#Congratulations 🎉 ASCoR researcher @hannescools.bsky.social received a 2-year grant from @sidnfonds.bsky.social to study how news organisations can break free from Big Tech using open-source AI.

🚨 #Jobalert Are you looking for a #postdoc position in political communication research? We are looking for a postdoc for the Horizon Europe-funded project. 📅Deadline: 8 June 2026 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/5xecsskf

🎰 Increasing amounts of gambling content in our social media feeds? 📺 Tonight at 9:15 PM on NPO 2: ‘Gokkers op je tijdlijn’ This episode explores how online gambling content is increasingly appearing in our timelines and the impact it may have on young people.

🚨 #Jobalert Within the AuthentiMark consortium, we currently have three PhD vacancies. The project is funded by an NWA/KIC grant from NWO (the Dutch Research Council). Application deadline for all three positions: 15 May.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, @philippdarius.bsky.social! He is working at the Artificial Intelligence, Media & Democracy (AIMD) Lab at ASCoR and studies how AI, digital platforms, and political communication shape democratic governance.

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a #PhD Candidate for the project "Democratic moral craftmanship and media". In this project, you examine the role of Dutch media in shaping, maintaining, and debating the democratic moral craftsmanship of politicians and administrators.

🚨#Jobalert In this project, you will create a longitudinal dataset containing the media and web consumption patterns of individuals, linking content data with its consumers, and bridging between meso-level public debate and micro-level individual behavior and attitudes.

🚨 #Jobalert Are you interested in researching the interplay between AI and politics and its societal consequences? Would you like to join a new Research Priority Area and work in an interdisciplinary team?

🚨 #Jobalert ASCoR and the Digital Data Donation Infrastructure (D3I) are seeking a highly motivated Postdoc / Research Engineer to support, maintain and extend the data donation infrastructure (datadonation.eu). 📅Deadline: 2 March 2026 🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

We are pleased to #welcome🎉 our new #PhD candidate, Niklas Fritsche. His research investigates how misinformation reinforces existing beliefs in polarized contexts. He focuses on how group norms and linguistic bias shape perceived accuracy, and on interventions that can reduce these effects.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new #PhD candidate, @quyangzhao.bsky.social. Her research will focus on algorithmic persuasion on TikTok among young adults. She will investigate why certain young people are vulnerable to such persuasion, and how we can design effective interventions to address it.

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Yagmur Ozbay! She will study how social media design influences (dis)engagement, with a focus on promoting young people’s autonomy and reducing digital overuse, in collaboration with Dr. Sindy Sumter and Dr. Helen Vossen.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @lisemarienassen.bsky.social. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (CCaM), Lise-Marie will work as programme manager on the SpaceTeen project, funded by CLICKNL.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @martinjansen.bsky.social. He has recently joined the Persuasive Communication group as a postdoctoral researcher. In his new role, he will work on a project focused on developing communication campaigns for gambling care.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Abby Qin. Abby studies how information systems shape democratic life across individual lived experience, local information ecosystems, and institutional design. We wish her every success in this exciting new chapter.

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a highly motivated #postdoctoral researcher for the research project: ‘That’s (not) appropriate’ – the Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning. 📅Deadline: 18 January 2026 🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a motivated, junior #Postdoc Researcher to join the project “MIND-CHAT: May I help you? An Intervention for Depression through a culturally-sensitive Chatbot". 📅Deadline: 9 January 2026 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/y6hk439s

#Congratulations 🎉 to ASCoR member @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, who has recently been awarded an #NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2025 grant for the project “Effects of Short-Form Video Use on Recovery and Well-Being.” Learn more about the Open Competition SSH XS–funded projects 👇

#Congratulations 🎉 to ASCoR Researchers Prof. Dr. Guda van Noort, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social and @christianburgers.bsky.social on the NWO KIC grant of €3.2 million for their AuthentiMark project, which aims to combat online impersonation Read more 📰 #InTheMedia/News: www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Anke Stoll. Dr. Anke Stoll is investigating how human bias - particularly the political leaning of annotators - may shape the decision-making of algorithms for facial expression recognition.

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Join us on 6 Nov for the AISSR Lecture by Renee DiResta, @noupside.bsky.social, author of the book 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴. On how social media reshapes power & politics. Co-hosted by @ascor.bsky.social ➡️ Register here: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

🚨#Jobalert The AI, Media & Democracy Lab is seeking a #postdoctoral researcher with a background in communication science to investigate how the introduction of AI is changing the relationship between media, users, and technology, and what effects this has on democratic engagement.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new PhD candidate, Teresa Valle! Teresa is working on the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics”. Her research focuses on visual political communication and how visuals may be used to represent and elicit political anger.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new PhD candidate, Michael van Straelen! His research examines how people engage in political conversations with generative AI, how they perceive these tools, and how such interactions influence their political views and ideological (de) polarisation.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new PhD candidate, Jade van Dorth! Jade's #PhD project examines adolescents’ synthetic relationships with conversational AI, exploring their prevalence, causes, and effects on companionship, empowerment, isolation, and autonomy.

🚨 #Jobalert We’re seeking a motivated PhD candidate passionate about advertising, algorithms & social media to join our project “Algorithmic Persuasion on TikTok: A Differential Vulnerability Perspective” at the Persuasive Communication Program Group.

🚨 #Jobalert We’re looking for a motivated #PhD candidate to join our project “Addressing Craving in the City: Using system insights for personalized context-driven interventions to combat nicotine use,” focusing on personalized, context-driven interventions to tackle smoking and vaping.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new #PhD candidate, Tasha de Vries. Her PhD project, titled ‘Questioning Synthetic Advertising in a Synthetic World,’ conceptualizes the notion of synthetic advertising and explores how consumers engage with it within a synthetic environment.

We #congratulate🎉 @claesdevreese.bsky.social on receiving this year’s Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize for his extensive and internationally acclaimed research into the role played by algorithms and artificial intelligence in democratic processes.

We are pleased to #welcome🎉 our new PhD candidate, Nick Kerkhoff. His research examines the conditions under which upward social comparisons with greenfluencers promote pro-environmental behaviors among emerging adults. The project is funded by the NWO Doctoral Grant for Teachers.

🚨#Jobalert We are looking for a fully funded #Postdoc researcher for our “Invisible Languages” project. The role involves mapping the global presence of 7,000+ languages, co-developing community interventions with international partners, and advancing LLM frameworks for under-resourced languages.

🎉We #Congratulate ASCoR researcher @emmavandergoot.bsky.social, who has been awarded the Rubicon Grant 2025 from NWO and ZonMw for the project “Between criticism and complicity: how should journalists cover the uncivilized and misleading speeches of politicians?”. Read more 👇

🚨 #Jobalert Join us as a #PostDoc in the Horizon Europe project TWON (Twin of Online Social Network)! You'll work in the Political Communication & Journalism group, as well as in the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab. 📅Deadline: 28 July 2025 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/mswjxnaj

🎉We #congratulate Minh Hao Nguyen, who has recently been awarded an #NWO Veni grant for her pioneering research project “Disconnection in an Always-Connected Society: A Novel Perspective on Digital Inequality”. Read more about the project 👇

🎉We #congratulate @ambervdwal.bsky.social, who has recently been awarded an #NWO Veni grant for her innovative multi-method project “Turning Algorithms for Good: Using Humor to Protect Youth from Harmful Social Media Content”. Read more about the project 👇

🎉We #congratulate Eva van Reijmersdal on winning the Insights Scientist of the Year 2025 award for her research on Influencer Marketing. The award is issued by the Dutch Data & Insights Network D&IN Insights. The jury praised the impact of her work on science, practice, and regulations.

🎉 DeMoCraft receives €6.6 million grant for research into democratic moral craftsmanship 🎉 From ASCoR's side, @christianburgers.bsky.social & @shjjacobs.bsky.social are involved. Read more about the grant through this link: ascor.uva.nl/shared/uva/e...

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

🎉 We #congratulate @feloe.bsky.social on receiving the KHMW Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation “Diversity of News Consumption in a Digital Information Environment” (VU, 2023), awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW).

I am truly honored and grateful for this #MobileComm award! It's so great to see that my MA thesis is being recognized in the field 🔥 #ica25 @ascor.bsky.social

Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level. I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25

🎉 We are proud to share big news from #ICA25 in Denver: @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, Professor at ASCoR, has been announced as a candidate for ICA President! A dedicated leader and scholar with deep ties to the ICA community. Election this Fall — stay tuned! #ICA25

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a highly motivated #PhD candidate for the four-year project “Nutrition Confusion in a Social Media World,” embedded within the Persuasive Communication Program Group. 📅Deadline: 4 June 2025 Read more 👇

🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!! 📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm 📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining! @alenakluknavska.bsky.social

Speaking at Spui 25 on the applications of AI in democratic practices, together with @plixavra.bsky.social. Moderated by Annemijn Kwikkers. 🗓️ May 20th at 4pm, Spui 25, Amsterdam Join us, the event is free 👇 @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social spui25.nl/programma/de...

#Welcome 🎉 to our new ASCoR member, Imran Khalid! Imran's research focuses on measuring and enhancing Digital Agency among adolescents, aiming to foster a healthier relationship with social media and support their overall well-being.

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a #postdoctoral researcher with an interest in journalism-related themes and a strong affinity for quantitative methods. The position is part of ASCoR, and the researcher will work closely with @markboukes.bsky.social. 📅Deadline: 25 May 2025 Read more 👇

🚨#Jobalert! Curious about how people discuss politics with generative AI like ChatGPT? Would you like to explore whether these conversations foster political deliberation or deepen polarisation? We’re looking for a motivated #PhD candidate to join our team. 🗓️Apply by: 22 May 👇See the link below

🎉 We #congratulate ASCoR researchers @feloe.bsky.social, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social, and @theoaraujo.bsky.social, along with other researchers, who have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to increase the sharing and reuse of digital trace data in a safe and ethical manner.