Social media creates a funhouse mirror that distorts public opinion I have a new article explaining how social media amplifies extreme voices, fuels moral outrage, and makes us think other people are far more hostile and polarized than they really are. issues.org/social-media...

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DINOv2 has never seen a caption, and Qwen3 has never seen an image. We still aligned their embedding spaces without a single image-caption pair. It even works when the images and the captions come from different datasets. Project page: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-rosetta ⬇️

This is unexpectedly awesome: Zenodo allows reserving a DOI before depositing the materials, so you can include the DOI in the materials themselves. This is very helpful because you can include the identifier in the metadata itself.

We have two open professorships at @i2sc.net's SOUNDS project! One in #CompSocSci, one in #PoliSci. #hiring

🎓 CONGRATS to @julaluehring.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation on socio-affective dynamics in misinformation spread! 👏Thanks to advisors @anniewald.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & @hannahmetzler.bsky.social! Jula continues at GESIS as Senior Researcher. All the best for what’s next! 🥂

This is a really fascinating research demo, from the lab of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland: It predicts the likelihood that the ideas contained in a piece of text are AI-generated versus human-generated. A couple of examples in this thread.

IdeaLens: is this text human or AI?

We check a text's ideas and prose separately.

ideadetector.ai

📣 Deadline extended! If you think this could be the right position for you, don’t miss the opportunity to apply. 👇✨

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

Announcing Round 1 of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 (𝐌𝐏𝐏𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤) dataset! It provides manually collected TikTok handles for MPs and parties in 17 Western democracies (elected as of December 2025). Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mp... Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... 1/3

UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

Job Vacancies

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Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

atlas.jazco.dev

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

Hi all you researchers looking for ways to conduct independent, ecologically valid research on social media design - Great new paper for you: "Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media" arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21608

🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6

The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures

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Interested in the social impact of AI? Consider applying for this new post-doc at Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32805

a PhD position in LLMs, annotations, language and benchmarking @ University of Tartu. please share! digits.ut.ee/join-the-team/

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

I’m excited to share our new preprint about network fairness and its ethical challenges. We spent many years thinking about this topic and shaping our arguments. /w @lespin.bsky.social @eliassi.bsky.social Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Pak Wong , Erich Prem , Meike Zehlike ,Suresh Venkatasubramanian

NetScience@netscience.bsky.social · last mo.

From Network Inequality to Network Fairness: A Perspective on Responsible Decision-Making arxiv.org/abs/2609.13867

I forgot that I made a starter pack with computational literary studies people — maybe it’s time for an update. Ping me if you’re not there! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

By Nihar B. Shah

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Geo-coded electoral data offers immense potential for understanding democratic processes. @dielea.bsky.social, Stefan Jünger, and I will build a research data infrastructure to support the global research community using such data with our DFG-funded project "Electoral Spaces". We are hiring!

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

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Pursue your career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg WE ARE HIRING! 👉Doctoral Researcher in election data (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 75 %, limited to 3 years) 🔗gesis.jobs.personio....

Want to join an NLP reading group with me? 📚 I'm starting a virtual section of a reading group that I ran in Copenhagen. We'll spend 30 min reading quietly (your choice of readings) + 30 min sharing with each other. You get to read and learn a surprising amount! 🌐 Zoom 🗓️ Mondays @ 12PM ET

NLP Reading Group

We will meet virtually on Zoom every Monday at 10 AM MT / 12PM ET / 9AM PT. Structure: 📚 30 minutes quiet co-reading time (you choose what to read!) 💬 30 minutes sharing summaries + thoughts You get...

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We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

Maria Leonor Pacheco@mlpacheco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come join us in Boulder! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Fantastic PostDoc job (100%, 4 years) in a cool project at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de with brilliant colleagues @dscheykopp.bsky.social @thothiel.bsky.social @freiheitsrechte.org @wirsindderosten.bsky.social www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung / Postdoctoral Re-searcher (m/w/d) zu Polarisierung auf digitalen Platt-formen

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We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

Job Alert! We now have another position in computational social science. In the context of an interdisciplinary method center, we offer a 4+1 year 100% postdoc position with no teaching! If you have any questions, send me a PM. uol.de/en/job/postd...

I believe to have found new evidence of Openai agents writing to public wiki/pastebin websites that has not been covered by yesterday's release. Some of it appears to be after July 2nd, therefore suggesting that the coordination had not stopped with the end of DSE incident, even up to August

📢 We’re hiring a Senior Scientist in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! Come join our CCL Team and work on building a research infrastructure for #CSS @medem.bsky.social 🤓 📍 Vienna | 4-year position | full-time Apply via the University of Vienna job portal 👇