For our new project "SynDIKAT: Synthetic disinformation data, collaboration infrastructure, and an analysis toolbox for social media research" @dede1989.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc for a shared position between @gesis.org and @cais-research.bsky.social: rrr.is/postdocsyndi...

Marco Wähner hat auf der #rp26 über seine Forschung zu dezentralen Netzwerke am Beispiel von Mastodon gesprochen. Interessante Ergebnisse im Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Calk...

In der Theorie ist Bluesky dezentral - und in der Praxis? Lieber mal ein Blick auf das Fediverse und Mastodon werfen, wie es um das Gemeinwohl, Widerstandsfähigkeit und Souveränität steht.

Talk on Human-Centered Security & Privacy Research and Surveillance with Kentrell Owens from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum May 6, 2026 | 16:00–17:00 | CAIS + virtual To attend online, please register via [email protected] www.cais-research.de/en/event/hum...

Für die Reihe #leerepanels von @drbieber.bsky.social. Heute: Social Media Access Days in der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt. Später gibt’s dann verschiedene Vorträge ua aus einem Projekt zu Wikipedia-Daten im Kontext der BTW 2025

#SMAD26 #DNB #SocialMedia Check out the Social Media Access Days starting tomorrow at German National Library (Frankfurt am Main): Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access.

Wir freuen uns mit Marco Wähner, dass sein Projekt von der DGOF gefördert wird!🥳 Er untersucht darin, welche Faktoren Bürger:innen motivieren, an Online-Konsultationen zu lokaler Mobilität und Infrastrukturplanung teilzunehmen. ℹ️ www.cais-research.de/news/dr-marc... @marco-waehner.bsky.social

It’s not a privilege, it’s a researchers right! #DSA40 @lkseiling.bsky.social and I summarize what the European Commission decision in their case against X (I feel we should follow John Oliver and from now on call it Twitter again) means for researchers right to platform data access [in German]

✨ Rückblick auf die CAIS Progress Bar 2026: Forschende, Fellows & Mitarbeitende präsentierten Projekte zu KI, Metaverse, Desinformation, Wahlverwaltung & Netzwerken. Workshops und Diskussionen förderten interdisziplinären Austausch & neue Kooperationen. #Forschung #Innovation

PhD position on #HCI, #AI and #Disinformation: Develop tools for fact-checking & media literacy & create open science resources. Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246 #phdchat #CHI26 #chi2026

After around 30 years, #FirstMonday has announced that it will cease publication in May. Since 1996, the journal has been one of the first peer-reviewed journals to be published solely on the internet and made openly accessible. 1/2

🎙️Sollten Medien auf dezentralen Netzwerken unterwegs sein? CAIS-Forscher Marco Wähner sprach am 30. Jan. 2026 im Podcast „Nach Redaktionsschluss“ mit Nils Schaumburg, Pia Behme und Martin Holland (heise) über #DigitaleSouveränität: www.deutschlandfunk.de/digitale-sou... @marco-waehner.bsky.social

Internetabschaltungen sind mittlerweile eine verbreitete Methode, vor allem in autoritären Regimes, die Bevölkerung und Informationen zu unterdrücken. Welche Formen dieser Informationskontrolle gibt es? Wie funktionieren sie? Und was hilft dagegen? Eine Analyse. #iran netzpolitik.org/2026/digital...

Since January 8, connections via Tor bridges from Iran have dropped from an average of around 10k per day to zero. Bridges enable indirect access to the Tor network, which is necessary because direct connections are typically blocked by the regime. 1/3

Mit Breitband auf DLF Kultur sprach ich über Mastodon als dezentrales Netzwerk, Tendenzen der Zentralität und gesellschaftliche Gestaltung digitaler Räume. Das Interview schließt an meinen Talk auf dem #39C3 an www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/digitalpolit... @cais-research.bsky.social

🚨 Application deadline approaching! Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025 🔗 Don’t miss the chance: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

Morgen noch nichts vor und zufällig in Düsseldorf? Ich halte einen Workshop dazu, wie und warum KI diskriminierend sein kann und wie wir damit umgehen können! Tickets sind kostenlos! 🦜

🚀 Apply now for the #CAISFellowship 2026/27! You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany. + Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟 🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025 👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll... #CAIScollege #Bochum

How were, are, and can we measure #racism using #CSS? Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗 Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...

Are you interested in social science methods training? Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...

🔍 Meet the #CAISfellows: David Guerrero, University of Barcelona @david-guerrero.bsky.social His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom” 🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht... #FreedomOfExpression

I am hosting a workshop next week - we will talk about current issues, our academic utopia, and how we can implement strategies in our academic work to address discrimination - you can still sign up! ✨

Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 feat @carlislerainey.bsky.social #MetaScience doi.org/10.1017/S104... Insightful descriptive analysis showing code and data availability increases exponentially. In absolute terms, availabilty is modest at best w 31% 1/

How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!

🎌 CAIS in Japan: Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at #CHI2025. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".

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Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌 We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!

Positron works well under Ubuntu. So far no problems with the package management #RStats

📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025 The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open! 🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025 Venue (depending on course): 🏢 GESIS Mannheim 💻 Online More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar

🚨 Editor of Open Science - call for applications At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs) Interested? Check out the call below! DL April 17 Please repost for N and diversity 👇👇👇 Reach out for any Q

✨ Studierende aufgepasst! Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review. ✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals ✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten ✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse 🚀 Join #TeamCAIS!

Das CAIS unterstützt Empfehlungen für ein unabhängiges und wirksames Desinformationsmonitoring im digitalen Raum, initiiert von Bertelsmann-Stiftung @bertelsmannst.bsky.social und @cemas.io – Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie. Zum Newsbeitrag: www.cais-research.de/news/empfehl...

At the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH, we have provided recommendations on establishing independent and effective disinformation monitoring in digital spaces for the next German federal government.

New publication in the @gesis.org Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and me: "Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data" rrr.is/dbdethics

Interested in conducting #comparative research? Check out our review of articles from 2003-2021 to get an insight into trends and what we still lack in #commsky comparative studies! 🚀

Do you want to learn more about our upcoming #CHI2025 contributions to AI, HCI, Content Moderation, Journalism, and Chatbots? 🤖✨ Join our @cais-research.bsky.social Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program! 📅 5.3.25 16h 📍 Bochum & Webex Register via email: [email protected]

Wie politisch sind die TikTok-Feeds? Und wie beeinflusst das die Meinungsbildung? @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social und Uni Zürich starten zusammen mit @br24.de & @stuttgarter-zeitung.de ein Datenspendeprojekt. Hierfür sind wir auf Mithilfe von TikTok-Nutzern angewiesen: dein-feed-deine-wahl.de

Some say: science runs on caffeine, panic, and last-minute submissions - so don't miss our deadline tomorrow! ☕📄🔥 #CfP

Exciting news! ✨A #SpecialIssue in the Internet Policy Review will follow our conference in 2026. Outstanding submissions & contributions will be invited for publication! 🔗 More info: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa... @policyr.bsky.social #InternetPolicyReview

🦋 A starter pack of academic journals in Sociology 👥 #sociology #sociologie #sociologia #demography #SocSky #PolSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky #Academia #AcademicChatter #Academics #PeerReview #BlueSky #OpenScience #PhDSky #PhD #PhDChat #EduSky #research #science

🌍 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

I created this Starter Packer with all members of @cais-research.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Rvto81e

🎥 CAIS-Forscher:innen beim #38C3: Josephine @jottbees.bsky.social & Hendrik @hheuer.bsky.social sprachen über "Von Augustus bis Trump – Warum #Desinformation ein Problem bleibt und was wir trotzdem dagegen tun können"👉 Schaut rein: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuy... #Misinformation #CAIS #CCC

Dear #Bluesky community! We at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies are thrilled to be here now. From now on, we’ll be sharing updates about our research on #digitalization & #society, our researchers, the CAIS College, events, and exciting insights into our institute. 🚀 #CAIS #SciComm

Welcome to Bluesky, @cais-research.bsky.social! Perhaps a moment to share some exciting professional news: I joined CAIS as a research associate a few months ago and am very thrilled to contribute to the inspiring and innovative work at the institute! 🫶🚀

On 2024-12-29 12:00, Josephine B. Schmitt and I will give a talk at Europe's largest Hacker conference #38C3: “From Augustus to Trump – Why Disinformation Remains a Problem and What We Can Do About It Anyway”. There will be live translation to English. fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...

My article on how AI is presented in museum exhibitions is out now (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies 📡 has published the #CallforParticipation for the Interdisciplinary Conference on #CreatingSpaces for #DigitalFutures 🌐, 09.–10.10.2025. Join us in #Bochum📍. More information: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...