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

Platforms change. Look at Twitter/X. And look at LinkedIn. Relevant for #ica26 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/b...

Leaving this all-time Internet gem here for my German audience, who's living through a bizarre media obsession with a dying/dead whale. 🐋 "the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...

🚨 Special Issue Alert: MDDC members @jolukito.bsky.social, @meredithpruden.bsky.social, @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social, @yunkangyang.bsky.social + Wei Zhong published a special issue on Multi-Platform Research in @polcommjournal.bsky.social. Free e-prints available: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XXNGV...

We, @krangelie.bsky.social and I are hiring a Master's student (Computer Science / Comp. Social Science / related) for our "GrokiWiki" project @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 📍Berlin | 🕐10h/wk | Start May '26 📅Apply by 31 March 👉 bit.ly/3PphI2e #Berlin #StudentJob #CSS #CS #Python #NLP

New #aBitOfCCS episode 🎙️ I talked with Miriam Milzner & @thieled.bsky.social about detecting coordinated disinformation in the age of AI. They introduce coorsim, an open-source R package that finds semantically similar coordinated posts! 🎧 Listen here: aboutccs.net/abitofccs/

Help us improving as ECPR PolCom Standing Group by taking part in this quick survey:

📊 Help shape the future of ECPR PolCom! We're asking members to share feedback in a short survey (5–10 min) on our activities and initiatives. Your input matters—participate here: uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🌍 A drizzle, not a storm: Polarisation around climate change in dutch political and media debates. Join us at the next ECR Club session with Edwin Jans (Wageningen University). #polcom #ecpr 🗓 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 🕚 11:00–11:45 GMT 🎤 Chair: Mariken van der Velden 🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Don't miss our exciting first @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social X @ecreaeu.bsky.social #ECR session of the year! Tue, Jan 13, 12:00 CET ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Join our ECR Club session on 9 Dec, 12:00: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Exciting research on emotional responses to elite communication by Roy Aulie Jacobsen. Also, particularly happy to have wonderful @pjost.bsky.social on board as discussant! #ecpr #polcom

🚨 Call for Papers! The Polcomm Section invites submissions for #APSA2026, taking place September 3–6. Next year’s theme is “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect & Rebuild.” 👉 Submit now: buff.ly/PRvg2Wq

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...

We hope you enjoyed Day 1 of #ecprgc25 as much as we did! 🙌 We’re excited to continue on Day 2 our #PolCom section “Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion” with another strong line-up of panels:👇🧵 [1/x]

Good morning, Thessaloniki! Kicking off our #polcom section at #ecprgc25🎉 Day 1 panels: 📌 The Role of Social Media in Political Discourse — Tue 08:30–10:15 📌 Framing and Political Persuasion Strategies — Tue 10:45–12:30 All panels in Polytech. S., Fl. 2, W. B 1(301) Excited to see you there!

🏃 #ica25 public service announcement: #RunningWithPresidents Round 1 🗓️ Friday 06.30 in front of Hyatt Regency. ⏰ Yes early, but #BeatTheHeat #jetlag etc. 📍 App 5k, gentle pace. 🌇 Route scouted by @dscheykopp.bsky.social Let folks know. Everyone is welcome 🎽

We, @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social are super excited to launch a new virtual format for early career researchers in political communication (ECPR or ECREA members) for discussing their drafts! Thanks @olgaeisele.bsky.social and @alenakluknavska.bsky.social for organizing & ECREA for joining forces!

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

🏆 Think your best PolCom article in the past year was better than others' best article? Let's find out! 10 days to submit to the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year: 📬 [email protected] Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKe...

Best way of conference traveling: Bring a bike 🚲! Omw (with a 🐰 detour) to Vienna for @comptext.bsky.social and to grab my PhD certificate in efficient packing. 😏🧳

Still cannot believe it, but it's a wrap: I successfully defended my PhD yesterday at @univie.ac.at 🍾🎓✨ Thank you to my wonderful reviewers @lindabos.bsky.social & Nina Springer; to my supervisor Birgit Sauer; and @fabiennelind.bsky.social for the organizaion 🪄! Vienna treated me so well. 💖

Visiting @univie.ac.at this week for @thieled.bsky.social’s defense. If anyone is up for a meeting, let me know! Always happy to chat with junior scholars specifically.

Any #trailrunners 🏃‍♂️🏞️ traveling to #ica25 who want to team up against team grizzly? 🐻🐾

It is so interesting to see how fast things are moving suddenly in the world of social media & #journalism. Such as increasing adaption of #bluesky sharing on newspaper sites ⬇️. I really would not have expected this a few weeks ago… #commsky

Hi Bluesyk! 👋🦋✨We've made the move -- help us grow a follower base here! We are the @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Political Communication. Follow us here and stay up-to-date for news, events, and activities! Tag us for sharing! For now it's follow2followback! #polcom #commsky #polisky

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

When you've done so many #ica reviews that you can easily plot them. I call it #ica2025 #wrapped 👀✨ #rstats #commsky #polcom

📢 APSA POLCOMM SECTION: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS🗳️ The American Political Science Association Political Communication Section is now accepting nominations for leadership positions for the 2024-2025 term! 📅 politicalcommunication.org/wp-content/u...

#Rstats nerds: Is there a way to list all system-level #dependencies (e.g. #linux libs) of an R package prior installation? Close, but post-installation and most often incomplete is: maketools::package_sysdeps('foo')

New article at CCR: @thieled.bsky.social leverages word-embedding representations of dictionaries and machine translation to investigate user-generated populism in comments during COVID-19 in 7 European countries, finding varying effects of restrictive policies. Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

More news: Consider voting for me in the #elections for the @ecpr.bsky.social #PolCom steering committee! Deadline: March 26. 🗳️ Not a member yet? Joining is easy & free - click 'create an account' and join the PolCom section. 🙏https://ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/ElectionFinalBallot.aspx?ElectionID=71

I'm over the moon happy to see my 3rd dissertation paper finally published in @computationalcommunication.org: Were #populist user comments fueled by restrictive #COVID-19 policies? Only in some countries, my study finds. doi.org/10.5117/CCR2... #socialmedia #textasdata

CfP announced for the second Post-API conference on June 25 @ QUT, Brisbane, Australia. sites.google.com/umich.edu/po... Deadline for submissions: 15/3/2024 Co-organised with: @dfreelon.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @mcewan.bsky.social @jmping.bsky.social Sponsored by: @qutdmrc.bsky.social

Using ChatGPT or GPT-4 to annotate your data is cool. But have you ever tried open source models? It's suprisingly easy, as I show in this new video! youtu.be/N-k3RZqiSZY

#hashtags have made it here, at last 🥳

I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials

Idea: github activity as a predictor of relationship status

Hey journalism researchers 🗞: Is there a reliable resource that scores/classifies news outlets (in Europe) along journalistic quality or similar (e.g., tabloids vs quality)? I'm aware of the EMSS 2017 expert survey, but its dated and unavailable online: www.mediasystemsineurope.org commsky polcom

📦 I've written an R package that wraps around (parts of) the OPTED Meteor API. Meteor offers rich information about news sources (e.g., social media handles; website visitor numbers) and tools. github.com/thieled/meteoR css polcom commsky polisky

You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/0...

My machine: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12800H, 2400Mhz, 14 Cores, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX A1000 😤💪🏋️‍♂️ MS Word, dealing with 60 pages...: 😴⏳ Traveling back in time is easy, actually. youtu.be/6-v1b9waHWY?...

🏆📄🚨 We have a winner of the @ecpr.bsky.social PolCom Best Paper Award 2023! 🎊🍾 Huge congrats to @turkenburgemma.bsky.social! Paper title: "From rudeness to reflection? Assessing the impact of uncivil mediated discourse on political reasoning" + Thx to the jury (👀 replies) & the steering committee!

For everyone that needed a few more hours or days for their submission, it seems the abstract deadline for ECREA 2024 submissions has been pushed to 16.01.2024.

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Just learned about wild Airbnb policies: No refund if the door doesn't lock & shut, but refund if WiFi is poor. At least I got my money back..

Frohe Weihnachten / Merry Christmas 🎄 Träumen wir nicht alle von einer weißen Weihnacht? ☃️ Dieses Chart zeigt die maximale Schneehöhe vom 24.12. bis 26.12. pro Jahr an 268 Wetterstationen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes (DWD) seit 1961. #dataviz #datavisualization