🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟 Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆 Register 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

🎉 Today's the day! Notifications for #ICA26 are now being sent out via email! Please be patient & be sure to check your spam folder too. You can also check your results by logging into the ScholarOne website and clicking the Messages tab. buff.ly/Lm6odET

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!

(How) can AI help build better online spaces? ✨ Last week, 16 researchers from 8 institutions gathered in Vienna to explore exactly that question. Between the Christmas markets, the WHAT-IF team discussed how LLMs can power agent-based simulations to tackle online hostility and harmful content 👇

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

We need a new iteration of retraction watch for retracting publications that are not publications.

Time to share some news I've been sitting on: starting in January, I will lead a @dfg.de Emmy Noether Group at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! We will investigate how local public spheres are constituted under conditions of digitalization & globalization. www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...

🔍 Insightful piece debunking some of the "mythology” behind Big Data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #commsky #polsky #bigdata

We've published an Open Letter urging EU policymakers to reject the Digital Omnibus' proposed Amendment to Article 12(5) GDPR, which would undermine citizens' data access rights & the researchers who depend on them for #DataDonation research. Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.

Are you applying computational methods in your research or thinking about starting a lab? Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social 🌟 Online on Feb 16, 2026, 4:00–5:30 pm CET / 10:00–11:30 am EST 📆 Register 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw

Join us for the first Computational Methods Labs Showcase @icacm.bsky.social Registration is free and open to colleagues interested in computational methods! DM me if you have questions 1/2

📣 Das Social Media Observatory am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social und @fgz-risc.bsky.social lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein! 🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr 🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom) 👨‍💻 mit @boesch.bsky.social, @julianhohner.bsky.social & @lionw.bsky.social Infos 👉 leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...

✨New preprint led by Jula Lühring! We found that news from untrustworthy sources elicit different forms of social media engagement than trustworthy news. Check out Jula‘s thread for more:

📣New study by Linde, Chan & Balluff reviews 38 ML-based content analyses: frequentist stats on full populations, no misclassification adjustment—big-N + auto-coding isn’t automatically better. Worth a rethink. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social

#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot. 📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025 More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C

How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality. 🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Danke @brodnig.bsky.social für das aufgreifen! #Vergewaltigungsdrohungen & wüste Beschimpfungen sind keine Seltenheit, so wie mir geht es vielen Frauen. Die Justiz darf uns den Tätern nicht schutzlos ausliefern, sie muss zumindest ernsthaft ermitteln. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

I'm excited to teach my course on longitudinal data & analysis in the context of #KOMEX2026 again. For me, the first iteration of this earlier this year was a lot of nerdy 🤓 fun, and the participants agreed - even anonymously in the evals 😜 Let me know if you have any questions! More info ⬇️

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

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. 👇

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.

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! 🤗

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

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

Hey! Look what's now out in print! And I am very happy to see that #Altmetrics currently logs our paper at 5000+ views and 6 citations already. 🤗 @digitaljournalism.bsky.social @compcommlab.bsky.social Full original thread linked below.

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Some personal news to share www.mpg.de/25487784/aus...

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...

The result of this super cool work with Henrik Olsson, @abhishekr0y.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social, Stan Rhodes, and Alison Mansheim can now be found online - and we hope you like it as much as we do 😍https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00053-z- Core ideas also summarized below 🔽

#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.

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

🚫📰 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. 🧵👇

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 ⚙️

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

Last week, I defended my dissertation! 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who made this possible—especially (but not exclusively) @anniewald.bsky.social, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social & the whole @compcommlab.bsky.social! 🫶

Wanna know more about #data #access and the Digital Services Act? Here’s our latest policy paper about how it works👇 www.weizenbaum-library.de/items/86842c... #commsky #polisky #dsa @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

Sehr cool: An der CEU ( @weareceu.bsky.social ) gibt es eine neue Forschungseinheit zu Fehl- und Desinformation - auch wieso diese oft gedanklich hängen bleibt Wir diskutieren deshalb gemeinsam am 29.9. in Wien Hier kann man sich anmelden:

Big thanks also to her thesis reviewers, @thorstenquandt.bsky.social and @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social! 🙏 - as well as the defense chair, @hajoboo.bsky.social. We saw very proud supervisors today w/ @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social 🤗

Very proud, indeed!!! 👏👏👏 Big congrats, Dr. @azadekakavand.bsky.social 🎓, and all the best for your postdoc life @bredowinstitut.bsky.social 🚀

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

📢 New Preprint: "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Performance and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis." Providing guidance for social scientists, we challenge the "bigger is better" narrative, instead encouraging social and environmental responsibility. osf.io/preprints/so...

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 ✨

📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵

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🙇🏻‍♀️

🧪 🗳 New in Scientific Data "The #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024: A Dataset of Austrian Voter Attitudes and Behavior” The new data descriptor offers background on study design & data quality. ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📂 Dataset: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #OpenScience @aussda.bsky.social

Want to work in Portugal, in a brand new institute, at the interface between #Health and #ComplexSystems? Open positions for #students, #postdocs and a #dataSteward under the supervision of @lmrocha.bsky.social Check it out: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-team/o...

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages? Our new WP shows the answer is no: -Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators -Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs osf.io/amfws