CfP: DACH-CSS 2027 | Apr 22-23 at GESIS, Cologne. Join us for two days of talks, posters, and networking among CSS researchers! Early-career researchers: submit your abstract (max. 300 words) by Dec 4, 2026! More info: computational-social... #CompSocSci

We often don't know which data, media sources or analytical tools already exist, let alone whether we can access, share the access, and thus make the data reusable. In our new open-access paper, we explain how @medem.bsky.social aims to change that. 🧵

Monitoring Electoral Democracy: Discovering and Reusing Text and Multimedia Data for Political Communication Research | Article | Media and Communication

Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Jana Bernhard-Harrer, Mariken van der Velden, Sofia Gil Clavel, Paul Balluff, Johannes B. Gruber, Noëlle S. Lebernegg, Kasper Welbers, Marvin Stecker, Claes Holger de Vreese, Woute...

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Indeed, big congrats to the newly graduated Dr. Lühring for an excellent defense! We are all very proud of you @julaluehring.bsky.social 👏 👏👏

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎓 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! 🥂

🎓 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! 🥂

Seit Sonntag kursiert online eine Grafik, mittels derer behauptet wird, ukrainische Drohnenangriffe auf Rechenzentren des russischen Konzerns Yandex hätten zu einem Rückgang russischer Bot-Aktivitäten bei Desinformationskampagnen rund um die AfD geführt. Dieser Zusammenhang ist bislang unbelegt.

#Faktenfuchs: Irreführende Grafik zu angeblicher Bot-Aktivität

Im Netz kursiert eine Grafik, die angeblich zeigen soll, wie infolge von Angriffen auf russische Rechenzentren die Online-Aktivität rund um die AfD abgenommen habe. Doch die Grafik weist große Unstimm...

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SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization We find that: 1) ideologues post opinions more than moderates 2) extreme attitudes are posted more than moderate one 3) This replicates in 40 countries 4) Opinions that users post are more hostile than the beliefs they keep to themselves

Please forward to students: We are looking for a Student Research Assistant (16 hrs/week) to join our Digital Society Observatory team in Cologne (CSS @ GESIS). 📍 Where: Cologne (w flexible/mobile working) 📅 Start Date: October 1, 2026 ⏳ DL: July 31, 2026 👉 gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2697094?...

Student Research Assistant, Team Digital Society Observatory (SHK-CSS-37) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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🇪🇺 lensEU geht an den Start: Acht Medienpartner aus der #EU produzieren ab sofort jede Woche einen #Podcast und einen #Newsletter in fünf Sprachen, CORRECTIV ist mit dabei:

Gemeinsam für Europa: Mediennetzwerk LensEU bringt EU-Themen näher zu den Menschen

Ein neuer wöchentlicher Podcast und ein Newsletter in fünf Sprachen soll europäische Politik greifbarer machen. CORRECTIV ist mit dabei.

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#UnisRetten

Thank you @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social for your guest talk today at @compcommlab.bsky.social 🙌 Very much appreciated the interdisciplinary discussions on content vs. source-level misinformation detection, LLM annotations and validation practices in the social sciences. Photo: @aytalina.bsky.social

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

📣 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

🚨We are so incredibly thrilled to announce that our Multi-Platform Research Special Issue in Political Communication is out now at www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcp20/4...! Special Issue Team: @meredithpruden.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Wei Zhong and me!!! 🎉

Political Communication

SI-Multi-Platform Research. Volume 43, Issue 2 of Political Communication

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Throwback to HackICA 2025 in Boulder 📸 Two days full of ideas, energy, and collaboration. From early brainstorming to real projects in less than 48 hours #HackathonSpirit. Ready for the next round in Stellenbosch🇿🇦? Registration is still open! Join now! #HackICA26 www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...

👩🏻‍💻 Looking forward to giving an introduction to agent-based modeling in communication research and sharing insights from our work @what-if-horizon.bsky.social at #HackICA26 Join us to explore more👇

hackingcommsci@hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚀Breakout sessions @ #HackICA26 A glimpse at last year’s breakout sessions — and what you can expect this time. 🧠Agent-Based Modeling @what-if-horizon.bsky.social 🌐Sharing and learning methods @gesis.org #MethodsHub 🎤Podcasting for the community #CCSPodcast More sessions coming soon! Register now!

📢 New publication! My dissertation paper "Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings" co-authored with 🌟 @anniewald.bsky.social and Nanda Wijermans 🌟 is now out in @jasssjournal.bsky.social Read the full #openaccess article: www.jasss.org/29/2/4.html #ABM #CSS #dreamcollab

Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings

by Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans

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Regulierung sollte genau dort ansetzen: bei Designentscheidungen und Geschäftsmodellen – nicht beim Zugang. Hier traut man sich nicht ran oder macht sich selbst kleiner als man ist. Statt Big Tech sollen nun junge Menschen reguliert werden. Fatal! 5/5

Dear hackers, meet Marvin!! 🐧 Marvin is a South African Penguin who loves eating squid and developing R packages for his friends. Marvin's also here to remind you to register for some #hackica26 fun 🔽

Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an #rstats package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament @parlament.gv.at . If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool. werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/

🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

Good news! 🎉 The registration issue has been resolved — everything should now work smoothly. 🔗 Direct link: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat... 🗓 Registration is open until April 5, 2026 Looking forward to seeing you at the ICA Hackathon 2026 @SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! 🚀💡

International Communication Association

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🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

🚀 Save the Date! If you're considering joining us, now is a great time to block the dates and start planning your #trip. We can’t wait to see you at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd and 4th June 2026 for this year's #Hackathon! 🌍✨

Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot

(How) can AI help build better online spaces? ✨ Last week, 16 researchers from 8 institutions gathered in Vienna to explore exactly that question. Between the Christmas markets, the WHAT-IF team discussed how LLMs can power agent-based simulations to tackle online hostility and harmful content 👇

Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation! #CommSky

Johannes Breuer@johannesbreuer.com · 12mo ago

Within our @meta-rep.bsky.social project on research practices in Computational Communication Science (CCS), we are conducting a survey among CCS researchers. We would be grateful if you could participate (takes 10 to 15 minutes) and/or share the link: www.soscisurvey.de/AutoFrontCCS/ #CommSky

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

Collecting TikTok Data

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

jbgruber.github.io

CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New CRAN package traktok with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=traktok

We’ve seen research showing LLM chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories in experimental settings: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.