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Paul Houle

🤼 To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

(great insight into political psychology!)

economist.com/by-invitation/20

🆓 archive.ph/fW8sW

The Economist · To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie StantchevaBy The Economist
#politics#uspol#psychology
Centre for Population Change

🌐 As we mark #WorldPopulationDay2025, find out more about recent CPC-CG #fertility and #family research providing insights and policy evidence under this year's #UnitedNations theme:

"Empowering #youngpeople to create the #families they want in a fair and hopeful world"

Read the full story - with plenty of further reading material to get your teeth into: cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?ac

#demography#populationstudies#familyformation
SnowshadowII :maple:

🇨🇦 Pride, pages and performance: Why drag story time matters more than ever

Even as events like drag story times have become targets of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and protests, communities continue to organize, resist and affirm their right to public joy and visibility.

Our research, recently funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores drag story times with the hope to learn more about how drag story time leaders select books, and how these events can foster best practices in literacy and inclusive education.

#Education #Children #Parenting
#Books #Wrtiing #SocialScience
#PSychology
#LGBTQ #Youth

theconversation.com/pride-page

The ConversationPride, pages and performance: Why drag story time matters more than everWhen children are shown diverse characters and stories, they begin to understand the world from multiple perspectives. A study aims to understand how performers select books.
Weizenbaum-Institut

The EU Digital Services Act #DSA requires large platforms to manage “systemic risks” to rights, civic discourse, and public health. @rachelgriffin argues that turning legal principles into practice is a political process – raising the question: who holds power?

The paper maps key stakeholders, examines power imbalances in participation, & offers a framework for studying the politics of DSA implementation & platform governance.

doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.2.6

#research#policy#socialscience
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Weizenbaum-Institut

Wem gehört die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz? Florian Butollo & Esther Görnemann analysieren, was den Wettlauf um generative #KI prägt: Macht- & Ressourcenkonzentration bei wenigen großen #Tech-Konzernen, soziale #Ungleichheit, geopolitische #Abhängigkeiten & hoher #Ressourcenverbrauch. Und sie entwickeln politische Handlungsempfehlungen.

t1p.de/vjvr5

#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Digitalpolitik #AIforGood #KI #socialscience #tech #gemeinwohl #commongood #sociology @WZB_Berlin

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Monoka

Hi @robert , thanks for #ReCast. It is great to see a tool for audio/video #transcription. We'd like to include it in the Awesome #GTK4 #GTK3 applications list [2]. Which category would ReCast best fit? The best category seems to be #SocialSciences as transcription is used in qualitative research [1], but the examples on the recast website suggest more general purpose. Which category would you choose?

[1] github.com/valpackett/awesome-
[2] github.com/valpackett/awesome-

@alvaroburns #Gnome #SocialScience

GitHubAdded new sub-category Social Sciences, ReCast, Kapitano, Typewriter, WebkitWord, WineZGUI, Winecharm, Stevia, Tasks, Mirrorhall by GerryT11 · Pull Request #330 · valpackett/awesome-gtkList of awesome GTK (3/4) applications. Contribute to valpackett/awesome-gtk development by creating an account on GitHub.
Centre for Population Change

Freezing eggs may give people more choices, says CPC-CG member Bernice Kuang in today's Financial Times.

"It may also take pressure off partnerships formed later in life, and give young people time to settle into relationships instead of feeling rushed to make partnership decisions."

Full story: ft.com/content/c5631c41-5b23-4

Financial Times · Nearly ‘one child in every classroom’ is typically born using IVF in UKBy Valentina Romei
#IVF#fertility#fertilityissues
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Weizenbaum-Institut

🚨 How has automation in the auto industry evolved—and how does it affect productivity and labor? A new #WJDS paper by Ulrich Jürgens @WZB_Berlin compares Ford, Toyota & VW.

It shows that outcomes depend not just on #technology but also on outsourcing & customization:

"Organizational and institutional dynamics remain key to how technological change unfolds in practice."

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.2.4

#research#socialscience#economy
Hacker News

The Gender Attractiveness Gap

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

bioRxiv · The Gender Attractiveness GapWriters from Darwin to Dawkins have noted that, in humans, women are considered the “beautiful sex,” whereas in most species, it is the males who display more elaborate and visually striking traits. This reversal of typical sex roles is a peculiarity of the human species and has been the focus of extensive theoretical debate. Yet, it has never been systematically examined or empirically verified. Here, we present a comprehensive cross-cultural meta-analysis of same-sex and opposite-sex ratings of facial attractiveness from around the globe. Our findings confirm the existence of a robust “Gender Attractiveness Gap” (GAP), with female faces rated significantly more attractive than male faces across rater genders, cultural backgrounds, and portrayed ethnicities. Notably, the effect is more pronounced among female than male raters, suggesting gender-specific modulation. We show that approximately two-thirds of the GAP is mediated by structural facial sex-typicality. However, this mediation is asymmetric: controlling for facial dimorphism substantially reduces the attractiveness of female—but not male—faces, indicating a specific aesthetic preference for structural femininity by both male and female raters. This suggests that attractiveness judgments are driven by general aesthetic evaluation processes that extend beyond heterosexual mate choice. We also observe a general tendency for greater stringency among male raters. Overall, these findings contribute to evolutionary psychology and social perception, offering new insights into mate selection theories and underscoring the importance of accounting for gender-specific and cultural influences in attractiveness judgments. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
#HackerNews#GenderAttractivenessGap#GenderStudies
Weizenbaum-Institut

📢 Is China’s AI rise a break from neoliberalism—or its next mutation?

Ngai Pun’s new paper explores 'infrastructural capitalism': a fusion of state power, digital platforms, and labor exploitation. The China–US tech race is framed as a new Cold War of capital.

At the core: labor’s power – and its precarity.automation and precarity.

🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.1

#Labor #AI #China #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #PoliticalEconomy #socialscience #work #research

@WZB_Berlin

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