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Musk's Twitter takeover highlights danger of owner-dominated social media platforms
by #JoeStafford #UniversityManchester

"They were never fully democratic, but they rarely supported one political side, and almost never authoritarian groups," said Dr. Magalhães.

Musk's Twitter takeover highlights danger of owner-dominated social media platforms

A new study has suggested that the transformation of Twitter into X under Elon Musk marks the rise of a new, illiberal regime of governing social media platforms, which can be controlled by one person and used to push their own political agenda. Alongside researchers from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Weizenbaum Institute, Dr. João C. Magalhães of The University of Manchester studied more than 1,500 events to track how the platform has changed since Musk acquired it.

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Nico Einsidler Mar 5

A molecule with half-Möbius topology was first put together atom by atom, and then its properties were studied using a #QuantumComputer as an important scientific tool.

– IBM Research Blog Post: https://research.ibm.com/blog/half-mobius-molecule
– Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03516 or https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321

#quantumcomputing #IBMQuantum #IBM #UniversityManchester #UniversityOxford #EPFL @uni_regensburg @altbot

Jan R. Boehnke Sep 11, 2025

New #RegisteredReport out:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-53332-001.html

Trial led by colleagues from #UniversityManchester evaluated the impact of a universal, school-based social-emotional learning intervention on internalizing symptoms and psychosocial outcomes

No potential effects were detected across primary & secondary outcomes (min 95% confidence interval across all d-type effect sizes: -0.13 to 0.11).

#MentalHealth #Schools