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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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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 1d

🚀 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)

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Sara B. Hobolt, Damian Trilling , and 2 more Joanna Bryson, Sara B. Hobolt, Damian Trilling, Kate Starbird, Johannes Breuer

Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 1d

📽️ "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 · 2d

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 · 2d

🎺 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

computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS – Computational Social Science

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Mainz University @mainzuniversity.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden , and 9 more Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden, Garry Peterson, Scott L. Greer, Serge Guimond, Melanie C. Green, Patrick S. Forscher, Victor Galaz, Cailin O’Connor, Kate Starbird, Johannes Breuer

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5d

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.

disinfoinstitute.org

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 · 5d

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!

Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 6d

It is time to bring back this classic. Insert AI!
xkcd.com/1289/

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META BENE @meta-bene.bsky.social · 6d

Enten in Österreich

Cartoon aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen. Eine schwimmende Ente sagt: TOPFEN.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 6d

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

Reposted by David Lazer, Dean Eckles, Johannes Breuer , and 2 more David Lazer, Dean Eckles, Johannes Breuer, Samuel Coavoux, Nicolai von Ondarza

Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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

Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 7d

New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025"
doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Will Jennings, Alexander Wuttke , and 5 more Brian A. Nosek, Will Jennings, Alexander Wuttke, Scott Clifford, Patrick Präg, Johannes Breuer, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Aleksandra Urman

Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 8d

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

Reposted by David Lazer, Axel Bruns, Luca Rossi , and 1 more David Lazer, Axel Bruns, Luca Rossi, Johannes Breuer

Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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)

Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 9d

Congratulations! 🎉

Reposted by Roger A. Pielke, Richard S.J. Tol, Linda J. Skitka , and 5 more Roger A. Pielke, Richard S.J. Tol, Linda J. Skitka, Nathan Nunn, Kris Inwood, Ian Hussey, Trevor A. Branch, Johannes Breuer

Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 9d

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?

I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/

It all started a few years ago... 🧵

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 9d

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 10d

True (@kriegundfreitag)

Reposted by Kris Inwood, Daniel S. Goldberg, Alan Richardson , and 5 more Kris Inwood, Daniel S. Goldberg, Alan Richardson, Richard Pettigrew, Brian Weatherson, Johannes Breuer, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Jeroen Van Bouwel

Theoria @theoriajournal.bsky.social · 10d

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀

#Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 10d

The program for the Perspectives on Scientific Error conference Februari 11 to 13 in Leiden is online!
Registration is open! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com

This is one of the most inspiring and fun metascience meetings around - lots of time to interact, great talks - so do come!

Visit the post for more.

perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com