Nobelpreisträger kommt an die TUD: Duncan Haldane hält am 12.5. einen öffentlichen Vortrag an der #TUDresden. ⚛️ Darin gibt der Physik-Nobelpreisträger Einblicke in aktuelle Entwicklungen der #Quantenphysik. Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 19 Uhr im Audimax des HSZ. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

MAGA has picked up on @eurosky.social - we must be doing something right 😂

MIDEM-Tagung am 22. April in Berlin: Polarisierung / Depolarisierung Ein Tag mit Stimmen aus Wissenschaft, Politik, Medien und Zivilgesellschaft im Publix. Bericht folgt. @tudresden.bsky.social @paulinafroehlich.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Fotos: MIDEM / I. Grabner

Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

Eurosky: Der Versuch, Plattformmacht aufzubrechen | Sebastian Vogelsang youtu.be/suN9_DYg-Jo Mein Gespräch mit @sebastian.eurosky.social über Bluesky, Eurosky und warum wir Social Media endlich als Infrastruktur denken müssen.

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

Morgen diskutieren wir auf unserer Tagung in Berlin, wie polarisiert Deutschland wirklich ist — und was dagegen hilft. Wir bringen Forschung, Journalismus, Zivilgesellschaft und Politik zusammen. 📅 Mittwoch, 22. April | ab 12:30 Uhr 📍 Publix, Berlin #Depolarisierung #Polarisierung #Demokratie

I ch freue mich auf Mittwoch im Publix über Polarisierung zu sprechen, vom @forum-midem.bsky.social der @tudresden.bsky.social Anmeldung ist noch offen:

Reminder: The deadline for the ICA survey on academic freedom and occupational intimidation is in just 3 days! If you haven’t participated yet, please do! Your response matters. ICA will donate $5 to Scholars at Risk for every completed survey. 🔗 survey.ifkw.lmu.de/ICA-AFS/

🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

I understand the appeal of an online world without government interference, which democratises solely by seemingly self-organizing, but that is not what’s happening and we have allowed tech billionaires to exploit this idea for far too long. 1/2

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

Every year, the V-Dem report becomes more worrying – in many countries and for over a decade now. It is vitally important for our societies to understand the reasons behind these trends.

Even the longer term trend data is pretty clear at this point: "...the derailment of democracy is marked by executive overreach undermining the rule of law, along with far-reaching suppression and intimidation of media and dissenting voices."

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Two centuries and two structural transformations of the public sphere. Even though I don’t share all of his views on the digital realm, the sheer breadth of Jürgen Habermas’s influence is truly impressive. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ever worried how social media affects our beliefs and polarization? New paper at CHI 2026 year, led by @jasonburton.bsky.social & with @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and myself. It experimentally compares different curation algorithms for consensus and accuracy goals. 🧵 Thread by Jason below 👇

Check out the up-to-date preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (p.s. previous versions of this work appeared at #IC2S2 and #CogSci)

🧑‍💻 New paper at #chi2026 w @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social Are you worried about how social media algorithms affect people’s beliefs? We are, so we tested engagement-based ranking algorithms against alternatives in a pre-reg’d collaborative filtering experiment... 🧵

Very excited to have our paper at CHI this year, led by @jasonburton.bsky.social and about experimentally testing different curation algorithms for consensus and intelligence goals. Thread by Jason here 👇

Nicht Tech-Unternehmen – ob sie aus Europa stammen oder nicht – sollen darüber entscheiden können, wo die ethischen Grenzen liegen. Schliesslich regulieren sich die Flug­industrie und die Tabak­branche auch nicht selbst.

Very pleased to see our growing teaching portfolio of Computational Social Science coming up in the summer semester, from SynoSys and CIDS – Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences at @tudresden.bsky.social , in Computer Science and Sociology. The courses: css-synosys.github.io/teaching/

Buch: www.rowohlt.de/buch/nina-ko...

🎉 Congratulations to @georgiaturner.bsky.social for passing her PhD with flying colours today! A meticulous and truly interdisciplinary piece of work. Thank you also to @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and Paul Fletcher for acting as examiners 🙌

PSA: If you’re verified on @bsky.app and you want to move to @eurosky.social please give us a heads-up (either through DM - eurosky account or me - or via mail to [email protected]) so that we can coordinate the re-verification with Bluesky for after the migration. Please reshare!

So, jetzt aber alle rüber zu @eurosky.social

We are now more than 1000 active users on Eurosky. Join us!

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics: csmapnyu.org/jobs And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub: uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g... I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!

Realised I can display live posts on the map bluesky-map.theo.io?live=1 (there's also an option under the settings cog to display post text, in case you really want to be overstimulated)

New on the arxiv: “Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions” arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks". w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social Explainer 🧵: 1/N

Whatever we do on social media regulation, let’s accompany it with rigorous social science and platform transparency so that we can learn about the effects and improve iteratively.

I *love* the introduction to this new handbook. Yes to it all. "We ... hope that the book can help wrongfoot the widespread assumption that the integration of computational techniques ... comes at the expense of qualitative and/or hermeneutic sensibilities." www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

New article in Nature describes a field experiment on X which shows that assigning users to an algorithmic feed pushes conservative content and demotes mainstream news. Sounds obvious but important in light of prior claims algorithms don't cause attitudinal changes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

KI-generierte Inhalte von niedriger Qualität – sogenannter „KI-Slop“ – nehmen auf den Social-Media-Plattformen immer weiter zu. Senior Researcherin @jsmirnova.bsky.social untersucht im neuen CeMAS-Blogbeitrag, wie diese Inhalte zur gezielten politischen Desinformation in Deutschland genutzt werden:

🚨🚨🚨The Berlin Court of Appeal ruled today that @democracyreporting.bsky.social (DRI) is entitled to publicly available data from X to conduct research on election interference and disinformation on X in connection with the elections in Hungary 🗳️ 🇭🇺 democracy-reporting.org/en/office/EU...

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg Apply now for a job as a Research Associate (#PostDoc) for the #FReDA Children and Youth Survey, specializing in Data Preparation! (Salary group 13 TV-L, 100 %) gesis.jobs.personio....

Eurosky, Mastodon, Wedium, W Social – Worauf es bei europäischen Plattformen ankommt: digitalrechte.de/news/eurosky...

Thanks to Mirta Galesic and Henrik Olsson for inviting me to the impressive @csh.ac.at in Vienna, where I could present my research under the bold title "The complexity of Platform Power" and have inspiring and interdisciplinary discussions all day!

Dürfen wir vorstellen? Unser Track Team für den Themenschwerpunkt #Wissenschaft & Technologie: Alex Wolf, Geraldine de Bastion, Sarah-Indra Jungblut, Katharina Meyer (@kthrnmyr.bsky.social), Katharina Naumann, Marie Kochsiek, Dodo Vögler & Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (@lorenzspreen.bsky.social). Danke!

#LoveData26 #FDMPower How can research data be shared easily and conveniently? We have compiled useful information to show you how you can publish your data and related documents at GESIS and share them with third parties. Check out our How-to Guide – #SharingData: www.gesis.org/datens...#LoveData26

🚨New preprint! 🚨 "Boosting metacognition in entangled human-AI interaction to navigate cognitive-behavioral drift" arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01959 Happy to see this new work coming to the surface alongside @cabels18.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social 🧵

Great location to be in:

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

This fits still: youtu.be/7j4QIayjAaY?... English: youtu.be/Qvum2HzocWs?...

We should view Social Media as a systemic issue instead of a symptomatic one and tackle its root: Overcoming the commercial and exploitative logic we applied to digitalization so far. Making social media better and safer for eyeryone will be more sustainable for young people AND for democracy.

Ban addictive designs, ban illegal content, regulate companies. Don't ban teenagers from digital platforms www.ft.com/content/cf46...