Jakob-Moritz Eberl
@jamoeberl.bsky.social
He / Him | Senior Scientist in Political Communication at @univie.ac.at | #AUTNES 🇦🇹 | #ACPP 💉 | #MEDem 🗳️ @medem.bsky.social.
Posts in 🇦🇹/🇺🇸 about Research, Elections, Public Health, & (Social)Media – sometimes BoardGames 🎲 or Birds 🐦
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Democracy doesn’t die in darkness; it dies in plain sight, with everyone watching—and some even cheering. For many, democracy has become a floating signifier, losing its importance and meaning. #USElection2024
Hi everyone—I'm a #DemocracyResearcher, & I'm deeply concerned about where we're headed. The challenges to democracy we’re facing right now aren’t just sobering; they're alarming. This affects all of us— not least in Europe —now’s the time to stay vigilant & engaged.
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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📣CfP: Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict, March 11-12, 2026 in lovely Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social
@fabiennelind.bsky.social and I invite abstract submissions to our panel 'Political Emotions and Climate in #SocialMedia Communication' ⏱️ Deadline: December 31, 2025
Free registration 🌱
@fabiennelind.bsky.social and I invite abstract submissions to our panel 'Political Emotions and Climate in #SocialMedia Communication' ⏱️ Deadline: December 31, 2025
Free registration 🌱
🌿Join our CIDAPE Conference in Florence @sns.it in 2026!
We're looking forward to receiving your paper proposals by 31st December 2025 💯
We're looking forward to receiving your paper proposals by 31st December 2025 💯
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📣CfP: Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict, March 11-12, 2026 in lovely Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social
@fabiennelind.bsky.social and I invite abstract submissions to our panel 'Political Emotions and Climate in #SocialMedia Communication' ⏱️ Deadline: December 31, 2025
Free registration 🌱
@fabiennelind.bsky.social and I invite abstract submissions to our panel 'Political Emotions and Climate in #SocialMedia Communication' ⏱️ Deadline: December 31, 2025
Free registration 🌱
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🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Nochmal für die Frühschicht.
Ich finde das ja wirklich skandalös.
Ich finde das ja wirklich skandalös.
Die EU hat den Digital Services Act beschlossen, um Social Media-Konzerne besser zu regulieren.
Praktisch alle haben ihre EU-Zentrale - aus Steuergründen - in Irland.
Aber das irische Justizministerium verweigert regelmäßig die Arbeit.
Und die EU-Kommission schaut dabei zu.
Praktisch alle haben ihre EU-Zentrale - aus Steuergründen - in Irland.
Aber das irische Justizministerium verweigert regelmäßig die Arbeit.
Und die EU-Kommission schaut dabei zu.
How it started. How it ended.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Nochmal für die Frühschicht.
Ich finde das ja wirklich skandalös.
Ich finde das ja wirklich skandalös.
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Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they are exposed to the virus.
www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they are exposed to the virus.
www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
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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/
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The package comes accompanied by version 2 of the preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...
I really appreciate the people who have cited the package in their research (github.com/JBGruber/tra...), but Google Scholar doesn't always pick it up, so maybe cite the paper instead?
I really appreciate the people who have cited the package in their research (github.com/JBGruber/tra...), but Google Scholar doesn't always pick it up, so maybe cite the paper instead?
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The package comes accompanied by version 2 of the preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...
I really appreciate the people who have cited the package in their research (github.com/JBGruber/tra...), but Google Scholar doesn't always pick it up, so maybe cite the paper instead?
I really appreciate the people who have cited the package in their research (github.com/JBGruber/tra...), but Google Scholar doesn't always pick it up, so maybe cite the paper instead?
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Entschuldigt, aber ich habe wirklich keine Ahnung, wie ich das interpretieren soll – geschweige denn, wie das von Teilnehmer:innen verstanden wird. 🤷
Quelle: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Quelle: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Entschuldigt, aber ich habe wirklich keine Ahnung, wie ich das interpretieren soll – geschweige denn, wie das von Teilnehmer:innen verstanden wird. 🤷
Quelle: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Quelle: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Über die Zahl der toten Palästinenser im Gazakrieg wird heftig gestritten. Uns liegen Daten des @mpidr.bsky.social vor, wonach deutlich mehr Menschen gestorben sein könnten als bekannt: mindestens 100.000 in zwei Jahren. @zeit.de
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Über die Zahl der toten Palästinenser im Gazakrieg wird heftig gestritten. Uns liegen Daten des @mpidr.bsky.social vor, wonach deutlich mehr Menschen gestorben sein könnten als bekannt: mindestens 100.000 in zwei Jahren. @zeit.de
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
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There's a reason why major social media platforms, including Twitter pre-Elon, spent time and resources on "countering foreign influence" or "coordinated inauthentic behavior."
But then Tai bi, Shellenberger, Weiss, Benz, and Jordan showed up claiming that was the "censorship industrial complex"
But then Tai bi, Shellenberger, Weiss, Benz, and Jordan showed up claiming that was the "censorship industrial complex"
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There's a reason why major social media platforms, including Twitter pre-Elon, spent time and resources on "countering foreign influence" or "coordinated inauthentic behavior."
But then Tai bi, Shellenberger, Weiss, Benz, and Jordan showed up claiming that was the "censorship industrial complex"
But then Tai bi, Shellenberger, Weiss, Benz, and Jordan showed up claiming that was the "censorship industrial complex"
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[brain worm intensifies]
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
[brain worm intensifies]
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Whenever you think this can’t get any lower, Orbán proves otherwise.
Orbán is posting right-wing extremist tourism ads, and Austria’s most prominent right-wing extremist, Martin S., responds to this post with "Right decision." Well then.
Orbán is posting right-wing extremist tourism ads, and Austria’s most prominent right-wing extremist, Martin S., responds to this post with "Right decision." Well then.
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Whenever you think this can’t get any lower, Orbán proves otherwise.
Orbán is posting right-wing extremist tourism ads, and Austria’s most prominent right-wing extremist, Martin S., responds to this post with "Right decision." Well then.
Orbán is posting right-wing extremist tourism ads, and Austria’s most prominent right-wing extremist, Martin S., responds to this post with "Right decision." Well then.
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Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
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Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
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For the journalism schools:
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For the journalism schools:
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
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Energy of Starlings - by Somerset artist and printmaker, Jackie Curtis
More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com
More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Energy of Starlings - by Somerset artist and printmaker, Jackie Curtis
More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com
More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com
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Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Responding to this with a "f*ck that!" could be seen as "potentially divisive"... The swastika and the noose? Definitely hate symbols. F*ck that.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Responding to this with a "f*ck that!" could be seen as "potentially divisive"... The swastika and the noose? Definitely hate symbols. F*ck that.
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Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Important work, excellently presented by @gongbaobao.bsky.social (with Barbara Pfetsch) from the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, on legacy media criticism by right-wing media in 🇩🇪.
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025
(Drawing on previous work by Heft et al. 😉👍)
#IJPP2025