Claudia Wagner
@clauwa.bsky.social
Professor for Applied Computational Social Sciences at RWTH Aachen University & Director of the Computational Social Science department at GESIS
Some impressions from the CSS summer school at Lago di como. Very nice location for a summer school! css2.lakecomoschool.org/program/
Congratulations!
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"
#mte #GESISGuides Don't forget our upcoming #MeetTheExperts online talk by Dr. Barbara Felderer who will provide guidance to critically assess whether non-probability surveys are fit-for-purpose for their own research projects. 11.06.2026 (THU), 13-14h (CET) - Register now! us02web.zoom.us/meet...
AI is the elephant in the room since it impacts almost all issues that are crucial for the Web and Web Science such as data privacy, accessibility, ownership questions, diversity etc. #Websci #keynote by @jahendler.bsky.social
Enjoying the first keynote at #ACM #WebSci - @jahendler.bsky.social providing insights on the origins and history of Webscience
🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰 More details on dates and venue coming soon ✨ ❗How submissions work: • May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26 • Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27 • Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)
We opened a new PhD position in our department focusing on CSS research on and with AI agents. Please share the job ad and contact us if you have questions: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2594220?...
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Join us in week one! Many great collegues from the CSS department (e.g., @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social) will be involved!
📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open! 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 GESIS Mannheim or online More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program. @gesis.org
Tomorrow 25.03, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social will tell you all about Fear Speech (14:30, Salle Walili). Check the paper aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.118/ and the website fearspeechdata.com/ Co-authored me & @clauwa.bsky.social
From Emotion to Expression: Theoretical Foundations and Resources for Fear Speech
Vigneshwaran Shankaran, Gabriella Lapesa, Claudia Wagner. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.
aclanthology.org
Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
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