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Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New paper out in Computational Communication Research We analyze 8.4 million English-language #MeToo tweets from 2017–2019 to study how consciousness-raising cultivates activated senses of identity online. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Activating Identity and Political Action in the #MeToo Era | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Abstract Twitter (now X) represented an invaluable space for sparking and mobilizing political movements. An example of this is the #MeToo movement beginning in 2017, which was one of the largest soci...

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

You can just research things. New from @jatucker.bsky.social & me at @brookings: Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex will likely accelerate research AND undermine institutional structures we built to support it.

Google Trends chart showing interest in commercial coding agents increasing dramatically in early 2026

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Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover ➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the... 🧵[1/5]

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Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?

A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Are you a CSS researcher using LLMs for text annotation tasks? Do you integrate the results into downstream statistical analyses? Turns out, even with SOTA models you have a 31-50% chance of coming to wrong conclusions this way! Learn more about this and mitigation strategies in our new preprint 👇

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

TODAY Aug 28 - "Politics in 60 Seconds: Short-Form Video, TikTok, and Political Communication" at #APSA2025 - 2 PM, VCC West Ballroom B Chair: @eunjikim.bsky.social. Discussant: @mollyeroberts.bsky.social

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/09/2025

Just made this little diagram and it's so pretty! {ggdiagram} is really neat for these types of graphics #rstats (code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

Diagram showing connections between several nodes (INGO issue contentiousness and Government preferences are connected and both lead to Enforcement of law, which—jointly with INGO preferences and resources—leads to INGO operational space)

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Currently in FirstView: In “Crowdsourced Adaptive Surveys,” @yamilrvelez.bsky.social introduces a methodology (CSAS) that converts open-ended text from participants into survey items and applies a multi-armed bandit algorithm to determine which questions should be prioritized in the survey.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 25/04/2025

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Ryan speaks so well to this moment - how we the faculty have held our universities to a higher standard, how we can move them to right action by speaking loudly and together, and how universities will only continue to on the right side of history through our effort.

A lot of people have real fears. There are people on this campus who are going to lose jobs. There are people who are worried about losing their immigration status. We need to be here for those of us that are vulnerable. The most vulnerable people in our community have way more courage than me or most of the rest of us. But courageous people need our love and support too. Use our power to give that to them.

We also have to use our power to keep insisting that Harvard do better. The administration did the right thing by standing up to external attacks on academic freedom. But we must remember that academic freedom at Harvard has also come under attack from within. We have had center directors dismissed, programs paused, and partnerships canceled. These are threats to academic freedom. If we sacrifice our soul in this fight against authoritarianism, we have done the bidding of the authoritarians for them. We all must hold each other and our leadership accountable to not let that happen.

, you know, Harvard has been admired before. Before the American Civil War, there were thinkers here who said Harvard must stand on the side of abolitionism. And you know what? There were people who said that that position was wrong and we had to stay out of politics. And it took time but eventually Harvard stood for what was right. And before World War 2, there were people who said Harvard had to stay neutral in the face of fascism. But instead Harvard chose to take a stand. We see now that Harvard was on the right side of history and we can be proud.
And in this moment too, we are on the right side of history. But there is going to be tremendous pressure not to be – both internally and externally. So, we must be in this struggle together. We must support each other. And if we can do that, then we will look back on what we did with pride.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 10/04/2025

Excited to present our large-scale algorithm audit study where our team collaborated with 30 political parties to investigate bias in political ad delivery at the #AlgoSoc2025 conference! Come to the poster session at 17:30 today if you want to know more :) favstats.github.io/EuroAlgos/po...

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Isabelle Guinaudeau @iguinaudeau.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🧵 Germany is heading toward a new ⚫️🔴GroKo, and Merz and SPD are pushing through a constitutional reform that will allow €1.000 billion in new debt. What happened to the CDU’s promise of budgetary rigor? Our WP with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social sheds light on this. Let’s talk coalition politics.👇

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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

The flyer shows the overview of the programme for the Text-as-Data Spring Term Speaker Series 2025, which usually takes place on Wednesdays at 5pm Berlin time.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

To universities: He pushed you to rewrite websites, he is pushing you to the next line. What are you going to do?

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Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New WP with @vincentab.bsky.social @ryancbriggs.net. We use LLMs and RAs to track publication trends in polisci. Here’s how subfields have changed in AJPS and JOP osf.io/v7fe8

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Isabelle Guinaudeau @iguinaudeau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The French Parliament has just brought down Michel Barnier’s government via a vote of no confidence – a first since 1962. A 🧵 on what is happening, what to expect next - and how the far right is capitalizing on the crisis.

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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...

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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...

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I didn't even notice CRAN already approved it, but our (@benguinaudeau.bsky.social & @favstats.bsky.social) #rstats package to interact with 🦋 got an update 😁

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Seriously? Not a single woman instructor, presenter, or organizer for a two week workshop. Do better. www.law.northwestern.edu/research-fac...

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Main Workshop, Workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference, Faculty & Research: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Our Bluesky #rstats package has made its way to CRAN 🥳 @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

We had to rename our ATproto/Bluesky #rstats package as CRAN does not allow submitting packages that already existed at some point (even archived once). So here we (me + @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social)(re-)introduce {atrrr}: jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/

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Wrapper for the AT Protocol Behind Bluesky

This package wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://blueskyweb.xyz>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the...

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Genuinely opening a colleague's script to smoothly transition again into working after the X-Mas break. When suddenly... 🤌😵

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David Fortunato @fortunato.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Inspired by the monotony of my review queue, here are 10 open American politics research questions that DO NOT involve the attitudes of Democrats and Republicans and can be answered with public data Please, study literally anything other than the attitudes of Democrats and Republicans. Here we go!

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mathieu gallard @mathieugallard.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

🇫🇷📊 Si 62% des Français pensent que le RN sort renforcé de ce vote, plus d'un Français sur deux jugent que E. Macron (52%), E. Borne (50%) ou leur parti Renaissance (53%) en sortent au contraire affaiblis. Les LR sortent plutôt renforcés (37%) aux yeux des Français.

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Can't wait for the chapter on the *FLYING DUTCHMAN*. If only they had known that *E=MC2 TROOPER* #AoE

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

A vast, covert Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.

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Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions

The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Our lab is recruiting 3 postdocs! Feel free to reach out if you need information.

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 20/11/2023

Happy to share my working paper with @lenamariahuber.bsky.social on social group appeals and political representation that is now online as a pre-print and titled "Parties’ Group Appeals as Representative Claims: A New Perspective on Parties’ Efforts to Connect with Voters" 🤓 osf.io/a9sf6

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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

CfP: Supporting Women in International Political Economy Conference When: April 12 Where: UPenn What: Mentorship, feedback, solidarity! Who: Junior women & non-binary scholars (post-PhD) Submit full drafts by December 15: forms.gle/Waj2dejPtf3d... Register to attend: forms.gle/oLddU2Jgdxnc...

Supporting Women in International Political Economy Conference
April 12, 2024
The one-day conference has three primary aims: 1) present innovative work on international
political economy, 2) create opportunities for networking and feedback within and across levels
of seniority, 3) provide space to articulate challenges (and strategies for addressing these
challenges) particular to women (and non-binary) scholars working in IPE. By connecting
women at different stages of their careers, the conference will help foster new connections
and conversations about career advancement and opportunities in the field of IPE.
The conference will feature panels of junior scholars with senior discussants, a roundtable
on academic careers in IPE, and happy hour and dinner for informal conversations.
Submissions: We are soliciting submissions on topics in international political economy
from junior (defined as post-PhD, pre-tenure) women and non-binary scholars.

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

TIL that a "greedy algorithm" is called a "glutton algorithm" in French. Now I can't think of anything but Wolverines 😄

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

{ATR} made it on the very *private* and *official* list of at-proto community projects! 🤩 *Hustler voice* Collecting data on Bluesky from #rstats has never been so easy

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Community Projects | AT Protocol

Built by third-party community developers.

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Periodic reminder for folks working on German politics and using #rstats : The #Bundestag deployed an API about a year ago. {tidybundestag} is your new friend to query all sorts of parliamentary documents and metadata. github.com/benjaminguin...

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 16/10/2023

Today is international pagination day, I guess. An APSR (led by @liorsheffer.bsky.social & on legislators play ultimatum games) received pages 1429-1447. A JLS (w @benguinaudeau.bsky.social & Tinette Schnatterer on German Policy Agendas) got pages 485-497. I couldn't be happier with these numbers.👍

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

We just launched the (Beta) project website for our framework ValiTex on how to validate computational text-based measures www.valitex.info. 👉Scroll the page for info (🔗paper arxiv.org/abs/2307.02863) 👉Download a checklist for different use cases 👉Let us know what you think about it polisky cssky

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Preparing the R-Volution with my body DALLE-3. #rstats

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Benjamin Guinaudeau @benguinaudeau.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

🚨 New package 🚨 So excited to make {atr} public! 🥳🤩 Since the new place would not be that new if the data were not easily accessible from #rstats, we got you covered! Props to my amazing partners on this quick project! 😍 👇👇👇

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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back from summer break and starts again next Wednesday 🎉 More info on dates, our amazing speakers, and how to join ⬇️ polisky #cssky

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Elisa Deiss-Helbig @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I am very much looking forward to the CPPE talks put together by Christina Zuber and being a part of such a fantastic line-up! polisky

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

🚨 I have an opening for a PhD position (4-year) in my team in the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, starting Jan 1, 2024. Join our vibrant research environment and come to beautiful Zurich, Switzerland! Focus of the position is on studying the #digitaltransformation of politics.

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Hey German #rstats & train users: I discovered yesterday that the new interface on bahn.de uses a pretty open API. So naturally, I wrote a quick R wrapper package. Introducing {zugr} 🚆 github.com/JBGruber/zugr