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Marlene Altenmüller @marlephie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

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Adrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Good news and a PhD position: Together with Ann-Kathrin Koessler, I was awarded funding by the German Research Foundation for our project “New Perspectives on Farmer Identities and Agri-Environmental Measures”. It sits at the intersection of...

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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

of institutions. I argued in the piece below that what really distinguished Fidesz was its counter-market policies of mass-oriented provision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Fidesz also engaged in mass organization beyond occasional outbursts which is the bread and butter of far-rightists 2/

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 13/02/2026

#LoveData26 #FDMPower #thematiccollections #researchtopic Are you looking for data for your research topic? Our database is also organized by subject area so that you can get a quick overview of the data we have available.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/12/2025

Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.

Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.

Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

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Sandra Schulz @schusand.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Vielen Dank für die vielen wertschätzenden Rückmeldungen zu unserem #Dlf -Interview mit Carsten #Linnemann . Gibt unserem Team und mir in stürmischen Zeiten wichtigen Rückhalt für unsere Arbeit. 🙏

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

New pub! 📝 Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @tijana-et-al.bsky.social @arothers.bsky.social

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This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics o...

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Wissenschaftsministerin ein massiver fail. Ideologisch, dumm, und in der Sache so falsch wie im Amt unprofessionell. Anstatt sachlich nüchtern die Professorin vor Diffamierungen & gegen 1 Kampagne zu schützen, wirft sie diese erneut dem geifernden Polit-Mob zum Fraß hin. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl

Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.

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Dax Werner @daxwerner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Ich gebe euch hiermit offiziell hitzefrei. Ein Retweet reicht und ihr seid rechtlich auf der "sicheren Seite".

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Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Kurz: Die #Grundwasserneubildung💧 kackt vielerorts ab. 👉 Leider halt wieder sone Nachricht, die kaum Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wird, da es ja in den letzten 2 Wochen *etwas* geregnet 🌧 hat. Und warum auch, geht ja grundsätzlich nur um unsere wichtigste Lebensgrundlage. 🤷‍♂️ #Dürre #Entwässerung

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Grundwasser in Deutschland: Kritische Lage in 201 von 401 Landkreisen - die Gründe

Neben der Dürre tragen Landwirtschaft und Braunkohleabbau zur Knappheit bei. Daten zur Grundwassernutzung sind oft unzureichend.

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

📣 Excited to share our new preprint: "Measuring Perceived Structural Constraints on Choice: The Structural Awareness Scale" (SAS) osf.io/preprints/os... We developed SAS to capture how people perceive 🧱 structural barriers on their choices in areas such as sustainability or healthy eating.

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Adrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Attended my first agriculture-focused conference in Leipzig, great place, great talks and such a lovely crowd 🥰

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Advances.in @advances.in · 05/03/2025

Recognizing the financial pressures many academics experience in these trying times, we have waived the Article Processing Charge for this special issue. Kindly repost.

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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Ergebnisse der KoaV-AG „Bildung, Forschung & Innovation“: Was ist drin für #IchBinHanna? Was unklar? Was fehlt? 1 🧵. Tl,dr: 1. Eindruck erfreulich, aber 🐘 im Raum – konkrete Ausgestaltung der Postdoc-Phase zur Schaffung langfristiger Perspektiven – wird nicht ausreichend adressiert. (1/13)

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Koalitionsverhandlungen CDU/CSU/SPD AG 8 - Bildung, Forschung und Innovation

Schwarzer Text: Einigkeit Blauer Text: nicht geeint, Union-Forderung Roter Text: nicht geeint, SPD-Forderung [Zu den Ergebnissen der anderen Arbeitsgruppen geht es hier.](https://fragdenstaat.de/ar...

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I don't really get what this research is for. Of course you can't use LLMs in place of humans for social science research. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Dear colleagues, I invite you to sign a letter of support for Serbian students and professors and to share it within your academic community. Thank you for standing with us! (600+ signatures at the moment) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Ich habe in letzter Zeit Gespräche mit Mitarbeitenden der Agentur für Arbeit geführt. Sie schienen alle genervt vom Begriff der „Totalverweigerer“, weil es die praktisch nicht gibt. Entweder hat niemand dieser Politiker:innen je mit Mitarbeitenden der Ämter gesprochen. Oder sie sagen die Unwahrheit.

Markus Söder, Friedrich Merz, Lars Klingbeil und Saskia Esken bei der heutigen Pressekonferenz.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

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Frank Eckerle @fmsmallfield.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa. Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Research suggests that social fear of crime and prejudice towards minority groups may be linked. We investigated (Ntotal = 7712) whether prejudice towards a social group that is stereotyped as more c...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Mercator projection strikes again.

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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If you are keen to learn #Rstats and other coding techniques, here are some workshops and resources offered by a group of European academics in exchange for donations to #Ukraine. See below for workshop contents and how to #DonateToUkraine sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine

Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

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Adrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is the position I did my PhD on - get in touch if you have questions!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025

"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

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World Wars, Past and Possible

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

In diesen düsteren Zeiten braucht es dringend eine neue Debatte über Wirtschaftspolitik und greifbare Alternativen zum Neoliberalismus & zum Aufstieg der extremen Rechten. Deshalb haben wir @surplusmagazin.bsky.social gegründet! Adam Tooze @mauricehoefgen.bsky.social @lukasscholle.bsky.social

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tante @tante.cc · 10/01/2025

Wir reden viel über individuelle CO2 Budgets, aber die ökonomische Klasse ist dabei wichtiger als viele wahrhaben wollen Oxfam: Superreiche haben ihr CO2-Budget für 2025 bereits verbraucht

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German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) @gles.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚨 Data of GLES Panel Wave 27 have been pre-released! 🚨 ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14... 👥 8.263 interviews 📅 24/09–08/10/2024 Topics included, among others, the state elections in Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I put together a list of all starter packs that I like and follow, in case it’s useful for people with similar interests. The list includes things like social and political psychology, inequality and colonialism, social and behavioral change, and some science shitposting. #AcademicSky

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Adrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1.204.483!

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Posting for a friend: Unique 2-year post-doc at Maastricht University with a tight application timeline (deadline: Sept 22). The topic? Causal Inference, public mental health, and psychology vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

What a cool idea! This map shows the 13,136 largest global cities colored by elevation and bubble size by population. Makes sense that we only have a relatively small number of huge cities in very high altitude. A gem of a map! Source: buff.ly/2zphM7X

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Adrian Rothers @arothers.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Not my area of expertise but for me as dad this sounds extremely interesting!

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

NNW - Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft - ist das alte #profsfuerhanna unsere Grundsätze zenodo.org/records/1119...

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Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft: Gemeinsame Grundsätze

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Tobias Rothmund @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Das KomRex der FSU Jena führt im Kontext der Landtagswahlen in #Thueringen, #Sachsen und #Brandenburg eine #Wahlbefragung durch. JungwissenschaftlerInnen sind eingeladen Items mit zu erheben und eigene Fragestellungen zu untersuchen. Details zur Ausschreibung: www.komrex.uni-jena.de/forschungspr...

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Wahlstudie 2024

Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs im Bereich der Politischen Psychologie

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21/03/2024

Morning, everyone

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/03/2024

Every time I look into one of the standard stats textbooks for psychologists I get so angry I want to write one myself. It would be all talking about data-generating mechanisms, and also lots of meta-talk about common practices, how to make sense of them, where they go wrong, etc.

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