The SOUNDS initiative is hiring for 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻/ 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻/ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 (𝗺/𝘄/𝗱). Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... @ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social

The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) project is inviting applications for the following position: 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗳/𝗺/𝘅) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗿𝗲𝗳: 𝗪𝟮𝟴𝟬𝟭) Paygrade: E13 TV-L 100% Duration: 2 years @ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de

#BowlingAlone documented a quiet shift from collective to solitary practices. In Bowling with ChatGPT ( #TheWebConference2026), we study whether a similar shift is unfolding in interactions with conversational AI. arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2602.01114

New deadline is Jan 23. If you're based in a low- or middle-income country and work on computational social science, particularly using online data, please consider applying.

🚨 Spread the word! 🚨 The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! 🌟 📅 Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026 More info: www.icwsm.org/2026/submit....

Congrats to Prof. Dr. @ingmarweber.de on his AAAI Fellowship! The fellowship honors individuals with significant contributions to #AI. Working in societal computing, he bridges AI and the social sciences, analyzing social platform data for valuable insights on society. 👏 Read more: sic.link/weber

Jordan D. Klein & Ingmar Weber published a Letter to the Editor in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that opens a conversation on the findings of Chi et al (Measuring global migration flows using online data). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PNAS-Letter-Editor

The recordings for TEDx Saarbrigge organized on June 14, 2025, are now available. Details: www.i2sc.net/events/past-... @i2sc.net @dock11saarland.bsky.social @algoright.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de @saarland-informatics-campus.de @dfki.bsky.social @ingmarweber.de @kevinbaum.bsky.social

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Freitag, 28. November 2025, 18 Uhr, Schloss Dagstuhl: „Dagstuhler Gespräche“ – „Von sozialen Medien zu Satelliten: Was Daten für die Gesellschaft verraten“. @ingmarweber.de ist beim LZI und der Stadt Wadern zu Gast, um der interessierten Öffentlichkeit dieses Thema näher zu bringen. 0cn.de/lzi2548

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊 I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne! 💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓 oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Now out in Communications of #ACM #CACM "AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring" w/ @ingmarweber.de @ferdaofli.com & others The article features 2 case studies from #ArabWorld highlighting the potential of #AI in #DisasterResponse & #DisplacementMonitoring dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

The SICSS Saarbrücken 2025 has officially come to an end. We are grateful to all participants and speakers who made this event such a success, and we look forward to seeing how the conversations and collaborations will continue beyond these two weeks! @uni-saarland.de @i2sc.net @ingmarweber.de

One of the perks of attending #HLF @hlforum.bsky.social is that I got to meet one of my favorite Youtube personalities in person @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social

Always a pleasure to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum #HLF @hlforum.bsky.social & meet smart people. Catch me today (Tue) if you'd like to learn about our work at @i2sc.net. And be sure talk to Manon if you'd like to learn about her work about better AI safety evaluations.

The first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at Saarbrücken has officially begun at @i2sc.net. The program runs from 8 - 19 September. @uni-saarland.de @ingmarweber.de @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social @jianlongzhu.bsky.social

29 Mio. Euro Förderung für das Kompetenzzentrum SOUNDS: Ziel der Forschungsstelle ist es, Informatik und Sozialwissenschaften zusammenzubringen, um gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen datenbasiert zu analysieren. Mehr dazu: www.uni-saarland.de/aktuell/gese... © UdS / Thorsten Mohr

🚨Open Positions!🚨 Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 See job description here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #Jobs @ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

We are seeking speaker nominations for the Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar series. Let’s amplify diverse voices and break out of our usual bubbles. Nominate someone inspiring today! #WiNS #NetworkScience #WomenInScience

Last day at @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and time for an @i2sc.net group photo with @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social, @ethel-mensah.bsky.social and @jianlongzhu.bsky.social. Find Brahmani and Ethel at posters #21 and #93 today. Jianlong presented yesterday.

In today's @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 poster session:: "Studying Behavioral Addiction by Combining Surveys and Digital Traces: A Case Study of TikTok" Joint work with Cai Yang, Sepehr Mousavi, @adash93.bsky.social and Krishna Gummadi. Find me at poster #37. Full paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

🤔 How can we design AI tools to enhance democratic participation? 🗣️ At @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 Norrköping, I will give a parallel talk (Wednesday 2:30pm, Vingen 8) to discuss insights from a user study on an LLM-based voting advice application chatbot for the 2024 European Parliament election.

Hello everyone! I’ll be presenting my work this Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 13:30 (Poster ID: 93) during the poster session at IC2S2’25 (@ic2s2.bsky.social) in Norrköping, Sweden. 📄 Check out the paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... #IC2S2 #ComputationalSocialScience #SocialData

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring. Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society" @saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

I am happy to share that our work titled "Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires" has been accepted to the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Conference 2025. Check our work: doi.org/10.1145/3719... @cui.acm.org #CUI2025 #ACM

🏆 The Adamic-Glance winner of this year is @kous2v.bsky.social, for foundational work in using social media and multimodal sensing data #icwsm

#ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social would be nothing without its community. Here are some of the heroes who work hard to guarantee that authors receive useful reviews: @aldayelabeer.bsky.social @chibold.bsky.social @lespin.bsky.social @elaragon.bsky.social @shrutiphadke.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social

I finally managed to go through all the follows and messages about the #ICWSM starter pack. The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one: go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV Let me know who I missed, again!

Organizing #ICWSM is not always easy, but working with such great, dedicated people makes it enjoyable. Thanks @juhi153.bsky.social, Eni, Mathieu, Florian (who's with his newborn), Meredith and others from @realaaai.bsky.social, and the whole community who helped put @icwsm.bsky.social together.

A lively poster session at #ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social

If you are at #ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social and are hiring: At the beginning of tomorrow's (= Wednesday's) lunch break, we'll ask people who have open positions to come to the front and mention which level (PhD student/postdoc/prof) they are hiring and where. People can then connect over lunch.

Maybe of interest to the #ICWSM @icwsm.bsky.social community: a special issue on "Democratic Decision-Making in Times of AI" in Data & Policy by @universitypress.cambridge.org. Submissions are welcome until October 3 - Germany's Reunification Day www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exploring Digital Services Act (DSA) and its implications for research. Exciting panel @icwsm.bsky.social with Oana Goga, Krishna Gummadi, Silvia Merisio, and Francesco Pierri. #icwsm

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!

This paper characterizes (self-described) TikTok addiction with surveys and (n=107) data donations. One interesting finding is that watching positive videos predicts addiction, even controlling for session number and session time. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... cc: @ingmarweber.de

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025: Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam “Machinic Critique: Algorithmic Auditing” 📅 June 25 🕑 8.30 AM 📍CSS 35.01.05 Find the full program here: www.icwsm.org/2025/schedul...

Oh no! @overleaf.com seems to be having issues. Hoping it will come back soon as I've become fairly reliant on it.

𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 The deadline for SICSS Saarbrücken has been extended to 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝘆. Do not miss the opportunity to learn and meet researchers and academics from interdisciplinary fields in a two-week summer school full of lectures, presentations, and networking.

Many of the points we make are arguably obvious, but it doesn't hurt reiterating: The terrible state of polarization in the US is of only limited use for understanding and mitigating the damaging consequences of polarization in other countries.

New preprint on the global state of political polarization research 🎉 osf.io/preprints/os... We discuss the many different ways polarization can be conceptualised, how it manifests very differently across countries and domains, and the problems with the dominance of US focused research.

Call For Papers from Data & Policy - Democratic Decision-Making in Times of AI Welcoming contributions examining the role of computational methods and #AI in understanding democracy, supporting participation and related regulatory and governance issues. Find out more - cup.org/42Me6vp

@ingmarweber.de and Daniela Braun (from @uni-saarland.de and @i2sc.net ) collaborated with Data for Policy (dataforpolicy.org) on a special collection in the #openaccess journal Data & Policy (@cambridge.org) to address these issues. Consider submitting your work to this peer-reviewed collection.

As digital technologies and AI increasingly shape democratic processes, they bring both opportunities for transparency and participation—and risks like misinformation, polarization, and opaque governance.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: DEMOCRATIC DECISION-MAKING IN TIMES OF AI ℹ️ Info on themes and how to submit: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 📅 Deadline: 3 October 2025

Only 10 days until the deadline! Apply now to the Saarbrücken Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science here: sicss.io/2025/saarbru...