Jetzt an der LMU: Master Computational Social Science (M.Sc.) Bewerbungen für die 2. Kohorte sind offen. Der interdisziplinäre Studiengang verbindet Kommunikationswissenschaft, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft mit daten- und computergestützten Methoden. Info-Sprechstunde: 27. April.

Das Programm für Pint of Science 2026 ist online und der Ticketverkauf hat begonnen! 🎟️ pintofscience.at/events/wien/ Seid dabei vom 18.–20. Mai 2026, jeweils 19–21:00 Uhr, bei Wissenschaftsvorträgen an verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten in Wien – und in vielen weiteren Städten weltweit. #pint26 🧪

Who talked about climate action? 🌱➡️Our multilingual multi-country 🇪🇺election campaign analysis shows the party families and countries that made this topic visible on social media. Details? Visit our poster #Klimatage 2026

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

How to keep social media audiences engaged for the environment? 🗣️👍🌱@veronikaebner.bsky.social presents exciting ongoing work on the potential of solutions-oriented communication at the @cidape.bsky.social Conference on Political Emotions and Climate Change

☀️ The Call for a fantastic Summer School is out: 👇

✨Deadline for abstract submission to COMPTEXT 2026: Friday January 16 ✨

📢 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.

CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you! It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars. We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️

Come work with us - we have a very cool environment, amazing colleagues, and you're never far away from the sea (or a cinnamon bun). Also: 🇩🇰 actually beliefs in work-life balance, fair recruiting and being child friendly 😀

CCL contributions to the new #ElgarEncyclopedia of #PoliticalCommunication, edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social! 🤝 CCL authors include @hosseinkermani.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @fabiennelind.bsky.social, & @jamoeberl.bsky.social 📝

Definitely a great place to work + an extra nice team ☀️

Are you working on climate, emotions, or social media communication? ✨ Why not join us in Florence next spring 🤗How: Submit your abstract to our panel at the @cidape.bsky.social conference by December 31,2025.

Looking forward to a new colleague at the University of Vienna!:) New post doc position in Political Text Analyses with @chriswratil.bsky.social 👇

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

🏆 Hans Bausch Media Preis 2026 Das Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Tübingen und der SWR vergeben 5.000 € für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zur gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung in digitalen Öffentlichkeiten. 🗓 Deadline: 31. Dez 2025 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

We currently have the pleasure of hosting Karolina Garančovská & @lise-loresteeman.bsky.social for a research stay at the CCL! Both presented their fascinating ongoing work – from EU crisis communication to media representations & discrimination. 🧩 Thank you for sharing your insights with us! 🤗

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

I'm hiring! Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production! @excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

Earlier this month, @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @veronikaebner.bsky.social had insightful cross-fertilization sessions within @cidape.bsky.social about social media data on climate change, emotions, and inequalities 🌐 It’s great to see the project moving forward! 🙌

A good reminder for how we try to do things at @gpccomm.bsky.social - we're here to help! Sometimes that might mean a rejection with feedback, but our passion isn't rejection but rather, scholarship. We're proud to represent @icahdq.bsky.social =) Submit now, at: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm

🎙️ New @ccspod.bsky.social episode! I unpack how computational methods transform the study of opinionated communication + share insights from my work on studying climate change campaigns on social media with @cidape.bsky.social Listen here 👉 aboutccs.net/opinion/

Check out one of the first publications from the CIDAPE project @cidape.bsky.social on „Climate, Inequality and Democratic Action - The Force of Political Emotions“ 👇

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

For the team "Research Data & Methods" at @cais-research.bsky.social we are looking for a Ph.D. student (75%) to start on October 1st, 2025. The application deadline is August 21st: stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76 Feel free to spread the word anc contact me if you have any questions!

Today, we wrapped up the first part of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @unibremen.bsky.social with a hackathon 👩‍💻 #WomeninPolMeth #PolMeth #wpm So far, we've had a great week thanks to our fantastic participants and instructors 🧵⏬

I'm giving a talk tomorrow! Come join 👩‍🏫

New #CSS publication in Annals of the ICA! 🎉 Big congrats to first author @ahrabhikat.bsky.social ! It was a pleasure collaborating on this project. Stay tuned for more exciting work from her dissertation, building on this systematic literature review on #racism, #stereotypes, #hatespeech in text.

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

🚨ALERT: Klimaziel wackelt! 🚨 @ Präsident Macron: in Paris wurde der internationale Klimaschutz geboren - Seien Sie bitte nicht derjenige, der ihn jetzt zu Grabe trägt.

🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨ Great studies ahead 👀 #CSS #polcom

💥💥💥 Deadline tomorrow!

📌Reminder: Am Samstag hält Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam im Rahmen von disCONNECT & CREATE auf dem HHU-Campus einen Workshop zu "Wer trifft die Entscheidung? Was jede:r über KI & Diskriminierung wissen sollte". Bucht euch ein kostenloses Ticket und kommt vorbei! @ahrabhikat.bsky.social @hhu.de

🚨 Call for Participation – #DigiMeet2025 🚨 Topic: Platform Governance & Power – Between Control, Ethics, and Societal Dynamics A vibrant forum to: ✅ Share and discuss ongoing research ✅ Connect across disciplines and institutions ✅ Spark ideas for new (ideally collaborative!) projects

Last day of #ica25 🔥 Proud to have presented our work in progress on climate action salience on social media ahead of the 2024 EP elections 🇪🇺 for @cidape.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social @nhabelitz.bsky.social @sonjablum.bsky.social @tillhilmar.bsky.social @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social

Protest Update: A large police and SWAT presence, with about 15 armored vehicles and multiple officers, is gathering at Welton & 18th Streets. Although no confirmed activity is approaching our event area, this preparation suggests authorities might expect larger gatherings.#ICA25

Hi #ICA25 students & early-career scholars! 🎓 We've built a "Student Track" just for you! Find it in the ICA app: Schedule -> More Filters -> Tags -> Student Track. From your friends at the Student and Early Career Advisory Committee (SECAC), we can't wait to see you there!

👉 Am 21. Juni, 14:30-16:00 Uhr: Workshop mit Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social – ⚖️ „Wer trifft die Entscheidung? Was jede:r über KI & Diskriminierung wissen sollte“. Erfahre, wie Algorithmen unser Leben beeinflussen & lerne Tools, um sie kritisch zu hinterfragen. #FutureMeetsYou

Wann join us in Vienna? 😊Apply for a 4year phd position with the @compcommlab.bsky.social

Have you ever lived in one of the countries below? Want to help our research project by looking at some AI slop and answering questions about it? Then simply like this post, and I will DM you with details! Countries (or, rather, flags to save space): 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧 🇺🇦🇫🇷🇮🇹🇨🇳🇹🇼 🇮🇳🇫🇮🇷🇴🇭🇺🇪🇸 🇲🇽🇪🇬🇱🇧🇵🇸🇦🇺🇨🇲 Reposts welcome :)

Are you doing a PhD in Journalism Studies? Would you like to get feedback on your work from experienced scholars in the field? Then join us for the 6th Journalism Studies PhD Colloquium in Groningen on April 8th, 2026! Deadline for abstracts is 6 June 2025. For the full CfP, check: edu.nl/nfd7h

Open Call for Applications:📢 Summer School on 'Democratic Backsliding and Political Conflict' at ‪@sns.it‬ organized by CIDAPE WP6 Co-Lead Manuela Caiani. www.sns.it/it/evento/su...

@haukelicht.bsky.social and I have exciting news! Our joint project „Group Appeals in Parliamentary and Electoral Debates“ has been approved for funding by the DFG and the FWF! The project will start on Feb 1, 2026 and we’ll be hiring: 📍Pre-doc (Mannheim) 📍Post-doc (Innsbruck) Stay tuned for calls!

Combining Computational Methods with the Narrative Policy Framework: First deep-dive insights into the energy policy narratives during the 2024 EU election campaigns ⚡️☀️💨

Nora Habelitz presenting research results with Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social and Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social at #ecprjs25. "Energized? How German and Italian Politicians emotionally narrate energy policy in the EU Elections 2024."🔋

Kolleg:innen bitten um Teilnahme: "Hören Sie gerne Hörbücher? Für eine Studie der Universität Wien interessiert uns, wie Sie die Stimmen von verschiedenen Sprecher:innen beurteilen. Die Umfrage dauert 10 Minuten und ist anonym." 📖🎙️🎧 Hier geht's zur Umfrage 👇

How were, are, and can we measure #racism using #CSS? Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗 Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...

@ahrabhikat.bsky.social is presenting the findings from her PhD project at the conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“ 🤩