Mastodawn

"The #GinoGermaniInstitute of #SocialSciences and #StrategicStudies, an #Italian think tank based in #Rome and focused on countering #disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “#Antisemitism and #Russian Active Measures from the #Tsars to #Putin,” authored by researcher #MassimilianoDePasquale.

The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the #Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, #Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via #whitesupremacism) and on the left (via radical #antiZionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal #democracies."

https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/72745

Analysis: Jews Are Still Russia’s Perennial Scapegoats

A new report on antisemitism exploited by Russian propaganda looks into how Russia’s perennial fallback scapegoat – wicked world Jewry – has found new life with the war against Ukraine.

Kyiv Post

Ars Technica News 3d ago

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment https://arstechni.ca/ar2W #socialpsychology #socialsciences #aichatbots #psychology #Science #AI

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.

Ars Technica

Francis Mangion (M) (VR/AR/*)3d ago

Dr. Ruth D. [Diaz] - "I am gutted." #VirtualReality #vr #SocialSciences #Meta #HorizonWorlds

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruthdiazvrcreateconnect_i-am-gutted-there-is-now-a-date-where-everything-activity-7439753099956690944-wPFu?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAAEzXRJUBynsJc71aW-dWqfGb1qB6qdakzSg&utm_campaign=share_via

I am gutted. There is now a date where everything I built in Horizon Worlds will no longer be accessible the way it was built. In VR. June 15th, 2026. I published hundreds of worlds. Therapeutic… | Dr. Ruth D. | 182 comments

I am gutted. There is now a date where everything I built in Horizon Worlds will no longer be accessible the way it was built. In VR. June 15th, 2026. I published hundreds of worlds. Therapeutic environments. Cultural spaces. Community rooms. Experimental art. I closed my private practice to consult with Meta directly on DEI for Horizon. I was inside the machine, and I believed in what we were building. Today's announcement: Horizon Worlds is being ripped from Quest. The VR app, removed. Our worlds, inaccessible. If I want to save anything, I need to manually republish each world as mobile-friendly. Their search engine is so broken I can't even locate all my own creations. I cannot overstate the scale of institutional betrayal this represents. Meta told creators to build. To invest. To belong. They fed us the fantasy that our work would matter inside their ecosystem. Then they gave us a termination date. Not for a feature, but for the entire medium our work was made in. This was not just another app. VR is not a screen. The worlds people built were embodied spaces. Places where people showed up as themselves, sometimes for the first time. Places where people healed. Connected. Became. I learned years ago from one of the original programmers that the app was first called Together. To gather. That was the promise at the root of it. A place where people could find their village by building it with their own hands, shaping their hopes into rooms you could walk through. What Meta has done is shatter that. Not sunset it. Shatter it. Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company Meta to claim transformation. What he has actually done is strip-mine the trust and labor of every creator who took that promise seriously. That should sit on his record permanently. I feel horror. Rage. Grief. Shame. The specific shame of having believed. And underneath all of it: the knowledge that what we built was real, even if the company that housed it never deserved us. To every creator absorbing this today: I see you. Your work mattered. It still does. They just don't get to hold it anymore. | 182 comments on LinkedIn

Site Pouchet du CNRS 4d ago

[APPEL À COMMUNICATION]
« Redécouvrir l’œuvre de Ken Bugul au prisme de l’approche génétique »

Une journée d’étude dédiée à l’écrivaine sénégalaise Ken Bugul se prépare…

Organisée par l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS-ENS) et les universités de Guyane et Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, elle se tiendra :

🗓️ Mercredi 21 janvier 2027
📍 En ligne

Dans cette perspective, les organisateurs lancent un appel à communication et proposent aux contributeurs d’accéder aux archives de l’écrivaine.

⏳ Envoyez vos propositions au plus tard le 1er septembre 2026 : https://chk.me/kihNS8P

Ken Bugul est le nom de plume de l’écrivaine Marietou Mbaye Biléoma, figure majeure de la littérature africaine francophone et de la littérature mondiale, née en 1947 au Sénégal. Elle est particulièrement connue pour sa trilogie autobiographique : Le Baobab Fou (1982), Cendres et Braises (1994) et Riwan ou le chemin de sable (1999) récompensé par le Grand Prix littéraire d’Afrique noire. Toutefois, son œuvre ne s’arrête pas là : huit autres fictions romanesques, publiées entre 2000 et 2022 ont retenu l’attention de la critique et méritent de plus amples analyses.

@cnrs @shs @cnrsshs @feminism @mate_shs_cnrs @ferrandnathali1 @musitelli @labnf @auroreturbiau @estruppi @TheConversationAfrica

#socialsciences #ITEM #CNRS #ENS #UCAD #UG #Feminism #Africa #Literature #reading #livre #research #Harpin #Seye #Riffard #Bobin #Cagnan #Kane #Labrune

Albert Cardona 4d ago

RE: https://wisskomm.social/@dfg_public/116289986098537687

"The *Preparing for Tomorrow* call will fund collaborative research that advances conceptual, empirical, and normative understanding of how societies envision, prepare for, and respond to uncertain futures. It seeks to generate knowledge that supports resilient, inclusive, and forward-looking strategies, and that informs policy and practice at local, national, and international levels."

#society #research #SocialSciences

Scientia 4d ago

Polygraphs Aren’t Very Accurate. Are There Better Options?
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2026/03/25/lie-detection-polygraph-accuracy/
#NewsFeatures #SocialSciences #TechnologyInnovation

Polygraphs Aren’t Very Accurate. Are There Better Options?

Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

Undark Magazine

Scientia 6d ago

Where There’s Wildfire Smoke, There’s Poor Mental Health
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2026/03/23/wildfire-smoke-mental-health/
#NewsFeatures #ClimateChange #HealthMedicine #SocialSciences

Where There’s Wildfire Smoke, There’s Poor Mental Health

Research has increasingly connected wildfire and smoke with worsening mental health, partly due to damage in the brain.

Undark Magazine

Technische Universität München Mar 20

Our university is participating in the new Catalyst GER program which supports research teams that aim to achieve sustainable #societalimpact through a spin-off or other forms of #knowledgetransfer: http://go.tum.de/786235

#socialsciences #entrepreneurship

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Research with greater impact

Not all ideas from the social sciences that have the potential to improve society make it into practice. Through the new Catalyst GER program, the…

Scientia Mar 20

AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children’s Content
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2026/03/20/ai-slop-children/
#NewsFeatures #HealthMedicine #SocialSciences #TechnologyInnovation

AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children's Content

Low-quality, mass-produced video content is alarming child development experts. Few guardrails are in place to stop it.

Undark Magazine

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Claire Barnes Mar 19

Defending his own, he declared that “there was no better preparation for a career in public life than the study of English literature, because it would tell you more about character, relationships, society, joy, sorrow, emotion and intelligence than anything else possibly could.” 🧵 7/

#literature #arts #humanities #SocialSciences