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Tabea Naujoks @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social · 5h

📢 Call for Papers 📢
Excited to co-edit a Special Issue on “Time Use and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Europe” in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS)!
We invite submissions using time-use data to advance research on family life across Europe.
🔗 www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 5h

I don't look forward to all of this go bust

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

www.youtube.com

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Gwendolyn Mingham @alsogwenny.bsky.social · 7h

has this been done yet

[Two people shaking hands, man in polo shirt wearing a red cap, another holding a rainbow coloured sign with text "realTM scienceTM Against postcolonial & queer studies". Behind them, a line of people in handcuffs]

Polo Shirt Man: We did it! We finally outlawed postcolonial & queer studies. Thanks for your help!

T Shirt Man: Happy to be of service!

Panel 2
[Close up of T Shirt Man]
T Shirt Man: So, who are we going after next?

Panel 3
[Close up of Polo Shirt Man solely in frame staring at T-Shirt Man]

Panel 4
[Close up of T Shirt Man]
T Shirt Man: I said who's next?

Panel 5
[Close up of Polo Shirt Man smiling slightly more]

Panel 6
[Close up of T Shirt Man looking more concerned]
T Shirt Man: Who...

Panel 7
[Close up of Polo Shirt Man smiling even more]

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 7h

Das Bundesinnenministerium will frühere Vornamen und Geschlechtseinträge im Melderegister speichern. Fachverbände schlagen Alarm: Für Menschen, die ihre Daten ändern ließen, steige damit das Risiko, auch in Zukunft diskriminiert zu werden.

netzpolitik.org/2025/selbstb...

Selbstbestimmungsgesetz: Wie eine neue Verordnung zur Bedrohung für Betroffene wird

Das Bundesinnenministerium will frühere Vornamen und Geschlechtseinträge zeitlich unbegrenzt im Melderegister speichern. Fachverbände schlagen Alarm: Für Menschen, die ihre Daten ändern ließen, steige...

netzpolitik.org

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 7h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 10h

Deutsche wenn von oben die Anweisung kommt Sie sollen eine Liste mit Namen machen:
„Das wird schon so seine Richtigkeit haben!“

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

„Die taz sprach mit mehreren Mitarbeiter*innen aus dem Mittelbau der Universität, die lieber anonym bleiben wollten. Eine Person sagte der taz: „Ich war schockiert über Kollegen, die Listen mit Namen und Projekten durchgegeben hatten“. 🤡🙃

taz.de/!6116589

AfD hetzt gegen Hochschulen: Angriff auf die Freiheit der Wissenschaft

Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.

taz.de

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes being able to understand German truly is a curse

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 22h

Unzählige internationale Organisationen und Zeug:innen dokumentieren das unbeschreibliche Leid in Gaza, aber in Deutschland denkt man sich zuhause vorm Bildschirm „die sehen gar nicht so mager aus“. An welchem Grad an Entmenschlichung sind wir angekommen, wenn so etwas Teil des Diskurses ist

Miriam Vollmer @miriamvollmer.bsky.social · 1d

Zumindest auf den Bildern im Netz wirken die Palästinenser ja nicht besonders mager. Gab es da denn jetzt eine Hungersnot oder war das gelogen?

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 1d

Very glad to see this published, congratulations! It's been in the works for a couple of years, right?

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

That West German motherhood penalty 🥲

Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 2d

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 2d

If those economists could read what sociologists write they'd be very upset

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

“if you comply, there’s nothing to fear” is perhaps not the most comforting messaging coming from a German politician

Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 2d

Autoritäre Verhältnisse sind auch solche, in denen jemand im Social-Media-Team denkt: Das ist doch ein super Zitat, damit sollte die Sache für alle vernünftigen Menschen vom Tisch sein.

Zitatkachel der SPD mit dem Bas-Zitat "Wer mitmacht, der hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten."

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Or Tuttnauer @ortuttnauer.com · 2d

I’ll do 4 words in one (German):

Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

(Look it up)

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 2d

I also use the Thames model for my papers - a steady but slowly increasing amount of effort untuil I am halfway through, where my work experiences drastic highs and lows, until completion, where they merge in the great literature sea.

Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 5d

Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...

THAMES mnemonic for reading science:

T
Theory
•What BIG IDEA is the focus?

H
Hypothesis
•What SMALLER IDEA is actually getting tested?

A
Assumptions &
Alternatives
•What needs to be true to connect T:H?
•What else could explain results/predictions?

M
Methods:
Measures & Manipulations
•Were methodological tools validated?
•Evidence that we’re measuring/manip what’s claimed?

E
Evidence &
Ethics
•Are claims calibrated to EVIDENCE? Is EVIDENCE appropriate?
•ETHICALLY sound in practice/intent/implication/application?

S
Sampling
Statistical Model
•Who was studied? Who are claims about?
•Do stat results match verbal ideas?

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 5d

Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing that another round of austerity and punitive workfare reform can't fix

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7d

German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters on.ft.com/4q2iwIm

German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters

Weak August data raises risk of Eurozone’s biggest economy falling back into technical recession

on.ft.com

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 3d

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 6d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 4d

Busting out the Daihatsus to heal the TL.

A Midget II in front of a Ford F350 brodozer

A race-prepped Midget II. Grrrr... *bites a Porsche's ankle*

A bunch of Midget IIs racing in a Best Motoring video. They all have samurai-style banners.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 5d

In other news: Sylvan Adams is no longer partner to Factor & Premier Tech, meaning for the 2026 season Israel-Premier Tech will no longer be the team name. New name has yet to be announced, but might just be Premier Tech as they've been racing or Factor-Premier Tech, kinda like Lidl-Trek

🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 19d

Yo no, you know what? Hell yeah to Factor bikes saying "Fuck you, we're not Boeing" to IPT

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