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Johannes Breuer
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Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social

Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · 12h
Only 6% of Americans currently believe that “Immigration” is the most important issue facing the country.
Still “Immigration” is currently being used to terrorize & traumatize American communities.
He is not as popular as he wants you to believe. His policies aren’t either. Quite the opposite.
Donald Trump’s approval rating
Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
www.economist.com

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 1d
Brilliant piece: "What matters is not the books themselves, but the thinking they reward. They cultivate a taste for compression over depth, for transferable lessons over context, for confidence over uncertainty."
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...
Airport Book Brain
How faddish ideas keep seducing.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d
are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion?
Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 2d
Great job available at @odissei.bsky.social: Chief Technology Officer. This position provides an opportunity to help create the future of computational social science: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org

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QuantStack @quantstack.bsky.social · 2d
We are thrilled to introduce notebook.link, a platform that lets you create, share, and run Jupyter notebooks instantly in your browser.

Powered by JupyterLite and WebAssembly, it supports Python, R, C++, and a full in-browser terminal experience.

📖 Read the full story: medium.com/@QuantStack/...
Notebook.link
notebook.link

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 3d
🚀 KODAQS Data Quality Academy Certificate Program 2026 – Now Open for Applications!

6-month program for early-career researchers: data quality, processing & networking. Online blended learning, Mar–Sep.

Apply by 8 Feb ➡️ www.gesis.org/en/gesis-tra...
KODAQS Data Quality Certificate Program – Call for Applications for 2026 Cohort Structured certificate program that teaches data quality assessment and enhancement •Course: 16 March to 25 September 2026 •Application deadline: 8 February 2026 •Provided by the Competence Center for Data Quality in the Social Sciences (KODAQS)

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 3d
4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.

Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre
Application deadline: February 15th, 2026, 23:59 CET/CEST.
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 3d
📽️ "Increasing computational reproducibility or how to share your research code" / with Camille Maumet @cmaumet.bsky.social

youtu.be/FjHTtCeFm0g?...

The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
Open Science Basel Year 6 #1 - Camille Maumet
YouTube video by BAMM
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Akin Unver @akinunver.bsky.social · 4d
The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back!

Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat

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Mark Wittek @markwittek.bsky.social · 4d
🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna

Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social

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Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS – Computational Social Science
computational-social-science.org

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Mainz University @mainzuniversity.bsky.social · 4d
Digital media breaks can improve well-being: New study finds short-term mood benefits from intentional digital disconnection – while showing that external pressure to unplug can backfire 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/digital-media…#DigitalDisconnectiono#DigitalDetoxo#SocialMediai#offlinene
A smartphone lying on lush green grass. In the background, a person sits on the grass reading a book. (© icepreaw / stock.adobe.com)

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 5d
New year, new job? If that is your current mantra, check the open postdoc positions with Debora Nozza and me at our lab. Deadline is January 31st.

milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
Postdoctoral Researcher – NLP (2 positions) | MilaNLP Lab @ Bocconi University
Two Postdoctoral Researcher positions – Deadline January 31st, 2026
milanlproc.github.io

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 5d
One of the issues that has come up again and again in my reporting on misinformation and social media is the massive influence social media companies have on research in the field.

Last night a preprint dropped that tries to get at this with some numbers. My piece in @science.org (and 🧪🧵 coming):
Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims
Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field
www.science.org

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 5d
Web tracking data has great potential for social science research 🚀 It also comes with its own challenges though! In this hands-on #GESISworkshop, you'll learn everything you need to know about preprocessing, handling, and analysing web tracking data.
More infos at t1p.de/WebTrackingD...
GESIS Workshop Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data 4 to 5 May 2026 (Hybrid: Cologne | Online) Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Helena Rauxloh (all GESIS)

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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 5d
Introducing CORTRE: a reporting guideline for reproducibility efforts 👉 cortre.github.io

We are excited to officially announce CORTRE: COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts 🎯

🧵👇

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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · 6d
Reminder: Heute endet die Frist für Abstract-Einreichungen (200-300 Wörter) für unser „Data, Archive & Tool Demos“-Sonderfenster auf der #dgpuk26 am 18.-20. März 2026 in Dortmund. Den Call dazu gibt es hier: www.dgpuk2026.de/de/programm/...

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Maximilian Scholz @scholzmx.bsky.social · 6d
I've added R support to my fork of llm-tldr github.com/sims1253/llm... very neat tool to help your agents make sense of large projects #rstats
GitHub - sims1253/llm-tldr at dev
95% token savings. 155x faster queries. 16 languages. LLMs can't read your entire codebase. TLDR extracts structure, traces dependencies, and gives them exactly what they need. - GitHub - sims...
github.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7d
Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?

Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.

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Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute
Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...
disinfoinstitute.org

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Christian Eymery @christianeymery.bsky.social · 8d
Ich gehöre zu den Erstunterzeichnern dieser Petition. Jetzt gilt es die tapferen Menschen im Iran massiv zu unterstützen, die sich seit über 40 Jahren gegen das terroristische Regime der Mullahs wehren.

#IranRevolution
Petition unterschreiben
Jede Stunde zählt: Protestierende im Iran unterstützen, Regime isolieren!
www.change.org

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 8d
It is time to bring back this classic. Insert AI!
xkcd.com/1289/
Simple Answers
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META BENE @meta-bene.bsky.social · 8d
Enten in Österreich
Cartoon aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen. Eine schwimmende Ente sagt: TOPFEN.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 8d
My updated syllabus for Quantitative Text Analysis is available online. As I previous years, I made quite a few changes and added recent literature. Part 1 (still) covers classic text-as-data approaches; Part 2 focuses on transformers and LLMs.

📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
Title page of syllabus: https://muellerstefan.net/teaching/2026-spring-qta.pdf

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 9d
We just published the methodology behind CoPE, our 9B parameter model that matches GPT-4o at content classification at 1% the size! The model is already open source, but now we're sharing our training technique. blog.zentropi.ai/how-we-built... 🧵 1/6
How we built CoPE
We just published the methodology behind CoPE. This is the model that powers Zentropi, and we think the approach might be useful for others working on policy-steerable classification systems. We had ...
blog.zentropi.ai

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 9d
Curious how geospatial data can enhance your research?🗺️ Join our #GESISworkshop to learn best practices for acquiring and processing geo data, creating maps, & assessing spatial dependencies – all in R!

➡️ Register and find all the details t1p.de/Intro_Geospa...

@gesis.org @astroppe.bsky.social
GESIS Workshop | Introduction to Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists in R | 23 to 24 April 2026 | Cologne Stefan Jünger, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe & Dennis Abel (all GESIS)

Reposted by Sebastian Stier, Gesis Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Aleksandra Urman

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 9d
New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025"
doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
GESIS-Suche
doi.org

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 10d
This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social.

We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses.

Here are some of the things we learned:
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
doi.org

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 10d
Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...
Social Media Access Days
Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access.
www.dnb.de

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 10d
if you missed @dscheykopp.bsky.social present on the Digital Services Act in the @nfdi.de Social Media - Show and Tell Series, you can now read our blog post about his talk here: textplus.hypotheses.org/15885 #dsa #article40dsa #digitalservicesact
Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is reshaping how researchers access social media data. From new legal rights to platform transparency obligations, this blog explores what the DSA means for research and...
textplus.hypotheses.org

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 10d
Make Bayesian modeling work for your research at our #GESISworkshop with @denis-cohen.bsky.social!
Learn core Bayesian concepts and workflow, use brms for off-the-shelf modeling solutions, and develop custom Stan models tailored to your questions – hands‑on in R.

Info ➡️ t1p.de/bayesian-mod...
GESIS Workshop Bayesian Modeling: From Foundations to Custom Solutions 16 – 17 & 23 – 24 April 2026 | Online Denis Cohen (MZES, University of Mannheim)