There are some (non ICA) Comm journals offering Registered Reports: - European Journal of Health Comm (@ejhc.bsky.social) - Communication Research Reports - Computational Communication Research (@computationalcommunication.org) - Frontiers in Communication See: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Morgen in Leipzig: blog.fid-media.de/2026/04/02/w...

This is a really cool study

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

So happy to see new research featured in JCOM in @scicommbites.bsky.social - see scicommbites.org/does-informa... - by @selinaabeckmann + @elena-link + @bachl.bsky.social

There’s a fine line between theoretical contribution and renaming things

Yay, best science communication @dianarieger.bsky.social ❤️ (www.ardmediathek.de/video/checke...)

Join our workshop for students/early-career scholars going to #ICA26 organized by @facusuenzo.bsky.social, @ambervdwal.bsky.social, @wendi-li-phd.bsky.social, @mqrmobile.bsky.social, @floprim.bsky.social. 📅 Friday, May 8th ⏰ 8:00 AM EDT | 12:00 PM UCT 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/AryewUXumCsC...

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

The show must go on

Happy start of the Berlin (German?) Vorlesungszeit to all who celebrate :) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social

I'm going to take that as a compliment

Call for Nominations: #Editor-in-Chief, Communication Methods and Measures #CMM Nominations & self-nominations welcome! 📌 Apply by May 15, 2026 📄 Submit CV + short rationale (≤250 words) 📧 [email protected] Please share with your networks! #AcademicJobs #AEJMC #CMM

This is a very good paper and you should all read it. However, to this part, I want to reply with Arthur Spirling: "Open generative AI models are a way forward for science" (doi.org/10.1038/d415...). Seriously, please don't default to sending students and other researchers to closed models.

love 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

Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie 🎉 Mit großem Einsatz haben viele FU-Angehörige die BUA in den vergangenen Jahren mitgestaltet. „Ihr Einsatz und Ihre Kreativität haben entscheidend zu diesem Meilenstein beigetragen“, sagt FU-Präsident Günter M. Ziegler. „Dafür danke ich Ihnen allen sehr herzlich!“

Moving forward together. 🤝 Die #BerlinUAlliance wird weiter gefördert – und startet mit „Beyond Boundaries“ in die nächste Phase. 🚀 Der vollständige Antrag ist jetzt online einsehbar: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/excellence-s...

Interesting overview by @solmg.bsky.social and @jatucker.bsky.social on what is going on with agentic AI in social since: www.brookings.edu/articles/the... Also this hidden gem at the end :D

Has Charité a problem with bot PhD supervisors? Or is finding all the cars the minimal requirement for supervision?

Oh hey, I am on this list. 🤩 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Happy last week of the Berlin Vorlesungszeit to everyone who celebrates. You almost made it through 16 weeks

Nobody uses this anymore but now I at least know that I would mostly see German communication research if anyone every posted something: bluesky-map.theo.io

Sad :'(

attention ever who wants to travel to @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

You should all absolutely read this paper by @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Miriam Siemon.

Super example for the value of descriptive research. Also very nice presentation

Read this paper, it's good

Don't know anything about the presentation, but amazing title chart

Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26

so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices

Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)

this is true, and truly sad :(

Best holiday letter received until now

Look, it is our special issue :)

One of the best places to do computational communication work

📍 Location: Munich 📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026 ⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026 Details: German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6... English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781... Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!

TIL about a new form of fraudulent academic publishing. A student pointed me to this article in the repository of the University of Limerick, doi.org/10.34961/res..., asking whether it is a credible source.

PSA: If you have somewhat chaotic folder and project structures in RStudio or Quarto projects, don't update {here} to 1.0.2: github.com/r-lib/here/i... Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong. #rstats

Come visit us in Berlin

As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...

This semester, I am teaching the third iteration of my "Content Analysis with Generative LLMs" class. For the first time, I am using a local cloud infrastructure, supported by the de.NBI infrastructure, instead of the OpenAI API. They published my testimonial here: cloud.denbi.de/about/testim...

As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/