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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 10h

Glad you liked it and were successful in your Mehlspeisen-maxxing endeavour. I actually learned later yesterday that süße Mehlspeisen are also called Plunder and I liked that very much as well!

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you all!! Defending 4 yrs of work was kind of stressful, but I also had a lot of fun — and am still thinking about the interesting discussions we had! Thanks for your valuable feedback and coming all the way to Vienna @lenafrescamente.bsky.social & @johannesbreuer.com :)

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🎓 CONGRATS to @julaluehring.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation on socio-affective dynamics in misinformation spread! 👏Thanks to advisors @anniewald.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & @hannahmetzler.bsky.social! Jula continues at GESIS as Senior Researcher. All the best for what’s next! 🥂

Jula Lühring at her defense and a slide with her dissertation title

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cemas_io @cemas.io · 13/10/2026

Seit Sonntag kursiert online eine Grafik, mittels derer behauptet wird, ukrainische Drohnenangriffe auf Rechenzentren des russischen Konzerns Yandex hätten zu einem Rückgang russischer Bot-Aktivitäten bei Desinformationskampagnen rund um die AfD geführt. Dieser Zusammenhang ist bislang unbelegt.

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#Faktenfuchs: Irreführende Grafik zu angeblicher Bot-Aktivität

Im Netz kursiert eine Grafik, die angeblich zeigen soll, wie infolge von Angriffen auf russische Rechenzentren die Online-Aktivität rund um die AfD abgenommen habe. Doch die Grafik weist große Unstimm...

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization We find that: 1) ideologues post opinions more than moderates 2) extreme attitudes are posted more than moderate one 3) This replicates in 40 countries 4) Opinions that users post are more hostile than the beliefs they keep to themselves

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Please forward to students: We are looking for a Student Research Assistant (16 hrs/week) to join our Digital Society Observatory team in Cologne (CSS @ GESIS). 📍 Where: Cologne (w flexible/mobile working) 📅 Start Date: October 1, 2026 ⏳ DL: July 31, 2026 👉 gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2697094?...

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Student Research Assistant, Team Digital Society Observatory (SHK-CSS-37) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thank you @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social for your guest talk today at @compcommlab.bsky.social 🙌 Very much appreciated the interdisciplinary discussions on content vs. source-level misinformation detection, LLM annotations and validation practices in the social sciences. Photo: @aytalina.bsky.social

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen standing in front of his presentation slides titled “Promises and Pitfalls of LLM annotations, applications in political communication and algorithmic influence”

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open! 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 GESIS Mannheim or online More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program. @gesis.org

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026
🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026
📍 Mannheim or online

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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🚨We are so incredibly thrilled to announce that our Multi-Platform Research Special Issue in Political Communication is out now at www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcp20/4...! Special Issue Team: @meredithpruden.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social Wei Zhong and me!!! 🎉

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Political Communication

SI-Multi-Platform Research. Volume 43, Issue 2 of Political Communication

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Throwback to HackICA 2025 in Boulder 📸 Two days full of ideas, energy, and collaboration. From early brainstorming to real projects in less than 48 hours #HackathonSpirit. Ready for the next round in Stellenbosch🇿🇦? Registration is still open! Join now! #HackICA26 www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...

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aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

👩🏻‍💻 Looking forward to giving an introduction to agent-based modeling in communication research and sharing insights from our work @what-if-horizon.bsky.social at #HackICA26 Join us to explore more👇

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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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Henning Tillmann @henningtillmann.de · 22/02/2026

Regulierung sollte genau dort ansetzen: bei Designentscheidungen und Geschäftsmodellen – nicht beim Zugang. Hier traut man sich nicht ran oder macht sich selbst kleiner als man ist. Statt Big Tech sollen nun junge Menschen reguliert werden. Fatal! 5/5

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Dear hackers, meet Marvin!! 🐧 Marvin is a South African Penguin who loves eating squid and developing R packages for his friends. Marvin's also here to remind you to register for some #hackica26 fun 🔽

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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an #rstats package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament @parlament.gv.at . If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool. werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/

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Mark Wittek @markwittek.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

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Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS – Computational Social Science

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Good news! 🎉 The registration issue has been resolved — everything should now work smoothly. 🔗 Direct link: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat... 🗓 Registration is open until April 5, 2026 Looking forward to seeing you at the ICA Hackathon 2026 @SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! 🚀💡

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International Communication Association

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 05/02/2026

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

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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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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🚀 Save the Date! If you're considering joining us, now is a great time to block the dates and start planning your #trip. We can’t wait to see you at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking in Stellenbosch on 3rd and 4th June 2026 for this year's #Hackathon! 🌍✨

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Yohooo another comm scientist joining us at the hub :)) congrats and welcome!🎉

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Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot

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WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

(How) can AI help build better online spaces? ✨ Last week, 16 researchers from 8 institutions gathered in Vienna to explore exactly that question. Between the Christmas markets, the WHAT-IF team discussed how LLMs can power agent-based simulations to tackle online hostility and harmful content 👇

Group picture of researchers at the WHAT-IF workshop in Vienna: Rupert Kiddle, David Garcia, Giordano de Marzo, Nikolaus Pöchhacker, Aytalina Kulichkina, Annie Waldherr, Taehee Kim, Jula Lühring, Max van Drunen, Wouter van Atteveldt, Sophie Reisinger, Max Pellert, Daisuke Nakamura, Constantine Boussalis

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Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com · 25/11/2025

Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation! #CommSky

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

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Collecting TikTok Data

Getting TikTok data (<https://www.tiktok.com/>) through the official and unofficial APIs—in other words, you can track TikTok.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We’ve seen research showing LLM chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories in experimental settings: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Andrea!🎉

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Thanks for this point! I think you're referring to how extreme the misinfo is, right? We didn't account for that in the statistical analysis, but we did include less (typically yellow press) & more extreme types (outright hyperpartisan sources) in the data collection, so they should be represented

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Thanks, this is an important point that we also raised in another study (see doi.org/10.1186/s412...)! Unfortunately, we couldn't measure it so easily in this study, and also weren't interested theoretically, since both scenarios would count as an angry reaction

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

✨New preprint led by Jula Lühring! We found that news from untrustworthy sources elicit different forms of social media engagement than trustworthy news. Check out Jula‘s thread for more:

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks to all my co-authors @dgarcia.eu @anniewald.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @apeksha.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social Link to pre-print: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Please let me know any thoughts and feedback on this!

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We contribute to misinfo research by ✅ using a comprehensive source-based approach (capturing the full spectrum, not just clear-cut fake news) ✅ applying a matching method to social media data... aka we measure misinfo effects on populations that are hard to reach otherwise!

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

So misinformation seems to leave distinct fingerprints on engagement and emotions, potentially creating a self-reinforcing cycle where angry users seek it out and amplify it through retweeting, which creates more self-selection through exposure (ie the motivated minority?)

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Higher anger is partially driven by self-selection. Users who engage with untrustworthy content show higher baseline anger. Within the same user, disgust and fear increase with untrustworthy content, but anger doesn't change significantly.

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

2) Using ML to detect 7 distinct emotions in 11M replies, we found discussions following untrustworthy news show 9% more anger, 22% more disgust, and 12% less joy. 😡 Not all negative emotions matter equally: anger, disgust, and fear are key. But...

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Key findings: 1) Despite being only 6% of shared news, untrustworthy sources get 39% more retweets and 12% more quote tweets, but 14% fewer likes and 19% fewer replies. 🤔 Untrustworthy news content, often containing misinfo, spreads differently than trustworthy news!

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

So excited for another round of the ICA hackathon!! I highly recommend it for early career scholars going to ICA. It's a great way to meet new conference buddies before the main conference and learn more about computational methods 👩‍💻

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

Group photo: The CCL team standing together outdoors with the mountains around Dienten an Hochkönig in Salzburg in the background, smiling at the camera.

Ski lift: A line of orange ski lift chairs stretching up a green slope surrounded by dense forest to get up the mountain.

Hiking trail: The CCL team hiking down a narrow trail across a sunlit mountain slope with autumn-colored vegetation.

Mountain view: A wide view of mountain peaks and ridges around Dienten am Hochkönig in Salzburg, with low-hanging clouds drifting between the valleys under a blue sky.

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Yaay congrats Jo, that's so exciting!! Hopefully see you soon over here then, come visit us in Vienna :)

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Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Second, with a large team of authors, led by @anniewald.bsky.social, we study which (personal, temporal, spatial, affordance-based) properties of incidences of extrajudicial police killings facilitate public attention on social media.

Screenshot reading: Waves of Attention to Racial Injustice on Social Media: Extrajudicial Police Killings in the United States as Focusing Events
Authors: Annie Waldherr, Nicola Righetti, Ryan J. Gallager, Kira Klinger, Daniela Stoltenberg, Sagar Kumar, Dominic Ridley, and Brooke Foucault Welles
Abstract: The deaths of Black victims of police brutality, such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, and Philando Castile, have become focusing events and symbols for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, catalyzing wide-spread public attention to racial injustice. While prior studies on hashtag activism predominantly focus on single and widely known cases, less is understood about why some incidents draw massive public attention while others do not. Addressing this gap, our study investigates the factors influencing the likelihood and size of public attention on Twitter (now X) following extrajudicial police killings. We analyzed 1.5 million tweets in response to 795 police killings between January 1, 2015, and December 8, 2016, in the United States. By examining cases on all scales, from unnoticed to prominent, we provide large-scale empirical evidence on disparities in public attention to police killings and their victims. Results indicate two distinct processes in the emergence of focusing events: While victims’ attributes such as race, age, and gender increased likelihood of receiving any attention (thresholding), variables of context and social construction were related to overall wave size (focusing).

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Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So the UN Global Risks Report is out... & it lists Mis- and Disinformation as the biggest risk we face. unglobalriskreport.org Listen... I'm a mis- and Disinformation kinda guy, meaning I worry about this professionally. But there is no way this issue should be all the way up there! Plus...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver! From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

You want to study German covid-19 protests? @maxzehring.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social and @buehling.bsky.social got you covered with their dataset! #ica25

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