🎓 Congratulations to Lina Buttgereit on successfully defending her #PhD thesis! 👏 📖 Thesis: Truth is only hearsay? Misinformation as an informational, discursive, and perceptual challenge. We wish Lina continued success as she begins the next stage of her academic and professional journey.

🎉We #congratulate ASCoR researchers Priska Breves, Saurabh Khanna, and Felicia Loecherbach on being awarded prestigious Veni grants by the NWO (Dutch Research Council). Read more: tinyurl.com/mwaf372t

Veni grants for 28 UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers

NWO has awarded Veni grants to 28 talented researchers at the UvA and Amsterdam UMC (location AMC).

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We are pleased to welcome 🎉 our new #postdoctoral researcher, Lennert Groot! Lennert will work on the Macroscope project, analysing large heterogeneous datasets to explore their use in answering research questions for the Media and Web Diets Observatory.

We are pleased to welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Erik van Haeringen. He joined ASCoR as a research engineer and postdoctoral researcher. As a postdoctoral researcher, he works on the cAlibrate (calibratedtrust.eu) project, which investigates trust in conversational generative AI.

We are immensely proud to share that ASCoR researcher and former Director @claesdevreese.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 Stevin Prize, the highest distinction in the Netherlands for researchers who have achieved exceptional societal impact through the application of scientific knowledge.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new PhD candidate, Leona Rutten! Her research focuses on gathering parents’ questions, concerns, and misconceptions about the new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunization for infants through social listening. She will be part of Health Communication group.

🎉 We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 #McQuail Award: #Congratulations to prof. Anne Bartsch (Leipzig University), receiving the award for her paper Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere - an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda (doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...)

🎉#Congratulations to Cynthia Dekker and Susanne Baumgartner, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2025! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

🎓 #PhdDefence Congratulations to Cynthia Dekker on the successful defence of her #PhD! We wish Cynthia every success as she embarks on the next chapter of her academic journey. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to her supervisors, Susanne Baumgartner and Sindy Sumter!

We warmly congratulate ASCoR researcher @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social on being named an ICA Fellow by @icahdq.bsky.social. This is one of the highest honors in communication research. The distinction recognizes her outstanding scholarly contributions, leadership, and service to the field.🎉

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a #PhD candidate for the project "AuthentiMark: Protecting Citizens Against Digital Fraud". Please note that for this position, only candidates who are fluent Dutch speakers are eligible. 📅Deadline: 25 June 2026 🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

#Congratulations 🎉 ASCoR researcher @hannescools.bsky.social received a 2-year grant from @sidnfonds.bsky.social to study how news organisations can break free from Big Tech using open-source AI.

🚨 #Jobalert Are you looking for a #postdoc position in political communication research? We are looking for a postdoc for the Horizon Europe-funded project. 📅Deadline: 8 June 2026 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/5xecsskf

🎰 Increasing amounts of gambling content in our social media feeds? 📺 Tonight at 9:15 PM on NPO 2: ‘Gokkers op je tijdlijn’ This episode explores how online gambling content is increasingly appearing in our timelines and the impact it may have on young people.

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Om gokverslaving bij jongeren te voorkomen is er een verbod op ‘rolmodellen’ in reclames en mogen gokbedrijven zich niet richten op jongeren onder de 24 jaar. Toch zien jongeren online veel gokspelletjes. Zembla onderzoekt of de gokindustrie de reclameregels omzeilt. Morgen 21:15 op NPO 2.

🚨 #Jobalert Within the AuthentiMark consortium, we currently have three PhD vacancies. The project is funded by an NWA/KIC grant from NWO (the Dutch Research Council). Application deadline for all three positions: 15 May.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, @philippdarius.bsky.social! He is working at the Artificial Intelligence, Media & Democracy (AIMD) Lab at ASCoR and studies how AI, digital platforms, and political communication shape democratic governance.

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a #PhD Candidate for the project "Democratic moral craftmanship and media". In this project, you examine the role of Dutch media in shaping, maintaining, and debating the democratic moral craftsmanship of politicians and administrators.

🚨#Jobalert In this project, you will create a longitudinal dataset containing the media and web consumption patterns of individuals, linking content data with its consumers, and bridging between meso-level public debate and micro-level individual behavior and attitudes.

🚨 #Jobalert Are you interested in researching the interplay between AI and politics and its societal consequences? Would you like to join a new Research Priority Area and work in an interdisciplinary team?

🚨 #Jobalert ASCoR and the Digital Data Donation Infrastructure (D3I) are seeking a highly motivated Postdoc / Research Engineer to support, maintain and extend the data donation infrastructure (datadonation.eu). 📅Deadline: 2 March 2026 🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

We are pleased to #welcome🎉 our new #PhD candidate, Niklas Fritsche. His research investigates how misinformation reinforces existing beliefs in polarized contexts. He focuses on how group norms and linguistic bias shape perceived accuracy, and on interventions that can reduce these effects.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new #PhD candidate, @quyangzhao.bsky.social. Her research will focus on algorithmic persuasion on TikTok among young adults. She will investigate why certain young people are vulnerable to such persuasion, and how we can design effective interventions to address it.

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Yagmur Ozbay! She will study how social media design influences (dis)engagement, with a focus on promoting young people’s autonomy and reducing digital overuse, in collaboration with Dr. Sindy Sumter and Dr. Helen Vossen.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @lisemarienassen.bsky.social. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (CCaM), Lise-Marie will work as programme manager on the SpaceTeen project, funded by CLICKNL.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @martinjansen.bsky.social. He has recently joined the Persuasive Communication group as a postdoctoral researcher. In his new role, he will work on a project focused on developing communication campaigns for gambling care.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Abby Qin. Abby studies how information systems shape democratic life across individual lived experience, local information ecosystems, and institutional design. We wish her every success in this exciting new chapter.

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a highly motivated #postdoctoral researcher for the research project: ‘That’s (not) appropriate’ – the Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning. 📅Deadline: 18 January 2026 🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 #Jobalert We are looking for a motivated, junior #Postdoc Researcher to join the project “MIND-CHAT: May I help you? An Intervention for Depression through a culturally-sensitive Chatbot". 📅Deadline: 9 January 2026 🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/y6hk439s

#Congratulations 🎉 to ASCoR member @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, who has recently been awarded an #NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2025 grant for the project “Effects of Short-Form Video Use on Recovery and Well-Being.” Learn more about the Open Competition SSH XS–funded projects 👇