 👇 surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

KI-Jesus per Videocall, ein Chatbot-Rabbi, ein BuddhaBot, eine Imam-App: Immer mehr Gläubige weltweit nutzen Gebets-Apps & #KI Seelsorge-Tools. Wie verändert #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Religionen? Darüber sprechen wir nächsten Mittwoch im #DigitalerSalon. HIIG & Livestream👉 www.hiig.de/events/digit...

Our colleagues at IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, are recruiting for five doctoral research positions in the research group 'Politik der Aufklärung'/'Politics of Enlightenment'! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

Opportunities: Five positions as doctoral research associates (m-f-d), Research Training Group “Politics of Enlightenment” (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at Martin-Luther-University HalleWittenberg is offering 5 part time (65%) positions as part of the “Politics of the…

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[New op-ed] Is procurement the missing piece of the digital sovereignty puzzle? By Nighat Nighat & Vaishnavi Patil policyreview.info/articles/new...

[Paper] Community-based policing and emerging informal systems of justice: Battling against the dark side of Twitch, By Reilly Willis, Adam Clayden, & Laura Polley policyreview.info/articles/ana...

[New Op-ed] "Europe's regulatory sovereignty model is the most sophisticated and most exportable response to internet fragmentation that any democratic entity has yet produced," argues John Kendall Hawkins policyreview.info/articles/new...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Wie beeinflussen Social Media und KI unsere Beziehungen und unser Miteinander? Am 8.7. lädt Vereint Bochum e. V. zu "Wer liked uns offline?" ins Schauspielhaus Bochum ein. Mit dabei ist auch Hendrik Heuer. Jetzt noch Plätze sichern 🎟️ www.schauspielhausbochum.de/de/stuecke/3... @hheuer.bsky.social

Kostenlos als Download bei der Thüringer Landeszentrale für politische Bildung: "Zukunftsideen in der Science-Fiction" von Dr. Isabella Hermann. Link: www.politische-bildung-thueringen.de/fileadmin/us... #sfcd #forschung #zukunft #wissenschaft #sciencefiction #bildung

The earthly limits of data centre resistance, By Stanford's Quito Tsui and U of Virginia's Aaron Martin policyreview.info/articles/new... #low-earth #orbit #compute

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-...

[Op-eds] Here's a combo for you. We have two new op-eds: 1) When workers become ‘skills’: Governance gaps in AI systems, By Qian & Yu policyreview.info/articles/new... #AIlabour 2) The EU AI Act’s intellectual property blind spot, By Eshaghi policyreview.info/articles/new... #AIAct

[Recent Op-Ed] The price of access: How war restructured Iran’s internet into a tiered and monetised system, By Imad Payande policyreview.info/articles/new... #infrastructure

The price of access: How war restructured Iran’s internet into a tiered and monetised system

The recent conflict in Iran reveals how internet governance under crisis conditions may be shifting from outright shutdowns toward layered systems of differentiated and monetised access.

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The (very-definitely-in-June-not-July) Festival of Storytelling from King's Digital Futures Institute invites you to... everything! Hear from experts and award-winning storytellers, join a workshop, get creative, or experience a performance. All free, just sign up! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...

Festival of Storytelling | King's College London

The Digital Futures Institute Festival of Storytelling, taking place 2–4 June, is a celebration of how we communicate what we do — and why it matters — through the stories we tell.

kcl.ac.uk

#Neu: #Blogreihe „Wahrheitsdinge" des GRK 2945 | @ruhr-uni-bochum.de auf dem #KWIBlog. ⚖️ Vom 5. - 20.5. erscheint täglich ein neuer Text, der zeigt: Wahrheiten werden nicht nur mit Worten gemacht. In diesem Thread teilen wir die neusten Beiträge. ⚖️ blog.kulturwissenschaften.de/category/wah...

⏰ Reminder: The deadline for abstract submissions is June 1, 2026! We welcome contributions (talks or poster presentations) related to the main conference topics, esp. inter- & transdisciplinary research. Abstracts should be max. 300 words & submitted via EasyChair: easychair.org/account/sign...

Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CfP: DigiSem 2026 – Digital Safety 📅 21–22 Sept 2026 | Berlin Early career researchers: submit abstracts on AI risks, social media regulation, vulnerable groups, cybercrime & more. ℹ️ www.cais-research.de/en/news/digi... @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @bidt.bsky.social @bredowinstitut.bsky.social

And here it is, ready for display at next week’s showcase. This is my sleep/insomnia from Jan 1-May 1, 2026. Thread colors are amounts of sleep and beads are types of wakefulness. #DHmakes

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s a #DHmakes weekend for me. I’m catching up on my sleep viz for our annual #DigitalHumanities Showcase next Fri. I’m exhibiting this (plus the ones from 2024 & 2025) in a DH class exhibit on data for humanists, where students will share their experiments creating+playing w personalized data sets

Wo Absolvent*innen früher offene Türen einrannten, laufen viele heute gegen eine Wand. Gefährdet #KI wirklich Einstiegsjobs oder ist sie ein bequemer Sündenbock? Welche Kompetenzen braucht es, um auf dem Arbeitsmarkt Fuß zu fassen? Mittwoch 19 Uhr im #DigitalerSalon. 👉 www.hiig.de/events/digit...

Heute, 11 Uhr, KI-Update NRW von KI:edu.nrw: Dr. Sebastian Strauß & Dr. Astrid Wichmann vom CAIS diskutieren Kriterien & Checklisten zur Bewertung von KI-Tools – mit Einblicken aus Forschung & Lehre sowie Ansätzen zur Entwicklung eigener Kriterien. 🔗 ki-edu-nrw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/event/ki-upd...

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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📗 EPS features contributions written by and for the #PoliticalScience community 💚 From debates to datasets, original research to reviews - EPS is the place for your next #PoliticalScience article! Submit your work here 👉 buff.ly/bvFVNqI

✨ Theos Funkeln im Folkwang Museum ✨ Am Sonntag, 26. April stelle ich gemeinsam mit einer Freundin mein Kinderbuch "Wie Theo das Funkeln fand" im Rahmen eines Lesesonntags im Museum Folkwang vor: www.museum-folkwang.de/de/veranstal... ⌚ Ab 14 Uhr (für ca. 20 min) |📍Raum innerhalb der Ausstellung

Updated AJPS AI Disclosure Policy for Authors Last year, we introduced a set of policies concerning the use of AI at AJPS for both authors and reviewers. We have recently updated these guidelines. The current guidelines are presented in this Editor's Blog: ajps.org/2026/04/10/u...

[New paper] Scroll. Like. Divide. The filter bubble effect on electoral perceptions, By Cristian Opariuc-Dan, Tănase Tasențe, & Cristina-Dana Popescu policyreview.info/articles/ana... #elections #filterbubble

[New Op-ed] A landmark ruling without a sequel: What the EU court leaves unresolved on anonymisation, By Zhejiang University's Wenlong Li policyreview.info/articles/new... #anonymisation

You can still apply as a research manager at @cais-research.bsky.social until 12 April. ✨️ 📩

Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Referent:in (all genders) für das Forschungsmanagement am CAIS gesucht! Gestalte Forschungsstrategie, Vernetzung & Karriereförderung mit. ℹ️ Unbefristet, TV-L E13, flexibel & inklusiv. Bewerbungsfrist: 12. April 2026 📨 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=b1206b #TeamCAIS #Forschung #Bochum

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547