of institutions. I argued in the piece below that what really distinguished Fidesz was its counter-market policies of mass-oriented provision.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fidesz also engaged in mass organization beyond occasional outbursts which is the bread and butter of far-rightists 2/
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Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments?
@cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered.
Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS:
doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
Hm, I also didn't get this one, only his and Copilot's new Fünfjahresplan for a robust, theory-based, replicable psychological science...
PM der GdP bebildert mit einem blutenden Polizisten.
GdP Sachsen nutzt KI generierte Bilder für eigene Narrative (Bild via @boschpolforsch.bsky.social). Es ist das erste Mal, dass ich solche Bilder von seriösen Stellen sehe, die Ereignisse so darstellen, dass sie besser ins eigene Bild passen. Das ist nicht gut, der DGB darf hier nicht schweigen!
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We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever
Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.
Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.
Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.
Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.
Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Vielen Dank für die vielen wertschätzenden Rückmeldungen zu unserem #Dlf -Interview mit Carsten #Linnemann . Gibt unserem Team und mir in stürmischen Zeiten wichtigen Rückhalt für unsere Arbeit. 🙏
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
New pub! 📝
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@tijana-et-al.bsky.social
@arothers.bsky.social
New interesting data brief paper about IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Wissenschaftsministerin ein massiver fail. Ideologisch, dumm, und in der Sache so falsch wie im Amt unprofessionell. Anstatt sachlich nüchtern die Professorin vor Diffamierungen & gegen 1 Kampagne zu schützen, wirft sie diese erneut dem geifernden Polit-Mob zum Fraß hin.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Ich gebe euch hiermit offiziell hitzefrei. Ein Retweet reicht und ihr seid rechtlich auf der "sicheren Seite".
Kurz: Die #Grundwasserneubildung💧 kackt vielerorts ab.
👉 Leider halt wieder sone Nachricht, die kaum Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wird, da es ja in den letzten 2 Wochen *etwas* geregnet 🌧 hat.
Und warum auch, geht ja grundsätzlich nur um unsere wichtigste Lebensgrundlage. 🤷♂️
#Dürre #Entwässerung
📣 Excited to share our new preprint:
"Measuring Perceived Structural Constraints on Choice: The Structural Awareness Scale" (SAS)
osf.io/preprints/os...
We developed SAS to capture how people perceive 🧱 structural barriers on their choices in areas such as sustainability or healthy eating.
Gleichfalls!
Attended my first agriculture-focused conference in Leipzig, great place, great talks and such a lovely crowd 🥰
Recognizing the financial pressures many academics experience in these trying times, we have waived the Article Processing Charge for this special issue. Kindly repost.
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.
A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Amöneburg ist eine besondere perle!
Da wurden mir einige nicht anerkannt! Niederweimar Niederwalgern Cyriaxweimar... nur um einige der bedeutendsten zu nennen
Chapeau! Bin jetzt bei 250 aber viel mehr wird es nicht...
Ergebnisse der KoaV-AG „Bildung, Forschung & Innovation“:
Was ist drin für #IchBinHanna? Was unklar? Was fehlt? 1 🧵.
Tl,dr: 1. Eindruck erfreulich, aber 🐘 im Raum – konkrete Ausgestaltung der Postdoc-Phase zur Schaffung langfristiger Perspektiven – wird nicht ausreichend adressiert.
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I don't really get what this research is for. Of course you can't use LLMs in place of humans for social science research. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Markus Söder, Friedrich Merz, Lars Klingbeil und Saskia Esken bei der heutigen Pressekonferenz.
Ich habe in letzter Zeit Gespräche mit Mitarbeitenden der Agentur für Arbeit geführt. Sie schienen alle genervt vom Begriff der „Totalverweigerer“, weil es die praktisch nicht gibt.
Entweder hat niemand dieser Politiker:innen je mit Mitarbeitenden der Ämter gesprochen. Oder sie sagen die Unwahrheit.
It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.