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Call for applications: Postdoctoral researcher in social identity, politics, and computational methods

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A breaking update from @timheidecker.bsky.social.

🚨 Public scholarship alert! 🚨 Have you seen prediction markets in the news? In the 18 months since prediction markets on elections were legalized in the U.S., it seems like Polymarket and Kalshi can't stop making news and making money.

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets

While media outlets are signing deals with Polymarket and Kalshi for their insights into the wisdom of crowds, gamblers are pouncing on opportunities to wager on geopolitics and celebrity weddings.

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I wrote my dissertation on all the ways in which news media used social media to represent public opinion in elections -- and all the democratic problems with it. But prediction markets are a whole 'nother level of wildness. The good news? @parkerbach.bsky.social & I are already planning our study.

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 5mo ago

AP Announces It’s Teaming Up With Prediction Market Site Kalshi Ahead of the Midterms

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Every day @theonion.com gets closer to discovering STS

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Do you know an MA student or undergrad with a bright future working at the intersections of technology, society, and communication? Encourage them to apply to Predoc position with Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective! I can't recommend enough! socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)

Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.)  NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…

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🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵 bit.ly/StratAm

If SNL doesn’t bring in Tim Robinson to play NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander I will riot

Help my friend and cohort-mate do important dissertation research!

Emily Galper, PhD@emilygalper.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you an 18–29-year-old who has voluntarily viewed p*rn in the last 6 months? If so, you may be eligible to participate in a study on young adults’ opinions about mainstream, nonviolent, heterosexual p*rnography. Take this survey to see if you qualify! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Did we need experts to “question” this for us??? Why can’t we just say it??? Shout out to all my fellow “experts” being asked to confirm that bad things are indeed bad to preserve a misguided sense of journalistic neutrality in outlets that the Right doesn’t read.

WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

NEW: Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

It’s not just sports. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are now operating legally in the US and were able to ride the wave of sports gambling app popularity and the US presidential election to some pretty major numbers.

Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens@leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wanted to know why so many young men are betting on sports. What I learned genuinely shocked me. My story @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

I just hate how dumb the fascist shift in the US has been. There was no Machiavellian plot. No critically overlooked flaw in the system. They just said they were gonna do dumb, evil things. And we didn’t stop them. So they did.

I would love for someone to ask Zuck/Meta what “once again prioritizing speech” means in this context. I mean, minoritized subjects understand that he’s removing the flimsy guardrails meant to protect us, but I’m curious what they THINK they are communicating here.

well that turned out to be a bit of an understatement

NEW PUB with Lee McGuigan! 🎉 We the Consumers: The Conservative “Parallel Economy” as Reactionary Commodity Activism ijoc.org/index.php/ij...