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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Qwen3.8 27B comes extremely close to Claude in programming tasks. It's been said, but I wanted to share a test I ran in #rstats for {paperboy} 📦. TLDR: Qwen in opencode got it done in 28 mins, Claude Code ( Opus 5) got it done in 3.5. Results differ a little, but both are perfect solutions.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 06/06/2026

Today is Sweden's National Day. The new citizenship law will go into effect today. This means ~100,000 pending applications citizenship applications will likely be rejected, an act of quasi-retroactive law making. A sad day for Sweden.

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Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover ➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the... 🧵[1/5]

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Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?

A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Im sächsischen Altenberg führt die parteilose Kita-Leiterin Johanna Franz einen unfassbar engagierten Wahlkampf gegen den AFD-Amtsinhaber (kommissarisch), über den ich auch in größeren Medien gerne etwas lesen würde. Bitte schaut euch das an. www.saechsische.de/lokales/saec...

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Kampf ums Altenberger Rathaus: Kandidatin mit Herz für Familie und Jugend

Johanna Franz leitet drei Kitas und möchte, dass junge Menschen in Altenberg mehr mitwirken. Sollte sie Bürgermeisterin werden, hat sie drei wichtige Ziele.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The electoral juggernaut Democrats cower in fear of: "nearly a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, twice as large as the percentage of adults who strongly approve of him" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-str...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

When does all the winning start?

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

NEW from me on The Epoch Times: A persecuted religious group's PR newsletter is now one of the most influential U.S. conservative media orgs. How they’ve ridden the moment of political polarization & conspirituality to make millions and go mainstream. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions

The conservative news outlet has amassed a fortune, growing its revenue by 685% in two years, according to tax documents.

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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 09/10/2023

🚨 Don't miss @brendannyhan.bsky.social 's virtual talk this Wednesday! 🚨 Talk title... ⭐️Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube videos⭐️ Learn more and register on the OSoMe site! osome.iu.edu/events cc @fil.bsky.social

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OSoMe Awesome Speakers

OSoMe Awesome Speakers is a virtual event that aims to provide a platform for leading scholars and researchers to share their work and insights about social...

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Excited to share that our (@bcastanho.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social) paper will be out soon in AJPS! We investigate how women MPs adapt to their environment, finding that over time women speak in more masculine ways, particularly women in progressive parties. s.gwdg.de/ecTNEN

Abstract for the paper titled "Blending in or standing out? Gendered political communication in 24 democracies" that can be read at the link in this post

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Hey German #rstats & train users: I discovered yesterday that the new interface on bahn.de uses a pretty open API. So naturally, I wrote a quick R wrapper package. Introducing {zugr} 🚆 github.com/JBGruber/zugr

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GitHub - JBGruber/zugr: R package to wrap the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API :bullettrain_side:

R package to wrap the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API :bullettrain_side: - GitHub - JBGruber/zugr: R package to wrap the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API :bullettrain_side:

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 28/09/2023

With the Twitter API inaccessible, all research built with Twitter data has become inaccessible (you can only share the Tweet IDs). My suggestions: Share your Twitter datasets! It would be a huge lost to let this information disappear. joenoonan.se/post/share_t...

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Joseph Noonan - Share your Twitter datasets!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

"Trump’s norm-violating rhetoric...does not alter attitudes toward democracy as a preferred system but does reduce support for inclusiveness and equality among his supporters" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Replicates and extends our study conducted in 2020 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

What did we find? In all countries but Spain political communication today is more heavily morally loaded than it was six decades ago. The increase is substantial: On average, the estimated increase amounts to 15 percentage points! 5/11

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Who falls for misinformation around the globe? Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.

Figure 3: Consistent cross-cultural evidence that truth discernment is associated with analytic thinking, accuracy motivations and ideology

Cross-country misinformation accuracy and sharing

Figure 6: Ratings from even small groups of laypeople can reliably distinguish true from false headlines

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