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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 4d

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 · 5d

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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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.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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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Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D. @everfigueroa.bsky.social · 19d

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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Heinz Leitgöb @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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

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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · 16d

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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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 28d

Here's something I've learned since this. This code collected from Twitter and inserted into a database

Writing to a database could be slow for streaming data, so I had one process stream + insert into a queue, and another read the queue and do inserts

It worked, but complicated and hard to debug

Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 29d

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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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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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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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Aug 15

Dit is waarom het zo belangrijk is dat academische vrijheid in de grondwet staat (en er enigszins helder gedefinieerd is). Zoals in Duitsland. In NL staat academische vrijheid in de wet op het Hoger Onderwijs, maar het is niet helder omschreven wat het behelst.

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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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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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.

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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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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wat hier gebeurt is voor onderzoekers en slachtoffers van online politiek geweld geen enkele verrassing. Yesilgöz c.s. hebben met hun gerichte aanval op Douwe Bob een beerput opengetrokken. In de politieke communicatiewetenschap observeren we al enige tijd een toename van aanvallen op 1/n

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

www.folia.nl

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Jul 1

Van harte gefeliciteerd!!!

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