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Damian Trilling 🟥

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Professor of Journalism Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. About me: https://damiantrilling.net . Our group is here: @journstudiesvu.bsky.social and here: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism .. more

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Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 7d

Digging through the details of the COS/Meta collaboration and the data are open*

*availbale on request
*For at most three people to reproduce the results
* if they're approved to access it
*and only within three years

Wondering how this squares with #openscience goals.

www.cos.io/meta

Instagram Data Access Pilot for Well-being Research

This pilot program aims to share certain Instagram data with independent academic researchers to use in conjunction with their own study data on social or emotional health.

www.cos.io

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Reposted by Sander van der Linden, Laura K. Taylor, Charlie Beckett , and 3 more Sander van der Linden, Laura K. Taylor, Charlie Beckett, Stephen Cushion, Damian Trilling, Aleksandra Urman

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 7d

Come work with us 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.

Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.

DL 🗓️ November 1

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 11d

New dataset that describes social media activity of a very large group of US elected officials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials

www.nature.com

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 14d

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...

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Bart Zuidervaart @barttrouw.bsky.social · 14d

In tal van landen ziet @leoniedejonge.bsky.social eenzelfde patroon: eerst wordt het extreemrechtse gedachtegoed genormaliseerd, daarna volgt een machtspositie in de politiek. De gewelddadigheden in Den Haag kun je daar niet los van zien. "Daar moeten we het over hebben"
www.trouw.nl/politiek/de-...

De normalisering van uiterst rechts zie je terug op straat

Het recente geweld in Den Haag vloeit volgens deskundigen voort uit de normalisering van extreemrechtse denkbeelden. Gevestigd links wordt deze campagne weggezet als gevaar voor de democratie. ‘Dat is...

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Heinz Leitgöb @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social · 17d

Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Alain Starke @alainstarke.bsky.social · 17d

Hello @linzilinn.bsky.social @damiantrilling.net; nice presentation! #recsys2025

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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · 17d

He he. Eindelijk, een ijzersterk artikel en een dappere journalist die het precies benoemt zoals het is: grootschalig politiek geweld. nrc vandaag:

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Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D. @everfigueroa.bsky.social · 21d

My department at CU Boulder is hiring BOTH an Assistant Professor of Journalism AND an Associate/Full Professor of Journalism Studies. I am on the search committee for the Associate job. Happy to answer questions or direct you to the right people. Links in this thread.

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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · Sep 8

In the spirit of redoing grad school code now that I know better, I wanted to take a shot at something like my `focalevents` code for Bluesky

But if the only way to search for specific things is through a full backfill of the data, it's not going to be feasible for academics with limited budgets

GitHub - ryanjgallagher/focalevents: Tools for collecting social media data around focal events

Tools for collecting social media data around focal events - ryanjgallagher/focalevents

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Aug 26

You can also sometimes push back. I have sometimes just argued that I *know* that the Publisher can handle it because other journals also accept latex, so that they need to accept my latex source + pdf. It’s worth a try!

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Aug 25

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨

Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics.

We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities.

🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...

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Kenneth Manusama @kennethmanusama.bsky.social · Aug 15

Geen VVmU voor professoren in het klaslokaal??

Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Richard McElreath, Mark J. Brandt , and 10 more Norbert Schwarz, Richard McElreath, Mark J. Brandt, Kai Sassenberg, Mark Rubin, Justin H. Kirkland, Ingo Rohlfing, Christopher Peters, Barrett, Damian Trilling, Paul Nightingale, Marcus Credé, Andrew Baillie

Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · Aug 8

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397

Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Aug 4

Are you a researcher (from HCI, communication, or information science) studying online misinformaiton, disinfromation, hate speech, polarization, or related information toxicity? Apply to attend our CSCW workshop (with both remote and in-person options).

Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online?

We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome short submissions, due August 8th.

cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · Jun 13

First up is @anjabechmann.bsky.social sharing insight in the project of 1000 Danish YouTube data donations, including issues on over time dropout

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jun 13

Data donation is a really promising approach. But also one with many challenges

Bummed to miss this session due to a meeting but highly recommend!

#datadonation #ica25

@antmandan.bsky.social @anjabechmann.bsky.social @tgrootkormelink.bsky.social @feloe.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social & more

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Lisanne @lisanne.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ik vond het tijd om de olifant in de kamer te adresseren:

Nederlandse media leunen zwaar op Amerikaanse cloud

Nederlandse media draaien op grote schaal op Amerikaanse clouddiensten van Microsoft, Google en Amazon, ondanks de risico's die hierbij komen kijken.

www.bnr.nl

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Jul 22

Gefeliciteerd!!

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Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de · Jul 22

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring.
Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

www.uni-saarland.de

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Before heading to ACL, I'm excited to be at #IC2S2 this week! 🌞

I'll present a related working paper on validating LLM social simulations at the ABM session on Tuesday (11 AM, Vingen 7): indiiigo.github.io/files/GABM_V...

(w/ @wanlo.bsky.social @mstrohm.bsky.social and @janalasser.bsky.social)

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 12

Ik gaf een (zeldzaam) interview aan een Nederlandse krant. 👇

Hoogleraar Cas Mudde is een van de toonaangevende kenners van extreemrechts: ‘Sociaaldemocraten hebben de PVV-kiezer niet verloren en ze gaan die ook nooit winnen’

De Nederlandse hoogleraar Cas Mudde is vanuit de VS een van de toonaangevende kenners van extreemrechts. Op bezoek in Nederland reflecteert hij op de Nederlandse politiek: ‘De gemiddelde PVV-stemmer z...

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · Jul 3

Two fully funded PhD positions in political science at the University of Antwerp in @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social's new and very cool ERC project on disinformation and representation. Great opportunity!
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Doctoral scholarship holders in political science | University of Antwerp

YUFE vacancies

www.uantwerpen.be

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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · Jul 1

Douwe Bob: met gezin weg uit Nederland op advies van de politie

De zanger weigerde zondag op het laatste moment op te treden bij het Joodse kindervoetbalevenement Jom Ha in Amsterdam.

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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Mijn reactie op @nrc.nl interview met NWO-voorzitter Marcel Levi in @foliacivitatis.bsky.social. Op persoonlijke titel vanzelfsprekend, maar dat kan natuurlijk niet los worden gezien van mijn functie als ASCA-directeur. @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Steun wetenschappers in plaats van ons af te vallen

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Jul 1

Van harte gefeliciteerd!!!

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jun 30

Poster schedule just dropped—#IC2S2’25 program is now complete! Dive in and start planning: www.ic2s2-2025.org/program/

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Jun 26

Dat is toch mooi? Een nieuw synoniem voor “nee” erbij. Wil je nog een biertje? - Dat zit genuanceerder. Ben je met de fiets? Dat zit genuanceerder. Ga je nog met vakantie? Dat zit genuanceerder. ;-)

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BNR @bnr.nl · Jun 26

Drie van vier bekende AI-chatbots geven desgevraagd stemadvies

AIchatbots ChatGPT, Gemini en Grok schromen er niet voor om kiezers stemadvies te geven. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van BNR in aanloop naar de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen. Maar hun advies is willekeurig en onbetrouwbaar, zeggen deskundigen. Slechts een van de vier onderzochte AIchatbots, namelijk Copilot, weigert stemadvies te geven.

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