Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)

‘Backward’ photo panned for display of patriarchy, signaling that ‘women’s voices don’t matter in shaping global order’

People are very bad at predicting what other people want when it comes to climate change and clean energy. Most people want rapid buildout of clean power, now. There is an durable super-majority of Americans that want climate action. Somehow this is not accepted as reality by people in power.

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

"Cites Falsehood" is a very pathetic way to avoid saying "Lies." NY Times headline: "Hegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers"

Victory for abortion rights groups as court finds state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

It's three months to go until #hackica26 and a good moment to say THANK YOU to our sponsors from all over the world ❤ You bring the hackathon to life and we couldn't do it without you!

🚨🚨 Grim news: Governments in five EU MS are “consistently and intentionally” eroding the #ruleoflaw, Europe’s leading civil liberties group has warned, while democratic standards are deteriorating in six more, including historically strong democracies. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Compare that, for example, to the continued normalization and sanewashing by NYT

“The more Trump talked, the less he said.” Excellent summary of yesterday’s rant by @us.theguardian.com

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

🚨 #JobAlert Anna Durnová @evrop-anka.bsky.social is looking for a university assistant #PraeDoc! Apply by 8 March 2026 ➡️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... We are looking forward to your application! #JoinOurTeam #PoliticalSociology #SociologyOfEmotions #FeministSociology #Sociology @univie.ac.at

"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...

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%)