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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯
@rensec.bsky.social
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Sociologist at Utrecht University, NL, studying cooperation, trust, social networks, social media, platform economy, using computational social science and experimental methods. I mostly follow academics.
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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 20d
New paper out! Using data donation, we provide one of the first, if not THE first, assessment of the structure of the WhatsApp network with a population-wide probability sample (1/) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assessing mobile instant messenger networks with donated data - Social Network Analysis and Mining
Despite the increasing popularity and societal relevance of mobile instant messenger services (MIMSs) such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, the vast majority of the research on social media is focuse...
link.springer.com

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 11h
Looks great, congratulations!

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 11h
Back to good old telephone surveys, or pen-and-paper

Reposted by Dean Eckles

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 13h
Fascinating new working paper by @bokanyie.bsky.social and colleagues showing a gradual decrease in social closure in the Netherlands over 10 years, based on population networks arxiv.org/abs/2602.002...
Fragmentation of a longitudinal population-scale social network: Decreasing structural social cohesion in the Netherlands
Population-level dynamics of social cohesion and its underlying mechanisms remain difficult to study. In this paper, we propose a network approach to measure the evolution of social cohesion at the po...
arxiv.org

Reposted by David Lazer, Miranda J. Lubbers, Rense Corten

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MichaΕ‚ Bojanowski @mbojan.bsky.social Β· 15h
Today Springer published an Open Access book edited by @janlo.de , Marijn Keijzer and myself covering a diverse range of Computational Social Science approaches to questions about social cohesion and polarization. Come and get it at link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization
This open access book explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS)
link.springer.com

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Brian A. Nosek, Gavin L. Foster , and 17 more

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io Β· 1d
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 4d
Nope

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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social Β· 4d
Uitstekende column van β€˜onze eigen’ Willem Halffman.

www.voxweb.nl/bericht/de-a...
De aanslag op de universiteiten steunde op een draagvlak dat nog steeds aanwezig is - Vox magazine
COLUMN - Waarom, vraagt columnist Willen Halffman zich af, moest er zo nodig bezuinigd worden op de universiteiten? 'Daar ligt nu onze grote uitdaging: hoe maken we van onze universiteiten instellinge...
www.voxweb.nl

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social Β· 7d
Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 9d
Aan dit soort berichtgeving hebben we weinig. Wat is een "AI-camera"? nos.nl/ttapp

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 9d
Interesting work, but what do the linksin the network mean?

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Mor Naaman, Lesley A. Hall , and 6 more

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social Β· 9d
β€œWe found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”

Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com

Reposted by Rense Corten, Tom Louwerse

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social Β· 10d
Let wel:

De Staatscommissie Parlementair Stelsel (cie-Remkes) pleitte weloverwogen tΓ©gen een hogere kiesdrempel. Er zijn aanpassingen mogelijk die minder verstoren (oa aantal benodigde handtekeningen voor verkiezingsdeelname).

De commissie pleitte ook nΓ­Γ©t voor hervorming kiesstelsel Eerste Kamer.

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 12d
Die CEO is werkgever van o.a. softwareontwikkelaars; zijn ervaring met AI op de werkvloer vind ik wel relevant. Voor universitaire opleidingen is het op dit gebied nu grotendeels gissen wat de arbeidsmarkt wil.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Β· 14d
β€œShut up!” screamed Toad.

Reposted by Paul Dorfman, Fionnuala NΓ­ AolΓ‘in, Daniel W. Drezner , and 12 more

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social Β· 14d
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey PrettiπŸ™πŸΎ The VA ICU Nurses send him off right πŸ’”

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 15d
OK, check, NOS = vijand, staat genoteerd. En even voor de zekerheid: mensen die doelbewust de vrije pers ondermijnen?

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 15d
Uiteraard mag je kritiek hebben op verslaggeving, maar ongefundeerd twijfel zaaien over onafhankelijke media is wel glad ijs; daarmee speel je autoritaire regimes juist in de kaart. Ik zou dus terughoudend zijn met op elke slak zout leggen. Ogen op de bal: de NOS is hier echt niet de vijand.

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 15d
Ik bedoelde dit eerdere bericht (net vergeten link erbij de zetten): nos.nl/artikel/2599...
Man doodgeschoten door grenspolitie bij protesten tegen ICE in Minneapolis
Lokale media melden dat de man meerdere keren in zijn borst is geschoten.
nos.nl

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 15d
Onderaan die pagina nog een link naar een kritische reportage over ICE. Je moet wel heel opzichtig selectief lezen om in de NOS-berichtgeving impliciete steun voor Trump te zien

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 15d
Dat doen ze dan ook niet in hun eerdere(!) berichtgeving over de schietpartij, waarin de reactie van Walz eerst aan bod komt en pas daarna de "verdediging" door de regering, die vervolgens expliciet door de NOS in twijfel getrokken wordt.

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 15d
Ik weet niet hoor, de NOS rapporteert gewoon wat de reactie van de regering was, en suggereert nergens dat die lezing klopt. Dat de lokale autoriteiten die lezing bestrijden staat er ook gewoon in.

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 17d
We've had similar discussions about Israel here, eg, doesn't boycotting Israeli universities hurt especially those who are most critical of the war? The answers to such questions are not trivial, and opinions were (and are) extremely divided

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 17d
Of course it's hard to know what I miss, but at least things like the No Kings demos and the whole Minnesota thing were on front pages of the serious media

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 17d
I think people are well aware of much of the resistance, and it is broadly covered in the media, at least in the Netherlands

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Peter Thorne, Linda J. Skitka , and 18 more

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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Β· 18d
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 18d
So far it looks like Trump tried to play Chicken with Europe and lost

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 18d
Good news but the fact that this is even in the news is still depressing
asanews.bsky.social American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social Β· 18d
ASA has won a major victory for academic freedom. As part of a coalition represented by @democracyforward.org, we defeated the Dept of Ed’s attempt to get school districts to censor lessons, abandon student support programs, and certify compliance. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qKGo2U.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social Β· 18d
ASA has won a major victory for academic freedom. As part of a coalition represented by @democracyforward.org, we defeated the Dept of Ed’s attempt to get school districts to censor lessons, abandon student support programs, and certify compliance. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qKGo2U.

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 18d
and Italian lunches on top!

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Rense Corten πŸŸ₯ @rensec.bsky.social Β· 18d
Ik ben geen econoom maar volgens mij is "beleggen" in cryptovaluta grotendeels speculatie, aangezien er bijna geen onderliggende waarde is (zoals bij andere valuta). Het deel dat geen speculatie is, is grotendeels gebaseerd op criminaliteit. Weet je hoe Nederlanders daar tegenaan kijken?