Viktoria Allert
@vallert.bsky.social
Social & Environmental psychologist // TU Dortmund alumni
PhD on civic engagement, policy support, mobility transition, social identity
she/her
PhD on civic engagement, policy support, mobility transition, social identity
she/her
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Im Oktober 2025 haben wir Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen deutsche Rüstungsexporte nach Israel eingelegt. Doch Karlsruhe braucht Zeit – Zeit, die in Gaza über Leben und Tod entscheidet. Deshalb unterstützen wir den palästinensischen Beschwerdeführer bei einem Eilantrag an das Bundesverfassungsgericht.
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Im Oktober 2025 haben wir Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen deutsche Rüstungsexporte nach Israel eingelegt. Doch Karlsruhe braucht Zeit – Zeit, die in Gaza über Leben und Tod entscheidet. Deshalb unterstützen wir den palästinensischen Beschwerdeführer bei einem Eilantrag an das Bundesverfassungsgericht.
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Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
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“Positivism Creep”
“The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.”
By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
“The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.”
By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“Positivism Creep”
“The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.”
By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
“The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.”
By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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Heute bekommt Sophie von der Tann den Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis verliehen. Mein Kollege Ofer Waldman hat mit dem @rbb über die Vorwürfe gegen sie, deutsche Berichterstattung zu #Israel und #Palästina & Einschränkungen der Medienfreiheit gesprochen: www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Heute bekommt Sophie von der Tann den Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis verliehen. Mein Kollege Ofer Waldman hat mit dem @rbb über die Vorwürfe gegen sie, deutsche Berichterstattung zu #Israel und #Palästina & Einschränkungen der Medienfreiheit gesprochen: www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
I think '(repeated) violation of ceasefire' would be the appropriate heading here
Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks
Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks
Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza City
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month.
Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think '(repeated) violation of ceasefire' would be the appropriate heading here
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As horrific as the death and devastation in Gaza have been, the Israeli state's drive to annex and depopulate the West Bank, spearheaded by Jewish supremacist settlers and the army, promises its own particular kind of horror:
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
“All My Dreams Have Been Erased”
The 105-page report, “‘All My Dreams Have Been Erased’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank,” details “Operation Iron Wall,” an Israeli military operation across Jenin, Tulka...
www.hrw.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
As horrific as the death and devastation in Gaza have been, the Israeli state's drive to annex and depopulate the West Bank, spearheaded by Jewish supremacist settlers and the army, promises its own particular kind of horror:
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
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When you call out and warn about attacks on academic freedom by the AfD but you are silent on cancellations by @lmumuenchen.bsky.social due to pressure from the CSU and others you have not understood the concept of academic freedom.
The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
www.lmu.de
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
When you call out and warn about attacks on academic freedom by the AfD but you are silent on cancellations by @lmumuenchen.bsky.social due to pressure from the CSU and others you have not understood the concept of academic freedom.
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"I now consider it more like a 50-50, whether we cross that critical tipping point that sends the AMOC into a downward spiral this century."
@rahmstorf.bsky.social
Listen now: overshootpod.com
@rahmstorf.bsky.social
Listen now: overshootpod.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"I now consider it more like a 50-50, whether we cross that critical tipping point that sends the AMOC into a downward spiral this century."
@rahmstorf.bsky.social
Listen now: overshootpod.com
@rahmstorf.bsky.social
Listen now: overshootpod.com
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Das 🇩🇪-Ticket wird bald für 14 Mio. Menschen teurer. Doch anstatt Bahntickets, verbilligt die Bundesregierung jetzt ernsthaft für 350 Mio. €/Jahr Flugtickets. Diese Regierung ist sozialpolitisch eine absolute Zumutung & klimapolitisch ein Totalausfall. Wie kann man nur so schiefe Prioritäten haben?
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Das 🇩🇪-Ticket wird bald für 14 Mio. Menschen teurer. Doch anstatt Bahntickets, verbilligt die Bundesregierung jetzt ernsthaft für 350 Mio. €/Jahr Flugtickets. Diese Regierung ist sozialpolitisch eine absolute Zumutung & klimapolitisch ein Totalausfall. Wie kann man nur so schiefe Prioritäten haben?
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"Without action, the signal from scientists will be drowned out in the marketing noise from oil companies"
Climate reporting deluged by high carbon adverts
Newspapers in Britain carried more adverts for polluting travel than reports of the last climate conference.
theecologist.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Without action, the signal from scientists will be drowned out in the marketing noise from oil companies"
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Schulleistungsstudien und Bildungsberichte zeigen es immer wieder aufs Neue: Das Einkommen und der Bildungshintergrund der Eltern entscheiden wesentlich mit, welche Schule ein Kind besucht, wie gut es lernen kann und welchen Weg es nach der Schule einschlägt.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Schulleistungsstudien und Bildungsberichte zeigen es immer wieder aufs Neue: Das Einkommen und der Bildungshintergrund der Eltern entscheiden wesentlich mit, welche Schule ein Kind besucht, wie gut es lernen kann und welchen Weg es nach der Schule einschlägt.
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"Public discourses of delaying climate action manifest in local debates and are referenced by citizens to criticize proposed changes to the mobility system"
German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Local citizen assemblies to overcome resistance to the mobility transition? Analyzing discourses in a municipality in rural Germany
Policy changes in the mobility transition will only be possible with sufficient public support for shifting mobility cultures and the necessary lifest…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Public discourses of delaying climate action manifest in local debates and are referenced by citizens to criticize proposed changes to the mobility system"
German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Opinion piece in @szde.bsky.social on why the 20-point-plan, like earlier initiatives, denies Palestinians basic human rights, including self determination, and how States like Germany are, and have been, untrustworthy actors in the question of Palestine.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Opinion piece in @szde.bsky.social on why the 20-point-plan, like earlier initiatives, denies Palestinians basic human rights, including self determination, and how States like Germany are, and have been, untrustworthy actors in the question of Palestine.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
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This is an excellent point that generalizes.
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is an excellent point that generalizes.
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
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An entire segment of the population is being repeatedly told that ’illegal immigration‘ - which is in fact barely 5% of immigration - is the dominant problem in this country. This is a media-driven phenomenon.
A case study in far right propaganda success. Tory governments run down public services over decades & then the the populist right breeds in ruined communities by scapegoating Black & brown immigrants.
Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
An entire segment of the population is being repeatedly told that ’illegal immigration‘ - which is in fact barely 5% of immigration - is the dominant problem in this country. This is a media-driven phenomenon.
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'When someone says we can’t miss the boat, I ask: where is the boat going? What exactly will this technology improve? That’s rarely discussed. Since when did [universities] become Big Tech's free PR department?'
— Nicky Dries, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven
— Nicky Dries, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
'When someone says we can’t miss the boat, I ask: where is the boat going? What exactly will this technology improve? That’s rarely discussed. Since when did [universities] become Big Tech's free PR department?'
— Nicky Dries, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven
— Nicky Dries, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven
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A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ironically, as Paul Stern argued, insisting on only system change can itself become a discourse of delay. When system change is treated as the only legitimate form of action, it risks sidelining the solutions that could reduce emissions right now.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Well-meaning discourses of climate delay | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
Well-meaning discourses of climate delay - Volume 3
www.cambridge.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Ironically, as Paul Stern argued, insisting on only system change can itself become a discourse of delay. When system change is treated as the only legitimate form of action, it risks sidelining the solutions that could reduce emissions right now.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ich hab auch ein Problem mit dem Stadtbild in Deutschland, aber was das mit Migration zu tun hat, ist mir nicht klar
October 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ich hab auch ein Problem mit dem Stadtbild in Deutschland, aber was das mit Migration zu tun hat, ist mir nicht klar
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it's ok
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.
German chancellor threatens to boycott Eurovision if Israel excluded
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.
l.euronews.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
it's ok
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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”
According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”
According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
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Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters."
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters."
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.