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Daniela Stoltenberg

@dstoltenberg.bsky.social

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Postdoc on digital publics, activism, space, & computational methods at @sfb1265.bsky.social / communication science at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social. I like books, running, hiking, horses, and crafting. 📚🏃🏔️🐴🧶 she/her. 🏳️‍🌈

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Here's something you don't see every day: two publications going live on the same date. 🤩

A screenshot from an e-mail by an ORCID account, showing two works added:
• The spatial dimension of climate justice conflicts and solidarities (2025-07-31)
o doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003542810-20
• Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events (2025-07-31)
o doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251364290

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 1d

As plenty of people have pointed out, this photo is not from an anti-ICE protest, nor from Portland. Nor is it even from this freaking century. This is journalistic dereliction of duty.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 2d

And god forbid people advertise for civil rights, lol. wtf.

Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations!

Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 13d

Have gotten one, too, but it was most vague and unhelpful...

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SFB 1265 @sfb1265.bsky.social · 13d

Von Bänken & E-Ladesäulen bis hin zu Parkuhren: Stadtmobiliar umgibt uns, wird aber selten bewusst wahrgenommen.
Das Urban-Furniture-Quartett lädt dazu ein, die alltäglichen Objekte im Stadtraum näher zu erkunden!
Kommt zum "Launch & Spieleabend":
📆2.10. 📍Stadtwerkstatt
sfb1265.de/veranstaltun...

Urban Furniture Quartett: Launch & Spieleabend - SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“

Um eine Anmeldung über das untenstehende Formular wird gebeten. Teilnahme und Quartett-Exemplar sind kostenfrei. Die Veranstaltung findet in der Stadtwerkstatt der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklun...

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 15d

NYT be like:

a man in a suit and tie is saying he a little confused but he got the spirit .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying he a little confused but he got the spirit .

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 15d

Go home, AI, you're drunk.

Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 16d

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 15d

Huh. Wonder if anything happened to tech stock right after that chart cuts off... 🤔

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16d

The Morgan Stanley desk calls this “the most bullish chart” in this morning’s note.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 21d

New article!

The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP by Anton Törnberg & Petter Törnberg / @pettertornberg.com

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT

Climate misinformation today is increasingly conveyed through multimodal content, where images and text interact to shape meaning, emotional resonance, and enhance credibility. Yet, research on climate misinformation has rarely explored how these modes work in tandem. This paper introduces a multimodal analytical framework to examine climate-related visual misinformation. Analyzing 17,848 image-text posts, we combine BERTopic, CLIP, and qualitative framing analysis to investigate how climate denialist narratives are constructed. Our findings reveal a paradoxical communication strategy: the movement appropriates scientific aesthetics – graphs, statistics, and technical imagery – to contest the scientific consensus, projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control. In contrast, climate advocates are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery. These contrasting multimodal framings supports a strategy of strategic depoliticization, presenting ideological claims as neutral, objective truths. We argue that understanding climate misinformation requires moving beyond factual accuracy to examine the multimodal forms through which it gains legitimacy and emotional power.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 22d

The one-plot summary of what Elon Musk did to Twitter.

Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 22d

This is where it gets wild 👇

In 2020, Twitter use was highest among people who loved Democrats and disliked Republicans.

By 2024, it completely flipped: the more polarized Republican you are, the more you use Twitter/X.

From blue stronghold → red megaphone. All for just $44 billion.

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 23d

oh boy.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 23d

„AfD legt zu, Grüne verlieren"

Heißt es in den Medien. Die Journalisten fragen Grüne, ob sie jetzt auch mehr Abschiebungen fordern werden.

Aber auch richtig ist:

„AfD verliert im Vergleich zur BTW, Grüne zweitbestes Ergebnis in NRW“

Framing in den Medien macht den Rechtsruck.

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 23d

My streak is 872 days and every damn day that psychotic little bird does its "why hath thou forsaken me" shtick.

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 26d

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 26d

Are you a CSS researcher using LLMs for text annotation tasks? Do you integrate the results into downstream statistical analyses?

Turns out, even with SOTA models you have a 31-50% chance of coming to wrong conclusions this way!

Learn more about this and mitigation strategies in our new preprint 👇

Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 26d

Das Klima der Ungleichheit. Zur sozialen Struktur von Klimakonflikten. Neuer Artikel mit @lwestheuser.bsky.social und @thomaslux.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Das Klima der Ungleichheit. Zur sozialen Struktur von Klimakonflikten - Berliner Journal für Soziologie

The article maps how political conflicts over climate change are intertwined with social inequality. Building on studies of Dörre et al. on industrial transformation conflicts, four forms of social in...

link.springer.com

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 27d

Very humorous scheduling, too, doing this on 9/11...

Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 28d

a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a hedge

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a hedge

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 28d

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

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SFB 1265 @sfb1265.bsky.social · 29d

New article out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!
"Toward a platform–labor–territory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes"
by #sfb1265 PhD Scholar @jyelee.bsky.social 👇📰
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Happy to see this #OpenAccess paper out in #Journalism!
"From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests"
with @mikefarjam.bsky.social, Helena Rauxloh & Michael Brüggemann

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 29d

Stellungnahme vom Netzwerk Wissenschaftsfreiheit wann? 🫠

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Sep 7

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

After spending pretty much all day so far, in good faith, reviewing a paper that is potentially interesting, but needs a lot of work, this just cost me the will to live, lol.

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Girl. Be so for real right now. What are we even doing here.

Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.