Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

Inspired and grateful after discussing our work on minimum cost multicuts for visual frame detection. Thanks to everyone at #wacv25! @margretkeuper.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social @stefaniewalter.bsky.social @keuper-labs.bsky.social

📣 Jetzt bewerben: 📣 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) für ein Forschungsprojekt zu KI im Wahlkampf an der Universität Bamberg. Mehr Informationen zur Stelle und dem Projekt gibt es hier. andreasjungherr.net/2025/02/20/j...

It's Black History Month! In recognition and celebration of #BHM, be sure to check out the latest journal articles and publications highlighting Black politics and research in the political science profession.

I spy with my little eye... a WACV paper. We investigate visual frame detection using Minimum Cost Multicut clustering. Check out the paper to see which embedding space works best: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.01296 @isaacbravo.bsky.social @stefaniewalter.bsky.social @margretkeuper.bsky.social

Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchbinReyhan" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵 #phd #ECR #wissenschaft

Interested in updates from researchers who are committed to advancing the methods of communication research and related disciplines? The Count has something for you... go.bsky.app/ByqiKgq Feel free to share and comment, if you want to be added.

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 To what extent does the population of a former colonising country support political apologies for slavery? Inge Hendriks, @nielsspierings.bsky.social, and Marcel Lubbers explores the support for apologies of various groups. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4gchSCx

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 Francesca Sobande and Emma-Lee Amponsah analyse media (re)presentations of "Black joy" and related marketplace experiences, while reflecting on Black life in Belgium + Britain. Full article available here: https://buff.ly/3OPtb7F

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 The paper by de Carvalho, Santia and Ramasubramanian adopts a critical approach to examine how US news outlets framed the public health emergency among the Yanomami People in Brazil during the pandemic. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g9vDSJ

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 In this new paper, @drsarahliu.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social show that the Taiwan's COVID 19 only applies to native citizens as migrants' interests are rarely represented in legislative debates. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g6Uwyo

Very happy to see that this article lead by Alice Beazer found a home in our special issue

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 The presence of minoritized representatives is considered essential to advance the interests and inclusion of minoritized groups. But do minoritized citizens prefer politicians like them? de Jong explores these representations. Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/49ued0m

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 Some Dutch minorities are numerically well-represented, but exclusions mean they do not feel they are Dutch, shaped by boundaries and privileges in complex ways. Article by @nellageurts.bsky.social, Glas, Sipma & @nielsspierings.bsky.social is available here: https://buff.ly/3ZxzH84

✨Time for meta reflection✨ In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very happy to see our special issue and introduction published @ersjournal.com !

❗️Our next workshop will be on December 12th, 6 pm CET on Big data made small: Harness the power of #SQL via #Python (through DuckDB) by @alemartinello.com ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support 🇺🇦! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

We (@marikenvelden.bsky.social) are looking forward to receiving proposals for summer holidays / papers & panels for the @ecpr.bsky.social section on "Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion" #ecprgc25 More here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

👩‍🏫 Showcase your research on a prestigious global stage 🌎 📢 Call for Panels & Papers now OPEN for our General Conference https://buff.ly/3AMuRvm 🔍 Seeking contributions across 60 Sections covering all corners of political science 👉 Submit by 6 Jan https://buff.ly/34n6JwY #ecprgc25

📆 21 November, 15:00-16:30CET 🗣️hybrid event at EUI on our edited volume w/ Routledge on the Parliamentary Dimension of #CoFoE with @simonhix.bsky.social chaired by Kalypso Nicolaidis. 👉 Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=57... Open Access: www.routledge.com/9781032747644 @sceus.bsky.social EUsky

As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here: jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/ And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

Happy to share the intro to our forthcoming special issue in @ERSjournal on the political representation of minorities during #Covid19. Saskia Glas and I look at past crises and present 7 exciting articles exploring the topic from different angles www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

Job Alert!🎓2 PhD positions in my research group 'Media Coverage of Majority & Minority Groups' at TUM with focus on automated text analysis/computational social science & qualitative content analysis. Apply by March 25th! ⬇️ portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens... portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

As fears of disinformation are making their way from #davos into headlines, this new publication might be timely: In a survey-experiment @adrauc.bsky.social and I show that alarmist warnings against disinformation carry significant unintended negative effects. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

2-months Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer fellowship at LMU Munich. two teams of fellows collaborate on real-world data science projects, aiming to create a meaningful impact for the social good. sites.google.com/view/dssgx-m...

Join us in two hours for @rebeccakittel.bsky.social's talk 😊 Zoom link ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

Our ECPR section for next year’s General Conference in Dublin was accepted this week 🥳🇮🇪👩🏻‍💻🍀 🗓️Together with Martina Novotna (Masaryk Uni Brno), we look forward to your submissions by 18 January. 📍Check out description with tentative panels here: bit.ly/polcomm-ECPR and get in touch with questions!

Considering a PhD in the social sciences? Very attractive 4 year PhD positions at Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research AISSR. Develop your own proposal. Become part of excellent groups. Deadline 17 March 🗓️ polisky csssky socsky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Open...

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my team at the Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich. - 3 years - Focus: online toxicity, experiments, causal inference - Deadline: January 7 - Starting: April 2024 polisky Commsky csssky More portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

Digital Journalism interviewed my PhD student Alice Beazer on her first publication. She summarizes her findings and experience publishing it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1iAhw... The full paper is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With @stefaniewalter.bsky.social #EUsky

We are hiring a postdoc for 2 years as part of the ERC-StG project INEQNEWS aiming to examine social inequalities in digital news consumption! Apply by December 15! smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/post...

Happy about co-authored work with @schnizzl.bsky.social on this timely topic. We look at drivers of electoral support for the populist radical-right on the demand- and supply-side. Finally, a first joined publication since we were colleagues @ UniMannheim more than 8 years ago. #OpenAccess

ECPR Winter School Course on Survey Design Date: Monday 5 – Friday 9 February 2024 Time: 13:30 – 16:45 CET #ecprws24 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Which student has not faced this problem...

@sabrinajmayer.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on "Emotions and Electoral Behaviour" for the #DVPW Kongress in 2024 & are looking for your contributions! Submit your paper abstracts until 31 October: meine.dvpw.de/einreichungen/ (you need to register first)

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back from summer break and starts again next Wednesday 🎉 More info on dates, our amazing speakers, and how to join ⬇️ polisky #cssky

Do you want to analyze documents written in different languages, but you don't know what challenges you'll face and what solutions exist? Then @fabiennelind.bsky.social and I got you covered with our guide to multilingual text analysis in Comp Comm. Research. 👇👇 www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted. But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now. And that worries me.

What is the best sampling approach for multilingual texts? In our new paper in Computational Communication Research, we (Sean-Kelly Palicki, Wouter van Atteveldt, Alice Beazer, & Isaac Bravo) find that experts know best www.aup-online.com/content/jour...   commsky polcomm polisky PolDataSky

Doing empirical research on disability + politics? Moritz Raykowski and I are putting together a panel for APSA Virtual on 8-9 Feb 24 connect.apsanet.org/virtual-rese.... If you'd like to be part of it send your title + abstract to [email protected] by Oct 12th. polisky behavioursky

My book on data management is available #OpenAccess at www.cambridge.org/core/books/d... ! Also, check out the companion webpage at dmbook.org. I hope that the book will be useful for your research and teaching.

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions.

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🚨Job alert 🚨 We have 2️⃣ postdoc positions in our new interdisciplinary research priority area AI & Politics. We define both AI and politics broadly. Think 'impact of AI on politics' or 'politicisation of AI'. Please share.And apply by 🗓️ October 18 polisky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...