Thanks so much for having me! It was a pleasure to talk with you (and to pick my "lone island" song, book, and drug!)

HVILKE DIGITALE PLATFORME FØRER DANSKE POLITIKERE KAMPAGNER PÅ? Ved hjælp af data indsamlet af Troels Runge (@runello.bsky.social) kan vi undersøge, hvilke digitale platforme der i øjeblikket bruges af kandidater fra de forskellige danske partier i det igangværende folketingsvalg.

In the second panel of today, first @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social and I presented first insights from a recent project studying (1) the susceptibility to misinformation across the complex system through which misinformation flows (www.nature.com/articles/s44...)

In the first talk of todays' afternoon - @jolukito.bsky.social presents insights into her work on conspirational signifiers among politicians in the US - you can read more about her fascinating work, for example here: doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Very excited to listen to @jesperstromback.bsky.social kicking-off a highly promising @ddc-sdu.bsky.social mini-symposium on threats to democratic integrity - and how to foster democratic resilience. What a great way to spend a Thursday :-)

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt. Was für ein irres Projekt Z.B.

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

NEW DDC REPORT: DANES ARE INCREASINGLY USING AI The sixth Citizens, Digitalisation, & AI (CDAI) report continues to track the Danish population’s evolving relationship with digitalization & AI. DDC researcher & first author Therese Waalen Sandberg provides a quick overview. youtu.be/94GZzCPo5Ts

Professur für "Quantitative Methoden der digitalen Kommunikationsforschung" ausgeschrieben an der @unisalzburg.bsky.social Bewerbungfrist: 01.04.; Beginn: 01.10.

“The Guardian spoke to 8 data-annotation & content-moderation companies in India. Only 2 said they provided psychological support to workers; the rest argued that the work was not demanding enough to require mental healthcare.”🧪🛟

🧪 Here's a delicious Scientific Reports paper, with a phrase I've never seen before: "Scrumptiously high accuracy". The delectable find revealed some ... concerning signals in this paper, which now has an Editor's note and is under investigation. nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/a-scrumpti...

The room is packed to the maximum at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social to listen to @curdknupfer.bsky.social and @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social speaking about connective faction - the radicalization of parties in digital space and how thats related to democratic backsliding

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

This week, we are welcoming our wonderful new addition to the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social teams: @jolukito.bsky.social! Velkommen til Odense og SDU Jo! ❤️ We are so excited to have you join us! @claesdevreese.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @curdknupfer.bsky.social

Today, the spring semester at SDU kicks off, we welcome @jolukito.bsky.social to @ddc-sdu.bsky.social - and pur Dean kicks off the faculties new years celebration 🍾 - great start for new adventures 😀

"The political dimension of the SLAPP threat is growing, with cases initiated or supported by state-aligned entities or powerful foundations common in countries experiencing rule of law backsliding."

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy #KnowledgeGraph Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg Apply now for a job as a Research Associate Knowledge Graphs (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time up to 100 %, limited to end of 2027) gesis.jobs.personio....

Great news before my winter holidays. I am honored and excited to join the @csh.ac.at as an external faculty member. Besides continuing to work at the wonderful @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (we hire, just say'in :-)) I will also be in Vienna from time to time and work with the amazing folks at both places.

We have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy. AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & @daniel-thilo.bsky.social!

Wir veröffentlichen die Akten zur Fördergeldaffäre der Berliner CDU 📁 Die Dokumente erhärten nicht nur die Vorwürfe, sie zeigen auch wie sich die Verwaltung dem Druck der CDU zur widersetzt & Widerstand leisten. Ein Beispiel dafür, wie mächtig die Verwaltung sein kann.

4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩 The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society. Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles! The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Either Causal Inference in R www.r-causal.org or The Effect! www.theeffectbook.net/index.html

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

Please consider a donation sustain this critical service for research and education about implicit social cognition. The website has generated very useful data and discussion to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and processes of implicit measurement.

#AcademicSky @georgemonbiot.bsky.social does a nice job highlighting the ridiculous nature, and highly politicized and lobby-driven nature, of food labels. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (no one fusses that there's no butter in peanut butter, or milk in coconut milk, after all)

Die Bundesregierung will Internet-Zugangs-Anbieter verpflichten, IP-Adressen aller Nutzer für drei Monate zu speichern. Das geht aus dem Gesetzentwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung hervor. Das Gesetz betrifft auch Internet-Dienste wie E-Mails und Messenger. netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

Come work with us - we have a very cool environment, amazing colleagues, and you're never far away from the sea (or a cinnamon bun). Also: 🇩🇰 actually beliefs in work-life balance, fair recruiting and being child friendly 😀

Observation bias #quino 🗺️ 🧪

Here's a peek at our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 social media research tools. This toolkit is unique in that it only features tried and tested tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. (ETA Jan 5, 2026) #academicsky #comsky

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Die Analyse enthält auch einen 20-seitigen internen Evaluationsbericht der Armee (...) Die Militärexperten kommen zu dem Schluss, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den #Palantir Systemen technisch nicht verhindert werden könne." #Schweiz 🇨🇭

Class excursion day: @ddc-sdu.bsky.social is visiting Copenhagen University today to listen to @dscheykopp.bsky.social talking about data access under DSA - thanks @manuelmenke.bsky.social for the organisation!

IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April

Learn more about the fellows and their projects here: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning... & watch this space for updates. 👀 Huge thanks to TrygFonden for enabling this programme! 💚 @claesdevreese.bsky.social; @lenafrescamente.bsky.social; @curdknupfer.bsky.social

Should you ask an AI chatbot what to vote for? No. I spoke to @videnskab.dk about this ahead of the local elections in Denmark and why the technology is not fit for purpose and completely non-transparent. videnskab.dk/teknologi/bo...

A long (very) long time ago, I started my academic journey as a student assistant in the lab of Gary Bente - back then, an environment where people studied intercultural communication, nonverbal communication, and basic virtual agents such as "Karl Klammer" -

Such a pleasure to listen to Joe Walther (scholar.google.nl/citations?us...) in person - talking about computer-mediated communication, from loving to lynching

Very nostalgic and exiting day - sitting besides @dianarieger.bsky.social like in the #mediapsych lecture University zu Köln to listen to a Symposium @ifkw.bsky.social which brings together Ron Tamborini Joe Walther and our doctoral supervisor, Gary Bente.

14 postdoc fellowships for 2yrs, in Freiburg, Tübingen or Konstanz

Excited to announce DID lab's first paper! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... We find that children as young as 6 show political ingroup preference! First paper of very talented @annie-schw.bsky.social! In JEP: General's special issue on political development (1/3)

SUPPORT THIS CAUSE! The deadline for signing our commentary on defending #academic #freedom is this Sunday, 9 Nov! Read this article led by Digital Journalism's Editor-in-Chief @oscarwestlund.bsky.social (bit.ly/4oUu6E0) & sign here (bit.ly/afsignatory) to support this cause!

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity in Psychology! The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik). 📍 Location: Oslo, Norway 🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025 🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...

Soo many cool new projects have started/are on the way at the DDC right now - looking very much forward to dig into AI in news and excited to continue working with @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social on studying susceptibility to misinfo and how to support democratic resilience

Our new report provides a typology of news creators, based on analysis of 24 countries The report, by Nic Newman, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, makes a distinction between those who focus on hard news and those touching news-adjacent topics

This🧵of new @ddc-sdu.bsky.social projects👏 Cool projects by fx @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lyngemoller.bsky.social @emilbakke.bsky.social @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social @hannahdecker.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @dieheiselberg.bsky.social @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social has announced new vacancies for Postdoctoral Fellow and Researchers in Cinema Studies. The positions are funded by the Anders Sandrews Foundation, with an application deadline of 15 November. Visit our website for more information 🔗 : nordmedianetwork.org/latest/vacan...