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David Bazan

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Sociologist interested in algorithms, affects and inequalities. Researching on feedback loops and emotions on TikTok. PhD

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
And by the way, from our scoop, we also discovered that Anthropic is also using human reviewers to read conversations.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers
Screenshot of the primer: “Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement". Alex Hanna, Tina M. Park, Sophie Song. May 2026. Logos for the Luddite Lab and DAIR.
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me Deadline: 12 May, 2026 Call👇 8d87235d-b140-4b6e-949c-c9606376b3fa.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d8723_a...
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 14/04/2026
🚨New article🚨 What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy? This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’' 1/ shorturl.at/jptiu
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There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’: Reclaiming the emancipatory potential of populism in reactionary times | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’: Reclaiming the emancipatory potential of populism in reactionary times
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received.
In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed.
Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago.
“I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.”
But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint.
It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!
image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 02/01/2026
La izquierda después de Mamdani "Si la vida se ha encarecido en la mayoría de ciudades del mundo, si la vivienda o la alimentación son cada vez más caras, la agenda de la asequibilidad puede impulsar mayorías políticas". ✍️ Adrià Rodríguez. ctxt.es/es/20260101/...
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La izquierda después de Mamdani
Estrategias y límites de la asequibilidad
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 07/11/2025
🇺🇸 Este fin de semana abrimos la portada de CTXT con este texto de Fernando Prats sobre ese proyecto distópico del capitalismo extremo en EEUU llamado Trumpismo. ¡Lean! "Lo importante es descifrar el significado profundo del proyecto global de la ultraderecha estadounidense." ctxt.es/es/20251101/...
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Trumpismo: el proyecto distópico del capitalismo extremo en EEUU
Lo más alarmante no son únicamente sus efectos institucionales, sociales o económicos, sino su ruptura sistemática con límites indispensables para preservar la vida, la dignidad humana y la convivenci...
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Tobias Olofsson @t-olofsson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Today I’m very happy to watch @davidbazan.bsky.social brilliantly defend his thesis ”Algorithmic Interaction Ritual Chains on TikTok: Scrolling through Feedback Loops”
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 06/09/2025
👉Es profundamente patológico que una persona sienta un deseo persistente de eludir una tarea agotadora que no le interesa lo más mínimo y que se ve forzada a realizar durante cuatro o más décadas de su vida para poder comer🍽️ Genial aquí, Adri T.✍️ ¿Síndrome postvacacional?⁉️ ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
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Síndrome postvacacional
Si una vocecita dentro de su interior está chillando porque les resulta insoportable la idea de volver a su puesto de trabajo, recuerden esforzarse por sentir y expresar un agradecido sometimiento hac...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 09/06/2025
For all the talks about concerns over disinformation, the mainstream media have been a key agent in the mainstreaming of far right politics by: - covering them disproportionately - hyping moral panics - platforming their bad faith actors as legitimate bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
​​“There is no ‘one weird trick’ that removes experts and creates miracle machines that can do everything that humans can do, but better,” Asmelash Teka Hadgu and @timnitgebru.bsky.social write. www.scientificamerican.com/article/repl...
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Replacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian Nightmare
The Trump administration sees an AI-driven federal workforce as more efficient. Instead, with chatbots unable to carry out critical tasks, it would be a diabolical mess
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/
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Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🦄 Conference Call : (DON'T) BELIEVE THE HYPE  Submit an abstract to the newly founded Hype Studies Group! We're organising the first edition of a Hype Studies Conference in Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the 10th-12th of September 2025. More info: hypestudies.org/conference
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Conference | Hype Studies
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I very much appreciate @dkreiss.bsky.social & @shannimcg.bsky.social on this point. “Polarization can only be seen as a central threat to democracy if inequality is ignored.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms - Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C McGregor, 2024
Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast,...
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/03/2025
A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Tobias Olofsson @t-olofsson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New article! It was a treat to be invited to contribute to and working with the editors and co-contributors in this special issue on economic ventures seeking or claiming to do good. valuationstudies.liu.se/article/view... Also, check out the full issue here: valuationstudies.liu.se/issue/view/496
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View of Valuation and Critique in “The Good Economy” Part 1
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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"TikTok displayed the greatest right-wing skew, per its findings — showing right-leaning content 74% of the time." techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...
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Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a
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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹 📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:
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The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab
In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 10/02/2025
"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship."
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El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 24/01/2025
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo.
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Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie ha empezado a defender las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo. El joven, llamado Serapio Domínguez y natural de Zaragoza, l...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tiktok boosted Republican messages 11.8% more than Democrat messages during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race according to this new study that employed bots to view ~394,000 videos.
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Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The salary of a 1st and 2nd year Phd student in Spain is now only about 100€ higher that than the minimum wage
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“DeepSeek’s results demonstrate that the US Big Tech narrative that the expansion of energy production is what’s required for them to lead in a global ‘AI race’ is utter hogwash,” said @mmitchell.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | DeepSeek is reframing the AI policy debate
The Chinese model’s stunning success is bolstering arguments that U.S. AI policy should spur innovation rather than slowing it down.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Searching #liberal or #democrat on Instagram now returns "We've hidden these results", #Republican has no such problem. Seems bad.
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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Now that I've slept on it, let's discuss the TikTok ban. The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Many of the parents blaming social media for their teens’ mental health struggles are just deflecting blame from their own violence and abuse. And that’s what the report finds. Adults’ violence is one of the major reasons teens struggle.
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Elsa Hedling @elsahedling.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🌟 Fully funded PhD in European Studies! 🌟 Join us at Lund University to explore digital politics, digital diplomacy, digital disinformation & more. ✅ Master’s in humanities/social sciences required ⏳ Deadline: Jan 20th 📚 Apply: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job... #PhD #AcademicTwitter #digitaldiplomacy
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Doktorand i Europastudier
Om utbildningen Information om forskarutbildningen vid Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna finns på https://www.ht.lu.se/utbildning/forskarutbildning/ . Arbetsuppgifter Forskarutbildning. Instit
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is information fragmentation. Extremely-online niches (and their norms!) are also not the be-all end-all — there’s an availability & prevalence issue. When Trump started ranting about “eating the pets” during the debate, people went to google to try to figure out wtf he was talking about.
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It’s like no one saw this coming www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud
Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thrilled to announce the @datasociety.bsky.social Generative AI & Labor Primer by Aiha Nguyen & Alexandra Mateescu. It covers how GenAI impacts many forms of work, the human labor behind GenAI & AI's impact on worker control & surveillance. A labor/tech must-read! datasociety.net/library/gene...
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Generative AI <p>and Labor
This new primer shows that understanding how AI will affect work requires examining how work is organized, how industries are structured, and whose and what work is valued.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
PhD-course on Multiple Correspondence Analysis, in Oslo January 13-16 2025! Come learn the technique from renowned expert Johs. Hjellbrekke, shooting star @marentoft.bsky.social, and yours truly. www.uio.no/studier/emne...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/10/2024
The far right has accrued so much financial & political power, particularly through the tech industry, that it should not surprise us that the liberal elite in politics, the media and academia are so scared to upset them Democracy and equality have always ever been secondary
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 18/09/2024
Police are on track to kill more people this year than any other year on record in the US. mappingpoliceviolence.us
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Mapping Police Violence
Mapping Police Violence collects comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to make the case for change.
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
🔝🎯 Please SPREAD the voice &/or apply! 2 excellent PhD opportunities on Quantitative Sociology & Inequalities Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin At excellent & vibrant department, school, institute & university! Deadline: April 5th, 2024 call: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
The effect of social media on adolescents' #mentalhealth currently calls Western politicians on the scene. 😊☹️ Why they risk to fall for the trap of tech determinism & what to do about it 👉 Check out the commentary @paschneiders.bsky.social & I published in IPR policyreview.info/articles/new...
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David Bazan @davidbazan.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
A judge has ordered that Starbucks rehire a Colorado Starbucks worker who was illegally fired for organizing a union and issue back pay and write an apology letter
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Judge orders Starbucks to rehire, give back pay to fired Colorado union leader; Starbucks to appeal
Alendra 'Len' Harris says she feels validated by the ruling, which she says backs up similar allegations from other Starbucks workers who have unionized to get better pay and working conditions. Starb...
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