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Consider yourself in a wildfire, casually enjoying the fire. Breathe. That’ll be a fine particle, aka PM 2.5 #airpollution of ~1000. Translated to the Air Quality Index, it’ll be an #AQI of ~2000. #Delhi recently had an AQI of over 1,700. It’s spiralling. 5 is healthy, 100 dangerous, 300 hazardous.
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20 years of #GoogleScholar, holy cow. It’s all nice and weird but what happens when they pull the plug of this very much neglected project? #google #tech Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
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Devaluation and society are closely entangled – my chapter contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society. This new volume is the result of our valuation studies group, but in a way the book also feels like a tribute to the late Hilmar Schäfer. #waste #sociology #sts
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Die #FDP mit einer billigen Show, die ihr jetzt kosten könnte. Was nun folgt, ist ein Ausbruch des Parteichefs, der bei einigen in der Runde lange nachhallt: Die FDP müsse da raus, die Ampel müsse enden. Er könne diese Fressen einfach nicht mehr sehen, soll Lindner gerufen haben. www.zeit.de/politik/d…
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#Bluesky wächst und wächst. Ihr flieht von #X. No personal information that you submit will be available to any user…specified by…your privacy settings. Das war 2005, #Facebook vs #MySpace. Viele Versprechen. 2024, Bluesky hat als Hauptinvestor “Blockchain Capital”. Wo soll das enden
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Mapping university #data #infrastructure. Last week, we hosted a workshop with our interlocutors. This snapshot is from an analysis session, digging into details and tensions. Using group discussions pays off. And, re: #sustainability, the university has serious structural issues. #sts #sociology
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Investing in alternative social media like the #Fediverse (and to a lesser degree, #Bluesky), has been my digital strategy. Making news and taking part is essential in this place. But is it enough? Studies have shown that the contraction of local news has created a vacuum — which has been filled by partisan news sources and social media (both polarizing and more likely to spread misinformation). www.politico.com/news/maga…
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The third night in a row I could barely sleep. Turns out that the turn out drove my anxiety—my body predicting. Time for mobilization, more European collaboration, ditching the austerity politics in Germany, left populism, I suppose. I cannot stand four years of over-attention on the US, once again.