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Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social · 7d

Jo tak! 😊

Randi Hovmann @hovmann.com · 9d

Og yderligere 3 nye:
@birkbak.bsky.social
@frederikhenriksen.bsky.social
@solgudinde.bsky.social
- velkommen til jer også 😎

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Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social · Aug 19

📣 JOB OFFER 📣

Come do your PhD with @janniehartley.bsky.social and me! 💥

Fully salaried within a strong 4-person project team.

Application deadline 1 Oct 2025 🗓️

Please circulate widely 🙏

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD position in Media Use, Publics and Personalization

The Department of Communication and Arts (DCA), Roskilde University, invites applications for a salaried PhD position in the AUTOPUBLICS project, which investig

candidate.hr-manager.net

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Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social · May 1

Back from @uio.no where I presented the Democratic Situations book for the Voicing Democracy group and had a great meeting in the EvaluNation project led by Hilde Reinertsen at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social. Thanks for super discussions to everyone I met at the seminar, and over drinks and food!

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · Jan 28

In case your colleagues or institutions still require convincing: the academe is now on Bluesky.

Important to highlight these network effects.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

www.nature.com

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Christina Neumayer @nechri.bsky.social · Dec 11

📣 4 PhD scholarships at the Department of Communication, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen - more info here:
jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD scholarships at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen

jobportal.ku.dk

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Nov 27

Epic, must-read thread for everyone polishing up the scrapers to study or extract training data from Bluesky

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Nov 26

First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Nov 25

Job alert ‼️

We are looking to hire two post-doctoral researchers researching values and valuation in the energy transition - based in the #STS research group Human-centred Innovation at the Technical University of Denmark.

#sociology #anthropology #STS

Please boost 🔁

Postdoc within Science and Technology Studies and the Energy Transition - DTU Management

Are you wanting to establish your career as an academic and have a background in Science & Technology Studies (STS)? Are you interested in conducting cutting-edge research on the public engagement wit...

efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com

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Frederik Henriksen @frederikhenriksen.bsky.social · Nov 25

The defence will be take place at Roskilde University (Building 41, room 41.1-14) on 6 December from 13:00-16:00. It is open to the public and will also be live-streamed. @nechri.bsky.social @birkbak.bsky.social @anniewald.bsky.social constitutes the committee - thanks for great feedback so far!

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Frederik Henriksen @frederikhenriksen.bsky.social · Nov 25

I am happy to announce that I will be defending my PhD with the title: "Burn it Down: Anti-Systemic Narratives and Counterpublics in Digital Alternative Information Environments" 🎉 🔥

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Aske Kammer @askekammer.dk · Nov 25

Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky?

That's the research question I want to answer.

Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min.

Everyone, please share the link.

Thanks!

forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social · Nov 24

Welcome to the sky and the world and congrats on getting started 🙃

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Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social · Nov 24

Useful list of digital methods folks on here!

ECHOlab @echodtu.bsky.social · Nov 24

go.bsky.app/R8nKo3U

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Lion Wedel @lionw.bsky.social · Nov 13

Want to collect TikTok data but need help figuring out where to start?

Look no further but here 👀:
methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/2024/11/12/t...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Nov 16

We are looking for a #PhD candidate in #STS focusing on the topic of #energy #transitions - based in the Human-Centred Innovation section at the Technical University of Denmark.

⚡️Please help us spread the word⚡️

PhD position within Science and Technology Studies and the Energy Transition – DTU Management

Are you wanting to establish your career as an STS-scholar and interested in engaging with the energy transition? If yes, we have the job for you. Under the supervision of Professor Julia Kirch Kirkeg...

efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com

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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · Nov 13

We’re hiring at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab: 6 postdoc fellow positions for 2 yrs in tech & democracy, broadly understood. All disciplines welcome. We sponsor visas, offer research $ and benefits. Join info sessions. Come work with me, apply by Jan 15: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

jobs.virginia.edu

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Andreas Birkbak @birkbak.bsky.social · Jun 4

It's official 🥳 Our book Democratic Situations will be given the EASST 2024 Freeman Award at the #4sEASST2024 Conference in Amsterdam in July.

easst.net/awards/

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Jan 5

Please Share:

CFP: 4S Datafied Publics | July 16-19 This panel focuses on datafied publics: groups that politically mobilise because they are subject to commercial and government data systems that algorithmically govern them but remain opaque.

nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

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Jan-Hendrik Passoth @janpassoth.bsky.social · Oct 16

Hello! After moving to mastodon exactly a year ago this feels a bit like Groundhog Day…

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