Had a very nice and productive week in beautiful Kraków at the ECPR General Conference @ecpr.bsky.social! Lots of inspiring exchanges, interesting discussions, and valuable feedback from brilliant colleagues.

A major milestone for #DemocracyResearch. 🏛️ MEDem has been included in the ESFRI Roadmap, recognizing its role in advancing the empirical study of Democracy in Europe. 🇪🇺 Thank you to everyone who helped bring us to this point! 🙏 #ResearchInfrastructure⚙️

Holzleitner, Schütze: Austria set to become a centre for European democracy research

European research infrastructure MEDem included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2026 – headquarters at the University of Vienna

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🧑‍🎓Top Student Paper Award (4/4) Daniel Wiesner — Who Refers to Science? Understanding the Salience of Scientific Evidence in Parliamentary Debates

It was great to attend the Day of Parliamentary Research at the 🇦🇹 Parliament and share ongoing work on science and expertise in parliamentary debate: 1. Who refers to science, when, and in what contexts? 2. How do politicians draw on expertise, evidence, and knowledge in debate? @parlament.gv.at

Digitale Abstimmungen im Parlament? Ja, kann man machen - aber den großen Erkenntnisgewinn, den sich die Initiatoren erhoffen, sehe ich nicht. Es gäbe aber schon Dinge, die man tun könnte ... #thread www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Ein Volksbegehren will digitale Abstimmungen im Parlament – warum gibt es sie noch nicht?

Die "Hardware" im Hohen Haus ist schon vorhanden. Dennoch wird noch immer geschaut, wer steht und wer sitzt. ÖVP und SPÖ finden das nicht schlecht

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#ICA2026 has come and gone with amazing presentations from our team members and valuable discussions with colleagues from around the world. From content moderation to science communication and censorship, we are proud to share our work with this community and can’t wait to see what’s next! 🥳

I won something at #ICA 🍾 In case you want to know what for👇

Great start to #ICA2026 at the Interactive Poster Session, where I presented my newest study on the use of scientific evidence in parliamentary debates across six European countries: 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 Thanks to everyone who stopped by for the engaging discussions!

🌍 POLCOM is heading to Cape Town for #ICA2026! Our team will present new research from content moderation to misinformation, science communication and political communication. Hope to see you there! Full schedule here: polcom.univie.ac.at/news/news-de...

POLCOM @ ICA2026, Cape Town

Members of the POLCOM team present their latest research at 76th ICA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Bei meinen zwei heutigen Vorträgen auf der #KWT26 @oegk.bsky.social ging es um Vertrauen. Einerseits darum, ob die wahrgenommene Legitimität des #VfGH durch Kommunikation gestärkt werden kann, und andererseits darum, was wissenschaftsbezogene politische Botschaften eigentlich vertrauenswürdig macht.

Solche Vorträge machen mir immer viel Spaß. Insbesondere, wenn sie aus der Zusammenarbeit mit tollen Kolleg:innen wie @danielwiesner.bsky.social, @andreawiesner.bsky.social, @solecheler.bsky.social sowie @jasminskoenig.bsky.social (🖤), @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & M. Gabel entstehen.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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? 🧵

Excited to share our new study in #IJPP

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New publication out in #IJPP! 📑 We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄. Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n

Had some nice and engaging conferencing this fall at the ECREA PolCom Interim Conference and the Annual Conference of @oegpw.bsky.social @polsciuibk.bsky.social & @unisalzburg.bsky.social

Thanks #ICA25 for a great panel on Science in Political Contexts. It was a pleasure to present our latest findings to such an engaged and insightful audience. w/ @jamoeberl.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver! From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

Presenting in the coziest corner of #ICA25 including a weird neck tilt to see the screen ✅ w/ the one and only @andiisto.bsky.social, co-authored with @solecheler.bsky.social & Svenja Schäfer. Come watch me do that move again! 📅 Monday, 10:30 📍 Mineral G (again) 🗣️ „Science on the Political Stage“

@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!

I won something at #ica25 🥹❤️

📣 POLCOM Vienna @ #ICA25 Happy to see eight of our team members at ICA in Denver, CO this week - mentoring and sharing their latest research 🙂 Come say 👋 if you are around!

Only one week left until the ICA! 🤩 We are pleased to present an overview of the Polcomm programme. Make a note of the sessions you cannot miss!

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗 📍 Vienna 🗓️ Start: September 2025 📌 Apply by June 26 #AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

Had an amazing time at #COMPTEXT2025. So many inspiring presentations, fruitful discussions, and amazing people. Very happy about that — and that everything worked out from the perspective of an organizer as well 😊 @comptext.bsky.social @compcommlab.bsky.social

Die FPÖ hat heute das größte Stimmenplus, aber im Vergleich zur bundesweiten Sonntagsfrage hat sie bei Wiener LT/GR-Wahlen noch nie so unterperformt.

The success of COMPTEXT 2025 was made possible by the indefatigable and amazing work of the local organising team led by @fabiennelind.bsky.social + @hajoboo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @compcommlab.bsky.social. The COMPTEXT Association is grateful for their work and to our sponsors (bit.ly/430VUye)!

Absolutely fascinating and packed panel on enhancing and (critically) evaluating LLM performance at #COMPTEXT2025 this morning. w/ great work by @zacdgreene.bsky.social, Laura Liebig, Lukas Erhardt, and @christianpipal.bsky.social. Excellently chaired by @amplanitzer.bsky.social! 👏

#COMPTEXT2025 Day 2 Checklist ✅ Good morning! A few things to remember for today: 🎫 Name badge & dinner ticket 💾 USB with slides if presenting ☔️ Rain is expected 🗣️ Panels start at 9:00 🎤 Plenary session at 16:45 📸 Group photo at 18:15 🍽️ Dinner at 19:00 📍How to find us👇

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · last yr.

#COMPTEXT2025 registration is open! ✨ If you’re more of a visual type, no worries – we’ve got a quick „walkthrough video“ 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ for you. ▶️

Learning about efficient LLM training at @comptext.bsky.social with @cklamm.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025 🤓

Rooms are packed to capacity as tutorials on cutting-edge AI research techniques unfold at #COMPTEXT2025 @valeriehase.bsky.social, @frodewald.bsky.social / @hdnrch.bsky.social / Petro Tolochko