Markus Appel

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Difficult to see this as anything but an execution by a death squad in broad daylight. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors Part 1: How do LLMs work?

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Thousands of UK schoolchildren to take part in major study of social media use and teen mental health A trial that will put a daily limit on the social media use of thousands of Bradford teenagers is set to begin this year. It will be the largest study yet to investigate whether use of these online pl...

Professor @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social will co-lead the world’s first major trial to test whether reducing social media use can improve teen mental health.

Find out more about the IRL Trial: https://bit.ly/4a2FZmB

#socialmedia #research

Great thread. Definitely worth reading!

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year

"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."

YouTube video by Floating Points Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video)

Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...

Attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions of artificial intelligence: A population study in Germany Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly affects individuals’ private and professional lives. Importantly, both the acceptance and adoption of new AI…

💡 How do people in Germany perceive Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

In our recent population survey in Germany, we examined attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions regarding AI in work, healthcare, and education.

🔗 Read the full open-access article here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The relationship between income and vote has reversed in the USA.

📣Job alert 📣
11 positions for PhD candidates (100%) open in the RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age"(Wuerzburg). You can apply for 3 areas:
✅ Immersive virtual reality
✅New (Para-)Social Encounters
✅Epistemic challenges
Topics: VR/XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation 👇

We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share

Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

Please share! 🔃

cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#PhDJob

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland

Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future

I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.

Erinnerungen: Fotografieren wir zu viel? Dank des Smartphones können wir jeden Moment festhalten. Warum das nicht unbedingt bedeutet, dass wir uns besser erinnern.

We snap photos of everything. But does more documentation mean better memories? 📸📲🤳

Not necessarily. Too many photos can drown out what really matters. Remembering is all about selection.

Talked about this with Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Mediated autobiographical remembering in the digital age: insights from an experimental think-aloud study - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications Autobiographical remembering may undergo significant transformations in the digital age, in which the omnipresence of digital tools has led to an increased density of recorded life episodes. To gain d...

New paper on autobiographical #memory in the #digitalage 🚨

What do individuals do when being asked to remember past events? We show that they repeatedly switch between information stored in their minds and information stored in external resources (e.g., their smartphones) doi.org/10.1186/s412...

@davidryanmiller.com thought you might appreciate this work by @johnjost.bsky.social, which I see as very aligned with what you suggest

spsp.org/news/charact...

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀

Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?

✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

GESIS Workshop Design and Methods for Mobile Data Collection 31 March to 02 April 2025 | Online Lukas Otto (GESIS)

📱 Interested in collecting data with smartphones? Join this #GESISworkshop with @lukotto.bsky.social @gesis.org for a hands-on guide to planning, conducting & analyzing mobile, intensive-longitudinal surveys.

➡️ More info & registration: tinyurl.com/mobiledata25

My fellow communication scientists, can you point to scientific articles about what @techconnectify.bsky.social is concerned about

Some parts I believe relate to @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social's paper, but I know I'm missing other parts
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Graph showing age groups who find environment as a source of stress. Younger folks are more stressed by enivronment.

I don't plan to read it, but this is what they mean by anxious generation, yes? 🫠

From here: www.apa.org/pubs/reports...

📢📢📢 #MediaPsych2025 It's time to update your to do lists! Submission system is open: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... (Deadline February 15) @unidue.bsky.social @mepsy.bsky.social @CAIS

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Nice to see that my employer has finally left this toxic place
#eXit

Title of the paper: How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media: Deliberate Provocations, Scandalizing Media Coverage, and Public Awareness for the Alternative for Germany (Afd) Abstract The rise of right-wing populist parties in Western democracies is often attributed to populists’ ability to instrumentalize news media by making deliberate provocations (e.g., verbal attacks on migrants or politicians from other parties) that generate media coverage and public awareness. To explain the success of populists’ deliberate provocations, we drew from research on populism and scandal theory to develop a theoretical framework that we tested in two studies examining the rise of German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) between January 2015 and December 2018. In Study 1, an input–output analysis of 17 deliberate provocations by AfD politicians in German news media revealed much more coverage about their attacks on migrants than about their attacks on political elites, although all were covered in predominantly scandalizing ways. Next, Study 2, involving media database research and an analysis of Google Trends data, showed that the provocations had increased overall media coverage about the AfD and influenced public awareness of the party

Hej journalists, Elmo, Alice, and Hitler hit news values, but amplifying far-right provocations plays right into their hands. It might bring short-term clicks, but the long-term boomerang will hit—not only grabbing attention, fueling their agenda, but also undermining trust in the media.

A less discussed aspect of normalization of the far right is the attacks on anyone using pre-normalization assessments and terminology.

This has been going on for over a decade, in Europe and the U.S., where the term “far right” is being squeezed tighter and tighter until it only refers to Nazis.