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Gonzalo Rivero
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griverorz.bsky.social
Es muy triste ver que el CIS se ha convertido en un citation farm.
Primeras entradas en la bibliografía de un informe del CIS que repite el mismo estudio en múltiples idiomas.
September 26, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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May 31, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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zeitzoff.bsky.social
Excited to share my new paper w/ @janzilinsky.bsky.social that's conditionally accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🎉

Is there a general "anti-technology" orientation among Americans? We built a scale and found that worries about social media, AI, and modernity do form a coherent disposition.
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and the Politics of Anti-Technology Jan Zilinsky Technical University of Munich Institute of Experimental Psychology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences Thomas Zeitzoff American University Abstract The growth of new digital technology, in particular new forms of communication and ar- tificial intelligence, has raised questions about technology’s role in society. Critics argue that it has increased hate speech, polarized the electorate, reduced deliberation, and coarsened the discourse. Others have emphasized the democratizing potential of tools facilitating col- lective action and enabling broader exchange of ideas. To better understand citizens’ general orientation towards technology, we develop a new anti-technology scale and test it on two diverse samples of Americans. Our scale measures three distinct areas of anti-technology attitudes: 1) attitudes towards social media, 2) attitudes towards artificial intelligence, and 3) concerns about modernity. We show that these areas form a general latent anti-technology orientation. We then show that this general anti-tech orientation predicts attitudes towards technology policies and support for contentious actions against tech companies. Finally, we use a pairwise comparison experiment to understand which pro- and anti-AI arguments are most persuasive.
May 29, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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scottlincicome.bsky.social
"When the ruler is made of the thing it measures: Multi-model evidence on AI occupational exposure scores" cepr.org/voxeu/column...
"The share of US occupations classified as ‘high direct exposure’ to AI differs widely, ranging from 2.7% to 51.5% depending on the model used."
May 14, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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johngramlich.bsky.social
NEW from @pewresearch.org: Do AI and bogus respondents threaten the future of polling?
Q&A: Do AI and bogus respondents threaten polling’s future?
Courtney Kennedy, vice president of methods and innovation, answers some common questions about the current polling landscape in the U.S.
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May 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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berto.eurosky.social
Hoxe ás 21h estarei no programa Lambóns Dixitais da Radio Galega falando sobre o meu traballo en SteamOS, grazas a @marcusfernandez.bsky.social que tivo a amabilidade de me convidar.
April 28, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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yiqingxu.bsky.social
1/🧵 A major update to our paper: "Scaling Reproducibility" w/ Leo Yang [Cross-posted from X]

We move beyond reanalyzing a single design to (almost) full-paper replication!

Paper: bit.ly/repro-ai
March 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee.

Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code.

No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.
Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered
As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...
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March 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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masnick.com
This is odd. Chapter 3 of the World Happiness Report, which appears to be weakly sourced and full of questionable claims says social media is bad for kids. But Chapter 4... is a deep dive look at 3 separate meta studies finding that the research pretty clearly finds no evidence to support that.
blakestacey.myatproto.social Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · Mar 19
OK, can somebody ask Jonathan Haidt why the first citation in the second endnote in his "World Happiness Report" chapter about the evils of social media is an irrelevant article, and why the second is a Substack post that doesn't link to a study?

files.worldhappiness.report/WHR26_Ch03.pdf
files.worldhappiness.report
March 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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aecoppock.bsky.social
New paper with Don Green and @ethanvporter.bsky.social in the QJPS. After much deliberation, we went with a title that just states the result. 📝

journal: www.emerald.com/qjps/article...
abstract: While attempts to change Americans’ partisanship via persuasive treatments largely fail, partisanship can and does change over time. In this paper, the authors first confirm, via survey and field experiments, that typical campaign messaging in the United States does not budge partisanship. The authors then present experiments in which participants encounter extraordinary hypothetical scenarios (e.g. one party causes economic collapse) before reporting what their partisanship would be under such circumstances. Twelve percent of partisans imagine switching parties in the pro-out-party hypothetical conditions, compared with 5% in the control hypotheticals in which the status quo persists, for a seven-percentage point (SE 1.5 points) difference. These hypothetical shifts are on par with the largest changes in American macropartisanship ever recorded. While the act of ruminating on hypothetical scenarios is not followed by changes in partisanship measured post-treatment, the evidence suggests that extraordinary world events may be able to shift partisan affiliation.
March 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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pessimistsarc.bsky.social
“Persons who listen to the radio from dawn to dusk suffer from the disease 'radio perpetuum', a slow but sure softening of the brain” - The Cincinnati Enquirer, 1943
March 15, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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fmgbsky.bsky.social
What do academic researchers and traffic cops have in common? They all work at intersections.

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March 15, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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lemonde.fr
Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans
Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans
Ce théoricien, qui n’hésitait pas à intervenir dans le débat public, fut un des premiers à harmoniser la tradition analytique anglo-saxonne, axée sur la logique et la langue, et la tradition continentale, centrée sur les idées.
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March 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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mchow.com
New Great Tables post: recreating SEPTA timetables in Python!

I'm a big fan of how transit networks display timetables, so @richmeister.bsky.social and I reproduced one by SEPTA! It was a quick experiment, and still a bit rough, but fun to try w/ Great Tables.

posit-dev.github.io/great-tables...
March 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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zeitzoff.bsky.social
My first post on my new Peace & Violence Substack:

“What Makes Them Tick: Why I Study Psychology & Political Violence”

zeitzoff.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What Makes Them Tick
Why I Study Psychology & Political Violence
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March 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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cpaxton.bsky.social
Easily one of the top charts of all time
February 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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awmercer.bsky.social
Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.
Survey Associate, Methodology
Pew Research Center Organization Overview Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts publi...
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February 24, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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nvondarza.bsky.social
Amazing chart with horrible acronyms - for the first time in my living memory, unemployment in Northern Europe and Southern Europe seems to have converged. Seemed unthinkable during the Eurozone crisis.
Chart from Economist on unemployment in Southern and Northern Europe since 2005 now converging.
January 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival.

My new post:
Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading
Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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johngramlich.bsky.social
Attention undergrads! @pewresearch.org has more than a dozen paid internships for rising juniors and seniors this summer in Washington, DC.

Find more info here: www.pewresearch.org/about/intern...

Apply here: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
Internships
Our 2026 summer internship program will be open to applications January 16-February 11, 2026. Our paid summer internship program is a learning and
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January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org!
- religion
- digital
- social trends
- data journalism
- global
- news
- internet
- AI
- admin
- race
- science
- methods
- politics

Apply soon!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science. Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it. Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available) Education/Training/Experience College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag
January 17, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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jordimunoz.bsky.social
I will be teaching a short course on survey experiments at the @recsm.bsky.social winter school. More information: www.upf.edu/web/survey/2...
January 7, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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awmercer.bsky.social
Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience
Data Archivist
Position Summary Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessib...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM