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R. Gordon Rinderknecht

@rgordonr.bsky.social
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Behavioral scientist, previously at RAND and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Time use/social isolation/social media/survey methods. Opinions are my own. More info at: rgordonr.com

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R. Gordon Rinderknecht @rgordonr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’m happy to report that a new article written by Daniela V. Negraia, Sophie Lohmann, @ezagheni.bsky.social, and me is now available in Social Indicators Research: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We use historical time use data to examine growth in solitary leisure in the U.S. since 1965.
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Unmarried and Increasingly Alone: Solitary Leisure Among Unmarried, Solo Dwelling Americans, 1965 to 2018 - Social Indicators Research
Social Indicators Research - Remaining unmarried and living alone are becoming more common in Western countries, including the U.S. Prior research has focused on the social lives of these...
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Over the past two decades, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly use features linked to clickbait. This shift is widespread across outlets of all political leanings and journalistic quality. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The evolution of online news headlines - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The evolution of online news headlines
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R. Gordon Rinderknecht @rgordonr.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
"Pro-AfD posts dominated the partisan content we were shown from accounts we didn't follow on TikTok and X" jumpshare.com/s/tqzgE7gQ2Q...
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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealedA photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Great piece and if the WSJ op ed page is willing to run it, maybe the dam is breaking a bit on the unscientific moral panic over teens and smartphones. @candiceodgers.bsky.social @mimbs.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New today: Death rates for Americans aged 25-44 have been rising since 2010. Their mortality is now 70% higher than it would be had pre-2011 mortality declines continued. w Rafeya Raquib, Katie Berry, Keeley Morris, & @astokespop.bsky.social 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Bar chart showing excess mortality of Americans aged 25-44, in 2011-2023, broken into causes of death. The chart shows a big growth over time, especially from drug deaths, "other natural causes," and transport-related deaths (car collisions), as well as from Covid-19 in 2021.Line graph showing the relative (proportional) excess mortality of Americans aged 25-44, in 2011-2023, broken into causes of death. The graph shows big growth in "other natural causes," transport deaths (car collisions), alcohol-related deaths, and homicide.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 31/01/2025
Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 31/01/2025
Census website? :(
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R. Gordon Rinderknecht @rgordonr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Long Doan, @lsayer.bsky.social, and I have a new paper comparing the time use patterns of MTurk and Prolific respondents, and we show how they both differ from contemporaneous data collected by the American Time Use Survey (ATUS): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Mike Vorkunov @mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Young in their teens and 20s, especially men, are spending more time alone than in previous generations. They ""now hang out about as much as someone 10 years older than them did in the past." Interesting data from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/2305...
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Good Thursday Morning to Everyone! Im super excited to share this fresh out article "Looking beyond marital status: What we can learn from relationship status measures" with @gaylekaufman.bsky.social Open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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R. Gordon Rinderknecht @rgordonr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Having just jumped ship from Twitter/X, perhaps now is a good time to repost my thoughts on social media transparency (which Bluesky does right) and disinformation: thehill.com/opinion/tech... #disinformation
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There’s less social media transparency and, likely, more disinformation
Recent declines in transparency may blind researchers and the public to the impact of other changes in the social media ecosystem altering how disinformation is being spread, including the continui…
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