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/

#DataMethods #OpenScience #GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences. methodshub.gesis.org/#DataMethods#OpenScience#GESISMethodsHub:

Happy start of the Berlin (German) Vorlesungszeit to all who celebrate!

Also available in English: www.rki.de/EN/Topics/In...

Interesting page to watch today: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Die Aufklärung von Falschinformationen & Impfmythen ist ein wichtiges Anliegen, daher klären wir regelmäßig auf. Fakt heute: Autismus entsteht durch Veränderungen in der früh­kindlichen Gehirn­entwicklung. Als Haupt­ursache gelten genetische Faktoren. 🔗 www.rki.de/impfmythen

🎉 As of today, September 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer heads the "Research Data & Methods" team at CAIS. Together with the University of Duisburg-Essen, he has been appointed Professor of Digital Social Sciences. 🎉 🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/news/joha... @johannesbreuer.com @unidue.bsky.social

🎉 Prof. Johannes Breuer übernimmt ab 1.9.2025 die Leitung des Teams „Research Data & Methods“. Gemeinsam mit der Universität Duisburg-Essen wurde er zum Professor für Digitale Sozialwissenschaften berufen. 🎉 🔗 www.cais-research.de/news/Johanne... @johannesbreuer.com breuer.com @unidue.bsky.social

📣Open access erschienen: #M&K Heft 3/2025 zu "Diversität, Intersektionalität und Geschlecht im Journalismus" 🗺️🌈📖, herausgegeben von @mluenenborg.bsky.social, @ananzinga.bsky.social, @yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social und @bernadetteuth.bsky.social 👉 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/1...

Very nice location for our 4th DiMES workshop today with @audreyalejandro.bsky.social. Thanks to @jojukao.bsky.social for organizing and @dennmis.bsky.social for setting us up in Villa Engler @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...

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🤖 In einer Zeit, in der KI-basierte Systeme und Plattformen tief in unser tägliches Leben eingreifen – von Informationsverbreitung bis hin zur #Meinungsbildung –, stellt sich die dringende Frage:

I did not see the "declaration of competing interest" before. Now this seems to be problematic when you decide to use a data cleaning procedure that would likely bias your results in a predictable way, even if it is preregistered...

This paper seems relevant, claiming (per title) "AI-assisted audio-learning improves academic achievement through motivation and reading engagement" (doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...). Yet, excluding half of the treatment for not listening to the podcast seems like a problem, no?

This paper seems relevant, claiming (per title) "AI-assisted audio-learning improves academic achievement through motivation and reading engagement" (doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...). Yet, excluding half of the treatment for not listening to the podcast seems like a problem, no?

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