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Julia Partheymüller
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Senior Scientist at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna #AUTNES 🇦🇹
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The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩

Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹

Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...

#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️
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The "free speech warriors" continue to push for censorship
The self-proclaimed head of USAGM, Kari Lake, who this year destroyed nearly all of the Voice of America, tells the agency's few remaining journalists the White House National Security Strategy will "guide our interview subjects, story selection, and coverage going forward."
December 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Die USA belegen jetzt Leute, die sich gegen Hass im Netz einsetzen, mit Einreiseverbot. Das ist kein westlich-demokratischer Rechtsstaat mehr. Ich wünsche mir, dass das auch von PolitikerInnen in Europa so ausgesprochen wird.

This is not normal. Nothing about this is normal.
Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Sanieren statt resignieren - Fotoausstellung der bayerischen Studierenden

baystura.de/kunstausstel...

Sanierungsstau als Kunst!

Wann deutschlandweit? Das wissenschaftliche Personal könnte sich auch beteiligen! @drlutzboehm.bsky.social #ichbinhanna
Kunstausstellung - Bayerischer Landesstudierendenrat
Sanieren statt resignieren All All Bilder Fotoausstellung der bayerischen Studierenden Bil­dung braucht Räume.Bay­erns Studierende ler­nen, arbeit­en und leben an Orten, die viel über den Zus­tand uns...
baystura.de
December 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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New piece from @celinegounder.com about how antivax disinformation tactics are making their way to the CDC via the McCullough foundation.
What the CDC’s Vaccine Language Shift Reveals About Pseudoscience
Researchers see a pattern in how unverified studies gain traction online, shaping perceptions of official science before data can catch up
drcelinegounder.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
„Die Anzahl an Beiträgen mit prorussischen Narrativen sowie deren Reposts ist tatsächlich signifikant gestiegen. Daher gehen wir davon aus, dass russische Akteur*innen gezielt blaue Haken kaufen, um ihre Botschaften zu verbreiten“, resümiert der Forscher.

www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/for...
Narrative auf X
www.uni-mannheim.de
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🚨 Servicehinweis 🚨

Nicht vergessen: Meldungen an die #VGWort für Publikationen sowie Beteiligungen an Beiträgen und Werken rechtzeitig eintragen!

🗓 Meldeschluss: 31. Januar 2026

#IchBinHanna
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Just decline the peer review invitation.

What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"MAGA hat politische Akteure auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks identifiziert, die sich an einem Prozess beteiligen, der das Ziel hat, die Europäische Union zu untergraben und die demokratischen Institutionen zu sabotieren, die der Kontinent seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aufgebaut hat."
December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Die US-Politologen, die einst das Konzept des „kompetitiven Autoritarismus“ für Länder wie Ungarn unter Orban o. die Türkei unter Erdogan entwickelt haben, sagen nun:
Auch die USA sind nach 10 Monaten Trump II in diesem Stadium angekommen. Sie sind keine voll funktionsfähige Demokratie mehr.
The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
December 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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„Glückwunsch“ an Impfskeptiker Robert Kennedy zum Rekordstand der Masernfälle in den USA. Man kann ihm eines nicht vorwerfen: Er liefert als Gesundheitsminister exakt das, wofür er steht.

Und schlimm, dass RFK Jr.-Anhänger in der Corona Enquete-Kommission des Bundestags sitzen
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Why aren't families having more babies?

This brand new paper argues that part of the reason is because childcare is so expensive.

"A 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate"

abigaildow.com/assets/docs/...
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT reinforced a single, dangerous message: Stein-Erik could trust no one in his life — except ChatGPT itself," the lawsuit says. “It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies..."
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
80 % arbeiten befristet, jetzt noch Reallohnkürzung in Millionenhöhe, gleichzeitig Top-100-Marketing und das Gerede von Leistungsanreizen an jeder Ecke … schwierig, das nicht zynisch zu kommentieren... 🫠

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Unis verzichten in "einmaliger Aktion" auf Geld – Gehaltskürzung beim Personal hilft dabei
Universitäten geben rund 120 Millionen ab, um Lücke beim Wissenschaftsfonds zu füllen. Gehaltsanpassungen 2026 und 2027 deutlich unterhalb der Inflation
www.derstandard.at
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology

Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Looks like I ain't travelling to the United States any time soon...
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Software von #Palantir hat verheerende Risiken. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Risikoprüfung in der Schweiz. Aber für deutsche Polizeien soll die Palantir-Software gut genug sein. Nimmt #Dobrindt diese Risiken in Kauf? netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...
Schweiz: Palantir-Software hat verheerende Risiken
Nach Risikoprüfung des Einsatzes von Palantir-Software in der Schweiz bekam der US-Konzern eine Absage, trotz jahrelanger Hofierung von Behörden und Armee. Den Eidgenossen sind die Risiken zu groß. Da...
netzpolitik.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Kick-Off-Event zur Hochschulstrategie 2040 - Wir von @nuwiss.bsky.social sind dabei! 👋
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Across the country, police departments have adopted AI-driven platforms to assist with data collection and analysis. But without robust safeguards, these data fusion tools risk generating inaccurate results, perpetuating bias, and undermining individual rights. bit.ly/44nxPlx
The Dangers of Unregulated AI in Policing
New data fusion tools risk embedding biases and chilling free speech.
www.brennancenter.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This is necessary
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects:
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
academic.oup.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM