Great academic position opened at @mpifg.bsky.social

Researchers, are you or your PhD student conducting research on online discourse, or exploring how digital conversations shape public opinion and behaviour? Our new @communalytic.org tool may help with your next research project. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c... #academicsky #phdsky #comsky #polisky

The nation’s largest housing and real estate dataset, the Zillow Transaction and Assessment Database (ZTRAX), is now available to researchers via ICPSR at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. More: https://myumi.ch/D82nG

2️⃣0️⃣ To mark the twentieth anniversary of the first official tweet yesterday, I've collected some of our publications commemorating and commiserating that occasion over on the blog. Farewell, #Twitter; may your end be swift and painless – and soon. ☠️

Twitter is 20. A reminder that @nancybaym.bsky.social and I wrote a biography of young Twitter 2006-2016, its early joys, competing cultures & user innovation, and how things had gone awry well before Musk. It may contain more lessons for Bluesky than X at this point. newbooksnetwork.com/twitter

And back home at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social, we recorded a podcast in our #ReadThemSideways series where Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko#ReadThemSideways and Luke Pearson from IndigenousX reflect on the Twitter that was and the Xitter it became.

Tomorrow, March 21, Twitter would have turned 20 years. With the rebranding to X, I am not sure how much there is to celebrate. But I use the occasion to reflect on my own work about Twitter and the role researchers like my colleagues at @gesis.org play for understanding platforms role in society

Back home after "Social Media Access Days - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access" www.dnb.de/EN/Professio.... It was a pleasure to co-host, thanks to my co-organizers and the professional local team at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social #smad2026

Join us next week Friday, March 20, for a presentation by @leticiabode.bsky.social and @pfchap.bsky.social on "Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data". Registration required via events.gwdg.de/event/1260/

Thanks so much, @snurb.info, for this excellent keynote!

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

In knapp zwei Wochen, am 30.3., endet die Einreichungsfrist für unsere Tagung „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“ am 16.–18.9.2026 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! #CfP #digikomm2026

@pascalsiegers.bsky.social did a great job presenting the AVERA project today! (And it's always great to have @snurb.info liveblogging at events)

Toller Vortrag von @mberg.bsky.social und Oliver Vettermann heute bei den Social Media Access Days an der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Spannender Vergleich von Datenzugangsmöglichkeiten + rechtlichem Rahmen. Und ganz viele tolle Memes

have fun at the datasprint and see you all later at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social!

Was für eine erschütternde Nachricht www.dnb.de/DE/Ueber-uns...

Chapter 7: @kwelle.bsky.social of @gesis.org & @indiiigo.bsky.social of Mannheim on using social media data in CSS. Social media provides rich digital traces of human behavior, but also raises serious methodological & ethical challenges, from platform bias to reproducibility. A great guide!

Join us next week Friday, March 20, for a presentation by @leticiabode.bsky.social and @pfchap.bsky.social on "Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data". Registration required via events.gwdg.de/event/1260/

Are you starting a new social media research project? Check out our free Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 tools. socialmedialab.ca/apps/social-...

#PleaseShare PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, AI, and Disinformation: Develop AI tools for fact-checking & media literacy, tackle disinformation & create open science resources Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026 👉 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246 @hheuer.bsky.social

🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great work everyone! #digitalservicesact

#LoveData26 #FDMPower #thematiccollections #researchtopic Are you looking for data for your research topic? Our database is also organized by subject area so that you can get a quick overview of the data we have available.

📅 Mittwoch, 11.02.2026 | 14–16 Uhr Im Rahmen des FDM Jour Fix der Landesinitiative fdm.nrw stellt Birte Lindstädt den Zertifikatskurs Forschungsdatenmanagement vor. Der Kurs wird in Kooperation von ZB MED, TH Köln, ZBIW und fdm.nrw durchgeführt.

Join us for the #KODAQS #Toolbox #Talk tomorrow! Yannik Peters will present #TextPrep, a tool to assess how preprocessing methods can improve the quality of social media data. 🗓️ Thursday, 5 Feburary, 2026, 1-2 pm. 📌 Online, register here: www.gesis.org/angebot/wiss...

💕 Die AG Inklusion im #FDM ist wieder bei der #LoveDataWeek dabei! 💕 Am Montag, 09. Februar, um 11:30 Uhr: Barrierefreie Datenreports in R 💕 Anmeldung: forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/veranstaltun... 💕 Wir sehen uns! 🥰

I've always appreciated what FreDA offers on women's and men's attitudes toward family processes! @freda-panel.bsky.social #sociology #demography

Love Data Week 2026 Where’s the Data? 09.–13. Februar 2026 Eine internationale Woche rund um Forschungsdaten und gutes Datenmanagement. forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deuts... #LoveData26 #FDMPower

#savethedate #LoveData26 #FDMPower #comingsoon

Have you met the Wikipede? In another universe, maybe it has been Wikipedia's logo for over two decades. Community members submitted many designs, proposed changes, and debated them openly 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

if you missed @dscheykopp.bsky.social present on the Digital Services Act in the @nfdi.de Social Media - Show and Tell Series, you can now read our blog post about his talk here: textplus.hypotheses.org/15885 #dsa #article40dsa #digitalservicesact

This Friday 16.1. - you can still sign up to join us for this talk by Julian Jaursch / Bundesnetzagentur #dataaccess #digitalservicesact #dsa #article40

Help us shape the programme for the DANS Open Day 2026! 🤝To ensure an insightful and inspiring day, we'd love to hear what you'd like to experience at the DANS Open Day. Let us know via this link: edu.nl/mbqyv

reminder: please register for this talk by Julian Jaursch if you want to learn more about the #DigitalServicesAct and the DSA Data Access portal next week!

Last day 📢📢📢

Call for Proposals: Schwerpunktthema „#Immigration und Einstellungen gegenüber ethnischen und religiösen #Minderheiten“ im #ALLBUS 2027 Der ALLBUS 2027 ist als selbstadministrierte Mixed-Mode-Erhebung (schriftlich-postalisch/online) geplant. Die Befragungsdauer beträgt insgesamt ca. 45 Minuten.

January 16, 2026: Julian Jaursch from the German Digital Service Coordinator @bnetza.bsky.social will introduce the EU's #DSA Data Access Portal during the series "Show & Tell – Social Media Data in Research Practice". Register here: events.gwdg.de/event/1259/ #digitalservicesact #platformdata

Your Data Access toolkit 👇🏽 Our latest update shows major platforms still make researcher access slow, inconsistent, and overly restricted. We clearly lay out what data’s available, what’s missing, and how platforms and the European Commission can fix it.

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Arbeiten Sie bei GESIS und profitieren Sie von vielen Vorteilen. youtu.be/t1KcoQxuvmQ... Wir suchen für #Köln oder #Mannheim im Team #Drittmittel eine*n Referent*in Drittmittel (EG 13 TV-L, bis zu 100 % Arbeitszeit, unbefristet): gesis.jobs.personio....

My dataset covering #Querdenken has been awarded dataset of the month @gesis.org – which kind of feels like a bucket list moment I didn‘t even know was on the map 😇

⏱️There's still time to register for our #TrustedFlagger information session on 3 December. This hybrid event will provide updates and learnings regarding the Trusted Flagger status introduced by the Digital Services Act Regulation (DSA). Register at the link below 👇🏼

Congrats to Bonnie (and @cessda.bsky.social)!

Neues von @konsortswd.bsky.social und @ratswd.bsky.social: Open Call: Beiträge für die 10|KSWD ‒ Konferenz für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten gesucht. forschungsdaten.info/nachrichten/... #Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience

This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.

🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇 #AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

Heute Abend, 19 Uhr, auch online: im Digitalen Salon des @hiigberlin.bsky.social geht es um wichtiges Thema: die ökologischen Kosten der KI-Systeme und welche politischen und technischen Weichenstellungen für klimafreundliche Lösungen erforderlich sind leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/w...

2/2 Uns fehlt ein Bild! "...ruft die Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz deshalb alle Berliner*innen auf, zu Hause in ihren Fotoalben und Fotosammlungen zu schauen." www.ghwk.de/de/blog/samm...

Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information. It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/ verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...