Mia Nahrgang
@mianahrgang.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Konstanz researching Content Moderation. 🔗 https://mianahrgang.github.io
Today is the last day of the summer term at @uni-konstanz.de. The last weeks have been extremely exhausting, due to the fact that only very few rooms on campus have A/C. This was by far the worst summer in the history of our institution (see below). You wonder why teaching ends so late? So do I.
Very pleased to have been on the leadership team for this paper! LLMs are already being used all over behavioural science. But it is often pretty hard to work out exactly what has been done, and therefore how much confidence to place in the results. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour
Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...
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🚨 I'm recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social, to be based at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). These are both full-time positions for 2 years. Deadline for applications: June 23. Expected start date: September 2026. 🔁 Please share and help me spread the word! 🚀
I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.
State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇 1/10
🚀 Come work with us: 7 PhD positions in #InequalityResearch at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”, @uni-konstanz.de Fully funded (TV-L E13, 75%, 4 years) Start: 1 Oct 2026 Application deadline: 15 Apr 2026 ℹ️ t1p.de/j3vk5, apply here: t1p.de/h5mz9
📊 The #DSA data access portal is live, and VLOPs/VLOSEs have begun publishing their data catalogues. Trying to collect the links again: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
One postdoctoral Research Position
Deadline: November 15th, 2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...
Wanna know what changed between the Draft of the Delegated Act on Research Data Access in the #DSA? We've aligned the relevant passages and just published the comparison on our website: dsa40collaboratory.eu/dda-da-compa... Data & code used are available on our github: github.com/access-colla...
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
After presenting at #ICWSM25 yesterday (for link to the paper ⤵️), I’ve just arrived at @epsanet.bsky.social in Madrid! Tomorrow (Thursday, 13:10, Room 1A.02), I’ll be presenting a new project that analyzes content moderation dynamics during elections on Bluesky. Hope to see some of you there!
📣 Happy to announce the publication of our article (w @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @friederikeq.bsky.social, @sebnagel.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts) on the complexity and availability of community guidelines @icwsm.bsky.social! 🔗 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
With Mina Rulis, I've been studying the link between higher education and dissent in autocracies: "Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest" has now been published at doi.org/10.1177/2053...! Thanks to the @uni-konstanz.de for supporting open access!
Activist disciplines: Universities in autocracies and political protest - Nils B Weidmann, Mina Rulis, 2025
Recent events on university campuses show again that academic institutions often constitute breeding grounds for political mobilization. This also applies to au...
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🚨🚀 Looking for a comparative dataset on social media platforms? We’re excited to launch COMPARE! This is a collaborative effort by @nilsweidmann.bsky.social , @friederikeq.bsky.social , @sebnagel.bsky.social , @yannistheocharis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts. 🧵⤵️ (1/5)
Musk and Zuckerberg claim to champion free expression—but surveys across 10 countries reveal a troubling gap between billionaire rhetoric and public expectations on social media, content moderation, and free expression, write Yannis Theocharis, Spyros Kosmidis, Friederike Quint, and Jan Zilinsky:
What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling | TechPolicy.Press
Researchers fielded surveys in 10 countries to understand how citizens perceive platforms and potential trade-offs related to free expression.
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Call for Papers! 📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop 🏫 University of Zurich 📅 13-14 November 2025 ⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025 democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/...
New interview out! I spoke with Lars Lubienetzki for ver.di—one of Germany’s largest trade unions—about our much-anticipated report "Content Warning: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression." 📢 🔗 Only available in German: mmm.verdi.de/aktuelle-mel...
Social Media: Mehr Moderation gewünscht - M - Menschen Machen Medien (ver.di)
Wer trägt die Verantwortung, um etwas gegen zunehmenden Hass in den sozialen Medien zu unternehmen? Die Plattformen? Die Politik? Die Nutzer*innen? Alle drei Gruppen jeweils zu einem Drittel. Zu diese...
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@bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team details how the platform utilizes open networks to allow users to craft their own social media experience while maintaining their personal privacy.
🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon? 👇🏻 This @icwsm.bsky.social workshop is for you! 😎 📢 nextgensocial-workshop.github.io 📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions! 📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025
Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media! 📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02... More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
Gewalt im Internet: Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Gewalt im Internet“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien“.
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New paper forthcoming in PA, w/ @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on images are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786
Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-level Classification for Complex Scenes
Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual f...
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@friederikeq.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing co-authored work with Molly Roberts, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, and Sebastian Nagel at @apsa.bsky.social. Join us for our presentations at 8:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday to talk about content moderation!
Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and @yannistheocharis.bsky.social. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/1....
We started the #DSA40Collaboratory Data Access Tracker to collect rejected, pending, and accepted data access requests under #DSA40 - please list your experience and share with colleagues widely @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social www.soscisurvey.de/DSA40applica...
How is the Internet infrastructure set up in autocracies and democracies? New study at PNAS Nexus with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Alex Gamero-Garrido, Esteban Carisimo, Alberto Dainotti, Alex C. Snoeren. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
[New Paper] with @franziskapradel.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social & @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social now out in APSR! So happy with this piece which significantly reflects the trajectory of our research agenda at the Chair of Digital Governance! polisky Commsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
