We’re hiring a W3 Professor in Computational Social Science at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, based in Psychology in Landau. Application deadline: 14 October 2026 Details: jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/0... Please share with anyone who might be interested.

❇️ FirstView - 🔍️ Research @manuelkogel.bsky.social & @zinnatullin.bsky.social synthesise causal evidence on affective polarisation, providing a valuable overview of contemporary research. 👉️ buff.ly/eFEgq3S

Super happy to see this work with @manuelkogel.bsky.social out! What drives affective polarization? A systematic literature review | European Political Science | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What drives affective polarization? A systematic literature review | European Political Science | Cambridge Core

What drives affective polarization? A systematic literature review

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🍊 Fresh out! @zinnatullin.bsky.social & @derbaerrennt.bsky.social examine how mainstream media translated scientific expertise into political debate in Germany during COVID-19. 👉https://buff.ly/vhk0XbN

New paper with @derbaerrennt.bsky.social about COVID-19 expertise in German mainstream media. Biomedical coverage was politicized uniformly across outlets, while non-biomedical expertise on schools, the economy, and civil liberties revealed sharper ideological divides. doi.org/10.1080/2474...

News under pressure? Politicization of scientific expertise in German mainstream news during COVID-19

Using a corpus from ten German outlets during COVID-19, we examine how mainstream media translated scientific expertise into political debate. We define politicization narrowly as coverage in which...

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📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Grievance forums in autocracies: Surrogates for protest or instruments of control?' by @zinnatullin.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/9kFzKzt @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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New publication where I study Russia’s state-run digital grievance forums and ask whether they substitute for protest or form part of a broader repertoire of claim-making under authoritarianism: doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Grievance forums in autocracies: Surrogates for protest or instruments of control? - Aidar Zinnatullin, 2026

This article examines Russia’s Regional Governance Centres, state-run regional offices that process citizen complaints via social media, and the conditions unde...

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A study of German COVID-19 protest movements shows that science wasn’t rejected online but rather strategically used. Analysing Telegram data, the authors reveal how scientific claims were mobilised to challenge policy during moments of uncertainty = jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Evidence in the service of dissent: strategic communication of science by German corona-protest movements

This study investigates how Germany’s anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest movement, led mainly by the Querdenken network, allied with conspiracist and far-right groups, utilized scientific authorit...

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r u interested in #infowar; #communication; #russia_ukraine_conflict; #milbloggers? Here is a corpus and a data set built together with two fantastic colleagues @zinnatullin.bsky.social (follow him!) and G. Giacomello #no_pay_wall www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Russian military bloggers: Corpus and dataset of collected posts, 2022–2023

The ongoing war in Ukraine has generated unprecedented volumes of digital data across multiple domains, from weapons effectiveness and battlefield cas…

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Felipe Barreto-Storandt (RPTU): “Euroskepticism and EU Support in the 2024 Parliament Election Campaigns” @zinnatullin.bsky.social (RPTU): “Voices and Responses A Large-Scale Text Classification of Grievance Forums in Autocracies”

📅 Reminder: Don’t miss the upcoming QSSS seminar on May 7! Prof. Kevin Munger (EUI) will present “Bounding Knowledge. Decay From Temporal Extrapolation.” Highly relevant for scholars interested in #polisci and #causalinference. #unibo👇

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📢 Next QSSS seminar incoming! Join us for a fascinating talk by Prof. Kevin Munger (European University Institute) on “Bounding Knowledge. Decay From Temporal Extrapolation.” #polisci #causalinference #unibo

📢 Next QSSS seminar incoming! Join us for a fascinating talk by Prof. Kevin Munger (European University Institute) on “Bounding Knowledge. Decay From Temporal Extrapolation.” #polisci #causalinference #unibo

🚨 New Preview of Our Upcoming Report 🚨 Leaked Meta guidelines suggest harmful speech like "Immigrants are filthy pieces of shit" or "Gays are freaks" may soon be allowed. Does this policy shift reflect public opinion? Our survey across 10 countries finds no evidence of support for such content.

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New publication. If you are curious about how authoritarian regimes maintain citizen loyalty, check out my latest article on the use of online feedback mechanisms in 🇷🇺. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Authoritarian responsiveness online: social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers

This article is dedicated to authoritarian responsiveness and feedback mechanisms that autocratic regimes exploit to keep citizens loyal, using the example of Russia. The study aims to describe how...

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⏰📅 Only 3 days left to apply for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at @Unibo (Deadline: April 25, 12 pm, GMT+1). Don't miss out on this free opportunity to join a unique program! Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ #SICSS #CSS

Paride Carrara@paridecarrara.bsky.social · 2y ago

Deadline Alert! Don't miss your chance to join the Bologna Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences at the UNIBO's Department of Political and Social Science. Applications are open until April 25. Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ @zinnatullin.bsky.social @simonluck.bsky.social

Deadline Alert! Don't miss your chance to join the Bologna Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences at the UNIBO's Department of Political and Social Science. Applications are open until April 25. Apply now: sicss.io/2024/bologna/ @zinnatullin.bsky.social @simonluck.bsky.social

🌟 Inaugural Seminar: @simonluck.bsky.social and @zinnatullin.bsky.social will present their research on "Responsiveness and Regime Types: Evidence from Computational Research in Russia and Europe." 🌐🔍

Exciting news! 📢 Introducing Quantitative Social Science Seminars (QSSS) at the University of Bologna! A platform for scholars to showcase and discuss cutting-edge research in quantitative social sciences at the University of Bologna. 🤝🏛 [A thread 🧵⬇️]

Happy to share that my second solo paper based on my dissertation is out! It is a preface to the first publication, which came out a couple of months earlier. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...