Manuel Bruns
@manubtum.bsky.social
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Gen-AI breaks everything, survey research edition.
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Gen-AI breaks everything, survey research edition.
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New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
wesleystubenbord.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
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We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?
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"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."
May 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."
Reposted by Manuel Bruns
Reposted by Manuel Bruns
"Bridging the Generative AI gap" : Jen Schradie @schradie.bsky.social questions the democratic impact of AI in terms of inequalities through an original model and describes the 3 dimensions of what she calls the GenIA gap. www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/is-d...
Is Digital Technology Democratic? The Lastest Issue of
Virality and democracy, the politicisation of news stories, IA and universities: read the second issue.
www.sciencespo.fr
December 5, 2024 at 6:51 PM
"Bridging the Generative AI gap" : Jen Schradie @schradie.bsky.social questions the democratic impact of AI in terms of inequalities through an original model and describes the 3 dimensions of what she calls the GenIA gap. www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/is-d...
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New metascience journal has launched using the publish-review-curate model: preprint is published, reviewed openly then an editor posts assessment. Will be interesting to see if this model, involving editorial oversight, is more successful than the problematic Qeios model, which involves none
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour – a different approach is needed
Peer review is often assumed to guarantee quality, but it doesn’t always work so well in practice.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:06 AM