New preprint: my contribution for @marhai.bsky.social and @emesedomahidi.bsky.social 's The Handbook of Computational Communication Research discusses the transition of the field from bag-of-words to word embeddings to transformer based contextualized embeddings. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

If you have any questions about this job, let me know! It is a great opportunity and very important work!

Thanks @christinaviehmann.bsky.social, @jbgruber.bsky.social and @gesis.org for the invitation! I had an absolutely fantastic time with many inspiring conversations and new connections with excellent researchers. Thanks for treating me so well, Cologne! #CSS #DSS

Finally back home again, sleeping between my loved ones: my wife, our dog, and our Midea Portasplit 12000 BTU 3.5kW air conditioner 💗

3 conferences in the last 3 weeks done! Was ist too much? Maybe, I'm definitely exhausted. But it was great to see so many colleagues doing new and interesting research, and I feel updated about what's happening in #commsky, data archiving, and #polsky

I read an article in a German newspaper yesterday that passionately argued for age restricting social media. Just a reminder that this is a very stupid idea. pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...

#pride26 #pridemonth This Pride Month we want to highlight two very different publications: a practical guide on how to account for gender diversity in evaluation, and a cartoon on what diversity looks like in everyday life. 🔗doi.org/10.31244/zfe... 🎨pushbacklash.eu/wp-c...

#cessda50 was such a great event - and lots of fun being there with my amazing colleagues. Thanks to @cessda.bsky.social for bringing the community together

About to begin-💡 EPSS Showcase: Using AI in Political Science Research virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 15:20-17:00 | Lagan (ICC), with @kenbenoit.bsky.social, @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social, @jbgruber.bsky.social, Allison Wun-hui Koh, Simon Luck and Leonce Röth

Photo evidence by @aytalina.bsky.social 😃

Happy Birthday to @cessda.bsky.social ! Looking forward to an exiting conference progam here in Bergen, Norway.

Einen Monat später immer noch nicht gefixt...

@gruene.de ihr habt da irgendwas komisch eingestellt. Wenn man auf bsky.app/profile/grue... geht, kommt man zu @felixbanaszak.bsky.social . Oder soll das so?

Announcing #rstats {atrrr} 0.2.0 is on CRAN now! 🥳

Posting live from stage at #ica26 where I present our #rstats 🎁 {atrrr} which can interact with 🦋

Hi #ica26. We have an open 4.5 yr Postdoc position @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Berlin in PolComm/Comp Social Scienes on opinion dynamics in climate topics. Hit me up if you want a to talk about it in CT or send to colleagues who might be interested. www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)

Computational methods division top paper goes to Paul Balluff, @christinaviehmann.bsky.social, Maximilian Linde, @yapete.bsky.social, Jun Sun, Chung-hong Chan from @gesis.org. Huge congrats everyone!

The dedication of some #ica26 presenters! Kunhao Yang got delayed by a day by a Taifun and used it as an example 8n in his presentation he gave after walking on stage straight from the airport 😮

Very happy I made it to #ica26, and not just for the great breakfast view 🤓

I have to update one of the most inflammatory things I said back on the bird site, but for the LLM era: 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 If your agent prefaces every tool call with `cd /the/current/workspace &&`, I will come set your data center on fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

I will teach Web Scraping and Data Management at @essexsummerschool.bsky.social this year! Learn to: - manage research data (in tables, files, databases etc.) 📂 - Systematically get data from the internet (APIs, scraping, browser automation) 🤖 - wrangle your data in #rstats to make it useful 📈

@gruene.de ihr habt da irgendwas komisch eingestellt. Wenn man auf bsky.app/profile/grue... geht, kommt man zu @felixbanaszak.bsky.social . Oder soll das so?

PSA: I nearly got ❗scammed ❗today. There is a surprising amount of correct details in this message, including the dates of my post #ica26 stay in Cape Town, my name and phone number and even the correct booking code. I still checked via the booking com chat - they never texted me!

Marvin wanted to introduce the second set of breakout sessions for #HackICA26: 🖼️Multimodal data analysis @Nadezhda Ozornina 💻From Vibe to Rigor: Claude Code in Social Science @jbgruber.bsky.social 🌐Hosting academic websites on GitHub @feloe.bsky.social Register now! www.icahdq.org/events/Event...

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

I updated to R 4.6 this morning. Time to run my good old script again that install all my old packages from the previous R version again 😀

I had to either present or be discussant during all 3 panel slots yesterday at #COMPTEXT2026, so I didn't understand how difficult it is to choose between 6 parallel sessions that all look great! Can I please see them all 😭

🆕 I am exceptionally pleased to announce the release of the 'twitter' issue of M/C Journal, which I co-edited with @hermida.bsky.social. This celebrates / commiserates / memorialises / laments the 20th anniversary of what used to be #Twitter. #mcjournal journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...

The Annual General Meeting is under way at #COMPTEXT2026 – you can still make it and make your voice heard!

If you are doing any #quarto slidecrafting, i have been trying really hard to keep this page updated with everything I have done emilhvitfeldt.com/project/slid...

I love the open source community! I wondered if you can run Windows in a Docker container on Linux, and yes you can and yes, that includes older versions of Windows 😀

*job* work with my great colleagues at @gesis.org CSS group led by @clauwa.bsky.social and @sebstier.bsky.social

🚨Wir stellen ein 🚨 Das Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social sucht zwei Doktorand:innen im CCS-Bereich! Digitale Methoden, jede Menge spannende Daten und ein fantastisches Team mit @grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social und @thejanrau.bsky.social … was will man mehr? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Eight years ago, like 84% of voters in the EU, I voted to abolish daylight saving time in 🇪🇺. Twice a year, the continued existence of this nonsense feeds my growing disillusionment with politics. As my night ends at 5 am CET, today is one of these days.

Great academic position opened at @mpifg.bsky.social

My and @max-web.bsky.social 's #rstats 📦 {rollama} just got an update with some bug fixes and several cool new features! Now using open weight models for text and image annotation in R is even easier!

Not sure when the little resource monitor was added to Interpreter sessions in Positron, but I love it! #rstats

Tomorrow, March 21, Twitter would have turned 20 years. With the rebranding to X, I am not sure how much there is to celebrate. But I use the occasion to reflect on my own work about Twitter and the role researchers like my colleagues at @gesis.org play for understanding platforms role in society

have fun at the datasprint and see you all later at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social!

Very excited for this event organized by our own (@gesis.org) Johannes Kiesel and @christinaviehmann.bsky.social. Let's see what a Datasprint is!

Go work with Christina. She is awesome! And this is a fantastic opportunity (with a 100% contract).

⌛ Only one week left to apply! *Deadline 17.3.2026* Come and work with us on innovative approaches to gain insights into misinformation dynamics across platforms specifically endangering young people.

I made two Claude Code discoveries this week: 1. you can run a (fully?) local setup, in this case with Ollama and the qwen3-coder-next model 2. you can spawn random MCP servers on your machine to give the model access to specific tools, like an #rstats session to read package documentation

Join us next week Friday, March 20, for a presentation by @leticiabode.bsky.social and @pfchap.bsky.social on "Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data". Registration required via events.gwdg.de/event/1260/

Exciting news: @hajoboo.bsky.social will take over as Editor-in-Chief of CCR @computationalcommunication.org from June 7. Hajo is a dream candidate to take over and I have no doubt CCR will continue to flourish under his leadership. Welcome! journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...

The sun is out, so 'enjoyed' a bit less internet on the weekend. How is it going in the world?! 😀 Ah, right...

📢 Study out in Research & Politics! We (@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @msaeltzer.bsky.social) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media. 🔍 doi.org/10.1177/2053... Some Highlights [1/3]

📢Publication alert 📢 LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs! Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!

One of my favourite events of the year! Learn about new tools/methods/people and hack on some dataset/tool/project 😍