British etiquette expert shares 5 simple tips for people who think they're 'above small talk'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/people-who-hate-small-talk

"Inoculation" doesn't just work to protect you against diseases. You can also psychologically prime people against persuasive attacks from media — for example, by explaining to people how deepfakes work. Here's more from @TheConversationUS.

https://flip.it/HuORk4

#Psychology #Science #SocialScience #Deepfakes

📚 Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It by: Ellen Jones

An eye-opening and essential look at the discrimination still faced by LGBTQIA+ people today, woven throughout with moving and jaw-dropping personal accounts, plus practical steps anyone can take to help change things...

https://bookblabla.com/book/Outrage-why-the-fight-for-LGBT

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Data and information are never neutral. Seeing Like a State should be required reading for all statisticians, data scientists, and 'if you can't measure it, you can't manage it' cohorts. As I've mentioned before, stats is tossed into maths curricula despite being more about methodology; this talks about historicity.
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_State

#philosopy #socialscience #reading #books #maths #statistics #Enlightenment #perspective #legibility #convenience #critique

This month’s list of consultations & inquiries from the UK’s 4 legislatures & governments that require #socialscience evidence incl. consultations on youth employment, tertiary education in Wales, adult social care & more. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/policy-monit...

A longitudinal analysis revealing that nearly one-third of young people engage in at least one act of physical #aggression toward their parents between ages 11 and 24, with behaviors peaking in early #adolescence
#Psychology #SocialScience #parenting #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/psy02022601.html

Aeon Essays: The yearnings that take young Europeans into the far Right

Junge Europäer schließen sich rechtsextremen Bewegungen weniger aus Unzufriedenheit als vielmehr aus einem tiefen Verlangen nach Glauben und Zugehörigkeit an.

Es geht nicht um das Fehlen von Gemeinschaften an sich ("community hype” in der Soziologie), sondern um eine antiliberale Reaktion auf „extremen Individualismus“.

Aus dem letzten Absatz:

Da soziale Isolation zu einem Problem der öffentlichen Gesundheit wird und als Ursache für die Polarisierung der Gesellschaft angesehen wird, wird die Gemeinschaft von Politikern, Ärzten und Pädagogen gefordert. Handbücher zum erfolgreichen Aufbau einer Gemeinschaft werden zu Bestsellern, und Workshops zum Aufbau von Gemeinschaften werden am Arbeitsplatz obligatorisch. Ironischerweise wird die ideale Gemeinschaft, die als Alternative zur Marktlogik und zum grassierenden Individualismus angesehen wird, zu einem weiteren Produkt, das man kaufen kann, um den individuellen Erfolg zu steigern.

Übersetzt mit DeepL.com (kostenlose Version)

⚠️ Cyberattacks can trigger societal crises, scientists warn

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-cyberattacks-trigger-societal-crises-scientists.html

#security #cyber #technology #socialscience #risks #crisis

#DigitalIndependence #diday for #SocialScience #researchers:

#Rstats #Jamovi #Python <-- #SPSS #Stata

#LibreOffice #LaTeX #Typst editors #Gnumeric <-- #MicrosoftOffice

#CollaboraOnline <-- #GoogleDocs #GoogleWorkspace #Microsoft365

#Zotero <-- #Endnote #Mendeley #Citavi

#ODK #KoboToolbox #LimeSurvey <-- #Qualtrics #SurveyMonkey etc.

#requal #Taguette <-- #MaxQDA #AtlasTI #NVivo

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One of the many reasons I love my sister-in-law and frequently forget that she is married to my brother and not just my cool historian friend: I needed to text her about girl scout cookies and an exchange—impassioned on both sides—about millenariam movements as a rational response to colonialism ensued. #SocialScience #History #Anthropology #Editing

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Yale University: ISPS Launches New Funding Program to Create High-Value Social Science Datasets . “The Institution for Social and Policy Studies has announced a new funding initiative to create high-value datasets for social science research. The new grants will build upon existing ISPS support for research that advances survey methodology, research exploring democratic innovations, as well as […]

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🔖 Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar with Marie Konge Nielsen from the University of Southern #Denmark.

Marie will explore how #nurses from three #generations experience #intergenerational exchange as a foundation for #professionalidentity development.

All welcome to join online - register at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/969/CPC_CG_Webinar__Marie_Konge_Nielsen

#socialscience #demography #population #nursing #nurse #worklife #professionaldevelopment

AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science #surveys – and getting better at avoiding detection. A researcher created a #chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of #socialscience is now under threat: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

AI chatbots are infiltrating s...

“Strengthening electoral integrity in the digital age requires moving beyond reactive, crisis-driven responses and investing in sustained governance frameworks.”

@claraigk spoke with us about the background of the study “Current Challenges in Digital Elections,” the new rules on online campaigning, microtargeting, AI content, and platform duties, and about what steps policymakers should take to protect electoral integrity.

https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/electoral-oversight-and-the-realities-of-digital-campaigning/

#socialscience #research #brazil #elections

So maybe it boils down to hormones: "Will I reproduce?"

Radicalism, extremism, fundamentalism: International study finds numerous commonalities—and certain differences

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-radicalism-extremism-fundamentalism-international-numerous.html

> From a social sciences perspective, people with radical, extremist, or fundamentalist attitudes are similar in some respects: In most cases, they are younger and less educated men who feel that they are not taken seriously enough.

#socialscience #radicalism #extremism #fundamentalism

Ideological bias in the production of research findings

"Does immigration affect public support for social welfare programs? The researchers estimated 1253 alternative regression models, and the estimated impacts ranged from strongly negative to strongly positive. We find that teams composed of pro-immigration researchers estimated more positive impacts of immigration on public support for social programs, while anti-immigration teams estimated more negative impacts."

George J. Borjas, Nate Breznau, Ideological bias in the production of research findings. Sci. Adv.12, eadz7173 (2026). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz7173

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #SocialScience #Bias #Immigration #Academia

Review: Eve: The Beautiful Love-Scientizing Goddess

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/24/review-eve-the-beautiful-love-scientizing-goddess/