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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Many respondents describe their actions as driven by civic responsibility and concern for online communities, rather than personal grievance. 💡 We highlight reporting as a form of digital civic participation, with implications for platform governance, user agency, and trust & safety regulation.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

With @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social & Molly Roberts, we find that reporters are not a cross-section of society 🔍 They are more politically active (online + offline), more engaged online, and more likely to prioritize protection from harm over unrestricted free speech.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We analyzed a unique dataset of individuals who reported potentially illegal content through an independent reporting office in Germany (and Trusted Flagger under the DSA) and compared them with a broader sample of the German public.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Platforms increasingly rely on users to flag harmful content. But who actually reports content? 💻 In our paper, "Bystanders and Reporters: Who Acts Against Illegal Online Content?", published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social, we investigate who reports, how they differ, and what motivates them. 🧵

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

💡 Examples mattered: removing examples from Meta’s guidelines (Study 2) made users less certain, increased perceived difficulty, and led to more disagreement about which rule applied. 👉The broader takeaway: transparency only works if people can interpret and apply the rules in practice.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📚 More detail did not necessarily help. Longer guidelines were associated with more disagreement, more clicks, and slower decisions. So, more information can also make rules harder to navigate and apply.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🔍 Users often disagreed about whether the same post violated the same platform’s rules. Even under close-to-ideal conditions. Making rules available does not necessarily mean users will interpret them consistently. (Thus, increasing the length does not automatically increase rule transparency.)

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To answer this, we conducted two studies: a lab experiment across 10 major social media platforms and a preregistered online experiment in the US. Three findings stood out 👇

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines? In our paper with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @mianahrgang.bsky.social , @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Molly Roberts, out in Policy & Internet, we ask: Do Community Guidelines help users understand and consistently apply platform policies?

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Off to new adventures! 🥳 I couldn't be more excited to join the @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social!

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Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🏡 The Observatory has a new home! 🔭 In early Sep 2026, we moved to @politicsoxford.bsky.social + @oii.ox.ac.uk 🛤️ With this in mind, we've changed our name to the Oxford Social Media Observatory (OSMO)

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New study out now in Scientific Reports!🚀 #openaccess

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

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dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 28/01/2026

Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die #Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff funktioniert und wie man sich vor ihm schützen kann. netzpolitik.org/2026/phishin...

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Phishing-Angriff: Zahlreiche Journalist:innen im Visier bei Attacke über Signal-Messenger

Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff fun...

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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")

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Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social · 26/01/2026

Last week 54 members of the European Parliament wrote a letter to the European Commission President to support open social networks made in Europe. The Grok desaster shows that regulation is not enough. We need to build and we need to do it fast. alexandrageese.eu/wp-content/u...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2026

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

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Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Publication Alert 🚨 Our paper on the effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support has been published in the APSR! @apsrjournal.bsky.social Below is a summary of the results Extremely grateful to have written this with the wonderful @malojan.bsky.social and @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🥳

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Here‘s an overview: friederikequint.github.io/projectsforf...

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📌 Notes: – Both projects are free, open-source, and meant to be used, tweaked, or remixed. – I’m not a professional developer —just someone who enjoys building small, useful things at the intersection of research and tools. If you try them or have thoughts, feel free to reach out. Happy tracking 🧠✨

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🔗 Try it: friederikequint-shinychronicles-app.share.connect.posit.cloud 🔗 Code: github.com/friederikequ...

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📊 SanityApp Shiny Edition A browser-based R Shiny app: mobile-friendly, and easy to deploy. One daily entry (after 6pm): mood, stress, diary note. Calendar + trends + full data export (CSV/JSON). No install. Full control.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📲 SanityApp (iOS) A lightweight iPhone app to log moods, stress levels, and optional diary notes at the end of each day. Private (your data stays with you), simple, and meant for gentle self-reflection — not optimization. 🔗 Code & details: github.com/friederikequ...

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GitHub - friederikequint/SanityApp: This is a mood tracking App available for forking and extending.

This is a mood tracking App available for forking and extending. - GitHub - friederikequint/SanityApp: This is a mood tracking App available for forking and extending.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📉 Amid depressing news, getting back into office life after a break, and slowly inching toward the end of my PhD, I wanted a simple way to track how my days actually felt — ideally colour-coded in a calendar so I could look back and reflect. So I built one (well, two) and made them open-source. 🧵⬇️

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Schlicht erschütternd, wie Regierungen versuchen, Tatsachen zu vernebeln, sie nicht beim Namen zu nennen, Bürger:innen im Dunkeln zu lassen über die politische Realität. Das erodiert die Grundvoraussetzungen der Demokratie. Wer soll sich so motiviert fühlen, Demokratie aktiv zu gestalten?

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 16/12/2025

Ultimately, our graphics should tell a story about our research, whether it’s about changing media habits or shifting social norms. Here's a few of our favorite visuals from 2025, how we made them, and what makes them successful.

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Our favorite data visualizations of 2025

In this post, we’ll highlight a few of our favorite visuals from 2025 and walk through how we made them and what makes them successful.

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Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩

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The Politics of Human Rights | Cambridge Aspire website

Discover The Politics of Human Rights, 2nd Edition, Sabine C. Carey, HB ISBN: 9781009537919 on Cambridge Aspire website

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Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Both abstracts are attached if you’d like to take a closer look. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. Outside the beautiful conference centre, British Columbia offered the perfect backdrop to recharge – with hikes through forests and mountains, and stunning ocean views 🌲⛰️✨

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

📄 Bystanders and Reporters: Who Acts Against Illegal Online Content? with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social , Molly Roberts & Ahmed Gaafar

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

📄 Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines? with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @mianahrgang.bsky.social , @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Molly Roberts

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Back from a successful #APSA25 in Vancouver 🇨🇦 – full of inspiring projects, great discussions, and reconnecting with colleagues. I presented two of my co-authored dissertation papers: one at the Political Communication Preconference and another at APSA (American Political Science Association).

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Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

📣 We’re launching the London Social Media Observatory! 🎉 ➡️ We are a new multidisciplinary research centre, directed by @andreucasas.bsky.social & funded by the @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship 🧵 [1/4]

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Again: they found absolute monsters to run gov social media accounts. People who at some point lost or never had the idea that the things you say online might have real world connections. Literal psychopaths.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of extensive media exposure on public perceptions and normalization. It references specific research surveys conducted on Sky News UK and Australia, analyzing changes in public attitudes and policy effects due to media strategies.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Mit freundlichen Grüßen an die Redaktionen von ARD und ZDF und all diejenigen, die weiterhin denken, man könnte die radikale Reche in Interviews entzaubern...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

You can already submit your paper and panel proposal for EPSS next year. Looking forward to seeing many people in Belfast. I will be there.

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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“Most users do not want unregulated spaces. They view moderation as essential to sustaining democratic discourse.” Read a compelling analysis by Coalition members and allies challenging the narratives of large tech companies and shining light on the public desire for free and fair digital spaces.⬇️

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What People Want from Platforms Isn’t What Musk and Zuckerberg Are Selling | TechPolicy.Press

Researchers fielded surveys in 10 countries to understand how citizens perceive platforms and potential trade-offs related to free expression.

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