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Bystander Intervention in Response to Toxic Behavior in Online Gaming: A Naturalistic Observational Study While a rapidly growing body of studies have observed bystander intervention in offline aggressions, comparatively little is known about bystander intervention in online gaming settings involving t...

Bystander Intervention in Response to Toxic Behavior in Online Gaming: A Naturalistic Observational Study by @louiseankernexoe.bsky.social & Lasse Suonpera Liebst

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The BIG DUMB WAR CYCLE HAWKS ITCH FOR BATTLE IT WILL BE A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR! 9/11 FALSELY INVOKED I'M SURE THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HIJACKERS. BOOSTERS OF PREVIOUS WAR ALL OVER TV BOMBS AWAY! MILLIONS PROTEST AROUND THE WORLD AND ARE IGNORED THIS WAR IS BUNK TOO PATRIOTISM OF OPPOSITION QUESTIONED SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YOU TRAITOR WAR A BLOODY DISASTER WITHOUT END WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FORMS THAT WAR WAS A MISTAKE, BUT NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE HOW'D WE GET INTO THAT MESS? BEATS ME!

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

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There's so much to opine on so many problems, but I recognize that I should stay in my lane to listen and trust knowledgeable others

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.

Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.

Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.

This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.

It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

Something Bigger Than AI is Happening Pay attention and read every single word please.

This is an excellent essay by Shae Omonijo describing how the decline in critical thinking began long before the recent rise of AI, and that AI is accelerating existing trends.
shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/something-...

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Yeah the privileged classes

The ideological paradox of Technologism Technology has long played a central role in human development since it is a critical driver of societal progress. As such, it would seem likely that …

100% agree
This study by Ashley E. Martin & Shiri Melumad examined how this "technology will solve things or make things better" belief is paradoxically embedded with reproducing the status quo

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exploring the experiences and wellbeing of competitive women, transgender, and gender diverse gamers Video gaming offers various benefits, such as social connections and improved wellbeing. However, as competitive video gaming continues to grow, gender-related harassment of women, transgender, and...

Exploring the experiences and wellbeing of competitive women, transgender, and gender diverse gamers by Cecilie Lolansen, Tyrone L. Burleigh, @drliamcahill.bsky.social & Eden Morley
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can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.

www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...

You can read the letter here: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

"Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're lamenting the loss of critical video investigative journalism bc the biggest sites don't tend to keep around the folks with those skills, have i got done good news for you.

The Economics of Technological Change What history and models can (and can’t) tell us about AI

@pkrugman.bsky.social at his most trenchant. The Economics of Technological Change: What history and models can (and can’t) tell us about AI open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

ONE. THIRD.
and countless lives destroyed because of it.

I have little to say tonight beyond expressing horror and grief at America's latest evil act. But Dayal's point here is worth echoing.

I'm old enough to remember that the war in Iraq had a long build up with an attempt to manufacture a case through the UN.

Here, they just bombed.

ALT: Bar chart comparing official statistics of causes of death to media coverage. Heart disease and cancer have the highest death statistics but lower media coverage. In contrast, terrorism and homicide receive disproportionately high media attention despite lower death statistics. An illustration shows a person with a television for a head, symbolizing media influence. Text notes the disparity in news coverage frequency reflecting actual death causes. Data source is cited from Our World in Data.

Interesting

(via @Visualcapitalist)
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[on a smartphone app, a nude female silhouette in a room] Nudity is degenerate Proof of our moral collapse Western civilization is DOOMED [on a renaissance painting is shown the exact same nude female sihoulette, standing in a seashell filled with falling pink leaves, by the sea] Nudity is beautiful Proof of our cultural superiority Western civilization peaked then

Huang, H.-C. (Brad), & Evans, J. B. (2026). Confront in public, validate in private: Effective male allyship responses to sexist remarks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/pspi...

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

This informational video on enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Council is absolutely glorious.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
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If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

Ban, improve, or ignore? Social Media Regulation from a Communication Research Perspective YouTube video by Prof. Dr. Tobias Dienlin

Title: "Ban, Improve, or Ignore? Social Media Regulation From a Communication Research Perspective".

Last week I gave my inaugural lecture at University of Zurich, @ikmz.bsky.social. Now online on YouTube.

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝

"A Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research “sleuths” and research integrity experts"

@deevybee.bsky.social

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

#ResearchIntegrity
#ResearchSleuths
#ResearchFraud

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0