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Deutscher Ethikrat @ethikrat.org · 14/10/2025

✨ MORGEN ✨ #Wissen und #Macht: Welche Rolle kann die #Wissenschaft in der #Politikberatung spielen - und wo liegen die Grenzen? 15.10. ab 9.30 Uhr 🔗 www.ethikrat.org/live @ue-umweltethik.bsky.social @eddahumprecht.bsky.social @schroep.bsky.social @jud1th.bsky.social @ethicswinkler.bsky.social

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Kostia Yanchenko @yanchenko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Our study on the strategic narratives about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 7 EU countries, co-authored with @eddahumprecht.bsky.social, is out in the IJoC. We trace pro-Russian messages across countries, platforms, and actor types ahead of the 2024 EP election. Check it out: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

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Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research

The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...

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Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

💫 New Open Access Special Issue in IJPP! Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms The SI explores how misinfo spreads, is perceived & countered across political systems, info environments & platforms. Read the intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms—Introduction to the Special Issue - Edda Humprecht, Sebastián Valenzuela, Frank Esser, Edson Tandoc, 2025

The global spread of political misinformation poses serious challenges to democracies, eroding trust and distorting public discourse. However, research has larg...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Here's why fact checking matters. Trump gives misleading and false statements about the war in Ukraine. @theguardian.com provides the facts on five of these statements. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine

As US-Russia talks continue in Saudi Arabia, we look at the US president’s misleading and outright false statements

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 12/02/2025

Science is under a wide-ranging attack in the U.S. From arbitrary and catastrophic funding cuts to censorship based on keywords, scholarship is no longer free from government interference. How can scientists respond? 1/n

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

AP @apnews.com denied access to White House. For not taking orders on Gulf of Mexico 🤯 “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment” www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press

The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs

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Simon van Teutem @simonvanteutem.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Western European men in their twenties show the sharpest rise in considering the far right. Women in their twenties remain less likely to consider the far right. Great article from @tabouchadi.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What 10 years of education can do to combat disinformation. The Finland 🇫🇮 case! Education, literacy but also strong media and trustworthy politicians edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy

Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

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Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

1/ I promised some research for team #Bluesky. Here we go. Unpopular opinion: #Debunking doesn't stop #polarization. In fact, our research (and others') shows it can *add* to it. #Prebunking works better—timing is key. Our #simulation studies shed light on this. 👉

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

We're looking for a colleague at📍European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 📣Professorship for Digital Political Communication 📆 Apply by 29/04/2024 #polisky #commsky Full Ad (english): www.europa-uni.de/de/struktur/...

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Dr. Sabrina H. Kessler @shkessler.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

📣 Database of Variables for Content Analysis (DOCA) looks for authors for specific variables/constructs in #ContentAnalysis 🔭 hope.uzh.ch/doca #openaccess #openmethod 💡 Suggestions: 20.3.24 📅 Submission Deadline: 1.5.24 👉 Call for Authors: t.uzh.ch/1Bn

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Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

🚀 🤖I'm very much looking forward to Sophie Morosoli‘s talk as part of the Speaker Series at IfKW Jena! Today she will talk about "Individuals' attitudes and perceptions towards AI in journalism and generative AI". #AIinJournalism #generativeAI

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Edda Humprecht @eddahumprecht.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Hey #PolCom community! 🚀 My bookshelf’s in need of a refresh and I need your help. 📚What are your go-to reads from the last couple if years? Share those gems! 💡

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Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IKMZ is looking for an Assistant Professor in Political Communication (Tenure Track) If you have a strong record in teaching & research in polcomm, pls apply by February 14, 2024 - we're looking forward to it! More info 👉 jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Pls distribute widely!

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Open AI announces policies to prevent abuse and increase transparency leading up to all the elections in 2024 across the 🌏 First steps. But reading these, a lot of questions remain unanswered… Commsky polisky csssky openai.com/blog/how-ope...

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How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

We’re working to prevent abuse, provide transparency on AI-generated content, and improve access to accurate voting information.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Just out @europeansocieties.bsky.social: Koen Damhuis & I study how the divide bw far-right and liberal-left ideologies is anchored in moral and class-based forms of common sense reasoning. We also show what qualitative research can contribute to cleavage theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Cleavage politics in ordinary reasoning: How common sense divides

This study explores how the ideological divide between the radical right and liberal left is anchored in the common sense reasoning of ordinary citizens. Across Western Europe, cleavage research ha...

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · 20/12/2023

Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information. 👇🧵1/

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Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - Nature

Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Join us at LSE! 👇

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Dr. Sabrina H. Kessler @shkessler.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

What is DOCA ❓❓❓ www.hope.uzh.ch/doca/ We explain the Database of Variables for Content Analysis: relevance, objective, content & participation possibilities ➡️ www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/articl... #contentanalysis #OpenMethod #OpenScience @voudigitou.bsky.social @eddahumprecht.bsky.social

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Ingrid Brodnig @brodnig.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Immer wieder passiert es, dass Menschen oder ganze Organisationen im Berufsleben damit auffliegen, insgeheim KI genutzt zu haben - hier gebe ich ein paar Beispiele dafür und beschreibe, wie wichtig es ist, 2 Grundregeln im Umgang mit KI zu befolgen: 1.) transparent sein 2.) kritisch bleiben 👇

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Heimliche Mitarbeiterin: KI

Es wird Zeit, dass wir endlich eine Etikette für künstliche Intelligenz entwickeln – sonst passieren peinliche Fauxpas.

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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Are you interested in doing media effects research in the digital and social media environment? We have a special issue for you in CMM doi.org/10.1080/1931.... @loespouwels.bsky.social, @theoaraujo.bsky.social, @vanatteveldt.com, @bachl.bsky.social and Patti Valkenburg share our perspective here:

Screenshot of the Abstract to "Integrating Communication Science and Computational Methods to Study Content-Based Social Media Effects"

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

✨OUT NOW:✨ 📰POLITICAL COMMUNICATION REPORT Issue 28 APSA & ICA’s #PolComm Divisions are happy to announce the 2023 Fall issue of the PCR, titled: “De-westernizing PolComm Theories and Research: More Perspectives, New Directions”! polsky commsky 🧵⤵️ politicalcommunication.org/issue/fall-2...

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Fall, 2023 (28): “De-westernizing PolComm Theories and Research: More Perspectives, New Directions...

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

📢Calling all PhD candidates & early-career scholars working in #PolComm!🎓 Join us for the 8th International Summer School in Political Communication ✍️Theme: Political Communication & Conflict 📆Dates: 8-13 July 2024 📍Location: Milan, Italy 🔗More info: polcomm.unimi.it

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Adrienne Fichter @adfichter.eurosky.social · 01/12/2023

Unser Schweizer Verlegerverband ist auf der Höhe der Zeit und organisiert *hochdivers besetzte* Veranstaltungen... www.schweizermedien.ch/agenda/2023/...

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Input Session: KI - Verlegerverband Schweizer Medien

Der Verlegerverband SCHWEIZER MEDIEN ist die Branchenorganisation der schweizerischen Medienunternehmen mit Schwerpunkt Presse

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

New Resource to Learn R for Social Science the gentle, fun, and accessible way - no hassle to install R(Studio). Dive right in - individualized feedback - code on your own, within the web browser - plotting, data wrangling and analysis #rstats dataskyence polisky adp-cvk.quarto.pub/r-for-social...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

"What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century? MonadGPT is a possible answer. MonadGPT is a finetune of Mistral-Hermes on 11,000 early modern texts in English, French and Latin, mostly coming from EEBO and Gallica." (h/t Clive Thompson)

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Pclanglais/MonadGPT · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

🚨 New Publication Voting for the Populist Radical-Right in Austria and Germany: A Comparative Analysis With @stefaniewalter.bsky.social In: Faas | Huber | Krewel | Roßteutscher (2023): Informationsflüsse,Wahlen und Demokratie: Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck ➡️ doi.org/10.5771/978374

Abstract: One of the most notable trends in recent European elections has been the electoral success of populist radical-right parties. Leveraging on the temporal proximity of the 2017 elections in Germany and Austria and using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Module 5, this study conducts a comparative analysis of demand- and supply-side factors influencing populist radical-right voting in these two countries. Our findings underscore the consistent significance of anti-immigrant and populist attitudes, along with ideological proximity, in motivating support for such parties. The impact of economic pessimism, however, varies across contexts. Our analysis also reveals that the higher prevalence of populist radical-right support in Austria is predominantly tied to its perception as less radical and closer to voters, rather than differences in the levels of reactionary tendencies between the two countries.

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

🚨Call for Submissions Contribute to our article collection on vaccination attitudes and trust in public health in the “post”-pandemic context. We welcome diverse studies from across disciplines! www.nature.com/collections/...

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This Collection welcomes research investigating popular attitudes toward vaccination in the post-COVID-19 pandemic period.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

With platforms shutting down safety and integrity teams, and researchers faced with legal threats for doing their work on misinformation, the outlook for the 2024 election cycle is bleak. Not just in the US. commsky polisky polcomm www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1...

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Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

NEW WP! What happens when wartime misinfo is corrected? To find out, @thomasjwood.bsky.social, Raushan Zhandayeva, Bailey Scott and I evaluate corrections in Russia, Ukraine, BLR, EST and KAZ. Overall: Corrections improve accuracy but don't affect which side people support: osf.io/efvsd/

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Treffpunkteuropa.de @treffpunkteuropa.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Seit letztem Jahr ist die Republik Moldau zusammen mit der Ukraine offiziell EU-Beitrittskandidat. Doch wie ist die Stimmung im Land und was beschäftigt die junge Generation dort? Hört rein in die neue Podcastfolge #EUROPOLITIX ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/26YV...

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Zeitenwende am Dniester: Die Republik Moldau auf EU-Kurs?

Listen to this episode from EUROPOLITIX on Spotify. Seit letztem Jahr ist die Republik Moldau zusammen mit der Ukraine offiziell EU-Beitrittskandidat. Doch wie ist die Stimmung im Land und was beschä...

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Chris Claassen @chrisclaassen.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Public support for democracy is crucial to prevent backsliding. But existing survey questions focusing on “democracy” may not measure the concept well, as the term “democracy” varies in meaning and may prompt social desirability. polisky 1/3

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Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

What do we know--and what don't we know--about corrections of misinfo? Now at Current Opinion in Psychology, @thomasjwood.bsky.social and I offer answers. TLDR: Corrections improve accuracy across groups (see figure); tiny fx on attitudes; open questions about durability + exposure. bit.ly/3Qt0IVD

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Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

GW IDDP launched a new project tracking platform transparency globally and attempting to measure the Brussels effect of new EU transparency policies. We hope this will be a tool for advocates, and researchers. (Thanks techpolicypress and @justinhendrix.bsky.social)

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Platform Researcher Access Tools & The Brussels Effect

Anna Lenhart on the launch of a new Platform Researcher Access Tools & The Brussels Effect Tracker

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