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If you want to research or even just learn for yourself about "Social Media, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, WhatsApp, or Twitter," then yes, unfortunately, it's almost impossible to do that research externally. This is a big reason why Bluesky's open ecosystem is so exciting to me!
Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry?
New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com.
Thread tomorrow.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507
New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com.
Thread tomorrow.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507
Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research
To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...
arxiv.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:07 AM
If you want to research or even just learn for yourself about "Social Media, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, WhatsApp, or Twitter," then yes, unfortunately, it's almost impossible to do that research externally. This is a big reason why Bluesky's open ecosystem is so exciting to me!
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How complex should network models be?
🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
How complex should network models be?
🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior).
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication.
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication.
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
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Ah, das ist sehr wichtig:
Erstmals verhängt die EU-Kommission eine Geldbuße gegen eine Social-Media-Plattform aus den USA - und zwar wegen Verstößen gegen den Digital Services Act
Elon Musks Plattform soll 120 Millionen Euro zahlen - wenn X nicht genügend nachjustiert, drohen weitere Strafen
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Erstmals verhängt die EU-Kommission eine Geldbuße gegen eine Social-Media-Plattform aus den USA - und zwar wegen Verstößen gegen den Digital Services Act
Elon Musks Plattform soll 120 Millionen Euro zahlen - wenn X nicht genügend nachjustiert, drohen weitere Strafen
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Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act
Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
ec.europa.eu
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ah, das ist sehr wichtig:
Erstmals verhängt die EU-Kommission eine Geldbuße gegen eine Social-Media-Plattform aus den USA - und zwar wegen Verstößen gegen den Digital Services Act
Elon Musks Plattform soll 120 Millionen Euro zahlen - wenn X nicht genügend nachjustiert, drohen weitere Strafen
🧵
Erstmals verhängt die EU-Kommission eine Geldbuße gegen eine Social-Media-Plattform aus den USA - und zwar wegen Verstößen gegen den Digital Services Act
Elon Musks Plattform soll 120 Millionen Euro zahlen - wenn X nicht genügend nachjustiert, drohen weitere Strafen
🧵
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Claude can't view full bluesky pages because they rely on javascript to render. So I built a little proxy to prerender pages so claude can see them!
Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html).
Before vs after:
Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html).
Before vs after:
June 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Claude can't view full bluesky pages because they rely on javascript to render. So I built a little proxy to prerender pages so claude can see them!
Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html).
Before vs after:
Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html).
Before vs after:
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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The meat industry needed a new weapon. “Ultra-processed food” became the label of choice. Vague, meaningless, effective.
White Bread Has More Additives Than Vegan Meat.
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The meat industry needed a new weapon. “Ultra-processed food” became the label of choice. Vague, meaningless, effective.
I mean cmon team
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I mean cmon team
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Agriculture causes up to a third of GHG emissions, yet 300+ ag lobbyists are pushing unproven ‘solutions’ at COP30.
Efficiency alone won’t save us; we need radical food-system change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Efficiency alone won’t save us; we need radical food-system change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Agriculture causes up to a third of GHG emissions, yet 300+ ag lobbyists are pushing unproven ‘solutions’ at COP30.
Efficiency alone won’t save us; we need radical food-system change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Efficiency alone won’t save us; we need radical food-system change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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95% hostile: "Murdoch’s TalkTV and Radio really outdid themselves on COP30 – 84 of 89 segments were hostile... So while some 97% of climate scientists agree it’s a crisis, 95% of Talk coverage insists its not worth fixing. How balanced!"
Based on new research from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social
Based on new research from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social
Climate Action Against Disinformation |
COP LOOK LISTEN ISSUE 05 | 14 NOV 25
caad.info
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
95% hostile: "Murdoch’s TalkTV and Radio really outdid themselves on COP30 – 84 of 89 segments were hostile... So while some 97% of climate scientists agree it’s a crisis, 95% of Talk coverage insists its not worth fixing. How balanced!"
Based on new research from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social
Based on new research from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social
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Vegetarisch zu leben ist Klimaschutz.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Vegetarisch zu leben ist Klimaschutz.
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Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
OSF
osf.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
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The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
www.newscientist.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The remarkable thing about enshittification isn’t that it happens, but that people keep using the products. Ahem…Twitter.
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A Spooky Unix story for Halloween.
A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:
A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A Spooky Unix story for Halloween.
A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:
A new programmer accidentally ran “rm -rf *” as root, on one of the main computers at the University of Manchester.
He stopped halfway, but /bin, /etc, /dev, and /lib were gone.
What followed was one of the most insane live recoveries in computer history:
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
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Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition long denied to the nation's first inhabitants ➡️ u.afp.com/SegE
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition long denied to the nation's first inhabitants ➡️ u.afp.com/SegE
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Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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New research on 42 countries around the world shows that in most cases people generally do not believe the system they live under is fair. With one exception: China.
I wrote a summary of this study and its methodology on Substack, which I'm posting in the reply.
I wrote a summary of this study and its methodology on Substack, which I'm posting in the reply.
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New research on 42 countries around the world shows that in most cases people generally do not believe the system they live under is fair. With one exception: China.
I wrote a summary of this study and its methodology on Substack, which I'm posting in the reply.
I wrote a summary of this study and its methodology on Substack, which I'm posting in the reply.
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DHS is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and by that I mean a factory for white supremacist messaging. I got mad about the neomedievalism from last week, for @religiondispatches.org :
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
Neomedievalist memes are doing white Christofascist work
Given that the white supremacist running the account churns out offensive content like the hatemonger he is, it might seem silly to focus on just one DHS Instagram post.But as a trained medievalist, t...
religiondispatches.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
DHS is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and by that I mean a factory for white supremacist messaging. I got mad about the neomedievalism from last week, for @religiondispatches.org :
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
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How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature
Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Join us today at 1:30 PM on the 11th floor of NetSI or over zoom for a talk by Lin Chen, a new postdoctoral researcher in SunLAB. Don’t miss “Inequality and Resilience in Urban Social Dynamics” and the chance to connect with fellow researchers!
www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen
www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Join us today at 1:30 PM on the 11th floor of NetSI or over zoom for a talk by Lin Chen, a new postdoctoral researcher in SunLAB. Don’t miss “Inequality and Resilience in Urban Social Dynamics” and the chance to connect with fellow researchers!
www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen
www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/lin-chen
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Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
www.dexerto.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
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2. No, high environmental impact is not a result of *how* you produce animal products. There is no good way of doing it at scale. Either you produce intensively, which means massive pollution and terrible welfare; or extensively, which means massive land use and therefore habitat destruction.
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
2. No, high environmental impact is not a result of *how* you produce animal products. There is no good way of doing it at scale. Either you produce intensively, which means massive pollution and terrible welfare; or extensively, which means massive land use and therefore habitat destruction.