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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 19

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

President @realDonaldTrump showing President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hat 🤣🇺🇸

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

www.gesis.org

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · Aug 11

This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut!

Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social

Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread

Book cover for “The Psychology of Attack Politics"

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Aug 7

As GPT-5 announcement is underway, know that a majority of Dutch people already make use of ChatGPT (and similar Gen AI models),

43% percent even say they use it "often" (5-7 on our 1-7 scale) -> the graph below

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Aug 10

For your correlation ≠ causation collection

SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · Aug 10

Good morning Sunday morning

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Aug 10

We've been tracking the rise of ChatGPT use in the Netherlands!

Our third update of the AI Opinion Monitor shows a meteoric rise in use amongst youth, with 43% reporting to use it regularly.

Check it out yourself: monitor.algosoc.org

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Jun 26

Data we are collecting with @algosoc.org in the Netherlands shows similar and even starker trends and age gaps.

Everyone is using ChatGPT more. But 82% of 18-29 year olds now report having used in the past year whereas a still sizeable but comparatively lower amount of 65+ year olds have (19%).

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 26

Honoured to have been awarded this year's ASCoR Baschwitz Faculty Article of the Year award for my work with Mykola Makhortykh and Silke Adam!

Check out the paper, "Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait", below!

ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · Jun 26

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

Alexandra Schwinges receives ASCoR Baschwitz Young Scholar Award

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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · Jun 26

🎉 We #congratulate @alexschwinges.bsky.social and @ernesto-deleon.com, winners of the ASCoR Baschwitz Awards 2024! Each year, the Baschwitz Article of the Year and the Young Scholar Award are presented during the Departmental Meeting of Communication Science.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jun 18

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics?

Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.

Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.

🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Digital Democracy Fellowship x TrygFonden Fellowship Program

www.sdu.dk

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 17

Already very real consequences www.newsweek.com/iran-capital...

Iran capital evacuation videos show people fleeing Tehran

Large traffic jams have formed on Tehran's highways after President Donald Trump urged residents of the city to "immediately evacuate."

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Dominik Hokamp @dominikhokamp.bsky.social · Jun 16

Another windowless room (but this time way bigger) in which I got to present first preliminary findings on how strategic politicians can *actually* be about their emotions in election campaigns

📷 @amplanitzer.bsky.social

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 16

@mshu.bsky.social & @jbgruber.bsky.social presenting great work showing that scraping TikTok yields similar results to using the API (although it is a lot slower and doesn't work as well with larger accounts).

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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · Jun 15

Stellar panel on data donations at #ica25 @lionw.bsky.social presenting on across platform sample biases, Yangliu Fan @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social on sequence mining in digital trace data, and @ernesto-deleon.com on tailored recruitment messages. Full room shows how important #datadonation is

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jun 15

More on data donation and tracking data. Don’t miss this panel #ica25

@ernesto-deleon.com @dougaparry.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social Yangliu Fan @lionw.bsky.social & more

@ascor.bsky.social @algosoc.org @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 15

Thanks Curd!

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · Jun 15

Happening now #ICA25:
@ernesto-deleon.com presenting work on influencer-hyperpartisan info networks. Shows the importance of sourcing and linking to a wider variety of sources, all serving to propagate anti-system narratives.
Awesome stuff by these colleagues! Right up my alley. 👏

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Zilin Lin @linzilinn.bsky.social · Jun 15

And I am finally on Bluesky 🥳!!

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jun 14

Zilin Lin presenting the @aimediademlab.bsky.social project she led (w Gabriella Trogrlic @natalihelberger.bsky.social and 🙋) #ica25

On Dutch LLMs and how they reinforce harmful representation

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 14

In this role, I’ll be working to create spaces and mechanisms to support students and early career scholars from around the world - a very vulnerable group as science comes increasingly under attack.

If you have ideas on how ICA can better support you, I’d love to hear from you!

Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 14

Happy to be coming onboard as co-chair of the ICA @icasecac.bsky.social, representing student and early career interests at the ICA board level.

I am really looking forward to working with @danijaradent.bsky.social and the rest of the SECAC members over the coming years! #ica25

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Jun 14

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 14

Thanks Nico 🤗

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 14

Thanks a lot Haylee 🤗

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 14

Thanks Ulrike!!

Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Jun 14

Thanks Allison!!

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