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Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Does anyone know a good, step-by-step introduction to Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling? I’m looking for easy intros, YouTube videos or other resources beyond the classic textbook style for my Master’s-level students. Thanks! 😊 #SEM #multilevel #statistics #ICA @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social

TU/e has gained a new research centre: META/e. Daniël Lakens and Krist Vaesen were among the founders of this knowledge hub for metascience—research aimed at improving the practice of science itself. “We want to be a home for every researcher who occasionally wonders: what are we even doing?”

📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

#OpenPosition #Professorship #DigitalTransformation 🚀 TU Dortmund & CAIS invite applications for a Professorship “Digital Transformation in Work & Society” (W2/W1 Tenure Track) 🔗 More information here: www.cais-research.de/en/stellenan... 📅 Apply by 24 Dec 2025 @tu-dortmund.de

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #CSS Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages. youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE Apply now for a job as #PostDoc / #SeniorResearcher in Computational Social Science (13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited for 4 ys. with possible tenure) www.gesis.org/en/ins...

#ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is is proud to present its fourth season with an exciting programme of guest speakers and topics ranging from reproducible pipelines to data sharing, research integrity in the context of #GenAI and participant consent! 🌟 […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Billions of regressions ≠ robustness. My new PNAS Letter shows how unjustified models can drown out justified ones — and why thoughtful model selection matters👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live! Highlights: • Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane • Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica) • Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R • Many, many more! Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg Apply now for one of two jobs as Researchers (Postdocs) in #DataQuality and #AI (salary group 13 TV-L, working time up to 100%, limited until 14.11.2026): www.gesis.org/en/ins...

Join our CSS department @gesis.org! Postdoc/senior researcher position, tenure track! All info at: www.gesis.org/institut/kar...

After many months work, we launched a major new version of our Trends political ad tracking platform this morning. Take a look (and let us know your feedback - we'd love to hear from you): trends.whotargets.me/reports

Our friend @rrresrobot.bsky.social has finally broken the chains that tied it to evil Elon #farright #radicalright #research

The Cologne “Grüngürtel” (Green Belts) emerged from former fortress areas. Mayor Konrad Adenauer recognized the importance of a natural air filter for the people in the city. The Inner Green Belt and the Outer Green Belt were built between 1922 and 1924. #30DayMapChallenge | Day 05 - Earth #rstats

"dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap" hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS? ✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures: "Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science" 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)

🚨New GLES release for #BTW25: GLES Candidate Study 2025 (ZA10102) 📅24/03–09/06/2025 👥512 interviews 🗳️Political background & nomination, campaigning, political issues, democracy & representation, sociodemographic background 🌍Includes CCS Module IV (@ccs-project.bsky.social) 📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

A new paper analyzes the “production-consumption gap” on social media, where a small subset of users produce most of the content, and considers its implications for the study of phenomena such as political polarization, and for the design of policy interventions. Prithvi Iyer considers the results:

Es ist soweit – mit Eurer Hilfe haben wir die 2k Unterschriften geknackt! 🥳 Die Kampagne wird fortgeführt, der Brief kann weiterhin hier unterzeichnet werden: ✍️ c.org/mvvg2V2nND Wir freuen uns über jede weitere Verbreitung unseres offenen Briefs!! 🙏💪 #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

Wie steht es um Geschlechterdiversität in der Wissenschaft? Wir haben uns das für die deutschsprachige Kommunikationswissenschaft (DACH-Raum) angeschaut – alle Hierarchiestufen #IchbinHanna & Jobs in Relation zu Publikationen, Zitationen, Preisen und Drittmitteln doi.org/10.1007/s116...

🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live! The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver. Explore this resource here 👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/

*Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data* by Frank Mangold, Helena Rauxloh & @sebstier.bsky.social 🗓️ 04-05 May 2026 🏢 Hybrid: Cologne | Online 🌐 t1p.de/WebTrackingD...

📣 New month, new chances! Explore our latest #GESISworkshops: 📊 Bayesian Modelling: From Foundations to Custom Solutions 🗺️ Geodata and Spatial Regression Analysis 💻 Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data Find yours ➡️ gesis.org/workshops 🧵👇

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇 #AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

📊 The #DSA data access portal is live, and VLOPs/VLOSEs have begun publishing their data catalogues. Trying to collect the links again: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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?

Are you interested in thinking about which studies are worth replicating? Then you have 10 articles to dig into in Meta-Psychology, representing a very wide range of viewpoint on this topic, out now: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Review of applications begins November 10 - please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172357

#DSA #SocialMediaDaten Im Rahmen der Vortrags- und Diskussionsreihe "Show & Tell – Social-Media-Daten in der Forschungspraxis" der #NFDI findet eine Serie von drei Sessions zum Thema „#Datenzugang für die Forschung im #DigitalServicesAct – neue Chancen, neue Herausforderungen“ statt. 1/2

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

#DataCollection #ResearchTools #OpenScience #GESISMethodsHub #Mastodon #Telegram 👉 Looking for online data for your research? Methods Hub has you covered. 👉 Capture Mastodon data for social media analysis: doi.org/10.71627/rtoot#DataCollection#ResearchTools#OpenScience

Call for new members of the #GESISPanel scientific advisory board! Help us to shape the future of the #GESISPanel by providing crucial input in the areas of #surveymethodology, #dataquality assurance, and strategic development. More info: www.gesis.org/en/ges...#GESISPanel

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨 @wanlo.bsky.social talks about analytic flexibility in silicon samples on October 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM CET). Great opportunity to gain novel insights into how survey responses can be generated with #LLMs. Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

ERC Workshop on data access under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA is an European legislation that specifies a set of rules to make the digital space safer. Article 40 brings unprecedented opportunities for researchers to access data from very large online platforms and search engines.

🚨 Open Call: Data4Society – 10. Konferenz für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (10|KSWD) 📅 22.–23. Juni 2026 | 📍 Berlin Wie können wir Forschungsdaten sicher, verantwortungsvoll und wirkungsvoll für Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft nutzbar machen?

#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:

Nie vergessen: Ihr dürft nur deshalb weiterhin Bürger*innen heißen, weil Ihr aus Fleisch seid!

ENDSPURT!! Knapp 800 Unterschriften in nur wenigen Tagen - helft uns dabei,die 1k zu knacken! Unterzeichnet unseren Brief an die Bildungsministerkonferenz (15.10.) & verbreitet den Link: c.org/PSwFM4FJFx Gegen das Prekariat der PDs & für 1 besseres #WissSystem!! #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can. See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here: www.campaigntracker.nl/en/ #tk2025

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design. We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

New DP @i4replication.bsky.social: Meta-analysis on green nudges correcting for publication bias. "Behavioral interventions on households and individuals are unlikely to deliver material climate benefits." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

We’re funding new international fellowships in collaboration with @ukri.org and the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social to investigate how AI is transforming research: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI. Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.