The next #EPSS conference will be in Copenhagen from 24-26 June 2027. The call for papers will be out in early fall and you can find all information here: epssnet.org/2027-copenha...

EPSS 2026 Conference | June 18–20 | ICC Belfast, UK

Join top political scientists for the EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in Belfast. Submit papers, attend panels, and network with fellow researchers.

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Can readers tell AI news from human news? In our new study (599 people, Switzerland), they couldn't. AI and human articles were rated equally credible and expert. Disclosing AI sparked curiosity but didn't shift broader attitudes. Open access in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to Claude I have a brand new website where you can scroll through my papers, talks, and podcasts, etc. Give it a look: sachaaltay.github.io :)

📎 Full call for papers here: digitalpublics.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/... The conference is a continuation and expansion of the very successful Digital Democracy Workshop series that ran for six years from 2020 to 2025.

📢 Call for Papers: first Annual Digital Publics Conference 📅 21–23 October 2026 | Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich 👉 To submit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BxVnAMyxNh ❗Deadline for abstract submissions is 31 May 2026❗Acceptance notifications will be sent by early july.

3-year contract for a Phd position in Sociology on the discourse of/about AI, at l'Institut polytechnique de Paris.

Samuel Coavoux@scoavoux.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us at @crestsociology.bsky.social : call for a PhD grant in computational sociology/CSS on the media framing of AI www.css.cnrs.fr/framing-ai-r... w/ @eollion.bsky.social. Deadline for application is May 15th

"Wireless waves are making men more feminine and women more masculine, according to Miss Mary Strachan, a reputable psychologist, who thinks wireless induced etheric disturbances are responsible for some of the vagaries of modern youth" - El Paso Herald, September 15, 1925

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation? We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted that our project “Democracy and AI” has been selected for Una Europa Seed Funding. Our project establishes a network of 25 researchers from six Una Europa institutions: University of Zurich, KU Leuven, University of Edinburgh, FU Berlin, Leiden, UCD. ➡️ www.una-europa.eu/stories/10-n...

10 new projects receive Una Europa Seed Funding to shape Europe’s future | Una Europa

Eleven European research universities have come together to create a unique alliance – Una Europa. Our universities have been educating Europe for almost 1,000 years. Together, we teach more than 400,...

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✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech? ➡️ @gloriagennaro.bsky.social et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - The distribution of hate speech and its implications for content moderation - https://cup.org/4sgFqNl - Gennaro, Bronner, Derksen, @maelkubli.bsky.social, Kotarcic, Kurer, Grech, @karstendonnay.bsky.social, @fgilardi.bsky.social & Hangartner #FirstView

The Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich is offering a fixed-term 80% position for a PhD in Societal Digitalization at the chair of Prof. Dr. Gemma Newlands. The starting date is flexible in early 2026.

PhD Candidate in Societal Digitalization 80 %

The Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich is offering a fixed-term 80% position for a PhD in Societal Digitalization at the chair of Prof. Dr. Gemma Newlands. The starting date is flexible in early 2026.

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peer review is broken

Just found out about this free and straightforward QR code generator in R: library(qrcode) qr_code("add_your_url_here") |> plot() That's all! No registration or subscription required. thierryo.github.io/qrcode/

Incredibly, the "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon is 32 years old, originally published in 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...

Final call for this one 📝 bsky.app/profile/fgil...

Fabrizio Gilardi@fgilardi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026! All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social ⏳ 7 Nov 2025 🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

You know how people wait until the last minute to submit paper proposals? Well, it’s almost the last minute. Get those abstracts ready and send them in!

Fabrizio Gilardi@fgilardi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026! All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social ⏳ 7 Nov 2025 🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

#Call for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025. ➡️ sohub.io/51a4 🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026

Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026! All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social ⏳ 7 Nov 2025 🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... This week we’ll feature three sections to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This time: Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Methodology 🧵

▶️ Public Policy & Administration 👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgilardi.bsky.social & @asmusletholsen.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes research that addresses today’s most pressing issues in public policy and public administration. >>> 4/

There has never been a more important time to study public policy and public administration. With @fgilardi.bsky.social , I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

Nostalgia ignores pessimism, it forgets: The moon mission was unpopular Novel reading was frowned upon The Walkman was anti-social The Bicycle 'corrupted' women After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...

Most of America Opposed the Moon Landing

July 20th, 2025 marks the 56th anniversary of the moon landing.

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🚨 New preprint alert: We show that web-browsing GPT and LLaMA models can infer social media user demographics with reasonable accuracy—using only usernames. This opens new possibilities for social media research in the post-API era but raises important privacy concerns.

Me: do you know who this is? 15yo: isn’t he the actor who played Obelix?

PhD position out at University of Amsterdam We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment! Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...

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📢 In a new online field experiment, we find that #counterspeech with perspective-based messages can reduce online hate speech, and its 🌟amplification🌟 with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media

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Just joined @epssnet.bsky.social, very happy to support with the membership fee. Looking forward to Belfast 2026! #epss2026

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Mark your calendars: The first-ever EPSS Conference will be held in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026 Organized under our new not-for-profit model. ➡️ epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ More details soon, so watch this space. See you all in Belfast! 🇬🇧☘️