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BJPolS abstract about electoral integrity in the United States discusses voters' responses to anti-democratic behavior, partisan attachments, and the implications for democracy and party dynamics.

NEW -

How Violations of Electoral Integrity Undermine Partisan Attachments - https://cup.org/4rkKiPC

- @aarslew.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

İBB davasında görülmemiş tensip zaptı: Tutukluluk devam kararında yapay zekâ kullandığı iddia edildi; müştekiler sırasına “Kamu oğlu, 1980 doğumlu, Kamu Hukuku” yazıldı
t24.com.tr/gundem/ibb-d...

Today, Ekrem Imamoglu stands trial on the most Kafkaesque allegation of establishing a " criminal organisation for illicit gain." The most threatening political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan allegedly sought, through this purported network, +

Invisible inequality moment: my poster was accepted to #aps2026 in barcelona, but there has not been a visa appointment in their system until the end of May. This is systematic with all schengen countries. It’s not only time and money- this is humiliating.

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

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"Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Macbeth: SHIT

Me to my manuscript after 3 desk rejects:

Why are many academics still ok signing with Brockman (or his agency)? Many are oblivious to the Brockman-Epstein link (despite the 2019 articles above).

It’s still not widely known.

So let’s change that.

If you or someone you know is planning a popular book, don’t go with the Brockman agency.

How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits The Edge Foundation runs what has been called the “world’s smartest website” and held annual “billionaires’ dinners.” It was also financed by Jeffrey Epstein and gave him access to elite circles in sc...

Academics:
If you’re trying to make sense of how people you know knew Epstein, it’s book agent John Brockman. He’s savvy enough to lay low, but we should be talking about him.

Friends don’t let friends sign with Brockman.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...

And

newrepublic.com/article/1548...

Reminds me of this. That's exactly how I felt as I read this.
bsky.app/profile/kare...

Every "smart" woman in academia: "Yeah, right."
There's a way in which we have to network but not too much because you never know, dress nice but not too nice because you know...
Never mind that he is exchanging these emails with someone convicted of CHILD PROSTITUTION at the time. Yeah right.

Wow, Duke University just closed the Center for Advanced Hindsight:

Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University

Imagination in bonobos!

I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org

We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative

youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

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Solidarity With Palestinians in Germany and the United Kingdom: The Distinctiveness of Beliefs, Emotions, and Attitudes for Third-Party Solidarity in Democratic, Yet Issue-Specific Repressive Contexts
New from @schreiber-julia.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths? Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full...

“She was my daughter for 29 years – it’s impossible she jumped from that height."

Hundreds of women are recorded in Turkish state data every year as committing suicide by 'throwing themselves from a high place.' But did they all jump– or were they pushed?

Reporting with @berileski.bsky.social

From: Larry Summers < To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:54:40 +0000 Jamaica very good Kids great though tired of some of their admiration for Bernie sanders. How ru? Sent from my iPad

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

My peppers are now red, tomatoes and basild are thriving, but still no news from reviewer 3… Academia is truly a dopamine deprivation tank

“Why do both economically advantaged and disadvantaged voters sometimes converge in their support for conservative parties? ... Because inequality is inherently relational, its political implications arise not only from the objective distribution of resources but from ... themselves and others"

all the proud maga isolationists now hastily adding an S to their AMERICA FIRST signs

Not like it was working so great when the Democrats were helping Israel commit genocide.

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

Three images, the top is of an elderly white man holding a blue knitted item, the second and third showing small penguins in colourful sweaters

A few years ago...Australia’s oldest man knitted tiny sweaters for penguins injured in oil spills.....
( Just ths once.... #MensArt ;) )

Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why.

Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And more below 👇

Presented my work on collective mental time travel at MiS Lab at MEF University. Hope to share the published version soon, and thanks to the wonderful audience!