New video out! 👇
youtu.be/g3m6J7CTqNI?...

An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints

It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution

Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"only about 5% of the variance in personality can be
predicted from digital footprints, and personality‐tailored messages show negligible effects on behavior... When design and evaluation flaws are controlled, the combined end‐to‐end effectiveness of psychological targeting approaches zero."

Strongly worded, but 🎯

"Trump is putting Europe under pressure to water down its digital rulebook. But now more than ever, Europe should hold large US tech firms accountable"

The time is ripe to put the DSA, DMA, AI Act etc to work. Not pause or water down.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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😡 ABSOLUTELY NOT! You cannot replace humans with synthetic data! Stop trying to cut down on costs and automating human interaction and researchers inference. This is an inseparable part of SOCIAL science research!
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