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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Open Media and Communication Research

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · 2d

Tolle Neuigkeiten, herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 7d

Some personal news to share www.mpg.de/25487784/aus...

Ausbau der Forschung zu Ungleichheit und Konflikten

Soziologe Steffen Mau an das Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften in Göttingen berufen. Neuausrichtung des Instituts startet

www.mpg.de

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 6d

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.

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 7d

The result of this super cool work with Henrik Olsson, @abhishekr0y.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social, Stan Rhodes, and Alison Mansheim can now be found online - and we hope you like it as much as we do 😍https://www.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00053-z- Core ideas also summarized below 🔽

The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies

npj Complexity - The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies

rdcu.be

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 7d

#PublicationAlert 🥰. This one has been long in the making: It started with a @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in 2023, lead to a working group at the SFI in 2024, multiple online-meetings (one from Costa Rica, Munich, Denmark, Mumbai, and the US), thought-provoking and truly interdisciplinary work.

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 8d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social · 13d

🚫📰 Can we use nudges to mitigate news avoidance?
Yes and no — it depends on what nudges we use!
Together with @hajoboo.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social I wanted to test whether nudges can reduce news avoidance as limited news consumption—and to do so beyond established Western democracies. 🧵👇

The Role of Choice Architecture in Mitigating News Avoidance

News avoidance has become more common and is associated with negative democratic outcomes. However, only a handful of studies have explored solutions to reduce news avoidance, with nudges offering ...

www.tandfonline.com

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 11d

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real…
🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social

The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

Screenshot of the article “Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure ‘Monitoring Electoral Democracy’ (MEDem)” published in European Political Science. The header shows the journal name, DOI link, and the label “DEBATE.” Below, the title is followed by the author list: Hajo Boomgaarden, Alexia Katsanidou, Sylvia Kritzinger, Georg Lutz, Johanna Willmann, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl. The abstract explains the aims of MEDem as a European research infrastructure to make democracy research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). Keywords listed include open science, FAIR data, ESFRI roadmap, research infrastructure, democracy research, data harmonization, data linking, and data set search. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00534-8

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 15d

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

Coming Up: The 2025 MEDem Conference & Workshop! - Monitoring Electoral Democracy

Coming Up: the 2025 medem Conference! We are thrilled for the upcoming 3rd MEDem Conference, scheduled to take place from September 29-30 at GESIS in Cologne!The 3rd MEDem conference will bring togeth...

www.medem.eu

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Azade Kakavand (she/her) @azadekakavand.bsky.social · 12d

Last week, I defended my dissertation! 🎉

A big thank you to everyone who made this possible—especially (but not exclusively) @anniewald.bsky.social, @nicolarighetti.bsky.social & the whole @compcommlab.bsky.social! 🫶

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 19d

Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense –
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳

Picture of the committee, from left to right. Annie, Nicola, Azade, Eva, and Hajo.

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 13d

Wanna know more about #data #access and the Digital Services Act? Here’s our latest policy paper about how it works👇

www.weizenbaum-library.de/items/86842c...

#commsky #polisky #dsa @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social · 13d

Sehr cool: An der CEU ( @weareceu.bsky.social ) gibt es eine neue Forschungseinheit zu Fehl- und Desinformation - auch wieso diese oft gedanklich hängen bleibt

Wir diskutieren deshalb gemeinsam am 29.9. in Wien

Hier kann man sich anmelden:

What are misbeliefs and why do we sustain them?

events.ceu.edu

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 19d

Big thanks also to her thesis reviewers, @thorstenquandt.bsky.social and @evamayerhoeffer.bsky.social! 🙏 - as well as the defense chair, @hajoboo.bsky.social. We saw very proud supervisors today w/ @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social 🤗

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · 15d

Very proud, indeed!!! 👏👏👏

Big congrats, Dr. @azadekakavand.bsky.social 🎓, and all the best for your postdoc life @bredowinstitut.bsky.social 🚀

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 19d

Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense –
“Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.”
A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 22d

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

Group photo: The CCL team standing together outdoors with the mountains around Dienten an Hochkönig in Salzburg in the background, smiling at the camera.

Ski lift: A line of orange ski lift chairs stretching up a green slope surrounded by dense forest to get up the mountain.

Hiking trail: The CCL team hiking down a narrow trail across a sunlit mountain slope with autumn-colored vegetation.

Mountain view: A wide view of mountain peaks and ridges around Dienten am Hochkönig in Salzburg, with low-hanging clouds drifting between the valleys under a blue sky.

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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 New Preprint: "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Performance and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis."

Providing guidance for social scientists, we challenge the "bigger is better" narrative, instead encouraging social and environmental responsibility.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · Aug 28

Presented the @what-if-horizon.bsky.social project today at #SSC2025 in Delft 🙌 Very grateful for the helpful feedback from the social simulation community! Looking forward to implementing it w/ @anniewald.bsky.social and Taehee Kim ✨

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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · Aug 29

📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Below follows a 🧵

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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · Aug 28

Day 3 at #SSC2025 ☕️

@billrand.bsky.social invites us to think about the future of agent-based modeling. It’s not just about big data—it’s about building smarter, more interpretable models that bridge the gap between data-driven empiricism and theory-driven understanding.

Lots of food for thought🙇🏻‍♀️

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · Aug 28

🧪 🗳 New in Scientific Data

"The #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024: A Dataset of Austrian Voter Attitudes and Behavior”

The new data descriptor offers background on study design & data quality.

➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📂 Dataset: doi.org/10.11587/HNU...

#OpenScience @aussda.bsky.social

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Joana G Sa @joanagsa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Want to work in Portugal, in a brand new institute, at the interface between #Health and #ComplexSystems?
Open positions for #students, #postdocs and a #dataSteward under the supervision of @lmrocha.bsky.social
Check it out: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-team/o...

Open Positions & Careers at CBeRa | CBeRa Project

Explore current opportunities at the CBeRa Project: PhD‑level positions in network science, complex systems, and network medicine at Católica Biomedical Research Centre in Lisbon.

www.cberaproject.eu

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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · Aug 28

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages?

Our new WP shows the answer is no:

-Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators
-Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs

osf.io/amfws

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · Aug 26

#Call #GESISPanel

Collect Your Own Linked #WebTracking and #SurveyData with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample
Panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior is recorded.

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