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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a really fascinating research demo, from the lab of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland: It predicts the likelihood that the ideas contained in a piece of text are AI-generated versus human-generated. A couple of examples in this thread.

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IdeaLens: is this text human or AI?

We check a text's ideas and prose separately.

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Deadline extended! If you think this could be the right position for you, don’t miss the opportunity to apply. 👇✨

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Marcos Echevarria-Eirea @marcoseche.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcing Round 1 of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 (𝐌𝐏𝐏𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤) dataset! It provides manually collected TikTok handles for MPs and parties in 17 Western democracies (elected as of December 2025). Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mp... Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... 1/3

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Job Vacancies

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

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Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

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julia kamin @juliakamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi all you researchers looking for ways to conduct independent, ecologically valid research on social media design - Great new paper for you: "Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media" arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21608

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interested in the social impact of AI? Consider applying for this new post-doc at Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32805

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Duke University, Social Science Research Institute

Job #AJO32805, Postdoctoral Associate, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a PhD position in LLMs, annotations, language and benchmarking @ University of Tartu. please share! digits.ut.ee/join-the-team/

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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Fariba Karimi @frbkrm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m excited to share our new preprint about network fairness and its ethical challenges. We spent many years thinking about this topic and shaping our arguments. /w @lespin.bsky.social @eliassi.bsky.social Ricardo Baeza-Yates , Pak Wong , Erich Prem , Meike Zehlike ,Suresh Venkatasubramanian

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I forgot that I made a starter pack with computational literary studies people — maybe it’s time for an update. Ping me if you’re not there! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

By Nihar B. Shah

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Sebastian Ziaja @sziaja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Geo-coded electoral data offers immense potential for understanding democratic processes. @dielea.bsky.social, Stefan Jünger, and I will build a research data infrastructure to support the global research community using such data with our DFG-funded project "Electoral Spaces". We are hiring!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Want to join an NLP reading group with me? 📚 I'm starting a virtual section of a reading group that I ran in Copenhagen. We'll spend 30 min reading quietly (your choice of readings) + 30 min sharing with each other. You get to read and learn a surprising amount! 🌐 Zoom 🗓️ Mondays @ 12PM ET

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NLP Reading Group

We will meet virtually on Zoom every Monday at 10 AM MT / 12PM ET / 9AM PT. Structure: 📚 30 minutes quiet co-reading time (you choose what to read!) 💬 30 minutes sharing summaries + thoughts You get...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups

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

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Job Alert! We now have another position in computational social science. In the context of an interdisciplinary method center, we offer a 4+1 year 100% postdoc position with no teaching! If you have any questions, send me a PM. uol.de/en/job/postd...

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Postdoctoral Position in Digital Social Sciences and Humanities // University of Oldenburg

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ruggsea @ruggsea.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

I believe to have found new evidence of Openai agents writing to public wiki/pastebin websites that has not been covered by yesterday's release. Some of it appears to be after July 2nd, therefore suggesting that the coordination had not stopped with the end of DSE incident, even up to August

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Senior Scientist in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! Come join our CCL Team and work on building a research infrastructure for #CSS @medem.bsky.social 🤓 📍 Vienna | 4-year position | full-time Apply via the University of Vienna job portal 👇

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Senior Scientist (Postdoc)

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters

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Claire E. Robertson, PhD @crobertson500.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is social media truly making us more politically polarized, or does it simply over-represent our most extreme opinions? In our new preprint, @small-schulz.bsky.social and I present *punishing evidence* that social media systematically overrepresents users’ most extreme political opinions. 1/n

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Ziv Epstein @ziv-e.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Do our social media algorithms correctly reflect our values? Our new article published today in @pnas.org shows that the answer is often not, and that the content that gets promoted into their ranked feeds is often actively counter to our values.

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Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Another day, another job offer! The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Machine Learning Methods, with a focus on Probabilistic Machine Learning! For details, see ▶️ job ad: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7ba3... ▶️ fact sheet: cloud.uni-graz.at/s/kyAcr5CxFD...

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Universität Graz

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

LSE Department of Methodology hiring — Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science; applications close 11 October 2026; apply at www.jobs.lse.ac.uk and follow @lsemethodology.

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Very nice new tool showing #bike routes in #Austria with lots of configurability: radatlas.at There is a family-friendly option, but there isn't more than a handful of routes suited for families with small children. In other countries you have a real […] [Original post on datasci.social]

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Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...

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Universität Graz

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Georg Ahnert @ahnert.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Excited to present a tutorial on simulating survey responses with LLMs at @ic2s2.bsky.social next week! ✨ 👉 central themes: analytic flexibility & hybrid samples with @gligoric.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social, @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social, @jrupprec.bsky.social, and @mstrohm.bsky.social – 🧵

Cover image for our IC2S2 Tutorial titled "An Introduction to Simulation Human Survey Responses with LLMs: Potentials and Pitfalls", happening on Tuesday, July 28 between 1:15pm and 4:30pm. The image features a few of the choices researchers can take when simulating survey responses with LLMs: questionnaire presentation and prompt perturbations, amongst others.

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

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Alina Herderich, PhD @hailina.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New tutorial on a core CSS problem: Text classification often treats "is this valid" and "does this model work" as separate questions hurting measurement quality. We propose "computational social mixed methods" to unify annotation, ML & stats into one coherent pipeline: doi.org/10.3758/s134... 🧵

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I will literally follow any and all ML PhD students on this website, where you at

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📢 Opportunity Alert! Political Communication is hiring a Data Editor to work with the editors-in-chief on ensuring reproducibility and advancing Open Science standards at the journal. 🗓️ Start date: January 1, 2027 Full details at: tinyurl.com/call-dataedi...

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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

Screenshot of the announcement page for the PVS Special Issue 2027, Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics. The page introduces the open call for up to two additional contributions, summarizes the scope of the special issue, and outlines the methodological focus on contemporary German politics.

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ruggsea @ruggsea.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

Here's my new blogpost on the dataset I have created alongside @ksolovev.com: we decided to solve the issue of data availability for research on news articles by processing, cleaning, tagging and indexing the whole news subset of the Common Crawl, resulting in cs2.uni-graz.at/blog/infini-...

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Kirill Solovev @ksolovev.com · 01/07/2026

Check out the largest open multilingual preprocessed news corpus from Common Crawl News (built with @ruggsea.eurosky.social & @janalasser.eurosky.social). 1.36B articles | subsecond search | FOSS Demo: infini-news.uni-graz.at Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.18337 Code: codeberg.org/ksolovev/inf...

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infini-news

infini-news: search 1.36B+ news articles with sub-second full-text search

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

does the populist right have a theory of free speech? where should the public interest fit into free speech discourse? a @perryworldhouse.bsky.social workshop i led in april addressed these/other questions. chatham house-style proceedings perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/app/uploads/... key takeaways 👇

final page of proceedings identifying key takeaway areas for research on the future of free speech policies that are supportive of democracy

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Nature @nature.com · 30/03/2026

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.

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Thomas Klebel @tklebel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Today I had the pleasure of starting my new role at the Complex Social & Computational Systems group of @janalasser.eurosky.social at University of Graz as a Senior Scientist, to support the group in research data and software engineering tasks.

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Join us on Thursday, 12 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @janalasser.bsky.social 🔹 Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Jana Lasser

"Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Jana Lasser, University of Graz and Complexi...

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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs

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Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowships - Connected Minds

INTRODUCTION: New technologies are revolutionizing society, creating a 'techno-social collective' where humans and intelligent technologies are deeply interconnected. While such advances present excit...

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you missed it over the weekend, here's my new thread. It's about the key distinctions I have used to open space for thought in my 35 years as a press critic. It's long (29 slides) but I tried to make it worth the trip. It ends with the people of Minnesota and their turn to "citizen journalism."

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