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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you interested in learning about the Societal and Environmental Risks of AI (SER-AI)? Then you should consider attending the SER-AI symposium. During this event, researchers from computer and social science will meet to talk about the impacts AI has in our cognition, democracies, and planet.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Gonna end all my emails "No pressure, just curiosity" from now on

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Societal Analytics Lab @societal-analytics.nl · 28/05/2026

🚀 We’re hiring at the Societal Analytics Lab at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam! We’re looking for a Post-Doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer to join our team. If you’re passionate about research infrastructure, FAIR & Open Science, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this could be a great fit.

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Tired of looking for a way to safely share, search, and analyze research data? Then do not miss my @comptext.bsky.social workshop: 📅Tomorrow, April 23rd between 9:30 and 12:30 hrs. 📍119 Seminar Room, Teaching and Learning Building, University of Birmingham.

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Societal Analytics Lab @societal-analytics.nl · 12/03/2026

Are you looking for more than just a line on your resume? At the Societal Analytics Lab, we’re looking for ambitious, curious, and driven students/recent grads to join our Internship Program! 📍 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🔗 All information here: societal-analytics.nl/services/int...

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Internship Opportunities

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Societal Analytics Lab @societal-analytics.nl · 24/02/2026

Next March 10th, we will be hosting the Film Club, a montly event to watch research-related movies and discuss them with pizza and drinks 😉 🍕 This time, we will be watching "The Thinking Game". 📍 Who can join? VU Amsterdam researchers. 📝 Register here: forms.office.com/e/AMhWei8365 See you there!

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silviamajo.bsky.social @silviamajo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is taking place on Monday with colleagues from the @univie.ac.at @anniewald.bsky.social @societal-analytics.nl @sof14g1l.bsky.social and The Atlas Social Media Listening Lab at @ufjschool.bsky.social @n8carp.bsky.social @jieunshin.bsky.social

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Today I presented my work on "Climate Change narratives in Mexico" at @etmaal2026.bsky.social . Thanks everyone for the positive comments. I had a great time.

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

"The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined the Enlightenment as 'man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.' Immaturity, he wrote, 'is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another'." #AI

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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"The sanctions have changed every aspect of his daily life. Guillou explained: 'All my accounts with American companies, such as Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal and others, have been closed.'"

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Into the void: how Trump killed international law

The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"The biologist believes animals such as beavers, wolves and lynx should not be reintroduced without a system to deal with conflicts that inevitably arise. 'If you say ‘deal with it yourself’ that is when illegal shooting happens.'"

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Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Highly recommended read about the politicisation of science in the US and how this will help the resurgence of eugenic ideology and scientific racism. “For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations” www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

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As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent

Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.

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Societal Analytics Lab @societal-analytics.nl · 18/12/2025

Come and learn what the Lab achieved during 2025. But hey, a celebration is not complete without some fun activities! So, we will also screen the movie “Coded Bias” and finalize the event with drinks. When: February 10th between 15:00 and 18:00 hrs. All info: societal-analytics.nl/events/20251...

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Print featuring three hares in snow below small birds in a tree.with red berries and a larger black bird

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is just so sad to see. The societal returns on "AI" investment are still minimal and solving made-up problems – while causing new ones. Just imagine all that money having gone into alternative/sustainable energy... But that just how it is.

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Societal Analytics Lab @societal-analytics.nl · 10/12/2025

Are you an academic working at FSW, @vuamsterdam.bsky.social ? Do you want to learn to use R for data managing, visualization, and analysis? Then, you may want to enroll to our R-Workshops. We only have 15 places. 👇🏽 All info here: societal-analytics.nl/events/20251...

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I just got my work accepted for at @etmaal2026.bsky.social ! I've heard many good things about this conference. So. I'm very much looking forward to presenting "What shapes the #ClimateChange narrative in #Mexico? An exploration of #Facebook energy related ads".

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

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Collecting TikTok Data

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Since last year, I have been planting local flowers in my neighborhood. 🌱🌻 It is so nice them bring life back. 🐞🐝🦋🪲 #GuerillaGardening

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How radical gardeners took back New York City

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Thanks for the invitation! I’m looking forward to being part of this event. 🤩

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I just finished reading #Supremacy by @parmy.bsky.social . A great book that summarizes the #AI race and the roles Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman play in it!

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I received the results from this campaign. We collected 7500EUR to perform my research! 🙌🏽🤓 I am very happy that the community finds my research relevant. I will definitely keep you up-to-date on the progress and outputs that will come.

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Posit @posit.co · 14/11/2025

Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours? The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online! Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated #RStats and #Python, with a focus on next-gen tools & #AI integration. See the info here: posit.co/blog/talks-a...

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Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2025) - Posit

2500+ hours of posit::conf content just landed on YouTube.

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Ooh well, it seems students do not like my way of teaching... There are days when academia is tough.

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Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...

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10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025)

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 04/11/2025

Most people study what misinformation says. We decided to study how it looks. Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war. Here's what it means 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to? We review the current literature in our #ACL2025 Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/

Screenshot of our paper "Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs"

Details about what we annotated in our systematic review

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Are you looking for a way to analyse textual data? @sof14g1l.bsky.social describes how the researchers can interact with AmCat, Amsterdam Content Analysis Toolkit #ODISSEI2025

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Are you at the #ODISSEI conference? Then don't forget to pass by my poster, where I talk about what shapes the #ClimateChange narrative in #Mexico.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"For the sick, the anxious, the isolated and many other vulnerable people who may lack medical resources and attention, AI’s vast knowledge base, coupled with its affirming and empathetic tone, can make the bots feel like wise and comforting partners."

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‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

The Long read: Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see ...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast Let's roll.

Detail of the "Glasses Apostle" painting in the altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany. Painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403, the painting is considered to be among the oldest depictions of eyeglasses north of the Alps

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Very glad to see this piece by the @nytimes.com on data center struggles from Mexico to Ireland: "Government support worldwide has helped tech firms build with little accountability, said Ana Valdivia, an Oxford University lecturer studying data center development." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This well-known aquatint by Goya came to mind as symbolising where we are right now. It’s called The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

Monotone image of man asleep at a desk surrounded by monsters.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/10/2025

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My favorite #sport is running from one platform to another to catch my #train. 👟 #HighAdrenaline #NS.nl

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This week was hectic. Puuuf.🫠

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