Daniel Leising

Es geht um Verbrechen, und darum, wie Institutionen und die Menschen in ihnen dazu beitragen, dass Verbrechen immer weiter geschehen können. Ein unverändert relevantes und psychologisch hochinteressantes Thema. Der Eintritt ist frei.

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Der Oscar-prämierte Film beruht auf wahren Gegebenheiten: den Recherchen des Investigativteams des Boston Globe zu sexuellen Kindesmissbräuchen in der Katholischen Kirche.

Morgen Abend (4. Februar) um 19:30 Uhr stelle ich im Dresdner Kino im Kasten den nächsten Film in unserer Filmreihe zum Thema "Integrität" vor. Diesmal zeigen wir "Spotlight" (2015, R: Tom McCarthy).

Diese Befassung dürfen dann andere übernehmen.

Wer so agiert, der trägt selbst dazu bei, die Wissenschaft zu diskreditieren und zu delegitimieren. Also: Bitte endlich mal hingucken. Auch wenn's wehtut.

Gewisse Individuen und Institutionen bejubeln einfach immer weiter beharrlich den Wissenschaftsbetrieb, sind sich aber für eine Befassung mit dessen teils gravierenden Systemfehlern und dem geradezu grotesken Fehlverhalten mancher Akteure darin offenbar zu fein.

Die Erkenntnis ist sicher nicht neu, darf aber gerne noch ein bisschen mehr in die Breite getragen werden: Der Wissenschaft dient man vor allem langfristig nicht primär durch PR.

Schwächen der Wissenschaft: Ändert die Wissenschaft – bevor es die Populisten tun! Gezielt schlachten Wissenschaftsfeinde die Schwächen des Forschungsbetriebs aus. Der kann sich nur dann schützen, wenn er sich endlich mit den eigenen Fehlern befasst.

Ein wichtiger Beitrag von Andreas Sentker in der ZEIT:
www.zeit.de/2026/04/wiss...

I recently discovered @forbetterscience.bsky.social. Follow Leonid for fearless posts about (alleged) cases of harassment in academia. The most recent one: it seems 44 professors wrote an internal letter demanding "protection" for one of their peers, whom several people had accused of harassment.
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Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German sexual harasser defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions …

2023 begann man in über sexuellen Mißbrauch in der Geschichtswissenschaft zu diskutieren. #metoohistory veränderte den Diskurs. Andreas Kohring musste gehen. Ein weiterer Prof der HU muss sich vor Gericht verantworten, die Uni stellte ihn außer Dienst.
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Location: Lecture hall FAL 158 (Bürohaus am Falkenbrunnen, Chemnitzer Strasse 46 b, Dresden). Everybody is welcome.

As alternative platforms and digital sovereignty for Europe are separately needed, we aim to question the current status quo and explore how this technology offers untapped opportunities for an improved information landscape and participatory democracy lived online.

A number of political behaviours appear to be influenced by the use of digital media, such as increasing polarization or declining trust in institutions.

Increasing interconnectedness has led to more self-organized public debates, platforms and their algorithms have gained new power over discourse, and generative AI has made content fabrication easier than ever.

Abstract: Information and communication technology has undergone dramatic developments over the last two decades.

This week, we will have the honour of welcoming Prof. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (TU Dresden). At 1 pm on Friday (Jan 23rd), he will speak to us about the following topic:

*Digital Sovereignty, but how? A behavioural perspective on alternative social media*

Last week, we lost our dear friend, colleague, and mentor, Cord Benecke, who passed away at the age of 60. We will never forget you, Cord! 💛 www.uni-kassel.de/fb01/en/depa...

Frankfurt macht's vor

Böllerverbot. Jetzt.

It is not just that 'ideally' criteria for publication should be the same for significant and non-significant results - it is literally in the code of conduct for research integrity. If you do not act in line with this, you are violating the code of conduct for research integrity.

How PhD students suffered under years of misconduct by Professor M. A culture of fear, manipulative behaviour, mounting workload, and exploitation of PhD candidates. UT professor M. displayed such a pattern for years, an investigation by U-Today reveals. Last year, UT...

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The talk is associated with our Master's program "Human Performance in Socio-Technical Systems (HPSTS)", but open to the public.

Language: German

Venue: Bürohaus am Falkenbrunnen (Chemnitzer Straße 46b), FAL 158

Time: Dec 12th, 1:00 pm

Public Talk: Introduction to Investigative Journalism

On December 12th (Friday), we will have the honor of hosting Mr Nico Schmidt. Mr Schmidt works as an investigative journalist and will share his experiences with, and his perspective on, this type of professional activity.

The next important step on this journey will be to develop clearer theoretical ideas of the individual descriptor properties, and of the ways in which they are functionally related to one another. Exciting, but challenging. We're working on it...

Despite their (current) shortcomings, LLM-based ratings of descriptor properties may soon help us overcome this grave limitation because *any set of items* (e.g., from an already published study) may be easily assessed this way, a posteriori.

However, to this day, most psychometric research still ignores them, making data analyses a lot less informative than they could be.

Descriptor properties have been the subject of psychological research for decades, including seminal contributions by (e.g.) Edwards (1953), Funder & Dobroth (1987), and John & Robins (1993).

Going beyond previous work, we also used LLM-based ratings of the same properties, finding that they resemble human-based ratings quite a bit, but should not (yet) be treated as being entirely interchangeable with them.

Using a new sample of participants who generated a new sample of terms, most of the previous findings that we targeted were indeed replicated (e.g., the pattern of correlations among the six descriptor properties).