Julia Partheymüller

UKRI funding changes ‘pushing junior researchers abroad’ - Research Professional News Disruptions to core funding streams raise fears for a “generation” of early career researchers

On the difficult situation of young UK researchers 🧪🔭

Thanks @fionamcintyre.bsky.social and @isaacbarbosa1.bsky.social for the interview & excellent article.

#stfc #ukri #saveSTFC @ukri.org

UKRI funding changes ‘pushing junior researchers abroad’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

India tightens grip on social media with new three-hour takedown rule India's government said social media companies would have to take down unlawful content within three hours of being notified about it, tightening on Tuesday an earlier 36-hour timeline in what could b...

India's government said social media companies would have to take down unlawful content within three hours of being notified about it, tightening an earlier 36-hour timeline in what could be a compliance challenge for Meta, YouTube and X reut.rs/3OgeTA0

🎙️Staffelfinale des In_equality Podcast: Wie politisch ist unser Einkaufszettel? @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Gabi Spilker & Sebastian Koos über politischen und nachhaltigen Konsum, soziale Ungleichheit und Boykott. Live aufgenommen im Rahmen der Sustainability Week @uni-konstanz.de ➡️ t1p.de/7let1

dplyr 1.2.0 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

"How We Got Here: The Rise, Backlash and Future Of Counter-Disinformation" with Eliot Higgins and Dr Claire Wardle | Podcast Episode on RSS.com In our first Stage Talk of 2026, we were joined by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins and Cornell University's Dr. Claire Wardle sharing their expertise on the formation of fact checking and verificatio...

Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and Cornell University’s @cward1e.bsky.social unpack how disinformation evolved, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and what tools we all need to stay sharp in a world of misinformation. Listen back to last week's Stage Talk: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou

A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around the world missing out on it?

To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation

www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

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Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection

Konjunktur: Ausländische Investitionen in Deutschland steigen stark Gibt es weniger sichere Häfen für Investoren und profitiert davon Deutschland? Eine Untersuchung erklärt, warum die Milliarden nach Deutschland fließen.

Gibt es weniger sichere Häfen für Investoren und profitiert davon Deutschland? Eine Untersuchung erklärt, warum die Milliarden nach Deutschland fließen.

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

With #Gemini hallucinating #GoogleSearch, #Grok hallucinating in its own encyclopedia, and #ChatGPT increasingly drawing on that exact #Grokipedia, we are continuously enshittifying the information space. This has already become a huge mess that will be increasingly difficult to clean up.

🚨 Job Alert!

We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”.

Start: March 1, 2026
Application deadline: February 2, 2026

Find out more👇

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Am Montag hatten wir den 1. #ScienceSlam für #IPKW Alum@s. 🧑‍🔬🤹‍♂️ @c10r4n.bsky.social & ich haben ein aktuelles Projekt zu #Misinformations-Metanarrativen vorgestellt. Super auch @evapunkt.bsky.social aus der Praxis vor Ort gehabt zu haben. Und endlich @luis-paulitsch.bsky.social pers. kennengelernt.

Handyexperiment.at – 21 Tage ohne Smartphone Das österreichweite Handyexperiment: 21 Tage ohne Smartphone für Schüler:innen, begleitet von ORF-DOK1 und einer wissenschaftlichen Studie. Infos für Schulen, Eltern und Jugendliche.

Spannendes Feldexperiment zur Handynutzung: handyexperiment.at

Carney:

"In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

Supply and Demand of Regional Populism in Bavaria: Explaining the Regional Success of the CSU and Free Voters This article tests the concept of regional populism to explain the electoral success of the CSU and the Free Voters in Bavaria, two parties that together have governed the state since 2018. It brid...

🚨Publication Alert🚨

Supply & Demand of Regional Populism in Bavaria: Explaining the Regional Success of the CSU & Free Voters in German Politics

📑TL;DR: Regional populism is distinct from AfD's general populism and predicts CSU/FW voting well.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

The real threat to academic freedom.

In-depth story on @uwmadison.bsky.social that illustrates how the Trump admin is kneecapping America's most globally competitive export industry: higher education. A depressing but true quote 👇 from my Ph.D. student. The number of foreign students in my classes has dropped precipitously this year.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

In the face of Trump’s threats, Britain’s best path is clearer than ever: hurry back to Europe | Stella Creasy Labour must urgently seek new roles and alliances, while also enhancing the UK’s own military capabilities, says Stella Creasy, MP and chair of the Labour Movement for Europe

In the face of Trump’s threats, Britain’s best path is clearer than ever: hurry back to Europe | Stella Creasy

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Gentle reminder that all EU country products fall under the same tariff regime. Trump seeks to divide the EU. And he might succeed. Not everyone will act in solidarity with Denmark if that means higher tariffs for their products. It’s the economy, stupid.

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?

Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.

disinfoinstitute.org

Majority of Americans say it is very important for the U.S. to be a world leader in scientific achievements." A chart showing % who say that, thinking about all the important goals for the U.S., it is __ important for the U.S. to be a world leader in scientific achievements. 9% of U.S. adults think 'no too/not at all', 34% 'somewhat' and 57% think 'very'

Desire for the U.S. to maintain its supremacy in the sciences is still very high despite (gestures everywhere).

This coincides with *most* science funding being restored in the next budget. 🧪 #scicomm www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits.
AI poses a grave threat to students' cognitive development.

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

A universal flu vaccine has proved challenging — could it finally be possible? Scientists are deploying an array of technologies that are making a vaccine against all varieties of influenza seem more achievable.

Nature outlines how scientists are deploying an array of technologies that are making a vaccine against all varieties of influenza seem more achievable. #immunosky #medsky 🧪

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Kältebus | Kältehilfe Vom 1. November eines jeden Jahres bis zum darauffolgenden 31. März sucht der Kältebus mit seinem Team nach hilflosen Wohnungslosen und versorgt sie.

Spenden, spenden, spenden, damit es bald neue Kältebusse gibt: www.berliner-stadtmission.de/kaeltebus

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