Only two weeks until we kick off the self-learning phase of Tom Paskhalis's blended learning #GESISworkshop on advanced programming techniques in R 🥳!

We still have a couple of places left, so don't hesitate and secure your spot!

➡️ bit.ly/advanced_r_pro…

TCD Political Science is hosting the upcoming PSAI conference.

🗓️ 18-20 October, 2024
🏨 Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin

We're seeking panel and paper proposals across all areas of political science!

Submit your panel or paper proposal to [email protected]. Deadline: 20 July

📢 Call for Papers! Join Anna Fruhstorfer, Michelle Torres
and me for a workshop on 'How Image-As-Data Approaches Can Help Analysing Protest and Its Organisation: Methods and Applications' on Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2024, at Free University Berlin.
More Info: tinyurl.com/3uvvx8a7

A very important piece, regardless of your discipline 👇

Interested in a six-year postdoctoral research and teaching position in our department? 2 classes a term, otherwise a lot freedom to follow own research agenda within a thriving department in a wonderful city! Deadline: 2 June 2024. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University…

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts. Thread 1/10🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s4156…

I want to air a relatively minor personal gripe: middle-aged professor dudes who want to be ‘cool’ and ‘approachable’ and let their undergrads call them by their first name actually make it harder for those of us who aren’t automatically assumed to belong in the academy

At COMPTEXT Conference, Johannes Gruber showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up.

I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.

We have some exciting news to announce: preparations are under way for the launch this Fall of The COMPTEXT Association, a learned society to further text/image/video as data research in the social sciences and beyond. Please sign up for updates at shorturl.at/xyJZ7!

Only a few days left to apply to our latest grant competition!

⚠️ For our SNSF project on political influencers and their effect on youth political engagement, Frank Esser and I are looking for a postdoc and a PhD student to work with us over the next 4 years: tinyurl.com/nkt5xnxn ⚠️ COMPTEXT Conference OPTED_H2020 IKMZ

COMPTEXT Conference is a cool place for dataset launches with so many potential users listening. A great example is tg.observer by Aleksi Knuutila and team focusing on Telegram data in the post-Twitter/X API landscape!

What determines candidates’ use of gender-sensitive language in televised debates? Jürgen Maier, Georg Albert, Jan Georg Schneider and I address this question in this interdisciplinary publication: tinyurl.com/4w4tdkh2

slightly delayed but finally on my way to Amsterdam 🚄 and so looking forward to all the cool research people are presenting at #comptext24 - especially since the focus us on visual computational analysis this year ! 🤩

We are incredibly close to hitting a major fundraising milestone. Can you help us raise $90 in the next two days? goodchange.app/donate/daparker

New OA publication 🚨 🚨 🚨. Can 19th century repression of Catholics explain differences in current support for the #radicalright #AfD in #Germany (as suggested in Haffert 2022)? Short answer: No. Long answer: still no, but with more letters + numbers🧵
bit.ly/rr-history-bunk

🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work?

In Current Opinion in Psychology, David G. Rand & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%!
We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last few days to apply for a professorship for digital political communication at Europa-Universität Viadrina👇

Call for a new special issue on Dynamics of Eco-Emotions by Guest Editors Helen , panupihkala and Gisela Böhm:

gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/gep/…

Submit your abstract by 1st of June 2024
Deadline for full paper submission is 1st December 2024

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Job alert: Interested in (designed) digital data, e.g. from web trackers or Smartphones? Please consider applying for this PostDoc position (with possible tenure) at #CSS GESIS:
hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…
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