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...

📝DDC Thesis Grant now open!📝 Students at SDU writing their thesis in Autumn 2025 on digitalization, AI, algorithms or democracy can apply for up to DKK 10,000. Covers costs like software, data, travel, or participant compensation. ⌛️: Nov 15, 2025 Apply via [email protected] www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

The Limits of Analogies of Misinformation “Contrary to misinformation, viruses care little about ingroup dynamics, political supplies, or the larger media context in which they spread.” By @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, @abhishekr0y.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social #AcademicSky #SocialPsyc 🧪

#PublicationAlert 🥰. This one has been long in the making: It started with a @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in 2023, lead to a working group at the SFI in 2024, multiple online-meetings (one from Costa Rica, Munich, Denmark, Mumbai, and the US), thought-provoking and truly interdisciplinary work.

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real… 🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

Very honored to speak today at the European Commissions #JCR meeting on disinformation about the work Larissa Leonhard, Ruth Wendt and I are doing with @liedetectors.bsky.social , studying how young media users respond to #medialiteracy training by Journalists at school - even if only online.

This is essential reading and perfectly explains why I will not share a stage with far-right grifters and enablers.

Of particular interest from @sabinebarthold.bsky.social & Richard Joos is their work on counter-swarms www.weizenbaum-institut.de/media/Publik...

The second day of the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social retreat starts with an update of the different projects at the DDC: Rasam Zamanifarahansi presents his dissertation on "Personal autonomy at the European Court of Human Rights" - studying how that links to people's rights for not being manipulated online.

Love this years social activity game - playing publish or perish - who's gonna be reviewer 2 😈

It's still a bit of time till she starts - but the whole @ddc-sdu.bsky.social is very excited to have @jolukito.bsky.social joining us as a colleague in February and now on the retreat - giving an introduction into her fascinating work ( see for yourself scholar.google.com/citations?us...)

@andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social gives a great introduction into his really coolwork on politics on social media at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social retreat

New division chairs incoming! #MePsych25 marked the end of the chair team's term. Huge thanks to @lenafrescamente.bsky.social(Chair), @stephanwinter.bsky.social(Vice Chair), @romohseni.bsky.social(Treasurer), @dpossler.bsky.social & @lunafrauhammer.bsky.social(ECR Representatives) for their work!

Super interesting debate by Özen Odağ and Larisa Buhin on the promises and perils of counterspeech #MePsy25