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My first visit at ZeMKI is coming to an end. What an awesome couple of weeks, meeting new colleagues, presenting my research and establishing some collaborations I am really looking forward to. Special thanks to @cbpuschmann.bsky.social and to his team at DCID lab for their warm welcome.

The No.2 most read @vox-pol.bsky.social Blog post of the past 12 months is Sophia Rothut, @darianharff.bsky.social, and @cbpuschmann.bsky.social's piece on far-right social media influencers and their potential roles in youth radicalisation. Check it out at: voxpol.eu/social-media... #PleaseRS

Gemeinsam mit den Ausrichter:innen (@kkvk7.bsky.social, @judith-moeller.bsky.social, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social, @lisamerten.bsky.social) freuen wir uns auf zahlreiche Einreichungen!

*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.

🚀 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

Last week, A-K. Watolla, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social & P. Zerrer presented "The Societal Impact of Systemic Risks" to @ec.europa.eu & Digital Services Coordinators. It shows how #disinformation spreads, affects #democracy & reveals #research gaps. 👉 Study (in German): www.dsc.bund.de/DSC/DE/Aktue...

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

DON'T FORGET! 📣 TODAY at 6:30 pm, the ComAI lecture with Dr. Dennis Frieß on the topic "AI within Public Online Discourse" will take place at Bremer Presse-Club. More information: zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

Ein toller Überblick über Mediennutzungsformen verschiedener Generationen und den aktuellen Stand der Forschung von @sabinetrepte.bsky.social auf der #rp25: "GenXYZ, Materialismus und soziale Medien". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5P...

Why do people search for individual politicians? Because they (don't) like them. In a new paper we find sympathy/antipathy to be important predictors of political information seeking. We also find searches for female politicians more often concerned with appearance & family. doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Still confused, but uber-happy. The news came out right after #ICA25 has ended: The European Research Council #ERC has awarded me an ERC Advanced Grant! Project DANCE on "Dark Nerd Communities" runs for 5 years with 2.5 million Euros funding. Immensely grateful! erc.europa.eu/.../erc-2024...

Are you doing standardized content analysis with LLMs, but wrestling with parsing JSON and getting consistent responses? We've written a light-weight R package to simplify the process of using both commercial proprietary APIs and open-source alternatives: github.com/cbpuschmann/...

🚨 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)

Want to learn a technique without which no ChatGPT and other generative AI tools would be possible? And at the same time the one they still can't automate at all? Sign up for this course!

I will once again teach web scraping and data management at ESS this year! The course is a deep dive into everything I know about getting data from the web and how to keep your data clean and organized for analysis.

@pzerrer.bsky.social did a great job at #DGPUK2025 presenting initial findings from our #trackingdata research investigating how #climatechange topic consumption is linked to political participation & mobilization! With Vasilisa Kuznetsova, @cbpuschmann.bsky.social, @lisamerten.bsky.social

@Hill90210.bsky.social and @cbpuschmann.bsky.social from the DCID Lab give a lecture at the workshop „Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science“ at the @tuberlin.bsky.social. The event from 2nd to 4th April 2025 is public and free.

ICA25 notifications cohering perfectly with state of the world this year.

Tenure, CSS, great team, Cologne,….✌️ Great position that needs your application :)

Want to study the relationship of contentious politics and social media with me and other great mentors as part of an international graduate school in lovely Bremen? we have *two funded fellowships* for intl. PhDs. Still four days left to apply! Details: www.bigsss-bremen.de/academic-pro...

Much looking forward to being in Bremen to give the ComAI Lecture on AI and elections and democracy. Thanks @zemki.bsky.social @ahepp.bsky.social for the invitation #AI #democracy #commsky #polcom

Really looking forward to this -- do drop by at Presseclub Bremen today if you're in the area!

Clearly the key application of gen AI is to help us all finally understand regular expressions.

Spread the word: #OpenQDA is available as early access. It’s a new software for #coding of #qualitative #data such as #interviews, #protocols and others. OpenQDA is clear and easy to use, you can work together as a team, extend everything via plugins - and it's #opensource. openqda.org

Okay, favorite ECREA review so far: Reviewer 2 doesn't like that our analysis focuses on non-Western countries because that is "beside the point at a European conference". 😳😳😳

If you are more into public engagement and activism, do not miss our brand-new MA Media and Public Engagement, directed by @cbpuschmann.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/studies/m...

Pro tip: If you are planning to distribute a cfp or advertise a conference be sure to insert lots of manual line breaks in the text These will look totally great in your PDF and absolutely hideous in the email you send to 18 different mailing lists read by thousands of people. justsayinsky.

📢A PhD position within my team related to our ToxicAInment project is available! Come work with us & apply innovative computational methods for substantive research about detecting, quantifying, & mitigating toxic content in (visual) online entertainment: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

Starting on March 1st, our Department Computational Social Science at GESIS is looking for a Team Leader for the “Digital Society Observatory” (15 TV-L, 4 years with possible tenure): hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... @sebstier.bsky.social @schochastics.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

Das ist wirklich eine ✨tolle✨ Ressource geworden, inklusive ästhetischer Midjourmey-Bilder, professionell produzierter Videos und natürlich jede Menge Code. Großer Dank and Patrick Zerrer, Katharina Maubach, Michael Linke, Hannah Büttner und Stephanie Geise für die Zusammenarbeit! 🙏

Following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against 🇮🇱, we have indications of X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU. Urgent letter to Elon Musk on DSA obligations ⤵️

Exciting postdoc position at the GESIS CSS Department with a focus on data quality and digital behavioral data👇

Interested in audiovisual social media, climate change and innovative comp. methods? Join us! Deadline is *tomorrow*! Details: www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/detail...

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions.

Hi everyone, happy to be on the other side.