Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Markus Appel

Quasi-scribbled image, with vague image of rectangular-headed figure with wide open eyes and anxious expression

Quasi-scribbled image, with vague image of rectangular-headed figure with wide open eyes and anxious expression

Rashid Johnson, Untitled (Anxious Man), 2018 whitney.org/collection/w...

4 weeks ago 210 41 9 10
Ki-generierte Version

Ki-generierte Version

Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde

Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt.
Was für ein irres Projekt
Z.B.

1 month ago 2441 867 103 105
Preview
Can fictional stories beat the congeniality bias? Selective exposure to fiction and non-fiction Abstract. People prefer attitude-consistent information over attitude-inconsistent information (congeniality bias). Connecting theory on the processing of

New in HCR: @markusappel.bsky.social et al. (2025) show that congeniality bias persisted regardless of fiction vs. non-fiction labeling, emerging for positive portrayals but not for negative ones, with non-fiction slightly preferred overall.

Read the full article: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

1 month ago 2 2 0 0
Post image

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

1 month ago 390 123 25 29
Preview
Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board US president calls for removal of Susan Rice as streaming platform pursues takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

The latest freedom-loving impulse from the people who cry about "censorship" when Europeans oppose AI-generated child pornography:

1 month ago 16 10 0 1
Post image

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.

2 months ago 224 42 9 4
Post image

New article in Nature describes a field experiment on X which shows that assigning users to an algorithmic feed pushes conservative content and demotes mainstream news.

Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes.

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

2 months ago 79 33 1 2
Preview
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...

2 months ago 68 30 4 4
Part 1: How do LLMs work?
Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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.

2 months ago 498 193 20 18
Advertisement
Preview
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

3 months ago 47 20 1 5

Great thread. Definitely worth reading!

3 months ago 1 2 0 0
Preview
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...

3 months ago 69 22 7 4
Post image
4 months ago 3618 1484 60 95
Preview
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."

4 months ago 3878 1667 130 91
Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video)
Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video) YouTube video by Floating Points

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

5 months ago 41 4 0 0
Preview
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...

5 months ago 2 2 1 0

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

6 months ago 14 7 0 0

📣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 👇

6 months ago 8 3 0 1
Post image

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

6 months ago 8 6 0 1
Advertisement
Preview
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

7 months ago 77 103 3 9

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

7 months ago 71 50 2 4
Preview
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...

7 months ago 39 48 0 5
Video

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.

7 months ago 1408 287 16 40
Preview
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...

9 months ago 15 5 1 0
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...

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

10 months ago 839 464 20 61
Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field

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...

10 months ago 28 29 1 3
Preview
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...

11 months ago 4 2 1 0
Debunking “Both-Sideology” for the Sake of Democracy and Social Science | SPSP Conservative-rightists in the U.S. are more prejudiced, less democratic, and more violent than liberal-leftists.

@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...

1 year ago 8 6 2 2

🚀 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...

1 year ago 51 26 3 3
Advertisement
GESIS Workshop
Design and Methods for Mobile Data Collection
31 March to 02 April 2025 | Online
Lukas Otto (GESIS)

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

1 year ago 13 11 0 1