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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 The ICA 2026 elections are now underway! If you are a member of our division, please take a few minutes to review the candidates and vote for the person you believe will best represent our community. 🗳️ Voting closes 20 October 2026 at 12:00 noon. www.icahdq.org/page/Electio...

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Out today. Our new report looks at how people define news, how that's changing and the factors shaping these changes. Some key findings in thread. It's based on: 1. media diaries and in-depth interviews in 🇦🇷 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 2. online surveys in 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 🇳🇴 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-def...

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our lab member @dsior.bsky.social, whose Master’s thesis, “Testing network-based media literacy interventions against the spread of online misinformation: A simulation approach,” received the Best Abstract Award in the Political Communication Section at ECREA’s #ECC2026 👏👏👏

Daniel is presenting his master’s thesis to an international audience at ECC2026

Daniel is receiving the award at ECC2026

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎉 New publication in Mass Communication and Society! The latest study by Mirjana Čirjak, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @dbetakova.bsky.social, K. Pamina Syed Ali, & @hajoboo.bsky.social examines the dynamics of news and social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria 🇦🇹 Read more👇

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New publication in Mass Communication and Society!

Congratulations to Mirjana Čirjak, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, Dominika Betakova, K. Pamina Syed Ali, and Hajo Boomgaarden on their new publication!

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

sorry but what is even the point of submitting to/attending a conference if you are going to have an AI chatbot present your research?

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Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 14/05/2026

‘Backward’ photo panned for display of patriarchy, signaling that ‘women’s voices don’t matter in shaping global order’

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Photo of US-China delegation criticized over absence of women: ‘masculine, militarized and exclusionary’

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

People are very bad at predicting what other people want when it comes to climate change and clean energy. Most people want rapid buildout of clean power, now. There is an durable super-majority of Americans that want climate action. Somehow this is not accepted as reality by people in power.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"Cites Falsehood" is a very pathetic way to avoid saying "Lies." NY Times headline: "Hegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers"

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/04/2026

Victory for abortion rights groups as court finds state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion

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Pennsylvania court strikes down ban on use of Medicaid funds for abortions

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2026

i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass

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Marta Vukovic @martav.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's three months to go until #hackica26 and a good moment to say THANK YOU to our sponsors from all over the world ❤ You bring the hackathon to life and we couldn't do it without you!

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🚨🚨 Grim news: Governments in five EU MS are “consistently and intentionally” eroding the #ruleoflaw, Europe’s leading civil liberties group has warned, while democratic standards are deteriorating in six more, including historically strong democracies. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

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Five EU governments found to ‘consistently’ dismantle rule of law

Exclusive: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia actively pursue regressive policies, watchdog finds

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 05/03/2026

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Compare that, for example, to the continued normalization and sanewashing by NYT

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

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Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🚨 #JobAlert Anna Durnová @evrop-anka.bsky.social is looking for a university assistant #PraeDoc! Apply by 8 March 2026 ➡️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... We are looking forward to your application! #JoinOurTeam #PoliticalSociology #SociologyOfEmotions #FeministSociology #Sociology @univie.ac.at

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"AI is often pitched as a climate solution, optimizing energy and accelerating decarbonization. In reality, claims of sustainability obscure the deep ties between tech, fossil fuels, and the state." #Critical_AI_Literacy www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

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Reframing "AI for Climate" with Naomi Klein

Claims of sustainability obscure the deep ties between tech, fossil fuels, and the state.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Publishers expect traffic from search to fall by 43% in the next 3 years. This is one of the findings of our new report on media trends. Authored by Nic Newman, it's based on a survey of 280 media leaders. Full report buff.ly/Dh2JIuT 7 findings in thread

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If you do research with/about LLMs, image or audio models, or classic NLP methods, you should check out this call 👇 #textasdata #NLP #llm #commsky #polsky

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Marta Kozłowska @mkozlowska.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

I realised I follow several journals and now I learn about new publications and interesting papers often here first - so I made a Starter Pack with journal accounts in case you wanted to as well. Let me know if I missed an important journal and I'll add it. go.bsky.app/L57tAru

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

In case you missed this: Full professorship opening up with us at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and the University of Southern Denmark! Please forward to anyone who might be qualified/interested!

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy

Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.

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ECREA @ecreaeu.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🎉 Happy New Year to the ECREA community! Just 3 days left to submit your abstract for #ECC2026. Don’t miss the deadline – we look forward to welcoming you to Brno. 👉 ecrea2026brno.eu

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ECREA 2026 | 11th European Communication Conference | European Communication Conference - Paths Connections and Future

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

I salute the honesty and courage of these authors, and I am sure we all share a collective shiver from knowing that we all could easily make (and maybe have made) similar analysis mistakes in our own work #AcademicChatter

This article has been retracted at the request of the Authors.
The Authors requested the retraction of the paper after detecting a critical error in the preprocessing script. Specifically, when selecting trial types to average reaction times for the calculation of the approach bias the Authors mistakenly treated a filtering variable - containing values of “0” and “1” - as logical, rather than as character-coded values. As a result, instead of averaging across all relevant trials in a condition, the approach bias was calculated based on the first trials only.
To assess how severely this error affects the findings, the Authors re-ran all analyses from the published manuscript using the corrected preprocessing routine. Unfortunately, this correction substantially altered the results. The Authors found that the key findings are not robust to the corrected approach - with the only result remaining being that the link between approach bias and intake is moderated by dietary intentions.
The Authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Preprint alert! 🥳 How are social bias and CSS interconnected? 🤔 @aytalina.bsky.social, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, and I argue that social bias shapes CSS as a field and as a methodology. Progress in CSS depends on engaging with both dimensions! osf.io/preprints/so...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible. 3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg. worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...

If we play this out: What would 3 °C of warming mean in 25 years? What would the world look like?
FB: We would all live in different climate zones. Open an old world atlas and you see a huge red patch for the Sahara. With 3 °C of warming, that zone would stretch into parts of Spain. Vegetation, rainfall weather patterns, all would look very different.
And what would 3 °C mean for Germany?
FB: In summer, meteorological records could reach up to 50 °C. Three degrees of global warming does not mean hot days will just be 3 or 4 degrees hotter. It could mean up to 10 degrees hotter. We would also face much

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

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3 research associates in social science (m/w/d)

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

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Research Associate (Postdoc) Political Science § 28 Subsection 2 HmbHG

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."

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Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say

The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

You don’t “engage”, you amplify, mainstream and normalize. Don’t pretend you do this for anything else than 💰💰💰

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🎉 New to PolComm? Join our Welcome Webinar! 🗓️ Monday, Oct 27 🕕 6:15 AM (PDT) | 9:15 AM (EDT) | 3:15 PM (GMT+2) | 9:15 PM (GMT+8) 💻 Zoom: arizona.zoom.us/j/84832196943 Meet the PolComm Division’s Executive Committee and get your last-minute questions answered! #PolComm #ICA

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Work!! 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥 Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci 🗓️ DL November 1 Spread the word 📣 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Last day to apply! 👇

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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics. Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/... PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/... PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

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Digitalization and Opening up Science

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 13/10/2025

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

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One postdoctoral Research Position

Deadline: November 15th, 2025

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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Dominika Betakova et al. uses a comparative online experiment to test whether nudges could help with #news avoidance. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚫📰 Can we use nudges to mitigate news avoidance? Yes and no — it depends on what nudges we use! Together with @hajoboo.bsky.social & @solecheler.bsky.social I wanted to test whether nudges can reduce news avoidance as limited news consumption—and to do so beyond established Western democracies. 🧵👇

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The Role of Choice Architecture in Mitigating News Avoidance

News avoidance has become more common and is associated with negative democratic outcomes. However, only a handful of studies have explored solutions to reduce news avoidance, with nudges offering ...

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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