🚨 I'm recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social, to be based at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). These are both full-time positions for 2 years. Deadline for applications: June 23. Expected start date: September 2026. 🔁 Please share and help me spread the word! 🚀

Very pleased to share a new publication from @magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social and myself. Here, we present both a sweeping systematic review of the causes of news non-use/news avoidance, and a prescriptive framework outlining how we can begin testing and implementing solutions!

Correlates of and counterstrategies to news non-use: systematic review and prescriptive framework

Abstract. News and politics constitute a small fraction of people’s information diets, and many individuals avoid news and public affairs information, a ph

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The inimitable @magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social just presented our work developing a large scale machine classifier to assess news article quality. Existing options are anglocentric, work at an outlet level, apply only to news orgs and operationalize quality purely through bias and accuracy.

Our new publication out in Computers in Human Behavior! With @yanxxia.bsky.social, @bolozna.bsky.social, @malkamont.bsky.social & T. Ylä-Anttila, we study what happened to climate and immigration polarization on Finnish social media after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. @helsinki.fi @aalto.fi

Do external threats decrease political polarization? Climate change and immigration discussions on Finnish Twitter after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Increasing political polarization poses a serious challenge to democracy. Research has suggested that the rise of an external threat caused by an adve…

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Yaaay so happy to have got the Best Reviewer Award at #ICWSM! What an exciting way to end a conference 😄 This was a great experience overall and I'm so impressed by both the thoughtful organization and the super engaged audience. A big thank you to the organizers and everyone interested in our work!

Presented our work with @c0rrad0.bsky.social, @bolozna.bsky.social, and Barbara Keller on user behavior change after cross-party interactions at #ICWSM today! Was a great experience and got a lot of interesting questions 🙌 Also: currently looking for postdoc opportunities - happy to chat!