*JOB* My group at @gesis.org has an open position: we are looking for a candidate to support the expansion of our Trusted Research Environment for providing access to sensitive research data: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2707934?...

Research Infrastructure Specialist (Postdoc) for Trusted Research Environments (DSS-26) | 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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Very nice new tool showing #bike routes in #Austria with lots of configurability: https://radatlas.at/ There is a family-friendly option, but there isn't more than a handful of routes suited for families with small children. In other countries you have a real […] [Original post on datasci.social]

The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...

Excited to present a tutorial on simulating survey responses with LLMs at @ic2s2.bsky.social next week! ✨ 👉 central themes: analytic flexibility & hybrid samples with @gligoric.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social, @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social, @jrupprec.bsky.social, and @mstrohm.bsky.social – 🧵

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

New tutorial on a core CSS problem: Text classification often treats "is this valid" and "does this model work" as separate questions hurting measurement quality. We propose "computational social mixed methods" to unify annotation, ML & stats into one coherent pipeline: doi.org/10.3758/s134... 🧵

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

I will literally follow any and all ML PhD students on this website, where you at

📢 Opportunity Alert! Political Communication is hiring a Data Editor to work with the editors-in-chief on ensuring reproducibility and advancing Open Science standards at the journal. 🗓️ Start date: January 1, 2027 Full details at: tinyurl.com/call-dataedi...

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

Here's my new blogpost on the dataset I have created alongside @ksolovev.com: we decided to solve the issue of data availability for research on news articles by processing, cleaning, tagging and indexing the whole news subset of the Common Crawl, resulting in cs2.uni-graz.at/blog/infini-...

Check out the largest open multilingual preprocessed news corpus from Common Crawl News (built with @ruggsea.eurosky.social & @janalasser.eurosky.social). 1.36B articles | subsecond search | FOSS Demo: infini-news.uni-graz.at Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.18337 Code: codeberg.org/ksolovev/inf...

does the populist right have a theory of free speech? where should the public interest fit into free speech discourse? a @perryworldhouse.bsky.social workshop i led in april addressed these/other questions. chatham house-style proceedings perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/app/uploads/... key takeaways 👇

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Today I had the pleasure of starting my new role at the Complex Social & Computational Systems group of @janalasser.eurosky.social at University of Graz as a Senior Scientist, to support the group in research data and software engineering tasks.

Join us on Thursday, 12 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @janalasser.bsky.social 🔹 Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Jana Lasser

"Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Jana Lasser, University of Graz and Complexi...

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Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs

If you missed it over the weekend, here's my new thread. It's about the key distinctions I have used to open space for thought in my 35 years as a press critic. It's long (29 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their turn to "citizen journalism."

Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Grüße vom #39c3! Die Aufzeichnung unseres Vortrag von gestern Abend ist schon online! Amtsgeheimnis raus, Datenhalde rein: was die Informationsfreiheit in Österreich bringt

Amtsgeheimnis raus, Datenhalde rein: was die Informationsfreiheit in Österreich bringt

Jahrelang war die staatliche Intransparenz in Österreich nur eine Punchline in den Congress-Talks von Frag Den Staat. Damit könnte jetzt ...

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Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🤬 „Merkel zeigt, Frauen gehören nicht in die Politik!“, Aussagen wie diese gehören zu den über eine Million Tweets aus den Jahren 2015-2018, die ein Forschungsteam der #unigraz rund um @hailina.bsky.social und @janalasser.bsky.social analysiert hat. Was gegen Online-Hass hilft, liest du hier 👇

Gegenrede: Höflichkeit bremst Online-Hass

„Die Jungen sollten mal lieber ganze Sätze sprechen!“, „Merkel zeigt, Frauen gehören nicht in die Politik!“ „Die Grünen sind unnötig wie Zecken.“

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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? 🧵

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)! We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓. See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

#DataMethods #OpenScience #GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences. methodshub.gesis.org/

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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Ein großes Problem für den Kampf gegen #Machtmissbrauch ist der Mangel an verlässlichen Daten. Umso wichtiger ist die Forschung so engagierter Wissenschaftler*innen wie @leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social oder Andrea Kübler. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?

Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

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Kanzler gewählt. Dann können wir uns jetzt wieder mit #Machtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft beschäftigen... #IchBinHanna #IchBinTina @leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social

Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?

Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

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Fuck Harry Potter Go read the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich It gives the same Britishness, sense of history, and magical powers, but with a setting of detectives and mysteries, and the characters from marginalized backgrounds are fully developed, not just caricatures.

Pooja@forgottensaves.bsky.social · last yr.

Fuck Harry Potter Go read Venco by Cherie Dimaline It's about a woman who finds out she's part of a powerful legacy of witches and must race against time across Turtle Island to find the last witch in her coven before an immortal erases their chance to turn the tides of the world