Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

Today is the day 🎁 The #dsa regime for researchers to get access to platform data to study societal impact and risks starts TODAY. This has been a loooooong time coming. And the proof of the pudding will be in the eating … #dataaccess #commsky digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...

Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS? ✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures: "Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science" 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)

Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information. It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/ verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

Very excited to be at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social this week to talk about bias in CSS. Thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social for hosting us 👩‍💻.

To all the #DSA experts and data access enthusiast out there, before you go on holiday, sign up & save the date for the #dsa40 data access days in Berlin, September 25 & 26! 2 days with keynotes, panels, expert insights and practical guidance 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

Go work at @cais-research.bsky.social with @johannesbreuer.com 👇

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society" @saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

#MethodsHub #Study #helpwanted Invitation to participate: Study on method reproducibility The Methods Hub team at GESIS is conducting a study as part of the Tier2 project on how easily researchers can reproduce results from computational methods.

SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to DJ’s latest Special Issue on "Digital Journalism in the Age of Technogarchy", edited by @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social, & @gehrke.bsky.social. 🗓️Deadline: Sep 15, 2025 📷Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...

3) 📊 Right to high-quality data: If data under 40.12 is flawed or insufficient, researchers can turn to 40.4 for better access. 4) 📁 Platform data catalogues: Platforms must publish and update detailed data inventories. This improves transparency and lets researchers know what to ask for.

FINALLY 😌 The Delegated Act is here. The Act clarifies rules for data access under the Digital Services Act #DSA #dataaccess #research #eusky #commsky #polisky #csssky digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

And last, but certainly not least, huge congratulations to Dr. Anke Stoll who received the Best Dissertation Award for her impressive dissertation “Machine learning for automated content analysis of incivility in online discussion” #ICA25 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗 📍 Vienna 🗓️ Start: September 2025 📌 Apply by June 26 #AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

10 days left to submit your abstract 😊

Neuer Blogbeitrag zu Art. 40 DSA und der Datentransparenz im Vorfeld der deutschen Bundestagswahlen. fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/6040 #DSA #META #TikTok @thejanrau.bsky.social @grenwi.bsky.social @pekasen.bsky.social @flxvctr.bsky.social

Had a great time at the CSS workshop in Mannheim organized by @rubac.bsky.social & @valeriehase.bsky.social. You can find my slides on "Reproducibility & Replicability in Computational Social Science Research" here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #reproducibility #replicability #computationalsocialscience

Today at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social in Mannheim, @aurman21.bsky.social kicking off our conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“. Thanks esp. to @rubac.bsky.social and the local team for organizing this event 🙌

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Are you interested in social science methods training? Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...

A week left to submit to the ICWSM workshop on "Validating Social Text as Data Methods"! Submit an abstract by May 5th and join the VALISTAD crowd (including Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social as an invited speaker!) in Copenhagen! sites.google.com/view/valista...

📣 CfA on Public Discourses on AI We're guest-editing a SI of the International Journal of Press/Politics on "Global Myth and Magic around AI", focusing on timely issue of public discourses on AI. Deadline is June 15. Happy to answer any questions. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/glo... #IJPP

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Open #postdoc position in @mss7676.bsky.social's team at #IKMZ! 📣 Consider applying by 15.05.25 if you do research on #science #communication – including communication about science-related topics like #AI, #health, and #climate. Also, please spread the word! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

As EU-US relations change Europe must stand firm for the DSA The DSA is imperfect, it cannot fix everything. But the DSA is a shield to defend European democracy. @dscheykopp.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social and I argue this in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⬇️ www.techpolicy.press/will-europe-...

Bei uns in der Eichstätter Journalistik eine unbefristete akademische Ratsstelle ausgeschrieben. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 31.03.2025. Start Oktober. Mailt Klaus Meier, wenn ihr Fragen habt oder nutzt die #DGPuK2025 #commsky stellen.ku.de/jobposting/a...

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

🗳️ Am Sonntag ist Bundestagswahl und die Parteien posten seit Wochen täglich. Doch wie politisch ist dein TikTok-Feed? 📱 Finde es heraus mit dem neuen Datenspende-Projekt Dein Feed. Deine Wahl. 📊 Mach anonym mit und erhalte deine Analyse: 👉 https://buff.ly/4i3sBzV #Bundestagswahl2025

The European Commission @ec.europa.eu endorses the integration of the *voluntary* Code of Practice on Disinformation into the Digital Services Act. This means: full adherence to the Code as a risk mitigation measure for VLOPs / VLOSEs (big platforms & search). ⏰ July 1 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The introduction to our Special Issue in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social is out: 🎈"Epistemologies of Digital News Production: Power & Technological Adaptation in Knowledge Production" 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2167... @acadianjprof.bsky.social, @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social, & @phoebemaares.bsky.social 🙌

Showtime! Berlin court rules that X must comply with data access request. Now. In a timely manner. Ahead of the 🇩🇪 elections.

DIGITAL JOURNALISM - CfP: Freedom of expression, platform governance and the future of fact-checking SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social @tpoell.bsky.social Steen Steensen

✨ New in Nature Climate Change (@natclimchange.bsky.social): Climate injustice through unequal news 🎈 highlights how climate injustice is fueled by disparities in information access across the Global South, including a recent study by J. Thaker et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7MLX (or: doi.org/10.1038/s415...)

The Computational Social Science Workshop is coming to the University of Mannheim on May 15-16, 2025! Registration is now open—don't miss out! Early career researchers can also present a poster for a chance to win the best poster award of 250€. 👉 computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich 🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee) 👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc. 🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

Registration for our conference "Computational Social Science: AI and Society – Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age" now open! 🗓 May 15-16th, 2025 (University of Mannheim/MZES/MCDS) 👉 Esp. for young scholars interested in CSS and/or inequality 🔍 computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

🚨 Reminder: The application deadline for two open positions @gesis.org department Computational Social Science is approaching quickly! 📅 Application deadline: January 20

🚨 Big news! 🚨 Another year of ICA, another pre-conference hackathon: The 2025 hackathon is happening in Boulder on June 11-12! Stay tuned 🚀

New year - new paper: Hölzl, Keusch, & Sajons. (2025). The (mis)use of Google Trends data in the social sciences - A systematic review, critique, and recommendations. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... #OA

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📢𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 (𝐒𝐈) Editors: @larakobilke.bsky.social, @floprim.bsky.social, @christianpipal.bsky.social & Pilar Lacasa Thrilled to announce 𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸’𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲! 📅 Manuscript summary: 28/02/2025 🔗 tinyurl.com/tiktoktivism

New OA publication with Henning Silber, Barbara Felderer, Frederic Gerdon, Patrick Stamman, Jessica Daikeler, @floriankeusch.bsky.social, and Bernd Weiß: "Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data" doi.org/10.1177/0894...