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Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt.
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Can fictional stories beat the congeniality bias? Selective exposure to fiction and non-fiction Abstract. People prefer attitude-consistent information over attitude-inconsistent information (congeniality bias). Connecting theory on the processing of

New in HCR: @markusappel.bsky.social et al. (2025) show that congeniality bias persisted regardless of fiction vs. non-fiction labeling, emerging for positive portrayals but not for negative ones, with non-fiction slightly preferred overall.

Read the full article: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board US president calls for removal of Susan Rice as streaming platform pursues takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

The latest freedom-loving impulse from the people who cry about "censorship" when Europeans oppose AI-generated child pornography:

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.

New article in Nature describes a field experiment on X which shows that assigning users to an algorithmic feed pushes conservative content and demotes mainstream news.

Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Difficult to see this as anything but an execution by a death squad in broad daylight. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Thousands of UK schoolchildren to take part in major study of social media use and teen mental health A trial that will put a daily limit on the social media use of thousands of Bradford teenagers is set to begin this year. It will be the largest study yet to investigate whether use of these online pl...

Professor @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social will co-lead the world’s first major trial to test whether reducing social media use can improve teen mental health.

Find out more about the IRL Trial: https://bit.ly/4a2FZmB

#socialmedia #research

Great thread. Definitely worth reading!

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year

"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."

Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video) YouTube video by Floating Points

Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...

Attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions of artificial intelligence: A population study in Germany Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly affects individuals’ private and professional lives. Importantly, both the acceptance and adoption of new AI…

💡 How do people in Germany perceive Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

In our recent population survey in Germany, we examined attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions regarding AI in work, healthcare, and education.

🔗 Read the full open-access article here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The relationship between income and vote has reversed in the USA.

📣Job alert 📣
11 positions for PhD candidates (100%) open in the RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age"(Wuerzburg). You can apply for 3 areas:
✅ Immersive virtual reality
✅New (Para-)Social Encounters
✅Epistemic challenges
Topics: VR/XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation 👇

We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share

Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

Please share! 🔃

cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
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Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland

Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future

I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.

Erinnerungen: Fotografieren wir zu viel? Dank des Smartphones können wir jeden Moment festhalten. Warum das nicht unbedingt bedeutet, dass wir uns besser erinnern.

We snap photos of everything. But does more documentation mean better memories? 📸📲🤳

Not necessarily. Too many photos can drown out what really matters. Remembering is all about selection.

Talked about this with Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Mediated autobiographical remembering in the digital age: insights from an experimental think-aloud study - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications Autobiographical remembering may undergo significant transformations in the digital age, in which the omnipresence of digital tools has led to an increased density of recorded life episodes. To gain d...

New paper on autobiographical #memory in the #digitalage 🚨

What do individuals do when being asked to remember past events? We show that they repeatedly switch between information stored in their minds and information stored in external resources (e.g., their smartphones) doi.org/10.1186/s412...

@davidryanmiller.com thought you might appreciate this work by @johnjost.bsky.social, which I see as very aligned with what you suggest

spsp.org/news/charact...

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀

Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?

✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

GESIS Workshop Design and Methods for Mobile Data Collection 31 March to 02 April 2025 | Online Lukas Otto (GESIS)

📱 Interested in collecting data with smartphones? Join this #GESISworkshop with @lukotto.bsky.social @gesis.org for a hands-on guide to planning, conducting & analyzing mobile, intensive-longitudinal surveys.

➡️ More info & registration: tinyurl.com/mobiledata25

My fellow communication scientists, can you point to scientific articles about what @techconnectify.bsky.social is concerned about

Some parts I believe relate to @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social & @markusappel.bsky.social's paper, but I know I'm missing other parts
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....