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

Lee Jae-myung, the President of the Republic of Korea, just delivered his speech about K-Democracy at #IPSA2025

We still have an opportunity to change the world for the better – Ban Ki-moon at #IPSA2025

Happy to be at #IPSA2025 in beautiful Seoul 🫶

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 🚀

🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨ Great studies ahead 👀 #CSS #polcom

⚡ Belarus has freed 14 political prisoners, including Siarhei Tsikhanouski, husband of opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. The release follows a meeting between Alexander Lukashenko and U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Horrible day in Kyiv today... Russians deliberately targeted a lot of apartment blocks, causing many fires, destruction, and casualties. Please continue supporting Ukraine, and donate to the air defense to prevent such tragedies e.g u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel #UkrainianView

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver! From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

It still feels surreal, but on June 3, I defended my dissertation! 🎓 SO grateful to my reviewers @solecheler.bsky.social & Silke Adam, committee chair @hajoboo.bsky.social, advisors @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, co-authors Paul Balluff & Nanda Wijermans, & Team! 🙏✨ #PhDone

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗 📍 Vienna 🗓️ Start: September 2025 📌 Apply by June 26 #AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

📣Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Computational Approaches to Researching Short Videos co-edited by Jing Zeng, @lrossi.bsky.social, and @rupertkiddle.com Abstract deadline: 25-Jul-2025 See announcement for more information - journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...

Join us ⏰TODAY, 13:00 (CET) for our first ECR Club session! ecpr.eu/Events/Event... For now, you'll need to register by 'About' > 'Event registration'. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

📅 1st session: May 22, 13:00 (online, no signup needed!) 🔗LINK WILL FOLLOW! Presenter: Muhammad Noor Fakhruzzaman (U Vienna): "Media Intergroup Bias in Indonesian Online News" Discussant: @kenzalamot.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam) Let’s build a supportive PolCom ECR community—see you May 22!

How were, are, and can we measure #racism using #CSS? Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗 Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...

Come join us in Amsterdam for a fully funded 4-year PhD position on the topic of "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics", with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social! All info here, deadline is June 4 👇👇👇 (Please share!) #polcom #commsky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Kolleg:innen bitten um Teilnahme: "Hören Sie gerne Hörbücher? Für eine Studie der Universität Wien interessiert uns, wie Sie die Stimmen von verschiedenen Sprecher:innen beurteilen. Die Umfrage dauert 10 Minuten und ist anonym." 📖🎙️🎧 Hier geht's zur Umfrage 👇

WHAT-IF team members met in Konstanz last week to design the WHAT-IF machine—an agent-based simulation with LLM-driven agents. It models media ecosystems to test 'what if' policy scenarios. Curious how? Read more: what-if-horizon.eu/2025/05/16/o...

Had a great time at the CSS workshop in Mannheim organized by @rubac.bsky.social & @valeriehase.bsky.social. You can find my slides on "Reproducibility & Replicability in Computational Social Science Research" here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #reproducibility #replicability #computationalsocialscience

Our team members @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social have presented their fantastic work at the CSS conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“ in Mannheim. Very well done! 👏

@ahrabhikat.bsky.social is presenting the findings from her PhD project at the conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“ 🤩

Today at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social in Mannheim, @aurman21.bsky.social kicking off our conference on „AI & Society - Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age“. Thanks esp. to @rubac.bsky.social and the local team for organizing this event 🙌

Thank you to the great team at @cais-research.bsky.social for hosting our 2025 Working Group Meeting on Assessing The Fragility of Social Media. socialmedialab.ca/events/2025-... Learn more about the fragility indicators here: scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/c...

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

🚨 The identity of the man behind MrDeepFakes, one of the largest, if not the most popular, platforms for deep fake celebrity pornography, is finally revealed. A must read!