I’m very honored to be elected as International Liaison of the ICA CM Division and to serve our vibrant community! 🙏 Looking forward to starting the work very soon 🙌

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

We currently have the pleasure of hosting Karolina Garančovská & @lise-loresteeman.bsky.social for a research stay at the CCL! Both presented their fascinating ongoing work – from EU crisis communication to media representations & discrimination. 🧩 Thank you for sharing your insights with us! 🤗

❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 30, 2 pm CEST titled Data Literacy in Julia for Rtists by @dwinkl.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🕰️ Think you know history? Think again & join our next webinar to learn what's going on ✨ 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭: 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 ✨ 6 Nov | 14:30 CET 🎙️Chiara Torrisi. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

For >1yr, I've been part of a @erc.europa.eu pilot to help implement #Article40 #DSA This isn't just another law, it's key for transparency and democratic oversight Please join us 22/10, register here⬇️ erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/erc-workshop-data-access-under-digital-services-act-dsa-article

#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:

🚨 New episode out now! #aBitOfCCS with Aditi Dutta (University of Exeter) dives into how AI moderation systems can misread anti-sexist speech as harmful — and why that matters for fairness and democracy online. 🎧 Listen here: aboutccs.net/abitofccs/ 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.114... #CCS

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.

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/...

Call for Research Proposals: GESIS Panel.dbd We offer researchers the opportunity to conduct their studies for free! We grant: Access to ~ 7,000 participants Free participation in surveys & web tracking Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 Details: www.gesis.org/en/gesis-pan... We look forward to your proposals!

Young Republicans / TPUSA MAGAs proven to be actual genocidal racist-incel-trolls, a very shocking and unforeseen development. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

🔔 Join at tomorrow's PolCom ECR Club! 📅 Tue 14 Oct | 12:00–13:00 CEST 💻 Online: shorturl.at/Sax2j "Domestic opinion vs international obligations: how governing centre-left parties in Australia responded to Trump’s re-election" 🎤 Daniel Casey (Australian CU) Disc.: Johannes Karremans (U C. de Lille)

This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We're hiring! 📢 Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’ for 23 hours per week The position is to be filled from September 1, 2026, and is limited until August 31, 2030 Deadline: 27 October 2025 More details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

New publication out in #IJPP! 📑 We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄. Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n

Come work with us 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab. Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science. Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions. DL 🗓️ November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social! It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries. A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems 👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab

Misinformation researchers benefit from real-world insights. Practitioners benefit from scientific evidence on what interventions actually work. Our partnership with the media literacy & fact-checking organizations Learn to Check! and @maldita.es combines both 🤝 🧵 below

1/ I’m thrilled (and a little proud 🤗) to share my first single-authored publication! It’s now out open access in Information, Communication & Society: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

For those on the #polcomm academic job market this year, I am sharing the job market material folder that I put together a few years back. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense – “Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.” A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳

Happening today :)

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

🚨Very honored to receive the Future Leaders Fellowship from @ukri.org I’ll use this 2.3 million £ investment to create the London Social Media Observatory, for cutting-edge research on social media and politics, and novel computational tools for social science research. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu. Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices. A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

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 🙂

It’s the final day at #SSC2025 ☕️ Let’s go!

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 ✨

Day 3 at #SSC2025 ☕️ @billrand.bsky.social invites us to think about the future of agent-based modeling. It’s not just about big data—it’s about building smarter, more interpretable models that bridge the gap between data-driven empiricism and theory-driven understanding. Lots of food for thought🙇🏻‍♀️

Come chat with WHAT-IF researcher @aytalina.bsky.social at #SSC2025 in Delft! She’ll present our base model at the poster session Thursday, 13:00 📆 WHAT-IF creates a digital twin of the online political information space to test interventions & strengthen democratic discourse 👉 what-if-horizon.eu

Day 2 at the Social Simulation Conference 2025 ☕️ Corinna Elsenbroich talks about how agents-based modeling transforms our approach to causality and explanation in complex social systems 💡 #SSC2025

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

Good morning from #SSC2025 in sunny Delft ☀️

🔥 Just out: We tracked how Austrians’ misbeliefs about COVID being a deliberately engineered #bioweapon shifted (or didn’t) over 2 years – and how threat perceptions & media exposure 🗞️ shaped belief updating & reinforcement. w/ N. Lebernegg, @schnizzl.bsky.social & @hajoboo.bsky.social 🧵

If you've recently wondered "What happened in Austria's last federal election" (and a lot happened!), we've got you covered:

Cool conference coming up on In_equality in Konstanz in April 2026: inequality-conferenc...

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 👩‍💻.

🚨 New publication! 🚨 Do people really trust the government? It depends on how you ask. Happy to share that our paper on why Question Form Matters with KatharinaPfaff (@stawi-univie.bsky.social‬) is now out in @jssam.bsky.social 📊🇦🇹 🔗 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

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 🙌

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 !

Felt very welcomed today @cais-research.bsky.social ☀️ Thank you for inviting @ahrabhikat.bsky.social 🙌

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...

*New publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social!* The deaths of Black victims of police violence have become focusing events for #BlackLivesMatter. We wanted to know why some victims receive a high amount of social media attention wile others do not. Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

🚨#Jobalert We are looking for a fully funded #Postdoc researcher for our “Invisible Languages” project. The role involves mapping the global presence of 7,000+ languages, co-developing community interventions with international partners, and advancing LLM frameworks for under-resourced languages.

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG