We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

Ist denn schln Weihnachten? Hatte ein FETTES BROT in der Post!!

Happy to announce the 2nd edition of our Summer School in Computational Social Science that will take place in the beautiful Villa del Grumello on Lake Como between June 22-26, 2026! *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 15, 2026 (firm deadline) *** More details here: css2.lakecomoschool.org

1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals /2

This chimes with our new open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social study of French-language immigration posts, which shows how far-right users flood feeds with hyper-partisan sources for political purposes: doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Google AI overviews now reach over 2B users worldwide. But how reliable are they on high stakes topics - for instance, pregnancy and baby care? We have a new paper - led by Desheng Hu, now accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social - exploring that and finding many issues Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12920 🧵👇

Super important and dear to my heart! Also a good opportunity to remind people of the super helpful systematic list of open science/access media and communication research journals by Moritz Büchi and @tobiasdienlin.com here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the #UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇 #AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

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...

Noch drei Tage! Wir freuen uns über Eure Einreichungen zu Demokratischer Resilienz - auf bald in Hamburg!

Vorbildliche Darstellung des NDR. Klimawandelfolgen auf Regionen heruntergebrochen, die dort beschriebenen Entwicklungen in größeren Kontext gesetzt und vermeintliche Widersprüche aufgelöst. Liebe Norddeutsche, hier habt ihr was zum Teilen www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

So, now it's official: for the next four years, I'll be researching "Defensive Publics and their Imagined Security Communities in the Digital Realm" (with @lauraliebig.bsky.social) as part of the new DFG research group "The Promise of Security in Catastrophic Times"!!

Studie "How to sell democracy online (fast)" ist ein Brett 🛹. Superspannend und extrem hilfreich, da sie erklärt: - Wie junge Menschen Plattformen nutzen - Was sie sich wünschen - Was funktioniert? 📝 www.progressives-zentrum.org/publication/... Inklusive 13 konkreter Handlungsempfehlungen. 💯

Populismus & Polarisierung funktionieren super auf #TikTok & Insta #Reels. Aber wie können Demokraten vertikale Videos nutzen, um junge Zielgruppen zu erreichen & Impact zu erzielen? Neue Studie von @dpzberlin.bsky.social & @bertelsmannst.bsky.social hat 30.000 Videos analysiert & gibt Tipps 👇

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."

Diese Annäherung an Trumps Politik finanzieren US-Stiftungen, oft unterstützt von der fossilen Industrie, sowie marktradikale Denkfabriken aus Ungarn und Deutschland. Viele CDU-Urgesteine fürchten diese Trumpisierung zutiefst. Text mit @gabrielakeller.bsky.social correctiv.org/aktuelles/tr...

Die Reaktionen auf den Mord an Kirk zeigen klar, wie deutsche Konservative den Trumpschen Stil aus Halbwahrheiten, wilden Beschuldigungen und Hass kopieren. Das ist keine spontane Gefühlswallung, sondern Strategie. Millionenschwere (US-)Stiftungen und rechtskonservative Netzwerke arbeiten daran 🧵

Our study on the strategic narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 7 EU countries, co-authored with @eddahumprecht.bsky.social, is out in the IJoC. We trace pro-Russian messages across countries, platforms, and actor types ahead of the 2024 EP election. Check it out: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

Wenn Sozialdemokrat:innen rechte Zuwanderungs-Rhetorik übernehmen, wirkt die Partei rechter. Zugewinne? Keine. Ganz im Gegenteil. Strategie: Selbstschädigung. Sozialdemokratische Grundwerte und Immigrationsfeindlichkeit passen einfach nicht zusammen.

Noch (fast) eine Woche / One week left ⤵️ Wir beantworten gerne Fragen und freuen uns übers Teilen👋 #polscijobs #PoliSky

As a polcom scholar, research currently feels like staring into an ever-expanding abyss. Teaching has become my saviour: Discussing journalism and politics in the digital age with students from all disciplines in my intro lecture gave me a clear sense that democracy is worth fighting for

The field of political communication is incredibly exciting to teach and research. But the context is horrible. Aptly put by @davekarpf.bsky.social the overwhelming sense that I have is that things are getting worse. The water level rises. The center holds, but only barely, and not for much longer

@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

🚩🏡 Zwischenmiete in Zürich gesucht! Ich bin von Ende Sept. bis Anfang Dez. als visiting scholar am @ipz.bsky.social und suche daher für Okt+Nov eine Bleibe in Zürich. Falls ihr zufällig in dem Zeitraum eine Wohnung untervermietet oder jemanden kennt würde ich mich über eine DM sehr freuen :)

🚀 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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... We conclude that the role of “soft” factors in motivating information seeking on political actors remains underexplored.

Finally :) Preprint of Susanne Baumgartner and my paper Short but still valid: Validating Single-Item Measures for Key Communication Science Constructs for Experience Sampling Research. In a 5-Study procedure, we assess the validity of in total 21 constructs osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very much enjoyed the panel on the rise of the illiberal public sphere at #IPSA2025, organised by the Political Communication section, as well as the panel on "destructive polarization" covened by @kathaesa.bsky.social - thanks for the opportunity to promote our work with @sabinamihelj.bsky.social!

How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org

Ich liebe alles in diesem Thread. Außerordentlich informativ, räumt mit vielen AI-/Misinfo-/Mythen auf ... und das alles ohne komplett zu verharmlosen, was gerade in der Welt passiert. Lohnt sich.

#computationalsocialsciences, #jobsjobsjobs, #textasdata, für mein DFG-Projekt zur Fragmentierung digitaler Nachrichtenpublika mit Frank Mangold @gesis.org suche ich eine*n Doktorand*in mit Interesse an den neuesten (KI-gestützten) Methoden der Inhaltsanalyse www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

vitals, an R package for LLM evaluation, is now on #rstats CRAN!🧸 Specifically aimed at folks building with ellmer, the package will help you engineer prompts, choose models, and measure cost/latency/performance rigorously. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/06...

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

The regressinator: A simulation tool for teaching regression assumptions and diagnostics in #Rstats www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It looks like a useful package for covering the basics of a range of models cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Article illustrates how students can work with 1/

Want to easily scrape data from TikTok? There's an R package for that! traktok "While it is neither the first nor only tool to do so ... the [package provides] ... an easy-to-understand consistent syntax [meant] to encourage TikTok research" osf.io/preprints/so...

❓Interested in populism in power? Ever wondered how privileged actors construct anti-elitism? Looking for a systematic approach to studying anti-elitism? 🚨Check out our new Open Access publication in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies: 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:

🧵 NEW PAPER - "Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages" is live at SMR. We combine NLP w pairwise LLM evals to track ideas across media ecosystems and languages. We also figured out a way to eval unsupervised probs on widely understood supervised performance metrics.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

#GESISGuides #DBD #DigitalBehavioralData Lux, V., & Wieland, M. (2025). How to Set up and Monitor App-based Data Collections (GESIS Guides to DBD, 22). doi.org/10.60762/ggd...#GESISGuides#DBD#DigitalBehavioralDatahis guide addresses that gap by offering practical recommendations to manage the active data collection phase.

This paper increased my hype over Visual Language Models for CSS. Masood et al. mixed a user study, VLMs, and data donation to create a descriptive analysis of TikTok's algorithm. arxiv.org/pdf/2503.20030

Looking forward to 7 years of research with Michael Brüggemann, Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social and Chris Biemann on "Contested Climate Futures: Discursive Powerplay in the Media" as part of the re-newed #DFG-#Exzellenzcluster #CLICCS Climate, Climate Change and Society at @uni-hamburg.de! 1/2

New in Social Media + Society: How do (non-)disruptive #climate #protests shape social media debates? We analyzed ~5M Twitter/X posts on #FFF & #LetzteGeneration: Disruptive protests generate more engagement—but also more polarization, driven by right-wing/conservative users: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

ISD and SCRIPTS just mapped the “GerManosphere”—a network of misogynistic online communities in the German-speaking internet. This is the first comprehensive analysis of how these groups operate and spread extremist narratives. Read the full study: www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word