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Abstract Wikipedia was selected as a finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/30/abstract-wikipedia-is-a-100change-finalist/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19082 has been replaced.
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Trust-Enabled Privacy: Social Media Designs to Support Adolescent User Boundary Regulation
Adolescents heavily rely on social media to build and maintain close relationships, yet current platform designs often make self-disclosure feel risky or uncomfortable. Through a three-part study involving 19 teens aged 13-18, we identify key barriers to meaningful self-disclosure on social media. Our findings reveal that while these adolescents seek casual, frequent sharing to strengthen relationships, existing platform norms often discourage such interactions. Based on our co-design interview…

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Amanda Quirk, Tom Rice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23498 https://

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Universal Design (UD), an approach to accessibility that was first conceptualized in architecture to make buildings physically accessible, has since been applied to curriculum design to make classrooms accessible for a larger range of learning needs. In this paper, we illustrate how the concepts of UD are relevant outside of architecture and the creation of curricula by highlighting examples of norms that exist in the field of astronomy that create barriers for disabled folks. we discuss ways t…

The buyerarchy of needs (with apologies to Maslow)

🎉 New NERDS paper on highway barriers to social ties
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/05/new-nerds-paper-on-highway-barriers-to-social-ties/
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Endogenous Barriers to Learning
Building on the idea that lack of experience is a source of errors but that experience should reduce them, we model agents' behavior using a stochastic choice model (logit quantal response), leaving endogenous the accuracy of their choices. In some games, higher accuracy leads to unstable logit-response dynamics. Starting from the lowest possible accuracy, we define the barrier to learning as the maximum accuracy which keeps the logit-response dynamic stable (for all lower accuracies). This def…

Snart anländer brorsan från annan morsa får vällingbyn och lite löst folk från bandet och sen ska det ätas gott och nyttjas starkt. #late_birthday_party

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

Urban highways are barriers to social connections - ITU's report on our recent PNAS paper:
EN: https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2025/Urban-highways-are-barriers-to-social-connections
DK: