Johannes Breuer

@johannesbreuer.com

Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats www.johannesbreuer.com

👉Postdoctoral Researcher in geospatial political data (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited to 4 years): 🔗

Postdoctoral Researcher in geospatial political data (SDC-32) | 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 that socially relevant questions can be answered based on reliable data, the latest scientific methods and research information. We help with study planning and data collection, provide high-quality research data, support with data preparation and analysis, and finally with data archiving.GESIS helps you gain further qualifications. We offer our employees a wide range of career opportunities in an appealing work environment with a high degree of personal responsibility and creative freedom. With us, you will work in an international environment in the heart of Mannheim and Cologne and benefit from a flexible work environment as well as internal and external networks.GESIS ensures compliance with the guidelines for the severely disabled and promotes professional equality between women and men. Full-time positions can also be filled on a part-time basis.As a family-friendly employer, we have been certified by the “berufundfamilie” audit since 2010.Further information on working at GESIS can be found here. 

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Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...

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Of course we all know what would happen if this person wasn’t a white Christian, but also, this kind of proselytizing is not about converting or even delivering a message to anyone. It’s a self-aggrandizing act of domination. It’s an actual sin of vanity.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

„Diese internationale Steuerflucht trug erheblich zu der Verschärfung von Ungleichheiten, dem Anstieg der Staatsverschuldung und dem Triumph eines Ohnmachtsgefühls bei, dem Nährboden, auf dem gegenwärtige reaktionäre Bewegungen gediehen sind.“

Buch: Reichensteuer aber richtig, G.Zucman

📣Post Doc Alert! I am hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in political language and NLP/LLMs 🤩 Come join a great, interdisciplinary team at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense! Applications due October 15, 2026. Detail here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Computational Political Communication Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre

Application deadline: October 15, 2026

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While the new call for applications is online and new & exciting project proposals are coming in, we would like to take a moment to thank the reviewers who contributed to our 2025 selection process. ❤️ Thank you for sharing your expertise and your time. We couldn’t do it without you.

Visual featuring the names of all 180 reviewers of the CAIS applications

𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀- 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗸ü𝗻𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗴 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗲 𝘇𝘂𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗺 𝗙𝗜𝗗 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮? Unsere Bedarfserhebung (8-10 Min.) läuft noch bis 27. Juli Auch Forschende, die den FID bisher nicht nutzen, sind ausdrücklich eingeladen! umfrage.uni-leipzig.de/index.php/74...

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📅 Save the date! The Metascience 2027 conference will be held in Montreal on June 14–16, 2027. Metascience 2027 is a global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define research and intervention priorities to improve science.

Save the Date: Metascience 2027 Set for Montreal

The Tanenbaum Open Science Institute and Center for Open Science (COS) are bringing the Metascience 2027 conference to Montreal on June 14–16, 2027.

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