Please forward to students: We are looking for a Student Research Assistant (16 hrs/week) to join our Digital Society Observatory team in Cologne (CSS @ GESIS). 📍 Where: Cologne (w flexible/mobile working) 📅 Start Date: October 1, 2026 ⏳ DL: July 31, 2026 👉 gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2697094?...

Student Research Assistant, Team Digital Society Observatory (SHK-CSS-37) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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More congratulations: @janabernhard.bsky.social, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, and Hajo Boomgaarden won the Top Paper Award in the Political Communication Division at #ica26 for their paper "The Uneven News Landscape: Selective News Bias in Actor-Topic Interactions"

Wohooo, we are over the moon 🚀🎉

Katrin Weller@kwelle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Computational methods division top paper goes to Paul Balluff, @christinaviehmann.bsky.social, Maximilian Linde, @yapete.bsky.social, Jun Sun, Chung-hong Chan from @gesis.org. Huge congrats everyone!

Hi #ica26, interested in computational approaches and media use & effects? This is for you: 📢 CfP CCR Special Issue: From normalization to next frontiers: Media use & effects in the computational era. 🗓Abstracts due: Oct 16 journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement... @icacm.bsky.social

📣 1 week left to apply! CFP – DGPuK Methods 2026 (Cologne, Sept 30–Oct 2, @gesis.org): How can we make sense of clicks, scrolls & streams – and what do they tell us about media effects? Join the conversation on computational methods, bias & ethics. 🗓️ May 15 t1p.de/q6ram

Christina Viehmann@christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 CFP DGPuK Methods 2026 (@gesis.org, Köln) 🧠 Measuring Media Use & Effects: Computational Opportunities & Challenges topics: theorizing media use & effects in algorithmically shaped environments, concepts and measurement, ethics & bias ... 🗓️ 30 Sep–2 Oct | ⏳ Deadline: 15 May 🔗https://t1p.de/q6ram

📣 CFP DGPuK Methods 2026 (@gesis.org, Köln) 🧠 Measuring Media Use & Effects: Computational Opportunities & Challenges topics: theorizing media use & effects in algorithmically shaped environments, concepts and measurement, ethics & bias ... 🗓️ 30 Sep–2 Oct | ⏳ Deadline: 15 May 🔗https://t1p.de/q6ram

Very excited for this event organized by our own (@gesis.org) Johannes Kiesel and @christinaviehmann.bsky.social. Let's see what a Datasprint is!

⌛ Only one week left to apply! *Deadline 17.3.2026* Come and work with us on innovative approaches to gain insights into misinformation dynamics across platforms specifically endangering young people.

Christina Viehmann@christinaviehmann.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics 👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation 📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote) is.gd/dYxJ9L

🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics 👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation 📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote) is.gd/dYxJ9L

Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science (CSS-117) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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

​The #GESISMethodsHub is live! 🎉 ​So thrilled to launch this project, built with so much heart. It's set to be your community portal for computational tools and coding environments. ​Explore now! We'll open for external submissions by year-end.

GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften@gesis.org · 10mo ago

#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/

⏳ Only 1 week left! Apply as a Postdoc in Computational Social Science (TV-L 13, 100%, 4 yrs + tenure track) @gesis.org to build open-source tools🛠 & infrastructure🌐and conduct your own reproducible research🧠 with digital behavioral data. 📎 www.gesis.org/en/institute... #CSS #openscience #hiring

🚀 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

Just 5 days left to submit a paper or abstract to the CPSS workshop at KONVENS 2025!

Gabriella Lapesa@gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline extension! We decided to extend the deadline for CPSS #KONVENS2025 to June 20th! We hope to receive many of your archival and non archival submissions :)

⚡️⚡️⚡️ Interested in… …negativity, incivility, intolerance? …comparative and experimental data on the perception and effects of attack politics? … personality, contextual influences? Get all this with a discount! 📚📚📚🤩🤩🤩

Alessandro Nai@alessandronai.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new book THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTACK POLITICS is out next month! 🔥📚 We offer a new look at negativity effects, via perceptions & evaluations🤔😱👿🤣 You can pre-order it with a nice 20% discount on the cover price (for paperbacks this makes it £32 or so) Check out discount code & link in the flyer 👇

📊 In Deutschland scheint der öffentliche Diskurs zunehmend zu verrohen, außerdem steigt die generelle Skepsis gegenüber der Integrität des Mediensystems. Zu diesen Ergebnissen kommt die Mainzer Langzeitstudie Medienvertrauen 2024: www.ard-media.de/mediaperspek...

#Medienvertrauen in Deutschland weitgehend stabil, aber immer mehr Menschen nehmen Verrohung öffentlicher Debatten wahr // Auswertung der aktuellen Erhebungswelle der Mainzer Langzeitstudie Medienvertrauen von #UniMainz und @hhu.de presse.uni-mainz.de/medienvertra...

I will once again teach web scraping and data management at ESS this year! The course is a deep dive into everything I know about getting data from the web and how to keep your data clean and organized for analysis.

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis@essexsummerschool.bsky.social · last yr.

🚀Introduction to Web Scraping & Data Management for Social Scientists 💻 Learn how to collect, manage and store data efficiently for high-quality research using tools like Elasticsearch, APIs, SQL, R & more! Find out more & apply: bit.ly/4lfuk7C #ESS2025 #DataScience

🚀 Two open positions in our project “Developing AI-Powered Survey Infrastructures” 🚀 🔬 Postdoc: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... 📚 Doctoral researcher: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... 🌟 Be part of an interdisciplinary team and combine surveys, digital behavioral data and LLMs