Zu oft habe ich in letzter Zeit gehört – in Australien funktioniert es ja auch. Gemeint war, dass das Gesetz verabschiedet wurde. Die Verabschiedung eines Gesetzes alleine ist aber nicht wirklich der relevante #Outcome hier. 🫠

Sander van der Linden@profsanderlinden.bsky.social · last mo.

New data on the efficacy of the Australia social media ban are worse than I thought. A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that over 85% of teens under 16 are still using social media. The 'friction' introduced by the ban seems very minimal. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Brilliantly placed right above a gas station, by the way.

Universität Hamburg@uni-hamburg.de · 2mo ago

🖼️ Neues Mural im Grindelviertel: Das Berliner Künstlerkollektiv „Innerfields“ hat ein 10 x 18 Meter großes Wandgemälde entworfen. Es zeigt die wissenschaftliche Arbeit des Verbundprojekts „Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean“ (TRR 181) der Uni Hamburg – mitten im Stadtbild. Mehr Infos:

🚨 Final Call for Papers: CPSS @ #KONVENS2026 🚨 Join us in Hamburg on September 14 (14.00-17.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00) to share your research at the intersection of NLP and social/political science. ⏳ Deadline: July 3, 2026 (23:59 CET) 🌐 sites.google.com/view/cpss202... #CompSocSci #NLP #CFP (1/3)

CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS

This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...

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📊 Deutsche Ergebnisse des Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026: Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien steigt ℹ️ Zur Pressemitteilung: leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/akt... 📖 Studie zum Download: doi.org/10.21241/sso... @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #DigitalNewsReport #DNR2026 1/6

Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien steigt

Die Nachrichtennutzung über soziale Medien steigt, 36 Prozent der deutschen Onliner informieren sich mittlerweile über verschiedene Social-Media-Angebote. KI-Chatbots spielen für die Nachrichteninform...

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🚨🚨 Important update just dropped from @cnam-ie.bsky.social on Vetted Researcher Data Access, Article 40(4-11) of the Digital Services Act #DSA 🚨🚨 Detailed information about the data access process. #commsky #ica #polcomm #csssky #polisky www.cnam.ie/industry-and...

Vetted Researcher Data Access - Coimisiún na Meán

Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) makes provision for researchers to access data from Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) or Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) for the purposes of st...

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1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

Thanks for the shout-out @jlgleason.bsky.social Web search has changed a lot since early 2000s. Yet, papers still rely on Broder's taxonomy of search intent from that time. It's time to change that! In this paper led by Elsa Lichtenegger we present a new taxonomy, accounting for AI search as well!

Jeffrey Gleason@jlgleason.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've been thinking about measuring intent in AI-driven web search and came across the perfect paper! Awesome work @aurman21.bsky.social and co-authors! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

Datapages for reusable (and pretty!) data sharing

Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.

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New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

I created a free interactive dashboard documenting all META's influence operation takedowns

A searchable database and interactive dashboard collating all META's CIB and ATP reports

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“Conflict entrepreneurs”--leaders who frequently use personal insults—are damaging democracy. An analysis of 2.2 million public statements from members of Congress finds that this type of rhetoric is linked to increased media coverage, but has no other benefits. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Hab mir auch mal einen Reim auf die jüngsten Vorfälle im Literaturbetrieb gemacht

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🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics 👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation 📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote) is.gd/dYxJ9L

Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science (CSS-117) | 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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#CallForProposals for the 2nd funding period in the Infrastructure Priority Programme "New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences" (SPP 2431). Objective: Expanding data sources and methods for the social sciences. Interested researchers are invited to a workshop on 8 May 26. Details: sohub.io/2s2g

Infrastructure Priority Programme “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431)

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Professur für "Quantitative Methoden der digitalen Kommunikationsforschung" ausgeschrieben an der @unisalzburg.bsky.social Bewerbungfrist: 01.04.; Beginn: 01.10.

Universitätsprofessur für „Quantitative Methoden der digitalen Kommunikationsforschung“ - Universität Salzburg

Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Salzburg Universitätsprofessur gem. § 99 (1) UG 2002 für „Quantitative Methodender digitalen Komm...

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+++ Mainz-Tagung 2027: CfP +++ Vom 7. bis 9. April 2027 trifft sich unsere FG zum Thema „Zur Lage der Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit: Aktuelle Konfliktlinien und Folgen für demokratische Öffentlichkeiten“ zum nächsten Mal. CfP & Tagungs-Website sind jetzt online: ifp.uni-mainz.de/polkomm27/

Gestern bei #FM4aufLaut ein für mich neues Format ausprobiert – eigene Rolle finden, immer eine Herausforderung. Thema: die #TrumpEpsteinFiles – warum Datadumps ideales Material für Verschwörungsnarrative sind & welch realen moralischen Abgrund sie zugleich offenlegen. sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/...

New paper this week by V-Dem's director, @silindberg.bsky.social, on the the current wave of autocratization: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Including this important statement: "...it is by my own analysis no question that the USA no longer qualifies as a democracy."

6 years ago, we first noticed sudden upticks in German fringe far right networks, using terms like "climate cult" to disparage climate activists and green policy initiatives. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks

In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...

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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 🎨

our polcom conference at @uni-hamburg.de has ended, but I am still fan-girling on @jolukito.bsky.social, that was such a brillient talk! very inspiring for my new research project on right-wing defensive publics with @lauraliebig.bsky.social, but also for her stance on mutual support in Academia

DGPuK FG Kommunikation & Politik@fgkommpol.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our Hamburg conference on democratic resilience is on - starting with a keynote on right-wing extremism & digital surrogacy by brilliant @jolukito.bsky.social.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an @franzreiter.bsky.social und @utarussmann.bsky.social zum Top Contribution Award unserer diesjährigen Tagung! Ihr Vortrag zum Thema "Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation in Gemeinden" wurde von den Reviewer:innen herausragend bewertet.

In which @tompepinsky.com suggests that #genAI may have is uses for social scientists (and social science?) after all

Agentic AI and Social Science Research Practice

I’ve been exploring AI tools of various forms for more than a year now, mostly from a critical perspective of identifying things that they cannot do (such as draw maps), but also so that I can unde…

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We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Well, this is what I ended up with. Somewhat fitting as I gave up my professorship in Zurich for my husband's love of these (according to family legend, at least)

Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Let’s go 2026 🚀 🤞🏽 #hope #HNY

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Call for Applications for the Data Quality #Academy Certificate Program 2026 The call for applications for the #KODAQS Academy’s certificate program is open: www.gesis.org/en/ges... The program is aimed at early-career researchers from various disciplines who work with social science data.