Dennis Nigbur

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Social psychology professional, amateur mandolin player, football fan. Posting in a personal capacity.

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One more week to apply for these PhD positions in our group.

🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 Looking for two PhD candidates to join the Social and Economic Psychology group (social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at) at the University of Vienna. t.co/nXif41brr1 Please share. 🧵👇 for more information (1/4).

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It was a good School away day at Woolton Barn. Thank you for the good day and hospitality!

Those French waltzes call for button accordion, but this one works surprisingly well on mandolin. youtu.be/YwvPu58OQ6E?...

YouTubeyoutube.com Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

It's great that the new UK government has scrapped the inhumane and ridiculous Rwanda scheme. And yes, perhaps some money can be saved. But the scandal is that the old government ever considered it a vote winner.

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“The environmental impacts (of AI) have so far received less attention. A single query to an AI-powered chatbot can use up to ten times as much energy as an old-fashioned Google search.” theconversation.com/power-hungry...

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about ittheconversation.com Google, Microsoft and Meta have all reported significant emissions increases due to AI.

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I've also been frustrated the last few weeks trying to find reviewers. People, it's CRITICAL that we help out with reviews! Others review YOUR work! More importantly, it's the *peer review* aspect that makes science science and not simply some rando at the bar venting nonsense.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

Lovely atmosphere at Sandwich Folk & Ale Festival, as usual! Sorry, work. Life is too important.

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French football captain Kylian Mbappé said today it was “urgent” that people vote in France’s election this weekend, calling the first-round results “catastrophic.”

Kylian Mbappé fears ‘these people’ running France as far right shoots for election winwww.politico.eu French football captain calls first-round results ‘catastrophic’ after Marine Le Pen’s big victory.

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“I just feel fortunate to live in a world with so much disinformation at my fingertips.”

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I made a Bluesky "starter pack" for political psychology. Suggests 50 people to follow and 3 feeds go.bsky.app/T2Uc2Bx

political psych starter parkbsky.app Join the conversation

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Activists campaigning for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party were filmed last week making racist and homophobic comments in the very seat Farage hopes to seize in the UK election. He swiftly “disowned” the views of the canvassers. But it was just the tip of the iceberg.

Nigel Farage battles the hard right’s fatal flawwww.politico.eu Europe’s nationalists have often struggled to field a clean sheet of respectable candidates.

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I trust Brits thinking 'it's a foregone conclusion so why bother to vote' are watching events in France and the US. It is *never* a foregone conclusion and you *always* have to vote against the bad people because they will sure as shit vote against you.

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EdTech is where higher education institutes, government bodies & tech corps are pushing AI so hard yet with no evidence of the benefits (plenty of evidence against it). this report is another evidence that should caution all pushing AI into education to just STOP and evaluate the evidence

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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Episodic framing - that is focusing on single events- rather than on the context, together with sensationalisation are characteristic of modern journalism but not necessarily the most informative ways to convey information

Media psychologists like @coensharon.bsky.social are in a better position to comment, but treating events like Biden losing his thread or Trump boasting about golf as if they were representative of a pattern doesn't seem right. The hermeneutic circle teaches us to connect parts and whole.

If you want to comment on the US presidential debate, it makes sense to watch it in full. YouTube makes it possible. Some of the media comments I've read suggest that the commentators haven't followed the whole thing. www.youtube.com/live/-v-8wJk...

CNN Presidential Debate: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trumpwww.youtube.com President Joe Biden and his predecessor, former President Donald Trump meet in the key battleground state of Georgia for their first debate of the 2024 elect...

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🚨 Job Alert 🚨 Post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK, working on a project looking at the Distributed Peer Review of applications for research funding. Apply by 7th July 2024 #MetaSci #Psychology #UKUnis #AcademicSky

Research Associate at University of Sheffieldwww.jobs.ac.uk Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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"Labour has acknowledged that higher education is in crisis and that the party would act to secure its future. There is, though, no commitment on tuition fees, university grants or international students in the Labour manifesto." #UKUnis #HigherEd #AcademicSky

University funding is in crisis – and none of the political parties have a clear plan to fix ittheconversation.com Resolving the shortfall in university funding would require increasing tuition fees, government grants or international students, or reducing student places.

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'Six zombie ideas in crowd psychology': - De-individuation - Groupthink - Mass panic - Contagion - The hooligan - Mob mentality blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidenti...

Six zombie ideas in crowd psychology | Crowds and Identities: John Drury's Research Groupblogs.sussex.ac.uk

So to try to watch some of the French Open at Roland Garros, I had to download the Eurosport app, which directs me to the Discovery+ app, which apparently isn't compatible with my device. Watching sport on TV used to be easy.

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The first Polish language encyclopaedia (published 1746) included definitions such as: "Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is." The phrase is still used in Poland to humorously say that there’s no point in discussing obvious things.

40,000 steps in the beautiful Kent countryside this weekend.

We had a great time yesterday afternoon enjoying BBQ, pizza and live music on Anselm Lawn. Thank you to CCCU Chaplaincy for organising!

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i'm so old i remember when we called this shit 'spyware'

Yes, identity is not just about partisanship. And not all leaders are good custodians of the group's values and culture.

Nearly half of U.S. Jews ages 18-34 say Israel’s response to Hamas’ attack has been “unacceptable.” While most traditional Jewish organizations support Israel, many young activists protest against it because of their Jewish identity and values, not in spite of them.

For many American Jews protesting for Palestinians, activism is a journey rooted in their Jewish valuestheconversation.com Jewish activists have been central to protests against how Israel is conducting the war with Hamas, and not just on campuses – the movement goes back decades.

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"The REF Doesn't Make Research Better" "All that assessment, all that bureaucracy, all those millions of words—all a mistake." "England’s universities are now drowning in red tape." #UKUnis #AcademicSky #HigherEd #MetaSci

It turns out the REF doesn’t make research better. Now what? - Research Professional Newswww.researchprofessionalnews.com Put down the bureaucratic cudgels and let universities manage themselves again, says William Cullerne Bown

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As a researcher, I genuinely like what I study (prejudice, intergroup contact etc). I can't imagine doing all this if my heart wasn't in it. If you're not embracing your research, maybe consider redirecting the ship. Ask yourself what WOULD get you excited to study. (if possible) #AcademicSky

Best office ever #Köln #Kölsch

Very nice social meeting with the Society & Environment group to mark the end of undergraduate teaching. Café Amalis had good coffee and pastries in a pleasant setting, and we had a good time discussing work, the world, and everything.