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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.youtube.com/live/jyjTT_5... To nobody's surprise, I support the Greens. But I understand and share the enthusiasm about Andy Burnham's conference speech. A breath of fresh air is the usual metaphor. To me, it felt like a window being opened to permit a view of a new landscape, at last! [1/10]

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Watch in full: Andy Burnham's keynote speech to Labour conference

YouTube video by ITV News

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I get that we often think of survey data mainly as data and having more data at lower cost seems great, but at a very fundamental level we run surveys because we want to know what people think. If we don't care enough about people's views to ask actual people, why bother at all?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Für den #Tankrabatt bezahlen all die Steuerzahler, die kein Erdöl verbrauchen, weil sie E-Auto oder (wie ich) gar kein Auto fahren. Es profitieren die Ölkonzerne, die seit Jahrzehnten durch systematische Täuschung Klimaschutz verhindern. 😟 climateintegrity.org/projects/cli...

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Climate Fraud 101 | Center for Climate Integrity

Big Oil’s Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. Thank goodness. 2. Good example of bystander intervention for social psychology teachers.

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent piece by an excellent colleague! I'd say that similar considerations apply to my discipline of social psychology.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using generative AI means that you can't answer the most basic element of research, which is "where did you get this information?"

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes. And I also wouldn't want EU membership to become a toy of British politics again, with one party vowing to go back in and the next campaigning to leave again. Commit to being in or staying out. Accept that the EU is changing all the time, but multilaterally and not at the command of the UK.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 20/09/2026

Gern noch mal in einfachen Worten für Union und FDP: Wenn man fünf Jahre lang so tut, als habe die AfD im Grunde Recht (“Migration=größtes Problem”, “Grüne=sozialistische Deutschlandhasser”), dann hilft man damit der AfD und schadet sich selbst. Es ist wirklich nicht schwer.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 21/09/2026

Zur Erinnerung: Sachsen-Anhalt und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sind die Länder mit dem niedrigsten Anteil von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Wenn man die gefühlten, irrationalen Ängste der Leute selbst ständig validiert, hilft man der Rassismuspartei. Ganz einfach.

Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund in den Bundesländern (2024)
Anteil der Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund in Prozent
Bremen
Berlin
Hamburg
Hessen
Baden-Württemberg
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Bayern
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland
Niedersachsen
Schleswig-Holstein
Sachsen
Thüringen
Brandenburg
Sachsen-Anhalt
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung
(BiB)
45,2
40,6
40,2
38,5
37,9
35,4
30,5
30,1
28,5
/26,0
22,2
12,1
12,1
12,0
/11,2
10,7
Datenquelle: Statistisches Bundesamt, Berechnungen: BiB

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The notion that "ordinary people inevitably conform to the roles" in the experiment has been widely debunked. When we analyzed the transcripts from the original study, the experimental team was pressuring the guards to act viciously. We describe it here www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/debunking-...

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Shining a light on evidence that was left out of the findings from the Stanford Prison Experiment.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THIS. Christian Democracy’s mission statement is, basically, protect society and stability to make sure fascism doesn’t happen again. The first and permanent opponent of the centre right is not the centre left but the far right. And any EPP party that forgets that needs to remember it rapid.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see more billionaires are perpetuating the myth that the UK is high-tax, high-govt spending. It just isn’t true. At 44% the UK’s public spending as a %of GDP is lower than most of its European peers (France 57%, Germany 49.5%, Sweden 49.3%, Italy 50.5%, Spain 45.3%) www.imf.org/external/dat...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Ned Yeung 🍉 @neddog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Note that this wouldn't mean people would stop driving cars. It just means they would reduce unnecessary car usage. That's all it would take. #yegbike #urbanism

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OSF becoming unusable all last week because of scraping, not being able to access Google scholar, journals being inundated with low quality AI-generated papers, love how AI is accelerating science

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#AcademicSky Prof X does fast & sexy "newsworthy" research. Racks up citations. Others later criticize his work. Racks up more citations. Others then cannot replicate his work. Racks up even more citations. Prof X now heralded as superstar given that lovely h-index!

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

www.zeit.de/sport/2026-0... In den Farben getrennt, in der Sache vereint: Ich stimme Klopp zu. Wenn man Rechtsextremen die mediale Aufmerksamkeit, die politische Agenda und dann auch noch die kulturellen Symbole überlässt, muss man über die Brandmauer nicht mehr philosophieren. Es ist euer Land.

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Bundestrainer: Jürgen Klopp spricht sich für »positiven Patriotismus« aus

»Ich würde mir oder uns gerne die Fahne zurückholen«: Bundestrainer Klopp will Bekenntnisse zu Deutschland nach eigenen Worten »nicht den falschen Leuten überlassen«.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you've used my drawn statement on Ai for a class or other Ed context – I'd appreciate learning a bit about that (here or directly), I'd like to document a bit of where it's ended up. And if it's new to you, feel free to make use of it, all online here! Tnx! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

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Omid Nouripour @nouripour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wir müssen für unsere Freiheit und unsere #Demokratie kämpfen. Mehr als je zuvor.

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Where do you even start? Migration is not invasion. Saving lives is not illegal and must never be illegal. The RNLI are heroes, not villains. When will voters see the inhumanity behind the right-wing populism?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good advice. 😊 As my son makes the transition to secondary school, I hope the values instilled by primary education will carry him far. Kindness is the most important principle.

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been to several events recently where the chairs were just plain uncomfortable. I could have enjoyed yesterday's concert much more with a bit of lower back support. Chairs are not new technology. I'm surprised that it's still going so wrong.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

MIT calls for a new “social contract” between teachers and students: "[We] need to be prepared to help students understand both that the *process* of education is necessarily a productive struggle, and that the most important *product* of their education is not a GPA or a diploma but *themselves.*"

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/09/2026

Provisional Met Office data shows this summer was the hottest ever on record. Thousands of deaths due to dangerous heat. Crops destroyed by drought. Homes threatened by fires. Labour must not approve Rosebank or Jackdaw in this new climate chaos. No new oil and gas.

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Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's APA style to use active voice, and to put this in first person whenever helpful (e.g describing actions or offering interpretations) - and it has been for some years now, but it just won't stick with some ...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint

If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

www.waz.de/politik/arti... Ich stimme Herrn Kerski zu. Zum Glück wird in Deutschland niemand dazu gezwungen, die Flagge zu schwenken. Und gerade das zeigt die demokratischen Errungenschaften, auf die man durchaus auch stolz sein darf. [1/2]

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Museumschef warnt: „Schwarz-Rot-Gold nicht von Nationalisten wegnehmen lassen“

Der Deutsch-Pole Basil Kerski konzipiert das künftige NRW-Landesmuseum. Warum er der politischen Mitte mehr Rituale und Symbole wünscht.

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Broadstairs Folk Week is my second favourite week of the year, after Christmas. This is the real Kent: happy, colourful, welcoming, where people are kind to each other and where lived tradition meets contemporary seaside life.

Martin Simpson playing at Broadstairs Folk Week

The Woodshed Session at Broadstairs Folk Week

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Pepto Klarname @peptorl.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Nein, keine Sorge, Erneuerbare können auch bei Dürre weiter Strom produzieren. Wir haben halt nur noch nicht genug. Es wäre echt sinnvoll, das Gegenteil von dem zu tun, was Reiche und diese Regierung machen.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Crowds & Identities webinar, expertly convened by @samreenchhabra.bsky.social, with Becky Davies presenting on her important PhD research on improving public engagement with triage in mass casuality incidents

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What a joy to see and hear CJ & Dave play at Sturry's beautiful St Nicholas church! Thanks to the residents' association for organising. Keep music live and support local culture!

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So why are we pushing fossil fuels and destroying the climate! ===============

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajamesphillips.com · 28/10/2025

Someone posted the up to date version of this infographic...

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm grateful to my dear colleagues in Theology for letting me join their conference on heritage. Interdisciplinary insights are always interesting, Canterbury Cathedral is always inspiring, and today we even had beer - brewed with hops from our campus to connect ecology, spirituality and university.

Presentation screen in the background, bottle of beer in the foreground

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What did we teach our kids about sport? Have fun Play fair No cheating No hurting people Accept the referee's decision Be gracious in victory, humble in defeat It's not whether you win, it's how you play the game We taught them those things because the lessons transfer to life in general.

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BPS Research Digest @researchdigest.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One more reason to be in fine voice for the next World Cup match - whether home or away, singing creates and strengthens a shared social identity, according to interviews with fans. www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

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New study explores how football chants bring fans together | BPS

Whether home or away, singing creates and strengthens a shared social identity, according to interviews with fans.

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juux @juux.com · 05/07/2026

Folarin Balogun being shown a red card by the referee, and he in turn is showing the ref a green Uno card

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Germany is on the left, France on the right. The bridge is connecting Strasbourg and Kehl, and there are no barriers or border controls separating them. Our generation can be grateful that - in most of Europe at least - we are building more bridges than walls between us.

The river Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl

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Dennis Nigbur @dennisnigbur.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Poster presentation done, conference finished. I played some tunes outside the building to mark the end of conferencing and the start of weekending - French, English, Irish, German and Spanish melodies to fit the European occasion. Thank you @easp2026.bsky.social

A mandolin in its case and a poster tube

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