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Lisa Oswald

@lfoswaldo.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), Goethe University Frankfurt | prev. postdoc at Center for Adaptive Rationality, MPIB Berlin | PhD Hertie School

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Anna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 14h
🚻 Even though women make up the majority of psychology students, they still leave research at a higher rate than men. 📄 In our new paper, led by Xinyi Zhao, we take a closer look at the gender attrition gap in academic psychology. 👉 Get a quick overview in this press release: mpib.berlin/EBDvH
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Women leave psychological research more often than men
The bigger hurdle appears not to be entering academia but staying in it: An international study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that, despite high entry rates, w...
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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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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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets; 
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.
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andyguess @andyguess.com · 25/08/2026
Glad to finally be able to post about this long-in-the-works paper, led by the amazing @crobertson500.bsky.social and @small-schulz.bsky.social! "Everyone knows" that social media gives a distorted view of public opinion (...right?). 1/8
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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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zweitstimme.org @zweitstimme.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Unsere Prognosen für die drei Landtagswahlen im September sind ab sofort online. In Sachsen-Anhalt liegt die AfD in Umfragen bei über 40 Prozent — aber reicht es für eine absolute Mehrheit der Sitze? Die klassische Sonntagsfrage kann diese Frage nicht beantworten.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/08/2026
You live any universe and on a planet where 4 billion years of adaptive evolution lead up to this happening today.
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Ralf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Proud of the whole team, esp of @alexschakowski.bsky.social for putting together this review: Toward a psychology of real-life decision-making. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍
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ARD ZDF Medienakademie @ard-zdf-akademie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Propaganda und Desinformation - kostenlose Sammlung von Hintergrundtexten, u.a. von @tanjev.bsky.social @paulinejaeckels.bsky.social @christianstoecker.de @jsmirnova.bsky.social @besserdeniz.bsky.social @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social bietet die @bpb.de www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...
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Propaganda und Desinformation | bpb.de
Propaganda, Desinformation, Fake News, alternative Fakten – viele Schlagworte prägen die öffentliche Debatte, in der die Grenzen zwischen Information, Manipulation und Meinung ausgelotet werden.
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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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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Across 17.5 million comments, researchers found coordinated influence campaigns flooding the comment sections of major European news outlets – especially on Iran-related posts. A reminder: comments ≠ public opinion. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
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Bots, Hass, Propaganda: Recherche deckt Manipulation in Kommentarspalten auf
In einer umfangreichen Analyse hat eine internationale Recherchekooperation die Kommentare zu Postings von Medien ausgewertet. Besonders beim Thema Iran versuchen Bots und koordinierte Kampagnen, die ...
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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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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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Very happy to see this out! Our new paper, "Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions," is now published in Psychological Science.
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨 Now out in PNAS In decision research, "talk is cheap." We show it isn't. Using LLMs to analyze participants' free-text explanations of their choices, we find verbal reports are a rich, scalable window into how people actually decide. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Led by Kamil Fulawka
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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July
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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal Wer Studierende und Lehrende vor den immer häufigeren Hitzetagen schützen will, sollte die Semesterzeiten neu denken. Ein Gastbeitrag von Nils Weidmann. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ever wondered why nearby places behave more alike than distant ones?🤔 Turns out, many regression model may be missing spatial dependencies!🗺️📍 Join our #Geodata & #Spatial Regression workshop (30 Jun–2 Jul, Mannheim) and learn how to model spatial regression models in R 📊 👉 t1p.de/geodata-spat...
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Drew Dimmery @ddimmery.com · 29/04/2026
The Hertie School Data Science Lab is hiring a postdoc. This is an appealing position with fairly low teaching/admin responsibilities and a lot of freedom to develop your research agenda. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 21/04/2026
Your chance to say things to @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social, hang out with us all in Berlin, and generally do research things with computer.
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New publication 📄 "Little change in a changing landscape: Tracking exposure to untrustworthy news in Germany from 2017 to 2024". So far, my shortest paper - and the first with @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social! Read our brief description of news web browsing @journalqd.bsky.social
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Little change in a changing landscape: Tracking exposure to untrustworthy news in Germany from 2017 to 2024. | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Two weeks left to apply 👇
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
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Goethe-Universität — Zentrale Einrichtungen
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
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Who we are - Center for critical computational studies
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 18/12/2025
And... we're off Join us next Spring at the University of Potsdam for the third Applied Causal Graphs workshop: applied-causal-graphs.de Now that the date and place are set and two of the keynote speakers are fixed, all we need is an abstract from you.
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Applied Causal Graphs 2026
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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/12/2025
A new field experiment conducted on Reddit explains why some people lurk quietly and why others become extremely active in online political discussions. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/4oOdywQ
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Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment
A field experiment examines patterns of online political discussion participation and the challenges of addressing inequality.
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Peter Selb @pselb.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...
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Full Professorship (W3) in Machine Learning
Deadline: January 31, 2026
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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 17/12/2025
Join us in Konstanz! For anyone interested, feel free to DM if you have questions.
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Für eine deutsche Zusammenfassung, hier ein kurzes Interview beim DLF www.deutschlandfunk.de/online-disku...
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Online-Diskussionen: Warum manche posten und andere nur still mitlesen
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Online political discussions are characterized by a minority of users dominate the discussion, while most remain silent. Those who perceived a discussion as toxic/polarized tend to remain silent: But toxicity engages power users (namely men interested in politics) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Whose voices are heard in online discussions? Most people stay silent... and the drama may drive power users to post even more. A Reddit field experiment by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @small-schulz.bsky.social & @lorenzspreen.bsky.social reveals why and explores ways to change it. tinyurl.com/3pwksmpu
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Inequalities in online discourse
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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
2️⃣4️⃣🎁🎄 Doing something new for Advent this year: one great data journalism piece per day until Dec 24. I’m teaching a data journalism course @hertieschool.bsky.social next semester, so this is partly selfish homework. But maybe interesting for others too.
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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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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We've published an Open Letter urging EU policymakers to reject the Digital Omnibus' proposed Amendment to Article 12(5) GDPR, which would undermine citizens' data access rights & the researchers who depend on them for #DataDonation research. Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.
the background depicts the proposed amendment, the foreground reads "Open Letter: The Amendment to Article 12, paragraph 5 GDPR in the Omnibus Proposal Undermines Evidence-Based Policymaking"
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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Christmas markets in Cologne in 2025 Each Christmas tree 🎄 shows the location of one of the 9 Christmas markets. I created a Christmas tree flat icon as an SVG and imported it into mapbox.com Studio. Finally, I discovered the particle-based snow setting. ❄ #30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer” I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies ➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election) tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
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Demokratie: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt – im Gegenteil
Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte in Verantwortung kommt, gewinnt sie dazu. Daraus lässt sich für Deutschland lernen.
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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/11/2025
Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."
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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
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Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Wer’s glaubt Ralph Hertwig und Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social zu den psychologischen Faktoren von Falsch- und #Desinformation im aktuellen Heft „Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte“ der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch... #APuZ #Fakten #Fiktion
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Wer’s glaubt
Emotionen und politische Überzeugungen prägen, wie Desinformation wahrgenommen wird. Digitale Plattformen verstärken diese Dynamiken. Umstritten bleibt, wie groß der Schaden ist.
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Hat mich gefreut, hier etwas beitragen zu dürfen @bpb.de www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch... mit Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
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Propaganda und Desinformation
Propaganda, Desinformation, Fake News, alternative Fakten – viele Schlagworte prägen die öffentliche Debatte, in der die Grenzen zwischen Information, Manipulation und Meinung ausgelotet werden.
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 12/09/2025
For the first time in [err] many years I won't be teaching causal inference to Data Science Master's students at the Hertie School next semester. So, if you're Berlin-based, Berlin-reachable, or just Berlin-curious and for some reason you'd like to be me in Spring 2026, then now's your chance. 1/2
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Great 5(!)-year postdoc position in FFM!
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