iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interested in, or already using (for academic or industry research) digital twins? In this analysis, digital twins' responses "correlate weakly [0.20] with human responses". Not nothing but.. not great if goal is reliable knowledge or basis for consequential decisions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

RIP EU-Haul 🪦 Welcome Eurosky Migration Service 🤗 They grow up so fast 🥹 -> move.eurosky.tech

A screenshot of the new, cleaner Eurosky Migration Service Website

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣 Delighted to share that I have joined WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) as Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Science. Announcements for at least one postdoc-level position will follow soon. Please reach out if you are interested.

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

[TODAY] Join us on Thursday, 1 October, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundatable on Computational Social Science, with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social. 💠 The complexity of platform power 💠 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

The complexity of platform power Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology. The seminar is open to the public...

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Aster ID @aster.id · 30/09/2026

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

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Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

quallmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN: the R package Seraphine Maerz and I are building for LLM-assisted qualitative coding. This release adds robustness, more models, and multimodal input. 🧵 quallmer.github.io/quallmer/ #rstats

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Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models

Tools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding using large language models (LLMs) via the ellmer package, supporting providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, and local models via Ollama. P...

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Job Vacancies

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Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📽️What do MPs communicate beyond their words? Our DFG project (w/ @chrisguarnold.bsky.social + @pluggedchris.bsky.social) studies not just what MPs say, but how and why they say it: voice, gestures, eye contact. We draw on 30,000+ hours of video from the German Bundestag and all 16 state parliaments.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 23/09/2026

I've been messing around with the new @mysky.social feed since it was announced, and it seems pretty good. Out of the box it feels comparable to the For You feed (the current best of breed), except MySky is highly user-configurable, including a neat debug view to see why you are seeing certain posts

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Headed to Boston for this panel on AI and disagreement tomorrow at Harvard: the format is based on the 1970s Ethics in America PBS program - likely to be a very lively conversation, moderated by Lawrence Lessig. Join us if you’re in town!

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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've joined the editorial board of a Disinformation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (journals.sagepub.com/home/DIN ) . I'm in very good company and I'm sure this will evolve into an interesting venue for a lot of relevant research!

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...

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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is human culture purely a product of bottom-up "social tinkering?" Or is it designed? In our commentary on Chater and Christiansen, @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social, Ralph Hertwig, and I argue that we should pay more attention to the designed environments in which cultural evolution occurs.

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Social tinkering in designed environments | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Social tinkering in designed environments - Volume 49

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 21/09/2026

Social media algorithms don't allow us to understand or control what we see online and why... until now! Top scholars @jonathanstray.com and @noupside.bsky.social are sharing @mysky.social, a tool that allows users to adjust their feed’s priorities and explains why certain posts appear over others.

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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

oh this is a cool feed:

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Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Try out this feed! It’s the result of a massive amount of research on how to build beneficial recommendations. It’s the first real workable implementation of a choose your algorithm system and it will be good for you and the broader ecosystem. Courtesy of the great @jonathanstray.com

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Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸 @tgoerke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also looking forward to the opening keynote by Philipp @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social on digital media, the public sphere, and democracy. Philipp kicks off #GeNeMe2026 before our panel (🙂just realized when looking up the full agenda). See you Thursday!

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Communities in New Media [GeNeMe]

GeNeMe 2026 will take place from September 16 to 18, 2026 at the TUD Dresden University of Technology and will deal with online communities from the perspective of several disciplines.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

We have already done this in other areas, such as biotechnology or nuclear energy, and we need to do so in the digital sector.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

But we must free ourselves from dependency on a handful of Silicon Valley CEOs, both in terms of infrastructure and know-how. For this, I am convinced, we need to build real capacity and take responsibility in the public sector, and demand transparency from these companies.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

As with other technologies, AI is developed by people and can therefore be regulated and shaped by us; it is neither a force of nature nor extraterrestrial life nor magic.

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Tony Zhou @tyzhou.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bluesky gives users the power to choose their algorithms, but how does this actually work in practice? In our new preprint, we explore the ecosystem of Bluesky custom feeds and the feed creators behind them! 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.12958

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Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on Bluesky

Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Georg Diez @georgdiez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alles, was in Sachsen-Anhalt passiert ist, war zu erwarten. Und alles hat Gründe. Die Frage ist: Reagieren die, die die Macht und Verantwortung haben, endlich? Und reagieren sie richtig? Hier meine Gedanken zur organisierten Ambitionslosigkeit der Macht. georgdiez.substack.com/p/frontier-p...

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Frontier Politics

Technologie und die organisierte Ambitionslosigkeit der Macht

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Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excited and looking forward to the panel discussion with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social @rimamrahal.bsky.social @lewan.uk & G.-J. Hogrefe on populist politics as a threat to academic freedom at #DGPs2026 📆Wednesday, 9 September, 🕧1:45PM, 📍 Room Plenary 1 #psychscisky

Populist politics as a threat to academic freedom - Where do we stand? What? Panel discussion, When? Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 1:45-2:45pm, Where? Room Plenary 1 at the 54. DGPs Congress in Luxemburg. Below this information are pictures of Eva-Lotta Brakemeier, G.-Jürgen Hogrefe, Lena Hahn, Stephan Lewandowsky, Rima Maria Rahal and Kai Sassenberg.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Horrible election results today. Again, we need to urgently understand how to repair things. I know there are many factors, but at least one is a fragmented, commercialised information system that favors populism and propaganda. No force of nature, but exploitative technology that can be changed.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

exactly, this shouldn't be understood like that. It allows to regulate ChatGPT under the DSA, which brings obligations an transparency requirements, so it is most likely a win for regulating them.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

It is with great honor and joy that today I start my new position as Professor of Computational Social Science at @tudresden.bsky.social With a fantastic team and so many collaborators (past and present), I feel very privileged to continue researching and teaching about digitalization and society!

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Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our opinion article about "Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU’s Digital Services Act" is out in CACM! cacm.acm.org/opinion/rese...

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Feeling very honored and grateful today. Some of the journalists whose work I admire most have received this prize in the past and at a time when journalism is under threat in so many ways it’s just really heartening to be recognized by people who care deeply about journalism.

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

This is significant indeed, with potentially huge implications for research and data access to study those systems:

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026

I am once again begging everyone who supervises student theses to stop making students conduct mediation analyses because “a regression isn’t complicated enough for a thesis” 😭

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Claire E. Robertson, PhD @crobertson500.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is social media truly making us more politically polarized, or does it simply over-represent our most extreme opinions? In our new preprint, @small-schulz.bsky.social and I present *punishing evidence* that social media systematically overrepresents users’ most extreme political opinions. 1/n

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Exactly what we are working on and good to see it formulated so clearly. But that will require very serious investments into technical capacity and experimentation (we can tell from our own experiments), just a fraction of what has flown into the private version of it will be a lot.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...

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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds

X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.

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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 11/08/2026

GreenEarth is the first feed which gives you full control over the algorithm. Here's our new "post sources" control panel, which lets you adjust the mix of in-network vs. out-of-network posts. Have you tried it yet? go.greenearth.social/r/ptryit

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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 06/08/2026

We've said many times that the GreenEarth feeds are designed for "constructive" conversation. Here's what that means to us, how we implemented it, and what our fancy future plans are. www.greenearth.social/p/what-does-...

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What Does Constructive Mean?

How our “bridging” algorithms actually work, and our future plans.

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍

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