Ray (2019), on #racial #social #systems, has well over 2000 citations because it's an excellent piece of work. Despite that, Ray mistakenly cited a 2016 article by Bracey rather than his 2016 dissertation to make a point about #Evangelicals and cited Zakrison et al. (2017) to make a point about the #NRA despite it not mentioning the NRA. Curious how many people will now cite these two papers for the wrong reasons (without reading them) as a result
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Large language models are proficient in solving and creating emotional intelligence tests
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00258-x
Research examined whether LLMs can solve and generate performance-based emotional intelligence tests. Results showed that ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-o1, Gemini 1.5 flash, Copilot 365, Claude 3.5 Haiku, and DeepSeek V3 outperformed humans on five standard emotional intelligence tests, achieving an average accuracy of 81%, compared to the 56% human average reported in the original validation studies.
"Notably, all LLMs performed more than one standard deviation above the human mean, with ChatGPT-o1 and DeepSeek V3 exceeding two standard deviations above the human mean. The LLMs also exceeded human performance in each of the five EI tests individually, with large effect sizes"
Hello Community #testedbysev again
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Yes.
Journalists could do well to catch up with #SocialScience research guidance.
[We've only known about this for -years-.]
First Draft · A guide to prebunking: a promising way to inoculate against misinformation
THIS WEEK's #CPCCGWebinar 
Anna Tarrant will discuss findings from the #UKRI -funded Following Young Fathers Further study on how young #fathers navigate their romantic and #intergenerational #relationships over time in the context of early #parenthood.
Register: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/919/CPC_CG_Webinar__Anna_Tarrant
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“Fathers contribute to #childcare but mothers — even those who work outside the home — are much more likely to handle the difficult jobs that get in the way of a regular working day and need to be done at a specific time," says Bernice Kuang in The Times: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/flexible-hours-trap-mothers-into-doing-more-parenting-gmp095wd2
The Times · Flexible hours ‘trap’ mothers into doing more parenting
My friend, @Yehuda, made an excellent observation recently about misusing terms.
Please, do not use “digital native” to describe kids who grew up with internet access. This only serves to confuse and demean words of their meanings.
Thanks!
#Indigenous #Native #SocialMedia #SocialScience #Journalism #Writing #Articles
If you try to post this on Facebook, FB will put your comment/post in moderation. [This happened to me and others in a FB group.] So I am posting here.
American Government: Constitutional Foundations: Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
Free course from Harvard.
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/american-government-constitutional-foundations
#USConstitution #Harvard #OpenAccess #SocialScience #PoliticalScience
Harvard University · American Government: Constitutional Foundations | Harvard UniversityLearn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
New #wjds paper published:
Author Xin Ye explores how online platforms use manipulative, attention-grabbing tactics that undermine user autonomy. Current #EU laws fall short - this study offers 3 key policy fixes.
Read more: https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.3.2
The paper is part of a special issue on "Well-being in the Digital World"
@dougaparry #DarkPatterns #AddictiveDesign #TechEthics #DigitalRights #PlatformRegulation #GDPR #DSA #research #law #socialscience #computerscience
Computational Models in Psychiatry: Simulating the Mind’s Intricate Processes
#ComputationalPsychiatry #Neuroscience #SocialScience #Genetics #Epigenetics #MachineLearning #MentalHealth #BrainScience #StressResearch #NeuralNetworks #SocialBehavior #Immunology #FutureOfScience #MindAndBody
https://www.europesays.com/uk/119512/ Manchester becomes a Policing Academic Centre of Excellence #Britain #criminology #England #FacultyOfHumanities #GreatBritain #Headlines #HumSoss #humanities #HumanitiesLocal #Manchester #SocialScience #SoSS #SoSSNews #TopBanner #topbanner #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfManchester
https://www.europesays.com/uk/110995/ Scientists discover 3-eyed sea predator from 506 million years ago; it used to fly underwater #ArtsAndScience #bsc #Class10 #ComputerScience #DataScience #ncert #PoliticalScience #Science #ScienceClass10 #SocialScience #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhatIsScience #wildlife
What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.
https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6
#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork
NEW PAPER
#Childcare tasks that interfere with the workday (staying home with ill #children, dressing children, dropping children at #school/#childcare) are more often done by #mothers BUT #flexiblework for #fathers can help address the imbalance
A review and critique of J. D. Unwin’s Sex and Culture.
https://gab.com/CharlesSynyard/posts/114493199802580690
Available from Imperium Press!
https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/sex-and-culture/
Used just about every character but fit my review in one post. This was honestly an immense cause of stress and I’m glad to be done with. #JDUnwin #SexAndCulture #EdwardDutton #ImperiumPress #sex #culture #society #ethics #anthropology #socialscience #marriage #monogamy #pluralmarriage #polygyny #polygamy #books
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"Conventional educational strategies in combatting post-truth seem to emphasize merits of truth, evidence, and reason. Such focus misses key elements of the post-truth era. It ignores the political dynamics that engulf science as well as the antiscience campaign that is deliberately carried out and amplified in the public domain. Post-truth demands a cultural shift in science education to ensure that sociological and political contexts of science are explicitly taught and understood."
Easier and more plausible with delivery of some remedial education in relevant #SocialScience-- for the educators themselves.
#PostTruth
#Misinformation
#ScienceEducation
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adx5458?af=R
The Weizenbaum Report 2025 is now available in English. The study features key figures on political participation in Germany, showing that 2024 was a year marked by protest. At the same time, the upper middle class is retreating from social engagement.
@freieuniversitaet @WZB_Berlin @tuberlin @CAISnrw @zevedi @unipotsdam @FOKUSpublic
@ECDF @HumboldtUni #research #media #socialmedia #socialscience
Are there approaches to modelling systemic physical climate risks that are not based on neoclassical economic modelling?
Here's a podcast that I have listened to twice now, originally released in April 2022, that provides interesting insight into the personalities that are drawn to authoritarianism.
#authoritarian #authoritarianism
#humanbehaviour #socialscience
#curiosity
CBCWho's drawn to fascism? Postwar study of authoritarianism makes a comeback | CBC RadioA groundbreaking study conducted in the wake of the Second World War by a group of scholars rocked the academic world when it was published in 1950 — but fell out of favour. Now a new generation of scholars is reviving the lessons of The Authoritarian Personality to understand the politics of our time.
How do recommendation algorithms shape science content on social media? Weizenbaum scholars Clarissa Walter & Sascha Friesike have investigated this question in a two-year ethnography at a German Public Broadcast Service.
Read their paper via JCom: https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2402_2025_A02/
JCOM - Journal of Science Communication · Behind the Screens: How Algorithmic Imaginaries Shape Science Content on Social MediaBased on an ethnography of the development and production of science YouTube videos – a collaboration between a German public broadcaster and social science scholars – we identify three intermediary steps through which recommendation algorithms shape science content on social media. We argue that algorithms induce