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David Garcia

@dgarcia.eu

Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Also at CSH Vienna, ETH Zurich and TU Graz.

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WHAT-IF@what-if-horizon.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥 Happening now: The 2nd General Assembly Meeting of the WHAT-IF project is currently taking place in 📍 Bucharest, Romania. Over the coming days, partners from across the consortium will come together to share progress, discuss preliminary findings and explore new research ideas. Stay tuned!

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The Politics of Inequality@excinequality.bsky.social · 5mo ago

⏰ Registration reminder: In_equality Conference 2026 📅 15–17 April | Konstanz & online ⚠️ On-site deadline: 15 March Online registration: until 8 April Keynotes: Jana Diesner, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Attila Lindner & @mschaeffer.bsky.social. Register now 👇 inequality-conference.de

In_equality Conference 2026

The "Politics of Inequality” research center invites interdisciplinary & international researchers to Konstanz, Germany, for the In_equality Conference, 15-17 April 2026.

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Alina Herderich, PhD@hailina.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@uni-graz.at featured our brand-new article on collective moderation of online spaces published in @pnasnexus.org 🥳 Wanna read what citizen-based strategies can be a remedy against online hate? Click here: ow.ly/csZK50XGteK @janalasser.bsky.social @aroyehuns.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu

University of Graz@uni-graz.at · 8mo ago

🤬 „Merkel zeigt, Frauen gehören nicht in die Politik!“, Aussagen wie diese gehören zu den über eine Million Tweets aus den Jahren 2015-2018, die ein Forschungsteam der #unigraz rund um @hailina.bsky.social und @janalasser.bsky.social analysiert hat. Was gegen Online-Hass hilft, liest du hier 👇

Jula Luehring@julaluehring.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen@lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · last yr.

New preprint with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social where we argue for a complex-system perspective to understand the causal effects of social media on society and for a triangulation of methods arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254

Moving towards informative and actionable social media research

Social media is nearly ubiquitous in modern life, and concerns have been raised about its putative societal impacts, ranging from undermining mental health and exacerbating polarization to fomenting v...

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David Garcia@dgarcia.eu · last yr.

A few months ago I was like "why is there so much gay porn in my anti-AI app" and now there is none of it in my discover feed. It's just a matter of time for the algorithm to sort it out.

Stephan Lewandowsky@lewan.uk · last yr.

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

David Garcia@dgarcia.eu · last yr.

"I can do things with LLMs" seems to be the next "I can get Twitter data" in Computational Social Science. Not that I think it's bad, it's just funny to see how things change.