"AI is often pitched as a climate solution, optimizing energy and accelerating decarbonization. In reality, claims of sustainability obscure the deep ties between tech, fossil fuels, and the state." #Critical_AI_Literacy www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

Publishers expect traffic from search to fall by 43% in the next 3 years. This is one of the findings of our new report on media trends. Authored by Nic Newman, it's based on a survey of 280 media leaders. Full report buff.ly/Dh2JIuT 7 findings in thread

If you do research with/about LLMs, image or audio models, or classic NLP methods, you should check out this call 👇 #textasdata #NLP #llm #commsky #polsky

I realised I follow several journals and now I learn about new publications and interesting papers often here first - so I made a Starter Pack with journal accounts in case you wanted to as well. Let me know if I missed an important journal and I'll add it. go.bsky.app/L57tAru

In case you missed this: Full professorship opening up with us at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and the University of Southern Denmark! Please forward to anyone who might be qualified/interested!

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🎉 Happy New Year to the ECREA community! Just 3 days left to submit your abstract for #ECC2026. Don’t miss the deadline – we look forward to welcoming you to Brno. 👉 ecrea2026brno.eu

I salute the honesty and courage of these authors, and I am sure we all share a collective shiver from knowing that we all could easily make (and maybe have made) similar analysis mistakes in our own work #academicchatter

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...

🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!

Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible. 3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg. worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

You don’t “engage”, you amplify, mainstream and normalize. Don’t pretend you do this for anything else than 💰💰💰

🎉 New to PolComm? Join our Welcome Webinar! 🗓️ Monday, Oct 27 🕕 6:15 AM (PDT) | 9:15 AM (EDT) | 3:15 PM (GMT+2) | 9:15 PM (GMT+8) 💻 Zoom: arizona.zoom.us/j/84832196943 Meet the PolComm Division’s Executive Committee and get your last-minute questions answered! #PolComm #ICA

📣 Event tip: "Invitation Kick-Off Vienna Doctoral College on #DigitalHumanism" 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 @wwtf.at @tuwien.at @wuvienna.bsky.social 🗓 November 19, 2025 | 🕙 10:00–16:00 | 📍 Vienna ‼️ The registration deadline is November 3. More information about the program & registration here: ⤵️

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Last day to apply! 👇

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/...

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚫📰 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. 🧵👇

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

🎓Introducing *DR.* Rasmus Schmøkel 🎓 Today, our incoming Postdoctoral Researcher / former PhD student @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social expertly defended his thesis... The Impact of Algorithms on News Consumption: The Power of Social Media as Democratic Infrastructure and its Potential for Public Value

🎓 DDC DISSERTATION UPDATE 🎓 Please welcome ✨Dr.✨ Emil Bakkensen Johansen, who today expertly defended his PhD Thesis on... Complex Dynamics in Digital News Ecosystems: Collaboration and Imitation in the Age of Al

🎙️ New @ccspod.bsky.social episode! I unpack how computational methods transform the study of opinionated communication + share insights from my work on studying climate change campaigns on social media with @cidape.bsky.social Listen here 👉 aboutccs.net/opinion/

In case you are an ECR and you are already in Innsbruck 🏔️ for ECREA PolComm section conference, consider attending this preconference organized by the ECR representatives @amplanitzer.bsky.social & Andreea Stancea 🙂

People in Denmark have varied concerns about tech giants: - Impact on young people's development (83.5% concerned) - Role in spreading misinformation (81%) - Ability to influence public opinion (79.5%) - Economic power (79%) - Collection of personal data (78%) - Impact on social cohesion (75%)

Presented the @what-if-horizon.bsky.social project today at #SSC2025 in Delft 🙌 Very grateful for the helpful feedback from the social simulation community! Looking forward to implementing it w/ @anniewald.bsky.social and Taehee Kim ✨

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

New week, new school year, new publication! In this paper, @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @patyrossini.bsky.social, & I develop a scale to measure how audiences feel alienated by the provision of news and what implications this has for inequalities. 🧵 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair! @jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026. Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉

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!

This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads. So beyond repulsive.

Last day, everyone!

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

Here’s a link to Trump’s new AI executive order. It bans AI models from generating content related to DEI topics, including critical race theory and transgender issues. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

We are happy to share the newest issue of the Political Communication Report! 🎉 This issue brings together six contributions on teaching political communication and also features interviews with recent award winners. 🧵 Read the full issue here: politicalcommunication.org/issue/summer...

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

Had so much fun at our workshop on incivility and content moderation, based on our @wwtf.at Digital Humanism project, at the Vienna children’s university today! @amplanitzer.bsky.social @allanhanbury.bsky.social @julianeidhardt.bsky.social 😎🫶🏼😆

Today @ #ViennaChildren'sUniversity 🧒 How can YOU stay safe on social media? 🤔 Our @solecheler.bsky.social & @amplanitzer.bsky.social, with @julianeidhardt.bsky.social & @allanhanbury.bsky.social, explored counter speech 🗣️ & algorithmic moderation 🤖 via roleplay, annotation games & a kindness wall 💛

June was a month of celebration at CCL! 🎉 Three of our brilliant colleagues successfully defended their dissertations – huge congrats to Dr. Noëlle Lebernegg, Dr. Aytalina Kulichkina @aytalina.bsky.social , & Dr. Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social ✨ All three are now officially postdocs 🚀

Reminder: Great job opportunities at Aarhus University! Please help spread the word before everyone disappears for summer break! 🏖️