Jens Koed Madsen

Trump orders firing of labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed US president accused of ‘firing the messenger’ as he makes claims without evidence about Erika McEntarfer

He probably also fired his bathroom scale for fake weight figures 😂

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England 1-1 Spain (England win 3-1 on pens): Women’s Euro 2025 final – live reaction Minute-by-minute report: The Lionesses remain European champions after beating Spain on penalties

Phenomenal result!!! Back-to-back European Champions 🤯🥳

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X Incident follows the xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questions

Remind me why universities, charities and governments are still using X as a platform for advertising their programmes and sharing their activities? With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3Ig3H3l

Hidden AI prompts in academic papers spark concern about research integrity The discovery raises serious concerns about the integrity of the research in the papers and highlights flaws in academic publishing.

Amazingly (and worryingly) this works. I tried this on a paper I am currently working on. Un-prompted, Copilot recommended minor revisions; prompted, it parroted inserted phrases (e.g., 'innovative methodology') and said it was a must-read for all scientists.

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07...

it's genuinely worrying to see the democratic backsliding - hopefully, it won't progress, but the pressure on citizens, universities, foreign nations, and international law is a troubling sign.

Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks' This comes after US President Donald Trump said she was

It was clear that an attack was coming when Trump got Tulsi Gabbard to reverse her statement about Iran's nuclear ambitions. In my view, it looks like 2003 pretense all over again.

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As the sun sets tonight my thoughts are Iranians and Jews and Palestinians greeting the evening with fear. Like many of us watching from afar i am consumed with worry about those I care about. May this madness stop soon.

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It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg In banning a schools debate on Palestinian sovereignty, our leaders have revealed the nation we’re becoming, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Information

This is a point well made by Rune Lykkeberg - it is a failure of Danish politicians' attitudes toward freedom of speech that school kids are not allowed to debate the questions of genocidal actions or the Palestinian right to self-determination.

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I've called on the UK government to stop ALL arms sales to Israel.

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⚽ New blog by @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social ⬇️

#Football #WisdomOfTheCrowds #Research

A blog on an interesting Wisdom of the Crowds experiment I ran across an entire @plnews.bsky.social football season. It turns out that WoC estimates outperform individual participants :)

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This was a really fun project to make :)

Football forecasting – harnessing the power of the crowd Can the wisdom of the crowds predict football results? New research finds people's guesses about football matches can produce surprisingly accurate predictions.

💥 New: Football forecasting – harnessing the power of the crowd

✍️ @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social‬ on whether the wisdom of the crowds can predict football results

Fresh attack on Harvard intensifies chaos for international students in US Students will need to move schools to keep legal status, as US universities reel from funding cuts and Trump orders

If I was considering where to study as an international student (with all the innovations, new businesses, and more that international students can bring), I would really think twice about the USA. It's grim to undermine protest and freedom of speech in this way.

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The perceived independence of information sources has a powerful impact on polarisation New research shows that disagreements about the independence of information sources can have a powerful impact on political polarisation.

The perceived independence of information sources has a powerful impact on polarisation

New research from @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social (@lsepbs.bsky.social) @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social & @leede-wit.bsky.social

In a blog, @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social, @leede-wit.bsky.social, and I discuss why perceived dependencies are so important to political belief formation - and how they might fuel polarisation.

It points to a broader discussion on how to engage with people politically.

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It's a hilarious sign of continued incompetence that the post from The White House where they wanted to paint Trump as a Jedi for the 4th of May didn't realise that red lightsabers are classically Sith weapons 😂

Thanks for inviting :) It was great to take part and discuss this with you and the other panelists!

A fantastic discussion on misinformation, AI and democracy by our panellists @lewan.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, Jonathan Bright and @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social, and moderator Matteo Bergamini MBE @shoutoutuk.bsky.social.

Thanks to Club Alpbach London for hosting this event!

Belief polarization can be caused by disagreements over source independence: Computational modelling, experimental evidence, and applicability to real-world politics A large literature debates whether belief polarization, in both experiments and real-world political opinion data, is the result of biased forms of re…

Link to study:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In line w this, we show that people in the UK and USA infer that people on the 'opposite' political side are more dependent on several issues compared with their in-group.

This inference can yield reasonable polarisation paths and suggests different communication applications for de-polarisation.

Belief polarization can be caused by disagreements over source independence: Computational modelling, experimental evidence, and applicability to real-world politics A large literature debates whether belief polarization, in both experiments and real-world political opinion data, is the result of biased forms of re…

In a new paper in Cognition w. @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social and @leede-wit.bsky.social, we explore perceived dependencies as a possible cause for issue polarisation.

We show that this is possible experimentally where high dependency depresses updating.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

superb news :)

Looking forward to hosting this event with Club Alpbach London!

Featuring a great panel: @lewan.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social, and Jonathan Bright, with Matteo Bergamini MBE from @shoutoutuk.bsky.social as moderator!

YouTube video by LSE Psychological and Behavioural Science LSE's MSc Social and Public Communication

We have a lovely new video on the MSc Social and Public Communication at @lsepbs.bsky.social :)

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Now that Amazon has bought the IP for 007, can we expect that Bond in the next film tracks down an eeeevil journalist who writes an opinion piece about the exploitation of workers and zero-hour contracts?

And the sad thing is that this 'he' could refer to at least two people, as this description fits perfectly well with both.

Completely agree - with the cuts to funding and the embrace of a president who seemingly wants to clamp down on free speech on university campuses, I really hoped The Royal Society would have expelled him.