What are threats to academic freedom, and what can we do to strengthen it?

We will explore these questions with Ina Brandes (NRW), @kwelle.bsky.social (GESIS), Manfred Bayer (TU Dortmund), and Tim Majchrzak (CAIS) at the panel that I am hosting this Friday 🙌

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

📢Registration is now open for #IDCC26

Multiple tickets options are now available⬇️
🐦Early bird
🗺️Lower Middle-Income Countries
🧑‍🎓Student
☀️One day tickets (Tuesday or Wednesday)
🎫Book by 31 October 2025 to take advantage of the Early Bird rate⬇️
dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...

Aktionswoche zum Umgang mit Daten: Love Data Week (09.02.-13.02.2026)

Auch 2026 bietet forschungsdaten.info einen Überblick zu Veranstaltungen im deutschsprachigen Raum.

forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deuts...

#FDMPower #LoveData26 #Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience

Social-Media-Daten zwischen Forschung und Infrastrukturen - nachhaltige Archivierung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung: An der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social finden vom 17.-19.03.2026 die Social Media Access Days statt. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 31.10.2025. www.dnb.de/DE/Professio...

This article overviews the current landscape of needs related to public data. We recognize that it isn't just about data rescues or data preservation. All the pieces and organizations need to work together to protect the public data system.

cep.org/blog/preserv...

🏨Venue announcement!🏨

#IDCC26 will be hosted in the Hotel Esplanade Zagreb next year from 16-18 February.

Check out the venue now, ahead of an exciting announcement next week....

➡️https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc26/venue-and-accommodation

It's from this wonderful #RDM coffee table book by @nfdixcs.bsky.social which will make its way to our department's social room, thanks to @kwelle.bsky.social 😊

🔗 nfdixcs.org/meldung/new-...

Don't forget: We are counting on you to help #SaveOurSigns this holiday weekend. Check out our priority list and take some pics! Only you can prevent censorship!

📢 Call for Applications: KODAQS Academy Certificate Program!
6-month online course for early-career researchers on how to handle social science data with high-quality standards. 📆 Oct 2025 - Mar 2026. 🔗www.gesis.org/en/ges...
@florianbemmann @gesis <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5hvzun4bla4ysn3uftgzzl5a" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@gesistraining @kodaqs
#kodaqs #dataquality

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
🎓 Join GESIS Cologne as a #Postdoc in Platform Data & Computational Social Science!
💻 Work internationally, shape DSA data access, and develop your research.
Apply now:
www.gesis.org/en/ins...

New job ad @gesis.org:

👉 Research on Platform Data and #CSS
👉 Coordinate access to online platform data (#DSA)
👉 100% TV-L 14, 4 years with possible tenure
❗good German language abilities

No Deadline, apply soon 👇!

To all the #DSA experts and data access enthusiast out there, before you go on holiday, sign up & save the date for the #dsa40 data access days in Berlin, September 25 & 26!

2 days with keynotes, panels, expert insights and practical guidance 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...

*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.

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.

*JOB* join the amazing Computational Social Science group at GESIS. Postdoc position with tenure option in Köln / Cologne.

🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...

The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.

Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.

W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...

Die Termine für drei @heicad.bsky.social Lectures im Juli, November und Januar stehen fest!
Am 17.07.2025 kommt Prof. Dr. Lothar Wieler vom @hpi.bsky.social auf den Campus des UKD, um einen Vortrag über Precision Public Health (PPH) im digitalen Zeitalter zu halten. 1/3

Thank you!

We invite paper submissions to our workshop on Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences @gesis.org
⏳November 26-28, 2025
🎓Keynotes Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer (University of Twente)
Dr. Ana Andries (University of Surrey).
⏱️Deadline August 6th
✉️abstracts (max. 500 words) to [email protected]

The German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space announced their shortlist for their prioritization process for large research infrastructures - and we are on it! So keeping fingers crossed that we can build RIDLOP - Research Infrastructure for Data from Large Online Platforms soon.

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:

Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

We welcome the @ec.europa.eu’s adoption of the Delegated Act on Data Access. This is a significant milestone in the implementation of the provisions of Article 40 in the Digital Services Act.
🔗 www.cnam.ie/european-com...

One of the most crucial pieces of legislation to implement the Digital Services Act came out today: the Delegated Act on data access.The act clarifies the procedures for platforms to share internal, non-public data to vetted researchers digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...