Respectfully, what the hell are we doing.

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

Look, it is our special issue :)

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

🚀 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!

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

📢 New Article in JVPC Volume 11, Issue 2! “The stickerscape of environmental activism in Lützerath” by Laura Imhoff explores how stickers became key semiotic tools in the environmental activism surrounding the village of Lützerath. DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

We're thrilled (and proud) to share this exciting news from our postdoc @dstoltenberg.bsky.social, who will be leading her own Emmy Noether group from next year! We're also delighted that the group will be associated with the #SFB1265. Congratulations, Daniela!

Time to share some news I've been sitting on: starting in January, I will lead a @dfg.de Emmy Noether Group at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! We will investigate how local public spheres are constituted under conditions of digitalization & globalization. www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...

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...

Ever think the idea of a "global" movement may be overstated? You may be correct, and our new paper can show you where connective action movements break apart. @sfb1265.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social

Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh

Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/

I do apologize for the fact that my account is, at this point, 25% communication research (at best), 25% political exasperation, and 50% rage against the AI machine. That's just how we're cooking these days, I guess.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

#Prospects for #ECR: Join our online talk on 11 December! Our Team Research Careers provides an overview of all DFG funding instruments and gives advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. The meeting link will be published shortly before start here: sohub.io/e2ad

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

📢Call for applications! #jobs With our next funding phase due to start in January, we are now looking to fill a range of positions! If you're interested in socio-spatial change and are looking for a PhD, postdoc or student assistant position, take a browse here: sfb1265.de/en/aktuelles...

We’re thrilled to share that the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (@dfg.de) will fund the #SFB1265 for a third funding phase! 🚀🎊🎉 This support allows us to continue our research on socio-spatial change and deepen our interdisciplinary work! More to come soon! www.tu.berlin/news/pressem...

I'm sorry, WHAT?

Congrats to my great colleagues @sfb1265.bsky.social on the opportunity of another four years of research! Looking forward to continued collaboration! (Ahem, more personal news on that front coming soon... 🤐)

Just a friendly reminder that you still have around three months to get your submissions in for our special issue on Mixed-Methods for Socio-Spatial Studies!

📢 Apply now: Form your own CAIS Working Group! Work interdisciplinarily on digital transformation, get funding, and meet in Bochum. Travel & accommodation covered. 👉 For Working Group Meetings in 2027 🗓 Application Deadline: Dec 19, 2025 www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll... #CAIScollege #Bochum

Studie zu #SmartHome Technologien sucht Teilnehmer:innen. Konstantina Marra (Uni Weimar/Graduiertenkolleg Gewohnter Wandel) sucht Personen, die zu Hause z.B. smarte Sprachassistenten, Sicherheitssysteme, Licht- und Heizungssteuerung, Haushaltsgeräte oder Unterhaltungselektronik nutzen.

Full offense, but they are not hard to find. They're not even hard to find *within Sally Rooney's work*. What a pile of hot nonsense.

I was asked to supply a title for my December talk at Stanford. I've settled on: "Nobody Wants This: Please Stop Ruining Everything."

Erich Fried: Wo sie wohnt? / Im Haus neben der Verzweiflung Berliner:innen: Was zahlt sie da warm?

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Up to 100% of people who pay into life insurance have never died.

📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building. doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

And here I thought all of NYC looked like America, because it is - in fact - America. Silly me.

Please consider helping my student Laura Müller by answering her English language survey on the perception of Instagram ads. The survey is anonymous & only takes around 5 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe... Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

You are a Post-Padawan now!

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Was Merz tut, wird seit vielen Jahren in den Gender-Wissenschaften als »Femonationalismus« beschrieben (Sara Farris). „Versuche europäischer rechter Parteien feministische Ideale für Kampagnen gegen Migranten und Migrantinnen und gegen den Islam zu vereinnahmen.“ Es geht nicht um Sicherheit.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

Jo, Tochter hier. Habe mich selbst gefragt, Entschuldigung wäre das allermindeste.

"Im aktuellen politischen Klima ist Merz' Aussage keine unglückliche Wortwahl, sondern eine Ansage. Es ist die Bekräftigung des AfD-Versprechens der sogenannten Remigration. Es ist der Ausdruck eines völkischen Verständnisses von Deutschland. Es ist menschenverachtend."

Was mich am #Stadtbild stört: Überall die gleichen Geschäfte Zubetonierte Plätze Viel zu viele Autos Zu wenig Sitzgelegenheiten Zu wenig Mülleimer Zu viele Reklametafeln Was mich nicht am Stadtbild stört: Menschen

Oh yay, since there's no open professorships due to budget cuts all around, a record number of ECRs have to gamble their hopes for future on getting one of the few lifelines still available! Fantastic!

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical