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🚀 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

This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut! Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread

As GPT-5 announcement is underway, know that a majority of Dutch people already make use of ChatGPT (and similar Gen AI models), 43% percent even say they use it "often" (5-7 on our 1-7 scale) -> the graph below

For your correlation ≠ causation collection

We've been tracking the rise of ChatGPT use in the Netherlands! Our third update of the AI Opinion Monitor shows a meteoric rise in use amongst youth, with 43% reporting to use it regularly. Check it out yourself: monitor.algosoc.org

Data we are collecting with @algosoc.org in the Netherlands shows similar and even starker trends and age gaps. Everyone is using ChatGPT more. But 82% of 18-29 year olds now report having used in the past year whereas a still sizeable but comparatively lower amount of 65+ year olds have (19%).

Honoured to have been awarded this year's ASCoR Baschwitz Faculty Article of the Year award for my work with Mykola Makhortykh and Silke Adam! Check out the paper, "Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait", below!

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics? Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social. Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues. 🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️) www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Another windowless room (but this time way bigger) in which I got to present first preliminary findings on how strategic politicians can *actually* be about their emotions in election campaigns 📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social

@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).

Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is

More on data donation and tracking data. Don’t miss this panel #ica25 @ernesto-deleon.com @dougaparry.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social Yangliu Fan @lionw.bsky.social & more @ascor.bsky.social @algosoc.org @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Happening now #ICA25: @ernesto-deleon.com presenting work on influencer-hyperpartisan info networks. Shows the importance of sourcing and linking to a wider variety of sources, all serving to propagate anti-system narratives. Awesome stuff by these colleagues! Right up my alley. 👏

And I am finally on Bluesky 🥳!!

Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level. I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

Thank you so much for the kind words Ernesto! If any of you are interested in the work, you can find a summary thread here: bsky.app/profile/nico...

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

A huge congratulations to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for winning this year's 2025 Kaid Sanders @polcomm.bsky.social article of the year award! #ica25 Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!

A funny detail from @anjabechmann.bsky.social's study using YouTube data donation, showing that participants in Denmark were heavily Rickrolled 😅 #ica25

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...

Happy that our paper, led by @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, received the best paper award at the Mass Communication division of #ica25 (thanks @markboukes.bsky.social!) Check out "Tracing Knowledge Gaps" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#hackica25 at #ica25 is in full swing. One of my favourite events of the year. A room full of nerds working on data and tools, learning new things and having fun 🤓

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! 💛🧡❤️

🚨 Join Our Team We're looking for a PhD / Post-doc in Political Communication with possibility of joining a project on how feelings of being “left behind” shape political info use, focusing on social identity and identity threats. Start: September 1 or by agreement Duration: 3 years Apply now! 🔬✨

🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆 📚 Best Book The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵

PhD opportunity! ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4 shorturl.at/YeXpf

Do people accurately judge the public opinion climate during crises? Using 2 yrs of data, our study dives into perceptions of public opinion on COVID‑19 measures, why those views often missed the mark, and what can help correct them! Now in @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Hot off the press! Using surveys + web tracking, we dig into how knowledge gaps emerged about COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic (sidenote: how has it been 5 years already?!) With @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh & Silke Adam (@unibe.ch)

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

We are looking for a research assistant to help us develop tools to make dashboards easier for social scientists to create 🤩 If you are really into R and passionate about data and science communication, please apply!

The Future of News Consumption panel at the @algosoc.org Conference featuring @claesdevreese.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social. Some key takeaways 👇🧵

Fascinating reflections on "Europe's digital agenda in a polarised world" in @algosoc.org closing panel with @natalihelberger.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social Peter-Paul Verbeek and Tamar Sharon

1️⃣ day until the @algosoc.org conference 🚀 🌺 @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @jvh.bsky.social @theoaraujo.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social

Excited to moderate this AI and Journalism panel at the @algosoc.org conference "The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society", with presentations from @ferraribraun.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social among others! Full programme here: tinyurl.com/yc24httr

This is a really cool study! @cvargiu.bsky.social & @alessandronai.bsky.social use a natural experiment to quantify an increase in the left's support for political violence following Magione's arrest!

Thanks to our speakers today for their great tips on conference presentations! See 🧵 for highlights! Dr. Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social cautions against overuse of nostalgia and movement! Dancing squirrels are cute, but save them for smaller screens! 😄

Always happy to share tips for great conference presentations! This one focused on something we often overlook: keeping your audience engaged 🎯 Already stressing about your #ica25 talk? Check out this guide I put together with @polcomm.bsky.social 📢👇 🔗 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...

📚📚📚 New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡 Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘 Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf

Candidate for best paper title? 🤔 Our new paper uses individuals' behavioural data to examine how people navigated the complex COVID-19 online information environment to reach news media. If you are interested in the role of digital intermediaries to news, it's worth a read! lnkd.in/e2Yg5Kre

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A reminder that the Political Communication division of ICA is offering ✨travel grants✨ for this year's #ICA25 in Denver! These are specifically aimed at members travelling from Tier B/C countries. Deadline is the 21st of February 📅 kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Trying to identify online populist radical right content? Our new paper might help! Our team evaluated different computational approaches to the identification of this content 👇 With the current political climate, these methods are more relevant than ever. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shoutout to #ICA25 reviewers — such thoughtful, kind, and constructive feedback this year! A small comment really made my evening: "I will definitely come and listen to this presentation should it be accepted for ICA! :)" Reminded me how important it is to balance review rigour with kindness!

Happy birthday U of Amsterdam🎉 Celebrating 393rd Dies Natalis today. With a great program including Rector Magnificus @ppverbeek.bsky.social on 'Science as a Connection: The Social Significance of the University' and Dies speech on the city-UvA nexus #amsterdam750 www.uva.nl/shared-conte...

New #rstats 📦 version: {rollama} 0.2.0 What's new?🧵👇 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rollama/index.html

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ