On the 6th day of SICSS Saarbrücken, Daniela Braun (@uni-saarland.de) and @rosanavarrete.bsky.social (@uam.es) presented on “𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦: 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 (𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ)?” @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @o3pol.bsky.social

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Jianlong presented "Learn, Explore and Reflect by Chatting: Understanding the Value of an LLM-Based Voting Advice Application Chatbot" (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...) Joint work w/ Manon, Vikram, @alexhartland.bsky.social, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social, @giucarny.bsky.social & @politicsunisaar.bsky.social

Brahmani is presenting "Is there anything Left?: A Global Analysis on Changes in Engagement with Political Content on Twitter in the Musk Era" (journalqd.org/article/view...). Joint work with @rosanavarrete.bsky.social and @giucarny.bsky.social

🤖💬 Can AI tell the difference between toxic speech and emotionally charged political debate? Liliia Mairova and Ariq Suryo Hadi P. provide some interesting insights in the next blogpost of the Observatory: politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/to...

💡 Our analysis of TikTok posts during the campaign reveals a clear pattern—intensified activity leading up to the vote, followed by a steep decline afterward. Campaign season mattered. So did TikTok.

📢 New on the Observatory of Online Politics blog! 🎯 TikTok and its role in the 2025 German Elections By @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & Ariq Suryo Hadi P. Read more politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/ti...

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 ‘a negative link between EU polarisation and membership support’ in #Greece, #Portugal and #Spain Read the article by Lea Heyne, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@alexhartland.bsky.social Daniela Braun @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @annreinl.bsky.social observe a gap between the concerns of citizens & the issues political parties emphasise. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Symposium "European Parliament Elections 2024"

🛎️ New Publication 🛎️ How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m 🧵

Hilfe in #Gaza ist bald nicht mehr möglich! Gemeinsam mit der Caritas und dem Roten Kreuz rufen wir zu einem dringenden Ende der Blockade von Hilfsgütern auf. Personen mit schweren Verletzungen – viele davon Kinder – müssen ohne Schmerzmittel behandelt werden.

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Gaza: "The entire population is facing high levels of acute food insecurity, with half a million people (one in five) facing starvation." www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

Started to add Skillpower Sessions — a short set of focused notes with practical strategies for writing — to my Respect the Marble posts. Thank you to my students @dirckdekleer.bsky.social & @bogatyrev.bsky.social for suggesting this! Here is the first one: substack.com/@catherineeu...

80 years after Liberation Day, far-right parties are the strongest parties in the polls in the UK, France, and Germany. For every politician the most pressing question should be how to save liberal democracy. Yet, small minded partisan tactics prevail. The far right gets normalized and empowered.

Only 3 more days until the deadline!!! Apply now to SICSS Saarbrücken: sicss.io/2025/saarbru...

This is pretty big news. Not unexpected. But it now sets the stage for testing how resilient the German Judiciary and Legislature can be in the face of extremist threats to its constitutional order...

Another fascinating morning at #comptext25 I was happy to join a panel on data and themes from the Horizon project #ActEU with @matildecer.bsky.social on gender and polarisation, @giucarny.bsky.social on gender and climate change. Looking forward to more from ActEU and more panels this afternoon!

Checkout the complete schedule at: sicss.io/2025/saarbru...

Only 10 days until the deadline! Apply now to the Saarbrücken Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science here: sicss.io/2025/saarbru...

We would like to thank @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social , @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social and Nuno Garoupa for their detailed comments on earlier versions of this article. We are also very grateful to the three reviewers and the editors for their helpful feedback

Very proud of this joint work with @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social and Lea Heyne that is finally published at @sespjournal.bsky.social. In it we study EU polarisation and membership support in Greece, Portugal, and Spain. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

Come be my colleague in one of the best post-doc positions in German academia (imo)! Lovely people, excellent infrastructure, great conditions. Feel free to contact me for questions. #polisky #polscijobs

Ulrich Commerçon, leader of the @spdde.bsky.social faction in the #Saarland state parliament, visited @o3pol.bsky.social yesterday. This #PoliSci Observatory led by @rosanavarrete.bsky.social monitors online discourse and has found a sobering truth: lying pays off for politicians. bit.ly/BraunNews

Buenos días, "Yo voto contra mis intereses, pero a favor de mis principios. Voto pensando en la familia de inmigrantes en la que me crié" Enorme Julia Otero, como siempre.

“A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film No other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Lügen lohnt sich: Wer im Internet die Unwahrheit sagt, hat oft Erfolg in der Politik. Über längere Zeiträume sind die Folgen von Falschaussagen noch nicht wissenschaftlich beobachtet worden. Dies will die „Beobachtungsstelle für Online-Politik“ an der Saar-Uni ändern (© privat): tinyurl.com/2339gxbz

¿Qué hay después del 8M? En este articulo junto con @giucarny.bsky.social exploramos la importancia que le dan los partidos a los temas de género en su comunicación online.

Great meeting today with the newest members of @o3pol.bsky.social! Excited to dive into cutting-edge research on online politics and explore how digital spaces shape political behavior. Stay tuned for more!

Are you interested in how digital platforms like #X shape political discourse? Check out @o3pol.bsky.social, the Observatory of Online Politics, established as part of our Political Deception in the Digital Era project headed by @rosanavarrete.bsky.social! #PoliSci

Some quick and dirty QTA on gender and political communication in Germany and Spain 👇🏻👇🏻 For more, follow @o3pol.bsky.social ;)

The Observatory of Online Politics is on Bluesky! 🌍🔍 We track online politics, study disinformation & digital chaos—sometimes for better, often for what on earth is happening now? 🤯 Follow for insights, analysis & the occasional existential crisis of democracy. 🏛️📲 (No, Elon doesn’t own us. Yet.)

Disinformation and foreign influence are concerns ahead of the March 11 Greenland elections. A fake account on X impersonating Mute Egede, the prime minister, has posted responding to Trump statements. Highly sensitive, for the election and geopolitics Good overview here ⬇️ edmo.eu/publications...

75% of Germans don't see the U.S. as a reliable partner anymore, new poll for ARD-TV finds. Majority open to more debt for defence. Full results (in German) here: www.tagesschau.de/inland/deuts...

We knew Trump has been Putin's puppet since 2016... www.reuters.com/article/worl...

New #PoliSci publication by @rosanavarrete.bsky.social, @giucarny.bsky.social, @ingmarweber.de & @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social! Is there anything Left?: A Global Analysis on Changes in Engagement with Political Content on #Twitter in the #Musk Era journalqd.org/article/view...

If anyone wonders why the FDP (with barely 5% of the vote) brought down the German government early, right before a lot of digital legislation would have been finalised. Also pulling Germany out of some important EU-wide negotiations. But Germany's AI policy has been great & economically successful.

Elections 2021 vs. 2025: The Normalization of Disinformation Two days before the German election, I’m sharing an article from our Observatory of Online Politics on how democracy's resilience against disinformation in 2021 may no longer be enough in 2025. politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/19...

Important: Suspension of real life experimentation with democracy which happens in France and other countries. @rsf.org Paris court suspends Google experiment to assess the relevance of news on its search engine that restricted access to news sources for 1% of its users. rsf.org/en/paris-cou...

Did Twitter favor tweets from right-wing politicians? International study ends involuntarily in 2023...

In 4 days we will have elections in Germany... What can we learn about parties' social media activity during rhe campaign? The great @alexhartland.bsky.social tell us more about it.

Check out this new work by @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social and team from I2SC!

New publication alert! We look at how engagement received by parties and politicians in 12 countries shifted after Musk took over the platform and until June 2023. Check it out at journalqd.org/article/view.... @ingmarweber.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @giucarny.bsky.social

Today I had two very special guests in my course Politics in the digital era 🥳 Thanks @giucarny.bsky.social & @alexhartland.bsky.social for your great class on quantitative text analysis and LLMs! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The 4th Europe Conference Saarbrücken took a #PoliSci look at tensions between political aspirations and social reality in #Europe and beyond. Check it out: www.uni-saarland.de/en/instituti...