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Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️‍🌈

@svegaard.bsky.social
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Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC. 🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country. QaF. Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person. he/him

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Aaron Pinchback @southerndandy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Sir, we've learned there is actually a THIRD Hemsworth."
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 25/09/2026
This is a weight that was used by a Viking trader, some time in the 9th or 10th century. This is one of a number of weights discovered in Dublin. They were used in balance scales to weigh silver in the time before standardised currency. See it on display in the National Museum of Ireland.
A small weight on display in the National Museum of Ireland. It consists of lead attached to a small animal head made of gilt bronze. 

With pointed ears and flared nostrils, the head may depict a wolf or dog, and it has been likely recycled from a stolen piece of metalwork taken from a shrine from an Irish church.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My new book Ace Theory arrived on my doorstep yesterday, just starting to make its way into the world. It’s a book-length essay in fragments about asexuality and compulsory sexuality. I hope you’ll give it a look.
A full box of the book Ace Theory, just unboxedThe cover of the book Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality
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Nest @nest69.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Higher education teaches critical thinking more importantly than facts. The accumulation of facts does not enable one to dissect complex arguments or to communicate one's own argument. In my opinion universities need, more than ever, to teach us not what to think, but how to think.
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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Like that story about kids turning Google Slides into a rudimentary forum to get around their schools blacklisting social media sites, life … finds a way.
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Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com · 22/09/2026
I had a great chat about the discursive-digital link with @petecant.bsky.social. The podcast episode is now on the New Books Network.
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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · 23/09/2026
LAUNCHED TODAY: The Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) Platform is new national infrastructure for researchers to create & manage projects investigating digital platforms & services, like TikTok, Instagram and ChatGPT. 🔗 ow.ly/XtPr50ZPCTy #ResearchData #DigitalResearch #NCRISmpact
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In the 10th chapter of Bridging Design and Fandom, Matt Hills (@matt-hills.bsky.social) explores theories of fan cultural capital through two case studies of fan-designed, paratextual Doctor Who merchandise. Read the open access chapter here! doi.org/10.1108/978-...
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Designing Fan-Created Doctor Who Merchandise: Forms of Capital and Unlicensed Design Adventures in Capitalist Realism
Abstract. Strands of fan studies and design research have shared a Bourdieusian focus and can be brought into dialogue. However, prior work on unlicensed f
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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am over the moon excited and honored to work with this fantastic group of people on shifting our understanding of conspiracy theories, why people share and consume them- beyond calling those who do merely "crazy", but with a curious mind aimed at contributing to understanding 🤓🥰
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I talked to Arielle Pardes at the Guardian about deepfake ads and scams where influencers' likenesses are used without their consent to hock all sorts of nonsense: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time
Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves
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Them @them.us · 11/09/2026
The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care.
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A First Nation Is Making Itself a Safe Haven From Alberta’s Trans Youth Care Ban
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Michael Hoffman @hof.fm · 11/09/2026
Delightful work by the staff and editors at @wikipedia.org. You can see all 230 feet of the Bayeaux Tapestry, all within its Wikipedia page!
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 07/09/2026
With no thanks to Slideshare's issues, I've finally posted my own presentation from the DigiWorld #ECREA2026 pre-conference on the blog. This is on behalf of a much larger @qutdmrc.bsky.social research team, and is our first attempt to use the Meta Content Library properly. snurb.info/node/3687
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Towards a Cross-Platform Analysis of Election Debates, Using Practice Mapping in the Meta Content Library | Snurblog — Axel Bruns
My own presentation, on behalf of a much larger team at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, co
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Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️‍🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As always, music is essential. And this is absolutely DELIGHTFUL on its own merits too (h/t @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social who brought this to my feed.)
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If this seems like a strange or random direction for MAGA hate speech, read @adriennemassanari.bsky.social's work. Online gaming culture was the crucible where MAGA hate speech was first brewed.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️‍🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey fellow #fanstudies folks, I’ve been thinking about researching AI as a polarising topic for a while and focussing on fans Doing some deep ethnography to understand this topic. But I don’t want to accidentally step on someone’s toes or snipe ongoing research. So is anyone doing this already?
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 02/09/2026
🆕 Ahead of the next conferences I've updated the blog with some new journal articles. Just out today is a new massively multiauthored position piece in @natcomms.nature.com, outlining the current state of polarisation research and led by the great Max Falkenberg:
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Another Update from the Road: New Journal Articles, and Upcoming Conferences | Snurblog — Axel Bruns
I'm on the road again for a trip that will take me to the ECR
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Smart, extremely well-informed, and highly recommended." — @couldrynick.bsky.social @aramsinn.bsky.social and Jesse Gilbert's "The Secret Life of Data," the 2025 Nancy Baym Book Award winner, is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204881... @aoir.bsky.social
A paperback copy of "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" by Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert on a plain background. The cover features an illustration of various smart objects on a bookshelf.
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Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️‍🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying you are, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 2 years old? A surprisingly ok year! But it has to be:
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Trainspotting: Choose EverWing - Iconic Run Scene
ALT: Trainspotting: Choose EverWing - Iconic Run Scene
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pride Month - Celebrating Queer History QUT Centre for Justice and DMRC invite you to a special Pride Month event celebrating the people, stories and acts of courage that have shaped queer history at QUT and across Queensland. 10AM - 12PM | Thursday 24 Sept www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pride-mont...
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PRIDE Month 2026
Celebrating Queer History at QUT and in Queensland
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A team of DMRC researchers, led by Kateryna Kasianenko, have conducted research into AI Overviews - the generative AI summaries that appear at the top of search engine results - and whether they support conspiratorial information seeking practices. journals.sagepub.com...
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well done to Daniel Angus and Ashwin Nagappa on their new article in The Conversation today. This piece looks at the pros and cons of the idea idea that Australians can take social media into their own hands and choose what they see on their feed. Check it out below!
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Australians could soon be able to choose what appears in their social media feed. How would this work?
People should have meaningful choices about the systems organising their attention.
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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most of what Meta committed to in this settlement was already available, and what's new still just delegates the conflict — and the responsibility — to families. But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that by framing this as a measure for "teens"
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Still no takers. I don't *understand*, and it's killing me. LOOK AT THESE FACES.
Torbie cat standing on bed, looking up.Gray cat with small white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A great read from Dr Ned Watt (Ned Watt) and Associate Professor Michelle Riedlinger (Michelle Riedlinger), discussing the decline in factchecking from large platforms, and the systems that are taking their place such as Community Notes on X.
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The collapse of trust in facts: Fact-checking in retreat - The Klaxon
The modern fact-checking movement launched 25 years ago but is now in retreat — just as it’s needed more than ever. Ned Watt and Michelle Riedlinger report.
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026
I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Art by Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Albumism @albumism.com · 23/08/2026
Jeff Buckley released his debut album ‘Grace’ 32 years ago on August 23, 1994 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/JBGrace
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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
DMCA strike on a personal Google Drive. DMCA strike. On a PERSONAL FUCKING ACCOUNT holy shit I cannot stress this enough the anti-trans fucks are comfortable lighting every single right and protection you have on fucking fire. They do not care about your freedom or rights they just want control.
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Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
University Rankings are bad. Even the ranking that puts your workplace in the Top10 European Universities for #ComputationalSocialScience (and in the top 50 worldwide). cssrankings.org#metric=weigh... Jokes aside, rankings are seriously bad and problematic.
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Computational Social Science (CSS) Rankings
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A new Conversation article from Stephen Harrington, Ella Chorazy, and Timothy Graham This article talks about the idea of 'sanewashing' in the media, using Donald Trump as a case study. A link to their full paper on this idea can be found in this thread.
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The media has made Donald Trump look more coherent than he is. It’s called ‘sanewashing’
The US president often provides meandering non-answers and strange speeches, but news reports omit the weirdness. Does it matter?
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12/08/2026
I'd support making all grades pass/fail. Not just for mental health reasons. But because allocating opportunities based on grades incentivizes students to try to game the system, either by begging professors for extra credit or by using tools like AI to cheat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students
School said it is pivoting away from letter-grading system to ‘curb the mental health crisis’ among college students
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/08/2026
Lebanon abolishes death penalty in first for region reut.rs/4fSLK9E
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Lebanon abolishes death penalty in first for region
Lebanon's parliament on Tuesday abolished the death penalty and replaced all existing death sentences with ​life imprisonment, the speaker's office said in ‌a statement.
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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)
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WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools
TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...
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Dr. Amy, PsyD @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 11/08/2026
Hi, I am a psychologist and specialize in evaluating adults who went undiagnosed in childhood. We actually are noticing it more in older groups. We’ve also updated the diagnostic criteria to recognize people who were overlooked previously.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Since Ted Lasso‘s back, here‘s the special issue or Journal of Popular Television on it that I edited - wonderful contributions by Stacey Abbott, Rukmini Pande and others. If you need access just email or dm me! intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...
DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
Abstract
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026
The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.
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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch
Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...
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Dr James Kite @jdkite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Heavier, taller vehicles give the illusion of safety to the driver/passenger but for everyone else they are deadly, especially in lower speed areas like school zones and residential streets
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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Great work from Axel Bruns, Katharina Esau, Kateryna Kasianenko, @essideh.com, Tariq Choucair, Vish Suresh & Donald Johannessen who have published a new article further exploring the novel methodology 'practice mapping'. Available to read now!
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Beyond interaction networks: Practice mapping as a step towards the detection of destructive polarization in social networks | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Beyond interaction networks: Practice mapping as a step towards the detection of destructive polarization in social networks - Volume 14
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