Wrapping up the week - Posted two new (tt) Assistant Professorship position in my department: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... ... I am chairing this committee, so let me know if you have questions

Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn ihr uns mit einer Teilnahme unterstützen könntet 😊 Keinerlei persönliche Erfahrung mit politischem Engagement ist erforderlich!

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 28th, 6 pm CEST, on Efficient R by @selina-b.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

PLEASE GIVE ME MORE WACKY DATA! Crazy questions make memorable examples! My students will thank you! buff.ly/a3hUOBA Speeding tickets! Cookie consumption! Feeling thermometers about cats and dogs and people who eat anchovies straight from the tin!

LAST DAY 🚨: a simple repost of the post I'm quoting here will increase money donated to my organization. Please take the time to click and amplify it! 🙏🏼 So will follows, detailed below. Russ generously offered to donate $1 to @51st.news "through this weekend" for every repost his offer receives.

The European Media Freedom Act is here. From today, 8 August, new EU rules will apply to better protect journalists and make media more free and independent. Hear from Vice-President Sabine Verheyen on what today means for EU journalists and media outlets ↓

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

I've been tracking my peer review activity over the years (like @alessandronai.bsky.social @turnbulldugarte.com) ad wanted to share some of that for transparency, manage expectations, and reflect on what it suggests for early-career researchers' development, esp. in #polisky #commsky #policom 1/n

New job at LONELY-EU! Our consortium member Cristiano Vezzoni (University of Milan, Italy) is looking for a postdoc to work on #loneliness, social isolation and political behavior. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @lonely-eu.bsky.social

New EU rules adopted today mean better access for qualified researchers to online data gathered by very large online platforms & search engines. This is important for investigations into systemic risks (e.g illegal content or disinformation). See 👉 europa.eu/!XHYdGN

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

ICA 2025 is on 🔥 PhD-student Floriane van Alphen just kicked off a preconference on environmental communication. She presented her second study on the audience perspective of climate advocacy journalism 🙏 @christelvaneck.bsky.social @christianburgers.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

Come and join us! It is going to be great! Martina Paulenova from @medjourmuni.bsky.social will talk about political memes in a polarized environment!

🚨 New #PolComm ECR Club Session coming up! 🙌 🕺 Join us tomorrow (12 June) at 🕰️ 1pm for a discussion of 🎇 Memes during the Czech Elections 🗳️ w/ ✨ Martina Paulenova, Ofra Klein & Ana Langer. ✨ 🖥️ Check events.ecpr.eu/Events/Event... for more details and registration/zoom link! 🔗 @ecpr.bsky.social

I've received funding to improve my UK General Elections dataset (1832–2024)! We will validate existing variables and add new ones — e.g. registered voters, campaign spending, candidate gender, IDs for matching with other datasets. Current version: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Hier gibt es das Factsheet mit ersten Ergebnissen unserer Studie zu Aggressionen und Gewalt gegen Politiker*innen in Deutschland: kfn.de/wp-content/u...

🎓 Apply now for our FINAL round of applications! After two very successful rounds, we are now opening our last call to join our MA programme in #EU Studies. Do not miss out on the #opportunity! ❗​ Apply by 1 July 2025 ❗​ More info: buff.ly/feChQeD #EUsky #EurSky

📅 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!

This is an exciting opportunity for early career researchers in Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social ! Thanks so much for this excellent initiative @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social ⬇️

Nächste Woche gehts los: Pint of Science – das Wissenschaftsfestival! 🧠🍺 Vom 19. bis 21. Mai präsentieren Wissenschaftler:innen ihre Forschung in 6 österreichischen Städten – Wien ist mit besonders vielen spannenden Events dabei. Hier ein Überblick! 🎟 pintofscience.at/events/wien #pint25 #pint25AT

Come and join us! So exciting to launch this Club!

Neuer Bericht im Nature Career Feature Machtmissbrauch und prekären Arbeitsverhältnissen in der Wissenschaft #IchBinHanna

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Please help spread the news! 🙏 @solecheler.bsky.social @compcommlab.bsky.social @hajoboo.bsky.social @anniewald.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @kgattermann.bsky.social

Who is sharing the news? 1st paper published from Iris Baas' PhD study, w/ proud supervisors Tommaso Caselli, @marcestevedelvalle.bsky.social, & I. We show that ideological critique does not necessarily translate into alternative media consumption on Dutch Twitter firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

From the archive: in this blog post✍️ @verenakbrandle.bsky.social and @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social explore the need for researchers to have better access to data so they can explore the impacts social media is having on democratic processes around the world. Read now➡️ https://buff.ly/3X4HDND

New episode of the podcast out now! Awesome conversation about social media with @verenakbrandle.bsky.social. Check it out. 🎙️

Fantastic initiative!! 🔥🔥🔥

🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!! 📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm 📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining! @alenakluknavska.bsky.social

Hi Bluesyk! 👋🦋✨We've made the move -- help us grow a follower base here! We are the @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Political Communication. Follow us here and stay up-to-date for news, events, and activities! Tag us for sharing! For now it's follow2followback! #polcom #commsky #polisky

🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!! 📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm 📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining! @alenakluknavska.bsky.social

🎤 Want to present or be a discussant at a future session? Fill out this 1-min form to stay in the loop + signal interest: 🔗 tinyurl.com/ecrclub

🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication! Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

We, @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social are super excited to launch a new virtual format for early career researchers in political communication (ECPR or ECREA members) for discussing their drafts! Thanks @olgaeisele.bsky.social and @alenakluknavska.bsky.social for organizing & ECREA for joining forces!

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

A true group effort!!! 🚀 So proud of our team @compcommlab.bsky.social for organizing #COMPTEXT2025.

Happening now at #COMPTEXT2025 🤩🤩🤩 @ahrabhikat.bsky.social @krangelie.bsky.social @indiiigo.bsky.social

@ahrabhikat.bsky.social is presenting her fantastic work 👀 #COMPTEXT2025

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌 go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

Important topic! On after lunch in BIG Hörsaal at #COMPTEXT2025 with @indiiigo.bsky.social @krangelie.bsky.social @ahrabhikat.bsky.social

I am very pleased to share that my recent paper, "Reinforcing or Rethinking Journalism" was recently published by @cogitatiomac.bsky.social. You can read the paper (OA) here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

First ever publication alert! Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀 In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited. Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

📣 Seeing Matters: The Social and Political Lives of Images Join us for an evening on the power of images in shaping our social and political worlds! 👉 Register here: spui25.nl/programma/se... 📍 Location: SPUI25, Amsterdam 📅 Date: April 4, 2025 | 🕖 17:00 - 18:30 @duitslandinstituut.nl

🚨 One week left to submit to #ECREAPolComm25 🚨 Working on anything political communication - empirical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, or applied? Submit your 3000-character abstract & join us in Innsbruck, Austria, this September! 🙂 ⏳ Deadline: March 30, 2025 📍 CfP: www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...

📣📣📣 My department @ucdpolitics.bsky.social is hiring for a PERMANENT*** position open with respect to subfield/method. Deadline: noon on April 7. ***yes, you read correctly: I mean PERMANENT. Like better than tenure-track. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...