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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 26

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites?

There's an R package for that!

paperboy

"paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

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Katharina Prasse @katharinaprasse.bsky.social · Mar 1

Inspired and grateful after discussing our work on minimum cost multicuts for visual frame detection. Thanks to everyone at #wacv25! @margretkeuper.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social @stefaniewalter.bsky.social @keuper-labs.bsky.social

Katharina Prasse along with her WACV25 Poster on Minimum Cost Multicuts for Visual Frame Detection.

Katharina discussing the work on Clustering at WACV25.

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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · Feb 20

📣 Jetzt bewerben: 📣 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) für ein Forschungsprojekt zu KI im Wahlkampf an der Universität Bamberg. Mehr Informationen zur Stelle und dem Projekt gibt es hier. andreasjungherr.net/2025/02/20/j...

Jetzt bewerben: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) für ein Forschungsprojekt zu KI im Wahlkampf an der Universität Bamberg

Am Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft insbesondere Digitale Transformation suchen wir Verstärkung für ein neues Forschungsprojekt zur Rolle generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz im Wahlkampf. Die ausgesc...

andreasjungherr.net

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Feb 13

It's Black History Month! In recognition and celebration of #BHM, be sure to check out the latest journal articles and publications highlighting Black politics and research in the political science profession.

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Katharina Prasse @katharinaprasse.bsky.social · Feb 3

I spy with my little eye... a WACV paper. We investigate visual frame detection using Minimum Cost Multicut clustering. Check out the paper to see which embedding space works best: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.01296
@isaacbravo.bsky.social @stefaniewalter.bsky.social @margretkeuper.bsky.social

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jan 21

Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchbinReyhan"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵

#phd #ECR #wissenschaft

First page of the PDF version of the article published by Routledge in the journal Information, Communication & Society. The article history shows that the paper was received on 7 May 2024 and accepted on 8 January 2025.

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DGPuK Methoden @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social · Dec 16

Interested in updates from researchers who are committed to advancing the methods of communication research and related disciplines? The Count has something for you... go.bsky.app/ByqiKgq
Feel free to share and comment, if you want to be added.

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Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social · Dec 16

Same here, thanks 😊

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 16

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

To what extent does the population of a former colonising country support political apologies for slavery? Inge Hendriks, @nielsspierings.bsky.social, and Marcel Lubbers explores the support for apologies of various groups.

Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4gchSCx

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 15

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

Francesca Sobande and Emma-Lee Amponsah analyse media (re)presentations of "Black joy" and related marketplace experiences, while reflecting on Black life in Belgium + Britain.

Full article available here: https://buff.ly/3OPtb7F

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 13

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

The paper by de Carvalho, Santia and Ramasubramanian adopts a critical approach to examine how US news outlets framed the public health emergency among the Yanomami People in Brazil during the pandemic.

Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g9vDSJ

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 13

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

In this new paper, @drsarahliu.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social show that the Taiwan's COVID 19 only applies to native citizens as migrants' interests are rarely represented in legislative debates.

Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g6Uwyo

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Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social · Dec 16

Very happy to see that this article lead by Alice Beazer found a home in our special issue

Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 12

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

Beazer, Palicki, ‪@stefaniewalter.bsky.social‬ & EldridgeIl combine topic models and informed grounded theory to explore representations of a minoritized group during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/3ZNleqa

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 12

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

The presence of minoritized representatives is considered essential to advance the interests and inclusion of minoritized groups. But do minoritized citizens prefer politicians like them? de Jong explores these representations.

Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/49ued0m

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 11

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

Some Dutch minorities are numerically well-represented, but exclusions mean they do not feel they are Dutch, shaped by boundaries and privileges in complex ways.

Article by @nellageurts.bsky.social, Glas, Sipma & @nielsspierings.bsky.social is available here: https://buff.ly/3ZxzH84

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · Dec 10

✨Time for meta reflection✨

In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social · Dec 11

Very happy to see our special issue and introduction published @ersjournal.com !

Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 11

#ERSNew🐣 🔓

In their introduction to the special issue, @stefaniewalter.bsky.social‬ & Glas explore the impact of #Covid19 on minoritized groups' political representation.

Full article is available here: https://buff.ly/4g6Uwyo

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Dec 2

❗️Our next workshop will be on December 12th, 6 pm CET on Big data made small: Harness the power of #SQL via #Python (through DuckDB) by @alemartinello.com !
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support 🇺🇦!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky

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Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social · Nov 18

We (@marikenvelden.bsky.social) are looking forward to receiving proposals for summer holidays / papers & panels for the @ecpr.bsky.social section on "Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion" #ecprgc25 More here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

This is a screenshot of an ECRP Section on Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Nov 18

👩‍🏫 Showcase your research on a prestigious global stage 🌎
📢 Call for Panels & Papers now OPEN for our General Conference https://buff.ly/3AMuRvm
🔍 Seeking contributions across 60 Sections covering all corners of political science
👉 Submit by 6 Jan https://buff.ly/34n6JwY
#ecprgc25

ECPR General Conference 2025, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 26 – 29 August 2025

Call for Panels and Papers

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · Nov 16

📆 21 November, 15:00-16:30CET
🗣️hybrid event at EUI on our edited volume w/ Routledge
on the Parliamentary Dimension of #CoFoE with @simonhix.bsky.social chaired by Kalypso Nicolaidis.

👉 Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Open Access: www.routledge.com/9781032747644

@sceus.bsky.social EUsky

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Nov 16

As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here:

jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/

And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...

Wrapper for the AT Protocol Behind Bluesky

Wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://bsky.social>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network or posting conten...

jbgruber.github.io

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Nov 15

Here's CCL's contribution to Starter Pack Season! Follow our team and colleagues in computational communication science. We'll keep updating the starter pack regularly. Feel free to DM us if you'd like to be included or have suggestions for accounts we should add. Thank you! 🙌

go.bsky.app/VqFrK14

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Nov 15

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Nov 13

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

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