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Petri Ylikoski
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A philosopher of science interested in too many things. Professor of Sociology (Science and Technology Studies) in University of Helsinki.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 20d
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 26
'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2
resprofnews.bsky.social Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 26
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.

The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News
Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports
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Ben Jarvis @benjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 20
@iasliu.bsky.social is advertising another postdoc position as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science. For recently graduated or soon-to-graduate PhD students, the setting is really conducive to getting high quality research done. Apply by September 30th!
Postdoc in Computational Social Science
liu.se

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · Aug 4
This is incredible

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · Jun 25
My take on the NATO summit. Lots of unintended consequences with Europeans agreeing to something that few intend to deliver on. NATO ignoring its major challenge, fighting together as Europe with less US. That requires deep reforms, not vague spending pledges.
www.csis.org/analysis/nat...
NATO’s “Brain Death” in The Hague
At the 2025 NATO Summit, allies pledged to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP. But spending targets alone ignore deeper issues. Europe must shift its focus to building capable, integrated mili...
www.csis.org

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Jarkko Lauspalo @lauspalo.com · Jun 1
Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵

Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
Verotulot suhteessa BKT Ruotsi: 26,80% Tanska: 24,50% Islanti: 22,40% Norja: 21,30% Suomi: 20,00%

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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · May 18
The understudied dangers of anthropomorphic seduction - "While the AI industry directs much effort into improving the reasoning abilities of LLMs—with mixed results—the progress in communicative abilities remains underappreciated."
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The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents | PNAS
A growing body of research suggests that the recent generation of large language model (LLMs) excel, and in many cases outpace humans, at writing p...
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · May 13
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
Norrköping campus at sunset

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Mar 14
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · Feb 26
Currently reading Daniel Little's A New Social Ontology of Government (2020). Not a defense of bureaucracy, but maybe making it understandable. Basically just organizational sociology, but written by a philosopher, so might qualify. Uses the US government as an example, so feels timely.

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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · Feb 17
Mutta on tässä kansalaistaidot kovilla kun miettii, onko Grok 2 tosiaan vastaillut näin:

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Elon Musk’s own AI, Grok, is apparently not a fan of Elon Musk (or Trump). #elonmusk #trump #AI
TikTok video by Zak Kimball
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Feb 11
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Feb 7
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Searle's paper, titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2," found that Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots. The study revealed that reCAPTCHA extensively monitors users' cookies, browsing history, and browser environment (including canvas rendering, screen resolution, mouse movements, and user-agent data) — all of which can be used for advertising and tracking purposes. Through analyzing over 3,600 users, the researchers found that solving image-based challenges takes 557% longer than checkbox challenges and concluded that reCAPTCHA has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of human time valued at $6.1 billion in wages while generating massive profits for Google through its tracking capabilities and data collection, with the value of tracking cookies alone estimated at $888 billion.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · Jan 25
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Jan 15
www.programmablemutter.com/p/americas-p... I've a new piece on the Biden administration's plan to use export controls and the semiconductor chokepoint to shape the global AI system. Brief summarizing thread.
America's plan to control global AI
Gaia est omnis divisa in partes tres*
www.programmablemutter.com

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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · Dec 23
JUFO is doing its work.
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Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · Dec 18
I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · Nov 8
Interesting, I got my paper accepted and I submitted the final non-anonymized version, surprise, 11 weeks ago. The paper is still waiting in the system with the status "Editor assigned". No response to multiple queries. Editorial assistants respond, but they forward the message to the editor.

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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · Oct 11
New paper: Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat
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Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat - Ecology & Society
As in many other fields, mechanism-based theorizing has become increasingly popular in social-ecological research. However, calls for mechanism-based explanations and middle-range theorizing have rema...
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John @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · Sep 24
AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck

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DataLit @datalit.bsky.social · Aug 22
Anna-Mari Wallenberg avaa moniulotteisesta asiaa - tekoäly- ja digijuttuja säännellään eri asutuksissa ja direktiiveissä. Näiden tulkinta ja toimeenpano ovat kesken ja vaativat työtä. Eikä kristallipallo vielä kerro, miten tässä tullaan onnistumaan. www.datalit.fi/eun-digisaan...
EU:n digisääntelyn monet muodot - Dataliteracy
EU:n digisääntelyn monet muodot YLE uutisoi 7.8.2024 digisääntelystä ja sen vaikutuksista eurooppalaiseen tekoälykehitykseen sekä pää- että verkkouutisissa (toimittaja: Teemu Hallamaa).  Uutisoinnissa...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Feb 22
Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Martínez Peña, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Complex Causality. Bridging analytical sociology and social-ecological systems research"!

Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · Jan 5
A small team of these editors could, with a modest time investment and effectively no start-up budget, create an open access journal -- say, "Theories of Society" -- with the same editorial board and consulting editors.

Fundamentally, this is a collective action problem. It's solvable.