The new call for CSC fellowships is open - if you're a Chinese student who wants to work on health influencers on social media, check out my project #08: uni-tuebingen.de/internationa...

Garbage in, garbage out - LLM models can get brainrot, too llm-brain-rot.github.io

Busy but inspiring days: first #MediaPsych25, than the joint #Digikomm&HMC conference and now in train to Amsterdam for a PhD defense tomorrow.

„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren" Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden. Aber auch richtig ist: „AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“ Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.

Nice surprise in the board meeting ;-) #mediapsych25

Great talk by @anneo.bsky.social about the eras of social media #mediapsych25

@stefaniehklein.bsky.social presenting the results of our longitudinal study on the relationship between tool vs. actor+perception of communicative AI on credibility # mediapsych25

#Mediapsych25 started with inspiring methodological discussions this morning, followed by many good talks

In the first keynote of ##MePsy25 Jessica Piotrowski talked a central question of #MediaPsych - social media use between controll and competence - bringing nuanced and much needed evidence to a highly debated topic (and often panic driven regulation)

Skimming social media posts can help you build ambient awareness about who-knows-what in your network. This can even happen under cognitive load: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @everydaymedialab.bsky.social (so between all my complaints about trains, there might be something useful ;-))

Toll Bahn. Man muss immer noch in Reutlingen umsteigen, 20 Minuten sollten ja an sich reichen, aber wir sind noch später und statt dass der dann 5 Minuten wartet, kriegen wir alle jetzt nochmal 26 Minuten drauf #sweg weiß schon, warum ich zuletzt geradelt bin

Excited to announce that my paper with @lpummerer.bsky.social, @sonja-utz.de & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social on conspiracy beliefs is published. We examined the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and procedural justice during the peak and decay of the pandemic.

Feel free to reach out to special editors @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social and 🙋 with questions @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #commsky #journalism #technogarchy

What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear? In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

Ich habe die in diesem “Politico”-Auszug beschriebene AfD-Strategie übrigens 2017 schon mal aufgeschrieben. Hergeleitet aus der Literatur über die Polarisierung in den USA. Das ist alles weder neu noch überraschend. Nur für die Union offenbar. Es geht um WIR gegen DIE.

Die Strecke Tübingen-Nürtingen kann man echt nicht mehr pendeln. Seit Mai 20 Minuten die normale Verspätung, Ausfälle, keine zutreffende Info. Heute schon wieder (mindestens, steh ja noch) ne Stunde verloren. SWEG ja leider nicht auf bluesky #Bahn #failure

Excited to join the workshop "Beyond Commands: The Evolving Relationship between Humans and Voice-Enabled AI" at the beautiful castle in Tübingen today!

To clarify: This is for people with a master degree who want to pursue a PhD

I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...

The doctoral consortium is starting - looking forward to discussing the projects! #ica25 @icamobile.bsky.social #ica_cat

Ich würde eigentlich erwarten, dass die Führungsspitzen von Viessmann, Vaillant und Buderus langsam mal laut und deutlich sagen, dass hier gerade die akute Gefahr besteht, dass die Fossilnostalgiker in diesem Land die nächste deutsche Branche an den Rand des Abgrunds geleiten.

Also der Zug nach Tübingen ist schon ne halbe Stunde zu spät (beim daheim losfahren nur 13 Minuten) und als Ausgleich für die frustrierten Fahrgäste fährt er jetzt nur bis Reutlingen. So wird das nur war mir der #bahn

Did I already mention that I have a lovely team? @everydaymedialab.bsky.social back from 2 months lab visit in Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social (Homero Gil de Zuniga)

Zweiter Tag diese Woche ohne gemütliches Frühstück und ausreichend Kaffee, weil der 7:57 nicht fährt...

Did you know that #Skype will be shut down today? Here's an interview with our lab member Carolin, who's investigating how you can still keep in touch ✉️ with your #long-distance friends👭: www.spiegel.de/psychologie/...

Important because many studies on #algorithmicfairness only use one general fairness item or adapt measures from procedural fairness without considering issues like #groupdiscrimination. Our multidimensional measure addresses this problem; you can also use just one subscale depending on your RQ

Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖 May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields. jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

that was fun! Inspiring discussions about interesting talks today in #Salamanca Credibility of AI, Conversion Stories in Political Advertising and how Science gets attacked in Latin America in times of disinformation and populism

Still remember the first MediaPsych in Duisburg 2009 - I'm getting old ;-)

@irodriguezdedios.bsky.social cuando tienes tiempo

Next week - if you happen to be in/around Salamanca!

Trump hält sich für den ultimativen Dealmaker – doch Putin führt ihn am Nasenring durch die Manege. Während Russland weiter Krieg führt, verkauft Putin minimale Zugeständnisse als "historischen Fortschritt". Kein Wunder, dass Trump als Geschäftsmann so oft pleiteging.

The best thing at my current office in #Salamanca? I can see the stork from my window!

This was a cool experiment because we collaborated with a chatbot company - so real chatbot interactions but in a controlled field setting (not a vignette study)

Not good :-(

Mal wieder #explodierte eine #Elon #Rakete, diesmal flogen die Trümmer so nahe an Flugzeugen vorbei, dass es ein Glück war, das keines zerlöchert abstürzte. Dieses Video wurde aus einem dieser Flugzeuge aufgenommen. Scary shit! ⬇️

My office for the next two months is in one of the oldest universities in Europe - looking forward to interesting discussions on news-finds-me and ambient awareness with the lab of Homero Gil de Zuniga in #Salamanca

Trump's goal is NOT to make the economy strong. The tariffs & gov't cuts indicate a different strategy: Trump is trying to enrich the U.S. gov't (at the expense of taxpayers). Why? It's not for gov't programs. He's thinking about it as his own personal bank account. It's corruption, folks.

Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

#StellDirVor … … im Wahlkampf geht es um Fakten. Mit deiner Hilfe! Link: www.volksverpetzer.de/stell-dir-vo...

Worth noting that this was even before this administration took office – and is probably going to look a lot worse with the next update. 🔥

Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.

Critical funding is being cut for research that saves lives, helps the vulnerable and promotes a better society in the name of eliminating waste, but, sure, we can spend money on cyber trucks from a guy in charge of, checks notes, “eliminating government waste.”

Die Tatsache, dass das Thema #Klimakrise in einem sogenannten „TV-Duell“ zwischen zwei Kandidaten kein einziges Mal vorkam, offenbart ein öffentlich-rechtliches Medienversagen von epischem Ausmaß. @ARD und @ZFD werden ihrem Auftrag so nicht gerecht. 1/2

How did Americans defeat the fascists in the past, does anyone know? Asking for a worried nation.

🌍 Applications Open: CAIS #Fellowships in Bochum, Germany! Explore the social, cultural, or technical aspects of digitalization in a 3–6 month funded program. Enjoy private offices, rent-free housing & interdisciplinary exchange with experts worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: February 28, 2025 #Research