📢 Call for Abstracts — Deadline: January 16. COMPTEXT 2026 will again be a fantastic place to discover the latest computational methods, tools, datasets & to connect with scholars using AI across communication science, political science, history, sociology, IR, and more.

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

📍 Location: Munich 📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026 ⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026 Details: German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6... English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting the computational communication science team from TU Ilmenau at our lab at LMU Munich. It was a really fun visit. Getting to know other CCS and CCR teams is always great. 🤓

🚨 Big reveal! New year, new logo, same event! 🚨 Join us for some fun at the 2026 ICA pre-conference hackathon in Stellenbosch, June 3-4. Stay tuned!

We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦 Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/ Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

This week, we have @lorenzspreen.bsky.social visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out: css-synosys.github.io

📩 Contact our SEC Rep Aditi Dutta at [email protected] to share leads, volunteer, or ask questions. This hackathon is a fantastic way to meet collaborators, learn by building together, and make #ICA26 even better.

Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25

PhD or Postdoc looking at the grim job market? Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson. Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25

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!!! 🎉🎉🎉

At yesterday's business meeting of the Computational Methods Division, we recognized outstanding scholarship in the discipline at #ICA25 Please join us in thanking the awards committees and celebrating the winners: 🧵

@icacm.bsky.social needs bigger rooms, @icahdq.bsky.social #ica25

Photo credits: @jbgruber.bsky.social 🙌

This year's #ica25 hackathon was a blast! A huge thank you to @hackingcommsci.bsky.social for making it a reality! With 13 other great participants, we explored +2 million of Telegram messages around the 2024 US election. I can really recommend checking out the data! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The best start into a conference 😎

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

A great photo of @rachaelkee.bsky.social inspiring us with her brilliant ideas for a sleep and media data donation app. KEEp your eye out for her at #ica25

@rachaelkee.bsky.social blowing us all away with her project at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. Super impressive project with the goal of collecting high-throughput sleep and media data ✨😴📺 #ICA25

Already using AI tools in coding or thinking about it? Here‘s @patrickparschan.bsky.social giving us an introduction to Cursor 👀

We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses. #hackica25 #ica25

Looking forward to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social explaining how brain imaging fits into comms research at #hackica25 🧠🧠

Great presentation by @kyliewoodman.bsky.social on fMRI analysis at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. I am always blown away by how clearly Kylie is able explain complex topics #ICA25

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Whoop whoop we’re ready to get started!

Welcome to #hackica25 & #ica25 everyone! We‘re starting the morning with our project pitches. Big thanks to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for designing our awesome stickers again! 💛🧡❤️

So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!! Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there! 👇👇👇

Kicking off our fourth(!) annual #hackica this year at @colorado.edu. This is always the highlight of ICA. Super excited to get hacking! #hackica25

Arrived yesterday in Denver for #ICA25 and already look forward to #hackica25 in Boulder (although not to the early busride...).

Thanks to our Git master @jacobtfisher.online for giving a workshop on version control with Git and GitHub 🙌

A federal wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for Canada. Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada. New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax

Interview bei ZEIT ONLINE: Hat die SPD die Arbeiter verloren, weil sie zu viel über das Bürgergeld redet? Unsinn, findet der Soziologe Linus Westheuser. Die SPD brauche ein völlig anderes Konzept. Sie muss bereit sein, sich mit den ökonomischen Eliten anzulegen. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

‼️ Last day to register ‼️ #ICA25 #hackica25 We'll close registration on May 23. Last chance to come to the ICA 2025 pre-conference hackathon. 📍 UC Boulder – Just a short ride from Denver (shuttle service available) 🗓 June 11-12, 2025 📝https://forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaCE7MU9

Where will you be hacking during #ICA25? We’re thrilled to be hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) at UC Boulder — join us in their state-of-the-art CMCI Studio: www.colorado.edu/cmci/facilit... #hackica25 👨‍💻

‼️ t-3, register until May 23 ‼️ 50 registrations and counting. Will we break our record of 70+ hackers from Toronto 2023? This year, ICA 2025: 📍 UC Boulder – Just a short ride from Denver (shuttle service available) 🗓 June 11-12, 2025 📝https://forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaCE7MU9

‼️4 days left to register 👾 Got an idea? A laptop? A love for code? 👩‍💻 Then you’ve got what it takes. Join the ICA25 Hackathon. 📍 Boulder, June 11 & 12 🚌 Shuttle from and back to Denver included Let’s make it happen, register here → forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC... More info → hackingcommsci.org #hackica25

‼️ 5 days left to register ‼️ ICA 2025 Pre-conference Hackathon Registration closes May 23 — don’t miss coding sessions, Git & LLM tutorials, and get together afterwards! 👨‍💻🍻 🗓️ June 11–12 at UC Boulder (and yes, there’s a shuttle service🚌) Sign up now: hackingcommsci.org

ICA 2025 Pre-conference Hackathon Registration closes May 23 — don’t miss coding sessions, Git & LLM tutorials, and beers after! 👨‍💻🍻 🗓️ June 11–12 at UC Boulder (and yes, there’s a shuttle service🚌) Sign up now: hackingcommsci.org

#Homeownership #WealthInequality #SocialMobility #Housing #Sociology 🏠 Who gets to own a home – and why? New study by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and klauspforr.bsky.social shows: ➡️ #Inheritances & family gifts – even just expected – strongly influence who buys property.

All praise to @seanhp.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social for producing and presenting this fantastic paper! Check out the results and the R adaptation of CodeCarbon on linktr.ee/comptext25

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

Excellent presentation by @seanhp.bsky.social and @isaacbravo.bsky.social about the environmental impact of using LLMs for text analysis and the tradeoff between accuracy and sustainability. Now I‘m quite afraid to calculate the footprint of my research. 🙈 #COMPTEXT2025

Presented my work on ideal point estimation from text data at #COMPTEXT2025. Let me know if you wanna talk about ideal points or whatever you fancy. Forgot to take a photo while presenting, so here is one of my back (green shirt) sitting in the crowd while @haukelicht.bsky.social is talking.

Attending this amazing workshop on data donations by @valeriehase.bsky.social @frodewald.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻 #COMPTEXT2025

Whoop! We’ve got a new sponsor on board—huge thanks to @compcommlab.bsky.social 🚀 PS: Don’t forget to register for #hackica25 in Boulder, CO! Expect hackers, mountain views, and maybe all of the above with beers 💻⛰️🍻

Wer die letzten Wochen die Nachrichten verfolgt hat, wird festgestellt haben, dass sich rechtsextreme Vorfälle stark häufen. Schulschließungen in Duisburg, der Mord von Wetzlar, alle 13 Minuten eine rechtsextreme Straftat und mehr. 1/2

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Only two months to go until #hackica25 🎉 Don't forget to register and secure your spot!