“We synthesize emerging evidence that a tiny number of highly active users drives a disproportionate share of misinformation and toxicity, and explain how platform incentives reward moralized, identity-salient, and emotionally charged content.”
I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026:
Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org
The closest was the English teacher who had them annotate their reading, but never connected it conceptually to note taking.
Turns out when his middle (and HS) teachers were saying "we do notes" they meant "we are handing out the power point slides. NO ONE had taught and consistently enforced writing down key points, grouping them by topic, and summarizing them.
During the pandemic, we started to have our middle school student take Cornell notes. But the teachers said, "no need, we teach them notes".
Fast forward to HS and he's failing biology because he doesn't know how to listen to a topic and summarize it in notes
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Sociology is just psychology at scale.
Psychology, neuroscience at scale.
Neuroscience, chemistry at scale.
And if neurochemistry has in-built competing circuits as a type of feedback control. Would completing sociological factions be implementation of the same?
The durian, often called the king of fruit, is very popular in Indonesia and Malaysia, where it is native. I love them, and ate many when I lived there. But there is some controversy over its smell.
Even delegating web search to 'AI' could be problematic 👉 'GPT-4o’s default behaviour is to recycle a narrow pool of once-trusted, always-trusted web sources'
BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.
After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.
Now, the states have won.
I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap
I travelled 27 hrs, fought endless visa issues to give this talk for our award-winning paper at #CHI2026.
Your turn to show up 📍 P1, Room 112, Apr 15 (Wed), 12 noon. But why?
I wish the didn't impact every knowledge worker. Sadly, it does, and we need to talk about it.
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Are you ready?
The CFP, call for volunteers, Pros vs. Joes Registration, and room block are all open. Finally, registration is now officially open too.
Full details online: https://bsideslv.org/
Join us August 3-5, 2026.
The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...
I know this isn’t funny but it made me laugh…
🥁New paper!
People talk a lot about skills in relation to technological change, but how do we measure skills?
We show occupational classifications miss their complexity. Using millions of job ads, we model skill profiles and better explain wage inequality ⬇️
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Cleaning out some old storage and stumbled onto this classic gem by Maciej Cegłowski, aka Pinboard.
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“Two figures showing a pencil drawn map with points A and B and a mountain range. On the left, the mountain range is in between points A and B. On the right, the part containing the mountain range has been cut out, showing the author’s desk through the hole cut in the map.” Figure 12 in: van de Braak, L., van Rooij, I., Dingemanse, M., Toni, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2025). Understanding misunderstanding: How quick-fix solutions undermine explanation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17152893
New preprint from the lab!
🗣️ 🤔 💻 🗺️
📝 van de Braak, van Rooij, Dingemanse, Toni & Blokpoel (2025). Understanding misunderstanding: How quick-fix solutions undermine explanation. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 📝
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Absolutely!
#BookSky
A big splash in the ocean under the three red and white parachutes
Splashdown!
Welcome home, Integrity.
My concern is that this effectively raises the security poverty line. cc infosec.exchange/@wendynather
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸
We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.
The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇
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Hey y'all, who are the philosophers on here thinking about AI?
![Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreicsf2kngfhvnbuq3xv3ywkavmqebetspzequuwsgndbpsknzbmwge)
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]
The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine
