📢 Call for Abstracts — Deadline: January 16. COMPTEXT 2026 will again be a fantastic place to discover the latest computational methods, tools, datasets & to connect with scholars using AI across communication science, political science, history, sociology, IR, and more.

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting the computational communication science team from TU Ilmenau at our lab at LMU Munich. It was a really fun visit. Getting to know other CCS and CCR teams is always great. 🤓

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

🚨 Big reveal! New year, new logo, same event! 🚨 Join us for some fun at the 2026 ICA pre-conference hackathon in Stellenbosch, June 3-4. Stay tuned!

We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦 Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/ Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.

This week, we have @lorenzspreen.bsky.social visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out: css-synosys.github.io

✨ New in Nature Climate Change (@natclimchange.bsky.social): Climate injustice through unequal news 🎈 highlights how climate injustice is fueled by disparities in information access across the Global South, including a recent study by J. Thaker et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7MLX (or: doi.org/10.1038/s415...)

💥 4th Data Donation Symposium @LMU Munich 🗓 October 9th-10th 2025 (no conference fee) 👉 Empirial work employing data donations, method development, tools & infrastructures, etc. 🔍More info & CfP: data-donation-symposium.ifkw.lmu.de

'Tis the season: Our lab is very busy... eating Christmas cookies, writing greeting cards, and discussing fun things to do during the holidays. That is to say: We'll be off for a while, enjoy the holidays everyone! 🌲❄️

Today, our research group hosted a talk by @martinriedl.bsky.social who discussed deepfakes on digital platforms - and how to counter them through coordinated reporting. Thanks for joining us, Martin! #CSS #Platforms #Governance

Hello, world! The #CSS Lab at @ifkw.bsky.social @LMU Munich is now officially on #bluesky. 🙌 Let's discuss #css, #digitalmethods, #AI, & all things #commsci 👉 Parts of our team: @marhai.bsky.social, @simonluebke.bsky.social, @nadjaoz.bsky.social @pschwabl.bsky.social, & @valeriehase.bsky.social