A study of German COVID-19 protest movements shows that science wasn’t rejected online but rather strategically used. Analysing Telegram data, the authors reveal how scientific claims were mobilised to challenge policy during moments of uncertainty = jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

r u interested in #infowar; #communication; #russia_ukraine_conflict; #milbloggers? Here is a corpus and a data set built together with two fantastic colleagues @zinnatullin.bsky.social (follow him!) and G. Giacomello #no_pay_wall www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Felipe Barreto-Storandt (RPTU): “Euroskepticism and EU Support in the 2024 Parliament Election Campaigns” @zinnatullin.bsky.social (RPTU): “Voices and Responses A Large-Scale Text Classification of Grievance Forums in Autocracies”

📅 Reminder: Don’t miss the upcoming QSSS seminar on May 7! Prof. Kevin Munger (EUI) will present “Bounding Knowledge. Decay From Temporal Extrapolation.” Highly relevant for scholars interested in #polisci and #causalinference. #unibo👇

📢 Next QSSS seminar incoming! Join us for a fascinating talk by Prof. Kevin Munger (European University Institute) on “Bounding Knowledge. Decay From Temporal Extrapolation.” #polisci #causalinference #unibo

🚨 New Preview of Our Upcoming Report 🚨 Leaked Meta guidelines suggest harmful speech like "Immigrants are filthy pieces of shit" or "Gays are freaks" may soon be allowed. Does this policy shift reflect public opinion? Our survey across 10 countries finds no evidence of support for such content.

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

New publication. If you are curious about how authoritarian regimes maintain citizen loyalty, check out my latest article on the use of online feedback mechanisms in 🇷🇺. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⏰📅 Only 3 days left to apply for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at @Unibo (Deadline: April 25, 12 pm, GMT+1). Don't miss out on this free opportunity to join a unique program! Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ #SICSS #CSS

Deadline Alert! Don't miss your chance to join the Bologna Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences at the UNIBO's Department of Political and Social Science. Applications are open until April 25. Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ @zinnatullin.bsky.social @simonluck.bsky.social

🌟 Inaugural Seminar: @simonluck.bsky.social and @zinnatullin.bsky.social will present their research on "Responsiveness and Regime Types: Evidence from Computational Research in Russia and Europe." 🌐🔍

Exciting news! 📢 Introducing Quantitative Social Science Seminars (QSSS) at the University of Bologna! A platform for scholars to showcase and discuss cutting-edge research in quantitative social sciences at the University of Bologna. 🤝🏛 [A thread 🧵⬇️]

Happy to share that my second solo paper based on my dissertation is out! It is a preface to the first publication, which came out a couple of months earlier. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...