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Christian Baden

@cbaden.bsky.social
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Political Communication Researcher & Methodologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fantastic PostDoc job (100%, 4 years) in a cool project at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de with brilliant colleagues @dscheykopp.bsky.social @thothiel.bsky.social @freiheitsrechte.org @wirsindderosten.bsky.social www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
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Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung / Postdoctoral Re-searcher (m/w/d) zu Polarisierung auf digitalen Platt-formen
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Difficult times, but amazing people, and so much to do...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.
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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📢 New publication! My dissertation paper "Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings" co-authored with 🌟 @anniewald.bsky.social and Nanda Wijermans 🌟 is now out in @jasssjournal.bsky.social Read the full #openaccess article: www.jasss.org/29/2/4.html #ABM #CSS #dreamcollab
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Online Protest and Repression in Authoritarian Settings
by Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories
Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...
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Benjamin Krämer @benjkraemer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“I am not a conspiracy theorist, but . . .” @cbaden.bsky.social, Nina Springer, Nina Steindl and I analyze how conspiracy theories are discussed in mainstream forums. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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“I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist, But . . .”: Communicative Norms in Conspiracy Theory Supporters’ Interactions With Other News Users in Germany, Israel, Sweden, and the United States | Inter...
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Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Introducing JoC Forum contribution: “How to fight the data grab”, by Sara Bannerman. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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Azade Kakavand (she/her) @azadekakavand.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚨Wir suchen eine Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für das Media Research Methods Lab am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social: Wir bieten 💡spannende Themen 🕙flexible Arbeitszeiten 🏢Homeoffice oder Büro 👨‍💻super Team (@grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social, @thejanrau.bsky.social) leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-news/ste...
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Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Bereich Computational Social Science
Am Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in Hamburg ist ab dem 1. April 2026 eine Stelle zu besetzen: Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im Bereich Computati...
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Jesper Stromback @jesperstromback.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Why do people who oppose conspiracy theories help disseminate them? That is one key question in the new article "Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories", written by myself and Luna Gao and published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Azade Kakavand (she/her) @azadekakavand.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🚨Wir stellen ein 🚨 Das Media Research Methods Lab @bredowinstitut.bsky.social sucht zwei Doktorand:innen im CCS-Bereich! Digitale Methoden, jede Menge spannende Daten und ein fantastisches Team mit @grenwi.bsky.social, @pekasen.bsky.social und @thejanrau.bsky.social … was will man mehr? 👩‍💻👨‍💻
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
⭐ Call for Applications - ICA PolComm Summer School 2026 📍 University of Leeds 🗓 13–17 July 📅 Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Monday, 30 March 2026 📢 Cohort selected by: 15 April 2026 Full details: polcomm.github.io/summer-school/
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I spoke with Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stepinska on the Smart Institute Podcast about our OPINION COST Network and how digital discourse and computational tools challenge and enable us to rethink public opinion. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6XEn...
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Rethinking Public Opinion - A Conversation with Christian Baden, Nina Springer and Agnieszka Stępińska
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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Do you have colleagues interested in Computational Methods? Help us spread the word and invite them to join our first Computational Methods Labs Showcase by the ICA CM Division @icacm.bsky.social. Share the registration link 👇 forms.office.com/e/zHBkwUWNFw
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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Look, it is our special issue :)
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building. doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
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Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements
Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot. 📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025 More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 A free ad for Maximilian Linde, Chung-Hong Chan & Paul Balluff's important Public Service Announcement for communication researchers: 🛑 Stop competing on text corpus size! Scale is rarely needed and often compromises quality. Thank you for your attention to this matter. doi.org/10.1177/1077...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....
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Grounding the Comparative Turn in Communications: A Framework for ValidatingMultilingual Computational Text Analysis | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Following the progressing internationalisation of social science research and the computational turn in the field, researchers are increasingly adopting computational text analysis (CTA) methods to co...
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🚨New Publication! Public opinion happens on digital media, but it's very different from what we see in surveys. Here's how: doi.org/10.1093/ijpo... 10 members of the pan-European OPINION network put together to discuss how we can understand public opinion processes in a digital media ecosystem.
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Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework
Abstract. Digital media constitute a key space for the negotiation of public opinion. Despite long-standing research on public opinion climates on digital
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
➡️List of OA journals in Communication! Excellent resource if you want to publish open access (and you should!) and can't or don't want to pay off the big publishers' "Gold" (gilded indeed 💰💰💰🦹‍♂️) open access deals. Many thanks to @tobiasdienlin.com and @moritzbuchi.bsky.social for curating this!
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Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...
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GitHub - thieled/easieRnmt: R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally.
R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. - thieled/easieRnmt
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📚 Publication Friday This week, we highlight the winner of the Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award. "The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments" by @nicolaiberk.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments
To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🔍 Outstanding Reviewer Award 👏 Congratulations to @cbaden.bsky.social for exceptional service in this year's peer review process. Your dedication to scholarly rigor is deeply appreciated. #ICA25 #Polcomm
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Stuart Soroka @snsoroka.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
For part of what appears in Amplifying Extremism (below), check out Nik Usher's piece for Nieman Lab: www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...
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How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)
American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.
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Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🚨PhD vacancy in Computational Communication Science in Vienna🇦🇹 this is a 4 year pre-doc position at my former team, CCL—can wholeheartedly recommend, feel free to get in touch in case you have questions☺️
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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
PhD opportunity! ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4 shorturl.at/YeXpf
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Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"
Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Getting ready to launch the 6th OPINION Joint Working Groups Meeting and 2nd Computational Opinion Analysis (COpA) Training school at University of Elbasan Aleksandër Xhuvani! 🇦🇱 www.opinion-network.eu
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org
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ECPR Digital Authoritarianism Research Network @digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📍 "Propaganda as a Social Process: Erecting Monopolies of Truth in a High-Choice Digital Information Environment" by Christian Baden 📆 8 May 2025, Thursday 15:00 - 16:30 CET Follow ecpr.eu/Events/Stand... for registering. @ecpr.bsky.social
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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
For $240,000 per year, I - an actual PhD - will come to your office and hallucinate shit with an utterly unfounded air of complete confidence.
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🏆 Think your best PolCom article in the past year was better than others' best article? Let's find out! 10 days to submit to the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year: 📬 c.baden@mail.huji.ac.il Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKe...
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
COMPTEXT 2025 – The Countdown is On! 🥳 ✅ The preliminary program is now available! Check out the amazing sessions, workshops, and speakers lined up for this year's event. Don't miss out – register today and secure your spot! 👉 Register here comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c... 👈
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7th Annual Conference 2025 - The COMPTEXT Project
7th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2025 Please find the information on registration to COMPTEXT 2025 below. The COMPTEXT Association offers travel grants to PhD students, based on a motivation statement, ...
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025 The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open! 🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025 Venue (depending on course): 🏢 GESIS Mannheim 💻 Online More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar
GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025
01 to 26 September 2025
Mannheim | Online
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⭕⭕⭕ Zoë Greene ⭕⭕⭕ @zdgreene.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We are hiring at the @unistrathclyde.bsky.social! The ParliView Project is seeking a post-doc researcher to work as project manager leading research, data collection & stakeholder engagement with a team at UCD, Dublin & @transparency-eu.bsky.social. strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Research Associate (696432)
Research Associate (696432), To undertake a specific research project/s under the general guidance of a research leader; to establish a personal research portfolio and plan research proposals, with assistance from senior colleagues as required; to engage where required in relevant teaching, professional and knowledge exchange activities; and input to administrative activities., <p><strong>Salary:&nbsp;</strong>&pound;37,174 - &pound;45,413</p> <p><strong>FTE:&nbsp;</strong>1 (35 hours/week)</p> <p><strong>Term:&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;Fixed Term (Until Dec 2027)&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Closing Date:&nbsp;</strong>13 April 2025</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: var(--bs-body-color); font-family: var(--bs-body-font-family); font-size: var(--bs-body-font-size); font-weight: var(--bs-body-font-weight); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">The University of Strathclyde is looking to appoint a Research Associate to act as senior project manager for a project conducting research and implementing a transparency platform based on parliamentary behaviour as part of the Google Impact Challenge funded ParliView project. The Associate will work under the supervision and collaboration with project team leader, Dr Zachary Greene in the Department of Government and Public Policy. The primary responsibilities of the Associate include, project oversight and milestone management, regular project reports, cross-institutional coordination with project partners at University College Dublin and Brussels based Transparency International, stakeholder recruitment and relationship management, quality assurance, risk management and mitigation, compliance monitoring with university legal teams, communications strategy and implementation and deliverable tracking and reporting. The Associate will also lead in collaboration with the project team leader and project partners key academic outputs.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Highly desirable candidates will hold knowledge and experience of social science and computational research methods, stakeholder engagement, survey design, parliamentary studies, transparency initiatives, and experience of project management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To be considered for the role, you will be educated to a minimum of PhD level in an appropriate discipline or have significant relevant experience in addition to a relevant degree. You will have sufficient breadth or depth of knowledge in social science research, transparency initiatives, and stakeholder engagement and a developing ability to conduct individual research work, to disseminate results and to prepare research proposals. You will have an ability to plan and organise your own workload effectively and an ability to work within a team environment. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Whilst not essential for the role, applications are welcomed from candidates with relevant work experience, membership of relevant Chartered/professional bodies (including the Higher Education Academy), experience of relevant student supervision and teaching activities, and/or experience of knowledge exchange related activities.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Dr Zachary Greene, Reader, Department of Government & Public Policy (zachary.greene@strath.ac.uk)</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk//ViewAttachment.aspx?enc=jmxpV+AcVus8i/wvT3FZXrrCOvCUGNWd9uca/tGZrAITCY70aMnLzPVWspNYT2EaL2n55WWXvUrcctV29dATgsJBdFuOWLMEV4tpr68Xz73FJbzayiAg1/WAmoanxejv" target="_blank" title="Please click here for further details.pdf">Please click here for further details</a><br> <br> <br> </p>, Faculty : Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department/School : Government and Public Policy Staff Category : Research Type of Employment : Fixed-term Working Hours : Full-time ,
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ParliView project @parliview.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Interested in government transparency, large language models or parliamentary politics? We are looking to hire a post-doc to be located at the University of Strathclyde for up to 3 years.
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AEJMC-CTM (Communication Theory and Methodology Division) @aejmc-ctm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🆕 article!✨"Beyond sentiment: an algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora" by Overbeck, Baden (@cbaden.bsky.social), Aharoni, Amit-Danhi (@eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social), and Tenenboim-Weinblatt. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Reminder: Don't forget to register for #hackica25 - spots are limited! ✨
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Concluding my Sabbatical, I am at last home again. Boy did I get around! 🇮🇱 🇳🇴 🇮🇱 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇪🇦 🇦🇹 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇰🇷 🇮🇱 🇩🇪 🇸🇮 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇦🇹 🇮🇱 🇩🇪 🇮🇱 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇭🇺 🇮🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇭🇷 🇷🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇱 🏁 Huge thanks to... 🧵
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Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Meet the exceptional team of JoC Associate Editors (academic.oup.com/joc/pages/Ed...). These distinguished scholars bring expertise across diverse areas of communication research, driving @icahdq's flagship journal forward and shaping its continued excellence.
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🏅 ICA announced this year's top reviewers (for the conference), apparently two of my three divisions named me (again). that's my #5 & #6 if I am counting correctly. 🏅 I can't deny I appreciate the recognition 😊, as this is quite a bit of work (so, thanks, @icahdq.bsky.social , you're welcome)
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The #ecreapolcom25 section conference goes to Innsbruck! The call is out, deadline for submission is 🚨 30 March! Spread the word and join the fabulous #ECREAPolComm community at this event. Thank you so much @lorehayek.at @utarussmann.bsky.social for hosting this event 🙏!
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Excited to talk about Propaganda as a Social Process (project with Anna Litvinenko and Gregory Asmolov) with colleagues at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Center for Social Sciences today! Thanks for the invite, Gabriella Szabo and Istvan Benedek!
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carlosarcila.bsky.social @carlosarcila.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We had a very productive meeting in WG4 of the Cost Action OPINION in Lyon, France. We are excited to define the final plans for our next Summer School in Computational Analysis of Opinions (COpA) that will take place in Elbasan, Albania in May 2025. @blanco-herrero.bsky.social @cbaden.bsky.social
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"The people want change" - that's the No. 1 lie in this right-wing narrative. AfD and their global pals don't promise change, they pretend we can return to a romanticized, simpler past. What mobilizes them is their fear of change & resentment for what has already changed.
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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Last week DeepSeek released V3 - a new model that has been called one of the best "open" LLMs. It's now trending on HuggingFace (70k + downloads in a week) & there are loads of glowing reviews on Reddit, LinkedIn, etc. Well, I see an "amazing" LLM made in China, what do I do? ask it about Tiananmen⬇️
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
New year, wrapping up old projects. Today I submitted two manuscripts that had been simmering on my desk for years, trying to create space for new things... after >30 journal reviews for you in 2024, your turn to review me. A happy new year to everyone, may 2025 move us forward!
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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Giving a talk at my old alma mater, the University of Leipzig, today. 25 years since I started my studies at this department, 20 years since I graduated and moved on. Very happy to be back "home"! Thanks to Christian Pentzold for the invitation!
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Christian Baden @cbaden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
ok so this includes emergency assignments from 3 divisions, but that was a lot...
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