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Happy start of the Berlin (German?) Vorlesungszeit to all who celebrate :) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social

I'm going to take that as a compliment

Call for Nominations: #Editor-in-Chief, Communication Methods and Measures #CMM

Nominations & self-nominations welcome!

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This is a very good paper and you should all read it. However, to this part, I want to reply with Arthur Spirling: "Open generative AI models are a way forward for science" (doi.org/10.1038/d415...).

Seriously, please don't default to sending students and other researchers to closed models.

love it.

In knapp zwei Wochen, am 30.3., endet die Einreichungsfrist für unsere Tagung „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“ am 16.–18.9.2026 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! #CfP #digikomm2026

Foto-Collage, Text "Ein gemeinsamer Erfolg.": Oben links: Dr. Timo Torsten Schmidt mit einem Gehirn-Modell aus dem 3D-Drucker, das im Rahmen des Projekts „Print your brain“ entstanden ist, das Projekt ist am „Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin“ angesiedelt | Bernd Wannenmacher Oben rechts: Studierende auf dem FU Campus | Michael Fahrig Unten links: Gruppenfoto SCRIPTS – Contestations of the Liberal Script: Der Exzellenzcluster erforscht Anfeindungen liberaler Gesellschaftsentwürfe und die Resilienz demokratischer Staaten Unten mittig: Campus der FUBerlin, Bernd Wannenmacher Unten rechts: Prof. Dr. Katharina Franke Ko-Sprecherin des Clusters Center for Chiral Electronics und Universitätspräsident Ziegler | Stephan Töpper

Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie 🎉
Mit großem Einsatz haben viele FU-Angehörige die BUA in den vergangenen Jahren mitgestaltet.
„Ihr Einsatz und Ihre Kreativität haben entscheidend zu diesem Meilenstein beigetragen“, sagt FU-Präsident Günter M. Ziegler. „Dafür danke ich Ihnen allen sehr herzlich!“

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Moving forward together. 🤝 Die #BerlinUAlliance wird weiter gefördert – und startet mit „Beyond Boundaries“ in die nächste Phase. 🚀 Der vollständige Antrag ist jetzt online einsehbar: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/excellence-s...

Acknowledgements and disclosures Disclosure: Ironically, no AI tools were used in the writing of this article.

Interesting overview by @solmg.bsky.social and @jatucker.bsky.social on what is going on with agentic AI in social since: www.brookings.edu/articles/the... Also this hidden gem at the end :D

screenshot of the website "rückmeldung zum promotionsvorhaben". Includes a captcha in which the supervisor has to select all cars

Has Charité a problem with bot PhD supervisors? Or is finding all the cars the minimal requirement for supervision?

Oh hey, I am on this list. 🤩 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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Babyjoy LIVE @ splash! Festival 2024 YouTube video by splash!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJD...

Happy last week of the Berlin Vorlesungszeit to everyone who celebrates. You almost made it through 16 weeks

Map of bsky accounts with a cluster "German-speaking communication researchers"

A closer look at the cluster with some account names visible.

Nobody uses this anymore but now I at least know that I would mostly see German communication research if anyone every posted something: bluesky-map.theo.io

Sad :'(

attention ever who wants to travel to @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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...

You should all absolutely read this paper by @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Miriam Siemon.

Super example for the value of descriptive research. Also very nice presentation

Read this paper, it's good

Don't know anything about the presentation, but amazing title chart

Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26

so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices

Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)

Pic of adventskranz and drinks

this is true, and truly sad :(

Ho Ho Ho, Ihr Forschungsdatenzentrum des Statistischen Bundesamts

Ho Ho Ho, Your Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office

Best holiday letter received until now