Our incoming colleague @jolukito.bsky.social is welcomed by a *very* enthusiastic room, presenting her research agenda and the challenges of cross-platform data collection. Welcome Jo! We are so happy to have you with us! 😊❤️

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

💓I am so (so, so) very excited to be joining @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social, starting February 2026, where I will continue my work on computational methods/AI, researcher data access, multi-platform language flows, and political extremism. 💓 1/

🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨 Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections And it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

Really sharp reporting on the paradoxes of anti-government conspiracy theories by @aliswenson.bsky.social and @nickriccardi.bsky.social. Unfortunately for Trump, “Now that he’s running the federal government, the community he helped build is coming back to haunt him.” apnews.com/article/trum...

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

I'm chairing the panel on "Right-wing Media" this afternoon at 3. Pretty killer line up of papers and speakers.🔥 Find us at Regency, Capitol 5! #PolComm

Standing room only at @zeningduan.bsky.social and @alvinyxz.bsky.social 's @icacm.bsky.social panel on LLMs #ica25

So excited to see @shugars.bsky.social present their #ica25 paper, "An Ecosystem Divided" on cross-platform linking between Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, and 4chan during the 2022 election.

Hello world!

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So thrilled to have worked on this important piece with @yang3kc.bsky.social @m-dot-brown.bsky.social and Kayo Mimizuka. Data access for independent researchers is at such a critical juncture

@jolukito.bsky.social pointed out to me that academics constantly use present progressive tense ("I am wanting") when we should be using present tense ("I want"). Now I can't unsee it, it's everywhere

Late to this as I was wrapping up the semester (including a language, media politics class), but @alexpghayes.com 's kind QT reminded me of many helpful writing tips. But a quick disclaimer: wrt syntax/grammar, I'm more of a descriptivist than a prescriptivist. Okay, academic writing advice 🧵 👇

Come learn with me! 👋 I'm very excited to be teaching this Topical Workshop (20 hours), which will cover 2 big topics digital data collection and machine learning with genAI. Topics we will cover: Data Collection 101 Data Scraping 101 Text Cleaning Classic ML Zero/Few Shot Learning

The dismantling of American science. NSF CAREER grants are extremely competitive and help early career scientists establish their labs and independent lines of research. Such a loss!

Question for the crowd: Is there an existing dataset or source for the tariffs levied since Jan 20, 2025 to today (~79 days) for each country? Thought about compiling one from presidential actions docs. Don't want to use news source-derived event data.

Friends, if you live in Texas, you can help us voice opposition to HB17. This racist bill would effectively ban people from certain Asian countries (+Russia) on temporary visas from RENTING or buying property. For those affected, the only option would be to leave TX.

Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu

FITCH: “This is a game changer, not only for the US economy but for the global economy. Many countries will likely end up in a recession. You can throw most forecasts out the door, if this tariff rate stays on for an extended period of time." 🇺🇸

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. TAXATION IS LIBERATION.

Out now: GESIS Guides to DBD #14: Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and @johannesbreuer.com. www.gesis.org/filead...

New publication in the @gesis.org Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and me: "Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data" rrr.is/dbdethics

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Attacks on researchers are an age-old tactic deployed by autocrats to destroy public accountability. We all see what’s happening to NIH, NSF, etc. But there are many more, less obvious attacks happening and in the works. 1/

Not hot take: graduate schools (especially ones training aspiring TT faculty) should require some sort of project management training.

Will saying "a female participant" be grounds for exclusion for any NSF grant? This list of NSF-not-allowed-words is (obviously) overly broad to the point of uselessness, which is absolutely the goal.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Because it's not like we didn't see Musk do the same thing after he purchased Twitter. Literally down to the subject line: "A Fork in the Road" abcnews.go.com/Business/com...

Not sure how to do this in a "representative way" but I'd **love** to compile (and analyze) a corpus of all the university emails being sent about NIH/NSF research.

1/8. You might have heard that it’s a bad idea to talk about (racial) inequality and/or equity-enhancing programs and policies. Over the past few years, both scholars and pundits have argued those messages undermine support for important policies. Well, that conclusion may be a bit premature.

Not sure what the word-equivalent of subtweeting (lowskeeting?) but... I am really annoyed that in papers w/ sm data about political candidates, we still get asked about informed consent as an ethical framework. I should not need Trump's permission to study his truth social posts.

I didn't either (or email) but if you open the individual submission in the view submissions page of the submission site and scroll down to the bottom of the window that pops up you will see your reviews and at the very bottom a line that starts with "DECISION STATUS:"

🚨New Publication in New Media & Society🚨 Co-First-Authored w/ @m-dot-brown.bsky.social @meredithpruden.bsky.social & @markriedl.bsky.social Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. jlukito.com/s/brown-et-a...

I'm working on a starter pack... its focus is Information Warfare, Covert Ops and Propaganda... trying to fill gaps on existing lists of 'disinfo' experts and bring in a wider sweep of experts on covert ops & information warfare, broadly defined. go.bsky.app/7NTCqKZ

🚨 Thrilled to share that the paper I co-authored with @jolukito.bsky.social, "Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities?", has been published in @polcommjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨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/...

🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09). docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!

When X feeds experimentally show people fewer posts with antidemocratic attitudes, people feel more positively toward outpartisans, finds @tiziano.bsky.social @msaveski.bsky.social @jiachenyan.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social et al. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.14652

AI enabled disinformation in the 2024 super election year. Sign up for *online* discussion w/ @markscott.bsky.social, @jolukito.bsky.social, Mato Brautovic, & @taberez.bsky.social. Co-organised by EDMO, @aimediademlab.bsky.social, Aqsa Farooq, Sophie Morosoli & 🙋 www.eventbrite.nl/e/unraveling...

If you have access this piece from Rob Asen on “anti-woke publics” from the recent PolComm forum I co-edited is very smart. (I will try to loop back later with a pdf for folks w/o access)

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🚨 New publication: "Connective action in Myanmar: a mixed-method analysis of Spring Revolution" in @icsjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NI3VR... Co-authored w/ Taeyoung Lee, Zelly Martin, Katlyn Glover, An Hu & Dennis Cui (1/n)

Such a pleasure to talk to @ccspod.bsky.social about political language and computational methods, including hot topics like mis/disinformation, trading up the chain, contemporary news, fact-checking social media content, and the challenges of multi-platform research ❤️

ICYMI: this piece by @jolukito.bsky.social on scholarly solidarity is 🔥 "political communication should be trend-setters in scholarly solidarity [...] to ensure that the job of being a political communication researcher is healthy, happy, and fruitful." commsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👋 I wasn't using the other platform much anyway, so I'm going to try to make the transition here. (I say try because the more I study social media, the less I want to be on them.)