Marvin is inviting you to the hackathon! 🤓😍@hackingcommsci.bsky.social

🚀 Yaay, it's time to register for the hackathon! 🚀

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

The 2026 DMRC Summer School is officially underway! With 72 delegates in attendance, today's sessions explored a diverse range of topics with the highlight being a keynote address by Nina Jankowicz, internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization.

Inspiring talks by @ninajankowicz.com and @ahrabhikat.bsky.social (on attacks towards academics and activists and bias in computational social science, respectively) were my highlights for the day #dmrcss26

🚀 Save the Date! If you're considering joining us, now is a great time to block the dates and start planning your #trip. We can’t wait to see you at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd and 4th June 2026 for this year's #Hackathon! 🌍✨

We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦 Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/ Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Submissions to COMPTEXT 2026 close tomorrow! Showcase your text-, image-, and video-as-data research, get useful feedback, join the training workshops, and connect with like-minded researchers at our social events in Birmingham. See you there!

Conference update: IC2S2 Virtual Day. While Vermont is an incredibly kind and welcoming state, national policies and federal actions have a real impact on conference access, particularly for people from countries who cannot enter the US due to federally enacted travel bans. 1/6

Great opportunity to work on an important project #commsky

Four days to sign up for the @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School 2016! I'm happy to host a workshop with the title "Biased by Design? Unpacking Social Bias in CSS". We will explore how social bias might impact participants' CSS projects and how we can deal with it! 🤓🙌

Preprint alert! 🥳 How are social bias and CSS interconnected? 🤔 @aytalina.bsky.social, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, and I argue that social bias shapes CSS as a field and as a methodology. Progress in CSS depends on engaging with both dimensions! osf.io/preprints/so...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📣 Das Social Media Observatory am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social und @fgz-risc.bsky.social lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein! 🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr 🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom) 👨‍💻 mit @boesch.bsky.social, @julianhohner.bsky.social & @lionw.bsky.social Infos 👉 leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...

New publication in Review of International Studies! Jelena Cupać and I examine how feminist and conservative NGOs differ in their legitimacy beliefs about the UN, and how perceptions shape their engagement amid growing ideological polarization. Open-access article here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Man sieht anschaulich, wie sich Merz’ Dogwhistle in Realität übersetzt – wenn die Polizei mehr Befugnisse fordert, um gegen nicht-weiße Menschen vorzugehen.

#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:

Als nicht-weiße Person in Deutschland sind die rassistischen „Stadtbild“ Ausführungen des Bundeskanzlers unerträglich. Schlimmer ist aber, gelernt zu haben, dass SPD und Grüne nicht für meine Rechte einstehen werden. Minderheitenrechte sind verhandelbar geworden. Angeblich elitär und „linksgrün“

2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics. Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/... PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/... PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

⌛ Reminder: Submit your contribution to the Special Issue "Inclusive by Design? Participatory Governance and the Future of Digital Public Spaces" by October 15. ℹ️ policyreview.info/events/call-... #CAISdigitalfutures2025

Today I discussed academic freedom (and the role of research infrastructure). Thanks to the team at @cais-research.bsky.social for hosting this event!

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI. Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

What are threats to academic freedom, and what can we do to strengthen it? We will explore these questions with Ina Brandes (NRW), @kwelle.bsky.social (GESIS), Manfred Bayer (TU Dortmund), and Tim Majchrzak (CAIS) at the panel that I am hosting this Friday 🙌

My great colleague @tariqchoucair.bsky.social doing the @qutdmrc.bsky.social proud at his alma mater UFMG today.

In order to receive federal funds, Trump has set out numerous requirements, many of them contradictory, including a demand that universities refrain from allowing 'speech relating to societal and political events.' arstechnica.com/science/2025...

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Our project on comparing rule-based, classical machine learning, transformers and #LLM to measure debate quality on social media is finally out at Communication Methods and Measures! ✨✨✨ @ascor.bsky.social @nunetsi.bsky.social Link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last week, I defended my dissertation! 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who made this possible—especially (but not exclusively) @anniewald.bsky.social, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social & the whole @compcommlab.bsky.social! 🫶

🚫📰 Can we use nudges to mitigate news avoidance? Yes and no — it depends on what nudges we use! Together with @hajoboo.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social I wanted to test whether nudges can reduce news avoidance as limited news consumption—and to do so beyond established Western democracies. 🧵👇

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Absolutely looking forward to having Laura Vodden from @qutdmrc.bsky.social at CAIS next week 🙌

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Im Interview erklären Johannes Breuer und Marco Wähner, wie das #TeamRDM Forschende unterstützt, digitale Daten nutzt, Methodeninnovationen vorantreibt & Transparenz sowie Vertrauen in der Forschung stärken möchte. 👉 www.cais-research.de/news/intervi... @marco-waehner.bsky.social @johannesbreuer.com

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wir haben an den österreichischen Universitäten ausgezeichnete Panel-Befragungen dazu, wie Österreich lebt, denkt und fühlt – alles in Datenarchiven frei zugänglich. Dafür braucht es keine Website-Umfrage im #Boulevardstyle. Mag mir das jemand erklären? Rausgeschmissenes Geld.

🎉 As of today, September 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer heads the "Research Data & Methods" team at CAIS. Together with the University of Duisburg-Essen, he has been appointed Professor of Digital Social Sciences. 🎉 🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/news/joha... @johannesbreuer.com @unidue.bsky.social

📢 New Preprint: "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Performance and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis." Providing guidance for social scientists, we challenge the "bigger is better" narrative, instead encouraging social and environmental responsibility. osf.io/preprints/so...

Who is really fueling your #AI? 🤔 It's not just code & algorithms. Behind every LLM are millions of people, often in invisible roles. Join us, @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & on Sept. 17 to hear directly from data workers! 🔗 buff.ly/2ug32Bx

In beautiful Thessaloniki to talk about salience and patterns of racist language in German news media (yeah… 🥳) at #ecpr25 Catch the last chapter of my PhD work in this exciting panel put together by @stefaniewalter.bsky.social on Thursday, 3.45pm

I guess I can make it official now: On September 1st, I will start a new position as professor of "Digital Social Science" @unidue.bsky.social ( @ifp-ude.bsky.social ) and leader of the team "Research Data & Methods" at @cais-research.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to many exciting new projects!

For people with darker skin, that means even less accuracy, delayed treatment, and a higher risk of deadly outcomes. Read the full story here: civio.es/sanidad/2025...

@civio.es's recent investigation reveals the case of #QuantusSkin, an AI system for early #skincancer detection. The Basque Health Service plans to roll it out in 2025, promising faster diagnoses. But it misses nearly 1 in 3 melanoma cases, and was trained almost entirely on images of white patients

Very excited to be at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social this week to talk about bias in CSS. Thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social for hosting us 👩‍💻.

I had a great time at @cais-research.bsky.social, everyone was so welcoming, and it was a pleasure to visit and work on this incredibly important and inspiring paper with @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social, and @valeriehase.bsky.social !

It was a truly precious experience to talk and write about social bias in CSS in a safe and inclusive space @cais-research.bsky.social generously provided 🙏 Grateful to these badass scholars @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @janabernhard.bsky.social, and @valeriehase.bsky.social for the amazing collab 🙌

The Industrial Revolution produced not only technical innovation, but also social disruption. What is the situation with the current “AI revolution”? This report by our fellows examines working conditions in this context: EN: algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-revolu... DE: algorithmwatch.org/de/die-ki-re...