Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hello @linzilinn.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net; nice presentation! #recsys2025

He he. Eindelijk, een ijzersterk artikel en een dappere journalist die het precies benoemt zoals het is: grootschalig politiek geweld. nrc vandaag:

Here's something I've learned since this. This code collected from Twitter and inserted into a database Writing to a database could be slow for streaming data, so I had one process stream + insert into a queue, and another read the queue and do inserts It worked, but complicated and hard to debug

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Dit is waarom het zo belangrijk is dat academische vrijheid in de grondwet staat (en er enigszins helder gedefinieerd is). Zoals in Duitsland. In NL staat academische vrijheid in de wet op het Hoger Onderwijs, maar het is niet helder omschreven wat het behelst.

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Are you a researcher (from HCI, communication, or information science) studying online misinformaiton, disinfromation, hate speech, polarization, or related information toxicity? Apply to attend our CSCW workshop (with both remote and in-person options).

Ik vond het tijd om de olifant in de kamer te adresseren:

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring. Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

Before heading to ACL, I'm excited to be at #IC2S2 this week! 🌞 I'll present a related working paper on validating LLM social simulations at the ABM session on Tuesday (11 AM, Vingen 7): indiiigo.github.io/files/GABM_V... (w/ @wanlo.bsky.social @mstrohm.bsky.social and @janalasser.bsky.social)

Ik gaf een (zeldzaam) interview aan een Nederlandse krant. 👇

Two fully funded PhD positions in political science at the University of Antwerp in @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social's new and very cool ERC project on disinformation and representation. Great opportunity! www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Wat hier gebeurt is voor onderzoekers en slachtoffers van online politiek geweld geen enkele verrassing. Yesilgöz c.s. hebben met hun gerichte aanval op Douwe Bob een beerput opengetrokken. In de politieke communicatiewetenschap observeren we al enige tijd een toename van aanvallen op 1/n

Mijn reactie op @nrc.nl interview met NWO-voorzitter Marcel Levi in @foliacivitatis.bsky.social. Op persoonlijke titel vanzelfsprekend, maar dat kan natuurlijk niet los worden gezien van mijn functie als ASCA-directeur. @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Poster schedule just dropped—#IC2S2’25 program is now complete! Dive in and start planning: www.ic2s2-2025.org/program/

🚀 Draft schedule for #IC2S2 2025 (July 21–24) is here. Explore four days packed with inspiration. Review your slot, plan travel, and flag any conflicts—minor tweaks are still possible. See the program here: www.ic2s2-2025.org/program/. The poster scheduling will follow next week!

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

'Stem D66 want de partij heeft recent regeringsverantwoordelijkheid gedragen', en de VVD 'wordt breed gedragen voor stabiliteit.' Nieuw artikel van Yours Truly!

This is a pretty good idea - we should do this more often at conferences. Well, I guess not at #ica25 given that @icahdq.bsky.social conferences don’t have lunches ;-) - but you get the idea…

I have a postdoc vacancy - www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3528... at the TWON-project (twon-project.eu). Because the project runs only until 2025-03-31, the contract is limited - but maybe of interest for somebody who is just about to finish a PhD and needs something temporary?

New publication out in Social Science Computer Review, with @mikefarjam.bsky.social (lead) and Meike Lohkamp: “A Practical Guide and Case Study on How to Instruct LLMs for Automated Coding During Content Analysis.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A thread 🧵:

Bezuinigingen op onderwijs zijn geen natuurwet, maar een politieke keuze. Een domme keuze vinden wij. Daarom dienden we vandaag dit amendement in met een financiële dekking. Dus géén gratis bier. Laten we hopen dat partijen die zeggen niet te willen bezuinigen, ook daad bij woord voegen!

Still confused, but uber-happy. The news came out right after #ICA25 has ended: The European Research Council #ERC has awarded me an ERC Advanced Grant! Project DANCE on "Dark Nerd Communities" runs for 5 years with 2.5 million Euros funding. Immensely grateful! erc.europa.eu/.../erc-2024...

Common experience at #ICA25

It’s a wrap! #ica25 ends for #DigitalNewsDynamics team @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social with presentation by Felix Gaisbauer, showing that the more people use alternative news media, the more they share them, but still have the highest fear of reputation loss as reason to not share alt news

Some people have left #ica25 already, but great research is still being presented, like @gongbaobao.bsky.social who shows this co-consumption network of German media

And last but not least, Camila Valgas presents her study “Understanding the News Consumption of Immigrants in the Digital Age: Motivations, Strategies, and Challenges" with @tgrootkormelink.bsky.social , Yael De Haan & @skruikemeier.bsky.social #ica25 @icajsd.bsky.social

@jbgruber.bsky.social & @vanatteveldt.com argue that as data become more difficult to collect (no APIs, scraping more difficult) we need to share existing data more. And how non-consumptive research is a way to do that without goi g to jail! #ica25

Happening now #ica25: how high is the quality of the data you get from the TikTok research API? @mshu.bsky.social , me, @zwizwasvens.bsky.social, Johanna Klapproth, and @thorstenquandt.bsky.social have an answer: it's bad!

You want to study German covid-19 protests? @maxzehring.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social and @buehling.bsky.social got you covered with their dataset! #ica25

For example, for this panel at 10:30 where @mshu.bsky.social will present our audit of the TikTok Research API and I will talk about non-consumptive research in #commsky (#ica25)

It's the last day of #ICA25! We hope you'll join us at today's Computational Methods panels. We're looking forward to sessions on polarization, data access, and sentiment

Hey #ica25 I know I've plugged this pretty hard all conference, but it would really help us if you could fill in this brief questionnaire which will inform the prioritisation of the platforms, data types, collection mechanisms, etc. that we are going to develop in the @internetobservatory.org.au

@vanatteveldt.com presents a new Dutch stance detection datasets and makes important points that are often neglected in sentiment analyses in communication research #ica25

@jbgruber.bsky.social kicking off @icacm.bsky.social 's tool demo session, and the best thing is: everything is on github! github.com/JBGruber/ica... - check it out if you need to scrape news or retrieve tiktok data and want sth that just works! #ica25

@kenzalamot.bsky.social and @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social propose a “Quality turn in journalism” and show how Flemish newspapers use tagging of articles to understand user engagement

Xinfeng Gu and @markboukes.bsky.social shared really interesting insights into the psychological traits of satire viewers across countries: #ica25

JSD specials this year that you do not want to miss: On SUNDAY, June 15 we invite you to come to our Journalism Studies Reception at the Denver Press Club to greet friends, meet new fellow scholars and relax a bit. Join us 6-8 pm! We are looking forward to seeing you! #ica25 @icahdq.bsky.social

And I am finally on Bluesky 🥳!!

After, you’ll need to quickly sprint to the Grand Hyatt where @jbgruber.bsky.social will provide a demo of his tool “Traktok”, with which he aims to make TikTok data more accessible for research.

This afternoon, @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social and our colleague @kenzalamot.bsky.social will present their case study on Article DNA, a Mediahuis project developed to deliver more quality content to their audience (@icajsd.bsky.social)

Day three of #ICA25 and the JTEAM is still going strong💪🏻 After a fun social evening yesterday, we’re ready to entertain you with two more presentations today 👇🏻🧵

Right now, here in Denver: Rachid Azrout presents our study of isolating and imitating the far right. An updated version of our analysis of the 2023 Dutch case. The upcoming 2025 election offers an opportunity to collect more data so as to improve our tests. #polcomm #ica25 @polcomm.bsky.social

Looking for an interesting session on this second afternoon of #ICA25? @damiantrilling.net is presenting the project "Bias in Online Vaccination Content Using Machine Learning" in a high-density session @icacm.bsky.social. Go check it out!

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

At yesterday's business meeting of the Computational Methods Division, we recognized outstanding scholarship in the discipline at #ICA25 Please join us in thanking the awards committees and celebrating the winners: 🧵

This is great!! @polcomm.bsky.social is launching a database for polcom teaching resources! #ica25

Standing room only at @zeningduan.bsky.social and @alvinyxz.bsky.social 's @icacm.bsky.social panel on LLMs #ica25

First up is @anjabechmann.bsky.social sharing insight in the project of 1000 Danish YouTube data donations, including issues on over time dropout