Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social
communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
You should all absolutely read this paper by @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Miriam Siemon.
Currently in Volume 19, Issue 4 of Communication Methods and Measures #CMM:
“Beyond the binary? Automated gender classification of social media profiles” by Miriam Siemon
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2554864
“Beyond the binary? Automated gender classification of social media profiles” by Miriam Siemon
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2554864
January 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
You should all absolutely read this paper by @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Miriam Siemon.
Super example for the value of descriptive research. Also very nice presentation
Short announcement before the data get too old: ccsmainz.github.io/platformnews/. With 571 news outlets on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram across 46 countries, matching the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR. Computational analyses on topics, platformization, diversity, etc. Feedback welcome.
January 23, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Super example for the value of descriptive research. Also very nice presentation
Read this paper, it's good
We would like to give a shoutout to our ✨Top Paper of 2025✨: „Zum Verhältnis von Journalismus und Aktivismus: Boundary work als Navigieren zwischen Komplementarität und Hybridisierung.” Congratulations to Wolfgang Reißman, @mluenenborg.bsky.social & Miriam Siemon! doi.org/10.5771/2192...
January 23, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Read this paper, it's good
Don't know anything about the presentation, but amazing title chart
I had the absolute pleasure to visit @craicexeter.bsky.social, where I laid out an argument for how critical & computational scholars should lead the conversation on AI. We need to expand research on harms, interrogate corporate hype, and support people’s critical understanding these technologies
January 22, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Don't know anything about the presentation, but amazing title chart
Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26
🎉 Today's the day! Notifications for #ICA26 are now being sent out via email! Please be patient & be sure to check your spam folder too. You can also check your results by logging into the ScholarOne website and clicking the Messages tab. buff.ly/Lm6odET
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26
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so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices
January 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices
Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)
🎉 Die DFG hat eine Emmy Noether-Gruppe am Weizenbaum-Institut bewilligt. Das Projekt „Ortsbasierte Themenöffentlichkeiten: Die Neuordnung lokaler Öffentlichkeiten in einer digitalisierten und globalisierten Welt“ wird von Daniela Stoltenberg aufgebaut & geleitet.
Mehr im Interview.: buff.ly/fPX0cLp
Mehr im Interview.: buff.ly/fPX0cLp
Vom Dorf zur Weltbühne: Die Entgrenzung lokaler Konflikte im digitalen Zeitalter
Ein Interview mit Dr. Daniela Stoltenberg, Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Emmy Noether.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)
this is true, and truly sad :(
Anyway, I really feel like the whole environment, including the state of the published literature, is really colluding against students learning how to do proper research. That’s a shame; I always have the impression our students really do want to learn how to do things the right way.
December 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
this is true, and truly sad :(
Best holiday letter received until now
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Best holiday letter received until now
Look, it is our special issue :)
Currently in Volume 19, Issue 4 of Communication Methods and Measures #CMM:
“Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science” by @valeriehase.bsky.social @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis
Read this SI editorial: doi.org/10.1080/1931...
“Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science” by @valeriehase.bsky.social @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis
Read this SI editorial: doi.org/10.1080/1931...
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Look, it is our special issue :)
One of the best places to do computational communication work
📍 Location: Munich
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
PostDoc in CSS / CCS (m/w/d)
job-portal.lmu.de
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
One of the best places to do computational communication work
Reposted by Marko Bachl
📍 Location: Munich
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
PostDoc in CSS / CCS (m/w/d)
job-portal.lmu.de
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
📍 Location: Munich
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!
📣 Job alert! 📣
For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
3 research associates in social science (m/w/d)
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!
TIL about a new form of fraudulent academic publishing. A student pointed me to this article in the repository of the University of Limerick, doi.org/10.34961/res..., asking whether it is a credible source.
Enhancing critical thinking and journalism skills through artificial intelligence literacy: A case study of journalism students in Tajik National University, Tajikistan
In the age of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology, this research paper explores the impact of AI literacy and the incorporation of ChatGPT-3 in improving critical thinking skills...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
TIL about a new form of fraudulent academic publishing. A student pointed me to this article in the repository of the University of Limerick, doi.org/10.34961/res..., asking whether it is a credible source.
PSA: If you have somewhat chaotic folder and project structures in RStudio or Quarto projects, don't update {here} to 1.0.2: github.com/r-lib/here/i...
Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong.
#rstats
Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong.
#rstats
here v1.0.2 · Issue #151 · r-lib/here
Just a small note that here v1.0.2 adding support for detecting Quarto and other project types is probably a bigger change than is signaled with the patch release version bump. I have a repo with a...
github.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
PSA: If you have somewhat chaotic folder and project structures in RStudio or Quarto projects, don't update {here} to 1.0.2: github.com/r-lib/here/i...
Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong.
#rstats
Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong.
#rstats
Come visit us in Berlin
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Come visit us in Berlin
Reposted by Marko Bachl
As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
Your Thesis Title
Link to phdcomics.com
phdcomics.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
This semester, I am teaching the third iteration of my "Content Analysis with Generative LLMs" class. For the first time, I am using a local cloud infrastructure, supported by the de.NBI infrastructure, instead of the OpenAI API. They published my testimonial here: cloud.denbi.de/about/testim...
Teaching Content Analysis with LLMs - de.NBI Cloud
cloud.denbi.de
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This semester, I am teaching the third iteration of my "Content Analysis with Generative LLMs" class. For the first time, I am using a local cloud infrastructure, supported by the de.NBI infrastructure, instead of the OpenAI API. They published my testimonial here: cloud.denbi.de/about/testim...
As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
Your Thesis Title
Link to phdcomics.com
phdcomics.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
Reposted by Marko Bachl
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
