Last monday we published our paper on AI Labels and a potential spillover effect on unlabeled posts on platforms such as Instagram in the ICWSM proceedings. If you are interested in our work you can now find it here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Huge thanks to my co-authors @ddimmery.com and Pu Yan!

Social media often functions like a funhouse mirror, amplifying the most extreme voices who dominate online discourse. As a result, people come to falsely believe those voices represent society and public opinion far more than they actually do: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

We have a new paper out in PNAS. Susanna’s thread outlines our findings. The big picture takeaway is that well-designed climate education (active, personally relevant, science-based) can complement fiscal and regulatory instruments by building public support for ambitious policy!

🎤 The 30th session of the PBC will host Cathrine Valentin Kjaer, PhD candidate at the European University Institute, who will present: “Online Political Influence: The Role of Groups.” 📍 Join us on Zoom! Please register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

📊🤖 New paper with @aa-philipp.bsky.social & colleagues! We investigate how LLMs construct social realities by testing OpenAI’s o3 on a highly context-sensitive task: racial categorization of YouTube creators. Access the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/0020...

New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss

📢 MZES PUBLIC LECTURE ❗️ 📆 Wed, 6 May, 2:30-4:00 pm CET 📍 MZES A 231 and via Zoom Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social , @eui-eu.bsky.social will talk on "Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses" Please share and join us! 🙂 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation? We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

When you see "AI-generated" on Instagram, does it make you more skeptical – or more trusting of everything without a label? New research from German Instagram users has answers for policymakers pushing for AI labeling laws. Good news and a warning👇

🚨My first preprint is out on @socarxiv.bsky.social! How do AI-generated content labels shape what people see as authentic on social media — and do labels have unintended side effects? osf.io/preprints/so... A thread 🧵

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

What happens when you reveal an IG post was made by #AI? Can ranked-choice voting reduce #polarization? These are the questions tackled by this year’s @hertieschool.bsky.social Data Science Thesis Award winners: Fabian Pawelczyk, Corbin Cerny, & Henry Baker. 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

„Die populistische Entgegensetzung von Volk und Elite zieht auch, weil sie als Ersatzvokabular für Klassenkonflikte fungiert.“ – Jens Bisky spricht mit Lea Elsässer und @lwestheuser.bsky.social über politische Ungleichheit und die soziale Krise des Parteiensystems. www.soziopolis.de/leute-ohne-a...