I am extremely thankful to so many people along the way, just to name a few: @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social @seramirezruiz.bsky.social @andyguess.com @small-schulz.bsky.social

Admin note: if you'd like to reach out - please use my new email address as my MPIB account is no longer in use!! I will also soon advertise a position but feel free to reach out proactively.

It's hard to put into words how excited I am about this step and I am very much looking forward to working with the students of Goethe university and especially to getting to know many new colleagues at C3S, the political science department and collaborators across the university and region.

wow, thanks a lot for covering this - let me just emphasize that I'd regard this preprint as a conceptual perspective / review article that aims to act as a synthesis if existing evidence (the analysis of the GLES data serves mostly as another empirical illustration)

Absolutely, I think this paper connects really well to, for example, your work with Claire Robertson

Thanks! That's great to hear - and makes me curious to hear more about your project.

Big thanks to my fantastic coauthors: Will Schulz @small-schulz.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social , David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social and Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social !

Feedback very welcome! Now read, share, cite 😊

Finally, we move beyond social media research and discuss potential consequences of the production-consumption gap, which results in a remarkable visibility gap, for public opinion more broadly.

We then discuss methodological challenges this production-consumption gap poses for us, social media researchers, and derive implications for sampling, study design and inference.