New article! The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP by Anton Törnberg & Petter Törnberg / @pettertornberg.com doi.org/10.1080/0964...

The one-plot summary of what Elon Musk did to Twitter.

„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.

Are you a CSS researcher using LLMs for text annotation tasks? Do you integrate the results into downstream statistical analyses? Turns out, even with SOTA models you have a 31-50% chance of coming to wrong conclusions this way! Learn more about this and mitigation strategies in our new preprint 👇

Das Klima der Ungleichheit. Zur sozialen Struktur von Klimakonflikten. Neuer Artikel mit @lwestheuser.bsky.social und @thomaslux.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social! "Toward a platform–labor–territory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes" by #sfb1265 PhD Scholar @jyelee.bsky.social 👇📰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Happy to see this #OpenAccess paper out in #Journalism! "From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests" with @mikefarjam.bsky.social, Helena Rauxloh & Michael Brüggemann

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

Girl. Be so for real right now. What are we even doing here.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Y'all made the math machine forget how to math. :(

"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung." JUNGE BEI DEINER EHRE DAS DOKUMENT HAT ~VIERZEHN~ SEITEN WAS IST DAS FÜR EIN FAULSTER-STUDENT-IM-KURS-VIBE HIER??

NEW - Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ - @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social #OpenAccess

📖NOW OUT IN PRINT📖 Connective Action and the Rise of the Far Right Feat. my chapter with Ulrike Klinger on "In-Groups and Outrage" & how various types of network connectivity are radicalising right-wing parties! The digital version is open access, and available here: academic.oup.com/book/60493

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

HAMBURG CALLING - EINREICHUNGEN MÖGLICH Ab sofort ist das Conftool für unsere FG-Tagung 2026 offen: www.conftool.net/polkomm26/ 4.-6.2.26, Hamburg Tagungsthema: Demokratische Resilienz als Aufgabe für die politische Kommunikation in einer instabilen Welt Alle Infos unter: uhh.de/wiso-polkomm26

If a person uttered those sentences, you'd wonder whether you should take them to a stroke unit.

I enjoyed reading this reflection on “Teaching under Trump” by @davekarpf.bsky.social I wish more colleagues would reflect on the growing gap between what we teach our student about politics and the real-world politics students live in.

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Get in losers, we're seizing the means of Very Online Trend production.

My god, that's embarrassing...

Boy oh boy, am I looking forward to the derivative machine delivering ad reads for Better Help, ZBiotics, and other cursed Internet scam companies. 🫠

Musste er gehen, weil der Zug nicht kam?

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet theonion.com/aol-to-...

📢 NEW: Political Communication special issue on "Communicating Democratic Decline & Resilience" Manuscript Proposal Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 Full details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Oh come on… it’s not the private emails and holiday photos that is the problem here. Address the real problem. Make big tech and AI companies pay for the exorbitant use. System level solutions please. www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE WASPS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/s...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben 100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger ab 1.12.2025 Soziologie & Gender Studies deadline: 15.09.2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Where is that edit button, when you need it? 😬 Anyway, here is the link to the second paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

📢 Call for Papers: Together with @viviensommer.bsky.social and Ludovica Tomarchio, we are editing an interdisciplinary Special Issue on Mixed Methods Research for Socio-Spatial Studies in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Full papers welcome until 28 February 2026! doi.org/10.1177/1558...

Here's something you don't see every day: two publications going live on the same date. 🤩

Wir suchen für unser Forschungsprojekt noch Interviewpartner: Familien mit 3-4 Generationen, also idealerweise einem Vater, einem Opa und einem Uropa. Gerne kommen wir zu euch oder wir verabreden uns digital. Bitte meldet euch unter der unten angegebenen Adresse, wenn ihr mitmachen wollt! Danke!

Weniger schlecht – aber nicht gut Zugeständnisse beim Geld, Entlastung bei Versorgungslasten, Reformversprechen: Das neue Angebot an die Berliner Hochschulen soll Vertrauen zurückgewinnen – doch der Bruch der Hochschulverträge bleibt spürbar. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

lol, thanks for the vote of confidence, I guess.

The derivative machine is killing originality.

‪Next up in our 'Looking Back' series: PhD candidate Zoé Perko reflects on her PhD exerience and offers some essential advice on backing up your work in progress! 👇📰 www.sfb1265.de/blog/looking...

🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨 Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Return of the unhelpful helper.

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

Nothing would make Colbert more powerful than being fired.

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...

Spent 40m today reading a kid’s essay and writing to her about it. The takeaway won’t be better writing—it’ll be that someone who cares about her thinks she’s on the right track. Everyone who thinks they’re smart thinks so because someone took time w their work and told them so.

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

💥New paper💥 1)LLMs achieve superb accuracy detecting negative campaigning ACROSS languages and countries - enabling a new paradigm of comparative political research 2)We use this to carry out the largest cross-country study to date: 18M tweets from MPs across 19 countries arxiv.org/abs/2507.17636

📢Save the date! The next #SFB1265 conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore the influence of spatial refiguration on design and ask how design can address the growing complexity of socio-spatial change⬇️ 📆Nov 6/7 📍IfA Forum @tuberlin.bsky.social sfb1265.de/veranstaltun...