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Kate Compton

@galaxykate.bsky.social

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM

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Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com

It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

January 31, 2026 at 10:49 PM

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Erin Westgate

@erinwestgate.bsky.social

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Changing Norms Following the 2024
U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux

Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall

Abstract

Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups,
both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S.
election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

January 28, 2026 at 12:48 PM

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Frau Nora

@fraunora.bsky.social

Ein Comic-Buchhändler, der laut "Stopp" schreit - und die Spenden, die seitdem bei ihm landen, weitergibt an die örtliche Tafel.

Es klingt total banal. Aber das sind die Geschichten, die wir brauchen. Geschichten der Menschlichkeit. Des Miteinanders. Des füreinander Einstehens.

Sales surge at Minneapolis bookstore after resonating photo of owner at protest

Greg Ketter has spent nearly five decades selling comic books and science fiction novels at DreamHaven Books and Comics in Minneapolis. This week, his phone hasn't stopped ringing.

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January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM

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Dirk von Gehlen

@dirkvongehlen.bsky.social

„Wir können nicht das Risiko eingehen, dass unser wissenschaftlicher Austausch, unsere sensiblen Daten und unsere strategischen Innovationen außereuropäischen Akteuren ausgesetzt sind.“

www.heise.de/news/Frankre...

Frankreich sagt Microsoft Teams und Zoom den Kampf an | heise online

Mit Visio führt Frankreich seine Open-Source-Videokonferenzen für Behörden ein. Bis 2027 sollen 200.000 Beamte unabhängig von US-Anbietern arbeiten können.

www.heise.de

January 28, 2026 at 5:12 AM

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Drew Stommes

@drewstommes.bsky.social

After years in academia, I’m exploring data science and research roles in industry.

I'm a quant. social scientist (PhD Yale ’24, NYU) focused on causal inference, experiments, and large-scale data.

Feel free to get in touch or share; all leads appreciated. dwstommes@gmail.com

January 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM

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January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM

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Datendealerin 🌷☕

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💕 Die AG Inklusion im #FDM ist wieder bei der #LoveDataWeek dabei!

💕 Am Montag, 09. Februar, um 11:30 Uhr: Barrierefreie Datenreports in R

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January 26, 2026 at 7:39 AM

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Martin Plöderl

@ploederl.bsky.social

Weird experience, when you submit a letter to the editor because you detected severe problems with a recent publication in this journal, and then they reject the letter, saying that you should publish your piece elsewhere. I didn't experience this before. Did you? And how did you respond?
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January 26, 2026 at 10:23 AM

Datendealerin 🌷☕

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💕 Die AG Inklusion im #FDM ist wieder bei der #LoveDataWeek dabei!

💕 Am Montag, 09. Februar, um 11:30 Uhr: Barrierefreie Datenreports in R

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January 26, 2026 at 7:39 AM

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Weltschmerz and sick on the couch for the day, but this lovely guy cuddled up next to me 🥰

Part of a black labrador's face cuddled next to my leg that is covered by a grey woollen blanket. My arm is on the dog's back.

January 25, 2026 at 8:50 PM

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Kim Weeden

@weedenkim.bsky.social

A nontrivial share of Americans were so afraid that a trans person might need to pee in a public restroom, or that their school-aged kid might learn about the US' racist past and present, that they voted for this.

January 25, 2026 at 1:49 PM

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Linus Westheuser

@lwestheuser.bsky.social

I should probably mention that we have a book on this coming out in English soon :) bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints @steffenmau.bsky.social @thomaslux.bsky.social

January 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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Angelika Stefan

@ephemeralidea.bsky.social

Interested in discussing how Artificial Intelligence can be helpful or hurtful to academia? 🤖

As a newly minted UKRN (@ukrepro.bsky.social) Local Network Lead, I'm co-organizing a hybrid event about this next Friday (30th January)

Join us at @livunipsyc.bsky.social or online via Teams!

January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM

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Markus Quandt

@markusquandt.bsky.social

Deutsche Informatik-Professoren sprechen endlich das Offensichtliche aus: Software-Ökosysteme aus den USA sind eine strategische Falle, im ganz wörtlichen Sinne.
Aber haben selbst unsere akademischen Institutionen genug Einsicht und Weitsicht, um den Weckruf zu hören?
www.golem.de/news/beschaf...

Golem.de: IT-News für Profis

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January 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM

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German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

@nfdi.de

We invite you to the new webinar series of our #NFDI section #ELSA. The series addresses everyone with an interest in ethics.

➡️ Dates: www.nfdi.de/section-elsa...

🗓️ The first talk will be an "Introduction to Research Ethics" on 5 February at 4 p.m..

#rdm #fdm #researchdata #researchethics

January 20, 2026 at 10:04 AM

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Dr Kevin Guyan

@kevinguyan.bsky.social

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢

This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.

doi.org/10.1080/0958...

January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

It was inevitable.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

January 19, 2026 at 8:02 AM

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der_juw

@juw.bsky.social

Könnte man nicht auch die ganzen ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeiten wie bei den Tafeln, THW, freiwillige Feuerwehr und so weiter in reguläre Jobs umwandeln und leistungsgerecht bezahlen?
Dann hätten wir mehr bezahlte Arbeit und weniger "Faulenzer"

January 19, 2026 at 10:02 AM

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"Inhaltlich stellen"

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 15d

"We don't want to remove the malignant cancerous tumor. We don't even want to shrink the tumor. We just want the tumor to get better training."

January 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM

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Marc Hanefeld @marc-hanefeld.de · 16d

Ich sage das immer wieder: Wir leben im Zeitalter der schamlosen Lüge und der Dummheit. Von Regierenden oder anderen Verantwortungsträgern erwarte ich Besseres. Und zwar ohne Wenn und Aber.

January 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM

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DeZIM-Institut

@dezim-institut.de

📣Looking for #data to support your next #research project?

The dataset “NaDiRa: Racist Realities” offers a rich and nuanced look into how people in Germany perceive, experience, acknowledge – or deny – #racism.

Apply here ➡️ datasearch.fdz.dezim-institut.de/item/de.dezi...

January 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17d

🎉 Baby Tuskegee 2.0 is CANCELLED

This unethical U.S.-funded Hep B study in Africa is cancelled.

Our outrage worked. SPEAKING UP MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

Now let’s put the funding to good use: vaccinate every baby there at birth and actually save lives. 💉👶