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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've set up Zotero to sync all my attached PDFs through my institution's WebDAV storage, which I get for free. Works for me to sync across computers, and wasn't much of a hassle to set up. But I can see that the Zotero documentation isn't always very clear or easy to understand!

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A major milestone for #DemocracyResearch. 🏛️ MEDem has been included in the ESFRI Roadmap, recognizing its role in advancing the empirical study of Democracy in Europe. 🇪🇺 Thank you to everyone who helped bring us to this point! 🙏 #ResearchInfrastructure⚙️

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Holzleitner, Schütze: Austria set to become a centre for European democracy research

European research infrastructure MEDem included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2026 – headquarters at the University of Vienna

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ich kann es noch gar nicht glauben 😱 Ich freue mich sehr, dass @medem.bsky.social in die #ESFRIRoadmap aufgenommen wurde. Seit 2022 arbeite ich in Meetings, Workshops, Koordination & Anträgen daran mit, eine europäische #Infrastruktur für #Demokratieforschung aufzubauen. Es sich ausgezahlt.

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Holzleitner, Schütze: Österreich wird Zentrum europäischer Demokratieforschung

Europäische Forschungsinfrastruktur MEDem in ESFRI-Roadmap 2026 aufgenommen – Hauptquartier an der Universität Wien

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Hajo Boomgaarden @hajoboo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Thrilled and grateful that SYNAPS has been selected for ERC Advanced Grant funding. @erc.europe.eu SYNAPS looks at how 14- to 16-year-olds develop political interest, knowledge and engagement in a networked world shaped by peers, social media, influencers and algorithms. @compcommlab.bsky.social

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Lena Maria Huber @lenamariahuber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

50 years @oegk.bsky.social! At #KWT2026 @marvins.bsky.social & @janabernhard.bsky.social presented: “Paupers in the Papers” on how media reporting shapes perceptions of the welfare state recipients, a linkage-design study with @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I *love* datasets, and this one really enables cool questions to be answered, congrats on the preprint!

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Malo Jan @malojan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New OSF preprint with @luissattelmayer.bsky.social 🦋: "Issue Competition on Social Media. A new comparative dataset on parties' issue agendas in 18 countries." We introduce a dataset of party issue agendas built from 4.6M social media posts across Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, covering 219 parties.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

They've indicated that their service is currently offline: bsky.app/profile/mani...

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yay infrastructure! 🧰 @marvins.bsky.social cial and @janabernhard.bsky.social present a first usecase between @medem.bsky.social l AmCAT instance and @iriscc.bsky.social sky.social climate reporting dataset. at #COMPTEXT2026

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Great start to #COMPTEXT2026 🎉 @marvins.bsky.social presented his findings on how political parties and citizens structure and polarise social identities—joint work with Fabienne Lind, Hajo Boomgaarden & Markus Wagner.

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Heading to #COMPTEXT2026 this week? Meet the CCL team sharing new work on social identities, political influence, environmental journalism, partisan polarization and more! Details👇 compcommlab.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

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CCL at COMPTEXT 2026

Here’s where to catch our team at COMPTEXT 2026 this week!

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Congrats, well done! All the best for the future challenges!

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Ich würde sagen, da gehts steil bergauf, und dann um die Kurve, und wieder runter bei dir? Glückwunsch, und hab einen ganz tollen Start da!

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

What, a content analysis dataset that you could, for example, combine with survey data and manifesto data? 😱 As part of AUTNES, we have data for the six weeks preceding Austria's last election in 2024, enabling research on topics such as media agendas, campaign dynamics, and opinion formation.

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a cat is sitting on a couch with its mouth open .

Alt: a cat is sitting on a couch with its mouth open .

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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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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

TIL that data.table in R natively provides you with an option to perform multi-step per-row operations, and without even neeeding to prompt it, gives you a beautiful (speaking utilitarian, not aesthetical) progress bar.

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Currently in FirstView: “Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos.” @marvins.bsky.social and @fhopp.bsky.social examine 810 party manifestos in 4 languages to study how different instruments lead to different results for extracting moral foundations.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I wish my vacations were as eventful as the journey I had between the song title and the first 20 seconds of music.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I didn't have Rosalia meets Björk meets Yves Tumor on my timeline for this year. Then I got to the German chorus.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our findings...

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How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense – “Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.” A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳

Picture of the committee, from left to right. Annie, Nicola, Azade, Eva, and Hajo.

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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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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

After an hour’s delay, you’ll get 25%, with two hours, 50% back from Deutsche Bahn. Doesn’t make up for the inconvenience, but it’s at least something…

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Danke, danke! Hat sich ein Non-Diss Projekt mal ausgezahlt :D

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What are our takeaways? - Genuinely great breadth of tool development! - These don’t agree, however, when applied to the same text - Rather than criticising any single tool, we hope this is a benchmark and motivation to develop a more holistic, transparent and reflective approach to study morality

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

So what about it? Predicting parties’ use of moral foundations from their ideology, the measurements would lead you to different conclusions. Sometimes this concerns only significance, but with others, you will even get different effect directions.

Regression table for all foundations on English translated manifestos, with the different effect directions for each measurement instrument. They often don't converge.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We also compared the measurements on the original-language and English-translated manifestos. Dictionaries seem the hardest to translate. With all embedding-based measurements, their outputs are more similar, which is overall encouraging, though we also find some lower correlations here.

Correlations between original language and English-translated measurements. For CCR with different types of embeddings, these are rather high, as well as for DDR, whereas the MFD has noticeably lower values.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What did we find? Considering the same English-language text, the measurements don’t really agree on how much a certain moral foundation is present. Most correlations between approaches are low, max 0.2 and 0.3.

A heatmap of Kendall's correlations between all applied tools, with mostly rather low correlations.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What tools? We looked at the most common, off-the-shelf methods to measure different moral foundations (such as care, sanctity) in texts. Where did we look? All 800+ manifestos from the Manifesto Project in Spanish, English, Dutch or German, and their English translations.

A table that shows the tools we analysed in the study. We considered the MFD and MFD2 dictionaries, the eMFD, and also applied DDR, CCR and MoralBERT models. Links and citations for all are in the paper.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.

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Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚨 Neue Veröffentlichung! 🚨 Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election

The 2024 Austrian parliament election reflects both continuity and transformation within the political landscape of the country. Following a turbulent inter-election period marked by multiple crise...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If you've recently wondered "What happened in Austria's last federal election" (and a lot happened!), we've got you covered:

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I've never felt such accomplishments as my Docker scripts running on another persons machine using only my horrible readme file to guide them.

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties. A thread 👇 (1/n) #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

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The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This is the only score I shall ever share because it was easy and I suck at this game and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps Connections Puzzle #756 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.

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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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Beyond standardization: a comprehensive review of topic modeling validation methods for computational social science research | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Beyond standardization: a comprehensive review of topic modeling validation methods for computational social science research

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Does anyone like data wrangling?

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