#MeetTheExperts #mte #newseason The GESIS online series "Meet the Experts" will start its 10thseason on April 23rd, this time on “GESIS Guides: Survey Methodology and Digital Behavioral Data explained”! You can find the registration and information about the talks here: www.gesis.org/en/ser...

Back home after "Social Media Access Days - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access" www.dnb.de/EN/Professio.... It was a pleasure to co-host, thanks to my co-organizers and the professional local team at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social #smad2026

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)

⌛ 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.

📢 Promotionsstelle zum 01.07.2026 bei GESIS - Standort: Mannheim - Team: GESIS Panel - Aufgabenprofil: survey-methodisch, facettenreich, innovativ & team-orientiert - Vertragslänge: 4 Jahre - Gehaltseingruppierung: TVL 13, 75% - Bewerbungsfrist: 12.04.2026 - gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2553179?...

#EDGE – Enhancing Democratic Support under Conditions of Geographic and Intersectional Inequalities in Europe has been funded under Horizon Europe. My first Horizon project as coordinator—and the first coordination for @gesis.org On my side as Co-PI the amazing @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social

Political campaigns worldwide experiment with AI. But how do people see different electoral uses of AI and with what consequences? In a new study in @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @adrauc.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social, we address these questions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

The SOUNDS initiative is hiring for 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻/ 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻/ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 (𝗺/𝘄/𝗱). Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... @ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social

Really enjoyed writing this piece with @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social. Helped me structure my own thinking about when and how to use digital behavioral data for causal inference. Hope others find it useful as well!

Very happy to see this out now! 📃 Coincidentally well timed with the ongoing DSA Observatory Conference in Amsterdam, a new publication titled “Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act” has been published in Internet Policy Review today! ✨

New paper by @philippdarius.bsky.social, @jasminriedl.bsky.social, @feloe.bsky.social, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, and me in @policyr.bsky.social: "Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act" policyreview.info/articles/ana...

The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) project is inviting applications for the following position: 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗳/𝗺/𝘅) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗿𝗲𝗳: 𝗪𝟮𝟴𝟬𝟭) Paygrade: E13 TV-L 100% Duration: 2 years @ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de

New skills bloom this May with #GESISworkshops 🌸 Explore: 🌐📊 Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data 🧩📈 Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments 💻⏱️ Introduction to R @gesis.org Full program ➡️ gesis.org/training Workshop details 🧵👇

Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...

Introducing the GESIS AppKit: An app-based mobile data collection infrastructure: https://osf.io/q8v72

Since joining the GESIS Panel in 2024, the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample has released its first dataset, opening new research opportunities by using survey data linked with digital behavioral data. Dataset: search.gesis.org/research_dat... Documentation: shiny.gesis.org/gpdbd/

There is a permanent position available in my team! You will help researchers gain access to highly sensitive data and analyse them in a secure environment: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2495658?... Go for it and see you in Cologne ❤️🤍

🚨 Coming up: DACH-CSS 2026 Conference “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” 📅 Date: May 21–22, 2026 📍 Location: CEU, Vienna, Austria 🔗 Program and Registration: computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

#AI #GESISPanel #DBD 1st wave of data from GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample: The data covers topics such as demographics, internet use, attitudes toward AI, trust in the media. In the future, the data can be linked to a wide variety of digital behavioral data. search.gesis.org/res...

New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025" doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

#blog The new post on the #GESISblog highlights the use of and attitudes toward #AI in Germany. Julius Kleinbub, Dr. Joachim Piepenburg, and Katharina Kraft show that most people had heard about ChatGPT, while frequent use was scare, with mixed attitudes toward AI.

Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... EG 13 TV-L for three years Please apply before Feb 5th 2026 Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience

New article with @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social and @jenniferbast.bsky.social in Party Politics on the perceived costs and benefits of negative campaigning for male and female candidates and its impact on attack behavior doi.org/10.1177/1354...

January 16, 2026: Julian Jaursch from the German Digital Service Coordinator @bnetza.bsky.social will introduce the EU's #DSA Data Access Portal during the series "Show & Tell – Social Media Data in Research Practice". Register here: events.gwdg.de/event/1259/ #digitalservicesact #platformdata

🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓 Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes? Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas

It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

Within our @meta-rep.bsky.social project on research practices in Computational Communication Science (CCS), we are conducting a survey among CCS researchers. We would be grateful if you could participate (takes 10 to 15 minutes) and/or share the link: www.soscisurvey.de/AutoFrontCCS/ #CommSky

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #CSS Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages. youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE Apply now for a job as #PostDoc / #SeniorResearcher in Computational Social Science (13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited for 4 ys. with possible tenure) www.gesis.org/en/ins...

Join our CSS department @gesis.org! Postdoc/senior researcher position, tenure track! All info at: www.gesis.org/institut/kar...

A new paper analyzes the “production-consumption gap” on social media, where a small subset of users produce most of the content, and considers its implications for the study of phenomena such as political polarization, and for the design of policy interventions. Prithvi Iyer considers the results:

*Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data* by Frank Mangold, Helena Rauxloh & @sebstier.bsky.social 🗓️ 04-05 May 2026 🏢 Hybrid: Cologne | Online 🌐 t1p.de/WebTrackingD...

Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV @ccs-project.bsky.social 👇

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

📝 New preprint out! We discuss the production-consumption gap on social media and its implications for research and public opinion. Brilliantly led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS? ✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures: "Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science" 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)

#DSA #SocialMediaDaten Im Rahmen der Vortrags- und Diskussionsreihe "Show & Tell – Social-Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis" der #NFDI findet eine Serie von drei Sessions zum Thema „#Datenzugang für die Forschung im #DigitalServicesAct – neue Chancen, neue Herausforderungen“ statt. 1/2

#DataQuality #DigitalBehavioralData #DBD Special Issue Explores the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data, by Weiß, B., Leitgöb, H., & Wagner, C Most DBD are not generated for research purposes but are a side product of our daily activities. A new special issue addresses key questions:

*JOB* As part of the @assured.bsky.social project, we are searching for a person to work in our Secure Data Center team at @gesis.org to create safe researcher trainings. www.gesis.org/en/institute... The position is open until filled, so do not hesitate to reach our directly if you are interested!

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...)

#DataMethods #OpenScience #GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences. methodshub.gesis.org/#DataMethods#OpenScience#GESISMethodsHub:

Call for Research Proposals: GESIS Panel.dbd We offer researchers the opportunity to conduct their studies for free! We grant: Access to ~ 7,000 participants Free participation in surveys & web tracking Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 Details: www.gesis.org/en/gesis-pan... We look forward to your proposals!

Join the GESIS Panel.dbd Insight Days on February 23–24, 2026 in Mannheim! Learn about fundamentals and best practices for working with the GESIS Panel.dbd and get exclusive access to a closed Call for Study Proposals only for workshop participants! www.gesis.org/en/gesis-pan...

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

#ASConference25 Societal Challenges and the important infrastructures for the Social Sciences on the way to get answers. Sebastian Stier shows how to unlock digital behavioral data. as25.sociology.uni-m...

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵 In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👇

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...