Lara Orphal

The algorithmic curation of information online can exacerbate polarization and support the spread of misinformation.

This review makes the case that social media algorithms amplify content from extreme parties, especially the far right, and threatens democracy.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Disability Studies bedroht: Kritisch-emanzipatorische Wissenschaft schützen und stärken! • Hochschulen und Universitäten sind zentrale Akteurinnen bei der Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention und der Förderung einer inklusiven, barrierefreien Gesellschaft. Der Abbau von Disability...

We were asked to forward this petition by the national German PhD representatives, to protect diversity research and disability studies in particular:

weact.campact.de/petitions/di...

Visuel Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, Paris se souvient.

Dix ans après, Paris se souvient.

Le 13 novembre 2015, les terroristes frappaient Saint-Denis et Paris en plein cœur, sa jeunesse, sa liberté et sa joie de vivre. Ce soir-là, c’est notre humanité tout entière qui vacillait.

Tomorrow is the PhD / Postdoc day at @unimarburg.bsky.social - meet us in the uni library at 3pm, or come earlier for the welcome speech, from 2pm.
Workshops start from 4:15, no signing up required.
We're looking forward to meeting you!

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

...scary things

Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)

If that counts as nocebo, I got bad paradoxical effects from benzodiazepines the one time I took one - anxiety, restlessness, and more that I don't want to describe. But I never trusted benzos in the first place and thought it'd make me feel bad. 🫠

I like a habit tracking + to do list app called "Hizo" 🤷🏻‍♀️
But I think these things are super personal, I can see it not working for others.

Weirdly, it doesn't work for me either if I look at it directly, but it does when I move my eyes around it. Then I see illusory movement in the periphery. (Explanations are welcome ^^)

Excellent 🧵 countering uncritical adoption of AI status quo

I listened to the interview but hadn't read the preprint yet - now did - and from a more *student perspective* (early carreer anyway), I found it super useful. It definitely validates some feelings and doubts. Thank you & all the team for this work

Such an important topic. I would have liked to hear the talk 🙂

Random note: the term "metacognition" is typically attributed to John Flavell (1976). As I just found out, this is not true. It was likely first coined by Lila Gleitman et al (1972), as seen in this beautiful quote:

John Hurley Flavell John H. Flavell is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Flavell is a founder of social cognitive ...

John Flavell, a giant of developmental psychology, who introduced the study of metacognition, died peacefully at age 96. www.amacad.org/person/john-...

R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ - R-Ladies Global R-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community

In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️

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#rstats #rladies

@123simonkey.bsky.social

I had this kind of task during my Master in Psychology, but the papers didn't have to be "really bad". Our job was just to find limitations that were not listed in the limitations section. Then there are more than enough papers to choose from, and it's a good exercize :)

But rap is definitely angry about these topics. At least in French, German and Spanish

Ah, or maybe I remember www.youtube.com/@FrankWatkin... having some covid-related balads

I would expect this more from rap and punkrock?

@123simonkey.bsky.social :)

I thought that developing effective mood-alleviating exercises for people with mood disorders might take more time and money 🙈

@123simonkey.bsky.social

I think it depends on studies? The idea is usually to take fake news from fact-checking websites, and real news headlines, but then ideally you'd still pre-test them on credibility/plausibility so that it's approximately balanced. I think that some studies might skip this step?

And the skepticism that appears in studies could (partly?) be an artefact of the experimental setting? If you ask people about accuracy, they can react extra-skeptically. Way more than when they're just scrolling online. It's a bit like a vigilance-prompt.

Yes, and it's reassuring that this method works. It would fail if people didn't use their knowledge (or had really little), or if fake news were as convincing as real ones. The two things can be independent, I think? If fake news get too realistic, your background knowledge becomes useless.

My first thought was "good; bc if not, it would indicate that people know nothing about the world"? On second thought, it could also have meant that fake news were as convincing as true ones. So, people have some knowledge, and / or fake news still seem a bit less true? Hope it stays that way.

schlafwissen.net
For what it's worth, this is the website of the people I mentioned