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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🐧 Marvin says hi and wanted to share some of his impressions from the first day of #HackICA26! What a start! And don't worry — Day 2 is in full swing! 🚀 We'll continue sharing updates, highlights, and recaps throughout ICA and beyond, so stay tuned. #ICAHackathon #ComputationalSocialScience

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Early in my PhD, a colleague finishing his (highly rated) dissertation told me he was stuck on the introduction. After years of hard work, he could no longer find an argument for why any of it actually mattered. This stuck with me ever since. A🧵 about this paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Should social science be more solution-oriented? - Nature Human Behaviour

Duncan Watts considers whether many branches of social science could benefit from setting research goals aimed at specific and manageable real-world problems. He gives examples and discusses how more ...

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚀Breakout sessions @ #HackICA26 A glimpse at last year’s breakout sessions — and what you can expect this time. 🧠Agent-Based Modeling @what-if-horizon.bsky.social 🌐Sharing and learning methods @gesis.org #MethodsHub 🎤Podcasting for the community #CCSPodcast More sessions coming soon! Register now!

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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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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's three months to go until #hackica26 and a good moment to say THANK YOU to our sponsors from all over the world ❤ You bring the hackathon to life and we couldn't do it without you!

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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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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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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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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📢 Call for Abstracts — Deadline: January 16. COMPTEXT 2026 will again be a fantastic place to discover the latest computational methods, tools, datasets & to connect with scholars using AI across communication science, political science, history, sociology, IR, and more.

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8th Annual Conference 2026 - The COMPTEXT Association

8th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2026 Call for papers: 8th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2026 Welcome to COMPTEXT 2026 — the Eighth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the...

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📍 Location: Munich 📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026 ⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026 Details: German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6... English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

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PostDoc in CSS / CCS (m/w/d)

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting the computational communication science team from TU Ilmenau at our lab at LMU Munich. It was a really fun visit. Getting to know other CCS and CCR teams is always great. 🤓

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🚨 Big reveal! New year, new logo, same event! 🚨 Join us for some fun at the 2026 ICA pre-conference hackathon in Stellenbosch, June 3-4. Stay tuned!

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We’re excited to share that #hackica26 on June 3 & 4 will be hosted at the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking! Huge thanks for welcoming us 🫶🇿🇦 Learn more about them here: www.su.ac.za/en/ Follow us for more updates and announcements regarding the upcoming Hackathon.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This week, we have @lorenzspreen.bsky.social visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out: css-synosys.github.io

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📩 Contact our SEC Rep Aditi Dutta at ad882@exeter.ac.uk to share leads, volunteer, or ask questions. This hackathon is a fantastic way to meet collaborators, learn by building together, and make #ICA26 even better.

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Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online · 15/06/2025

Very happy to see that @overbye.bsky.social’s fantastic work on detecting bias in human-in-the-loop algorithms was awarded a top paper in @icacsab.bsky.social this year. Incredibly interesting, rigorous, and timely research! #ica25

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 14/06/2025

PhD or Postdoc looking at the grim job market? Join Sunday 12:00 for an alternative career path workshop with the amazing danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social, Katie Gach and Steven Tompson. Thank you to @icasecac.bsky.social @ceciliazhou.bsky.social @danijaradent.bsky.social for this event! #ica25

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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

And last, but certainly not least, huge congratulations to Dr. Anke Stoll who received the Best Dissertation Award for her impressive dissertation “Machine learning for automated content analysis of incivility in online discussion” #ICA25 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

At yesterday's business meeting of the Computational Methods Division, we recognized outstanding scholarship in the discipline at #ICA25 Please join us in thanking the awards committees and celebrating the winners: 🧵

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · 13/06/2025

This year's #ica25 hackathon was a blast! A huge thank you to @hackingcommsci.bsky.social for making it a reality! With 13 other great participants, we explored +2 million of Telegram messages around the 2024 US election. I can really recommend checking out the data! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset | Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The best start into a conference 😎

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A great photo of @rachaelkee.bsky.social inspiring us with her brilliant ideas for a sleep and media data donation app. KEEp your eye out for her at #ica25

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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

@rachaelkee.bsky.social blowing us all away with her project at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. Super impressive project with the goal of collecting high-throughput sleep and media data ✨😴📺 #ICA25

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Already using AI tools in coding or thinking about it? Here‘s @patrickparschan.bsky.social giving us an introduction to Cursor 👀

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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses. #hackica25 #ica25

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Looking forward to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social explaining how brain imaging fits into comms research at #hackica25 🧠🧠

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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Great presentation by @kyliewoodman.bsky.social on fMRI analysis at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social. I am always blown away by how clearly Kylie is able explain complex topics #ICA25

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Whoop whoop we’re ready to get started!

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Welcome to #hackica25 & #ica25 everyone! We‘re starting the morning with our project pitches. Big thanks to @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for designing our awesome stickers again! 💛🧡❤️

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Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!! Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there! 👇👇👇

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Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online · 11/06/2025

Kicking off our fourth(!) annual #hackica this year at @colorado.edu. This is always the highlight of ICA. Super excited to get hacking! #hackica25

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M. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Arrived yesterday in Denver for #ICA25 and already look forward to #hackica25 in Boulder (although not to the early busride...).

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thanks to our Git master @jacobtfisher.online for giving a workshop on version control with Git and GitHub 🙌

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Alex Hemingway @1alexhemingway.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A federal wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for Canada. Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada. New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax

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A wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for a stronger, fairer Canada

New report on the effects of wealth inequality, the revenue potential of a wealth tax, counter-arguments and an outline of transformative public investments.

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Interview bei ZEIT ONLINE: Hat die SPD die Arbeiter verloren, weil sie zu viel über das Bürgergeld redet? Unsinn, findet der Soziologe Linus Westheuser. Die SPD brauche ein völlig anderes Konzept. Sie muss bereit sein, sich mit den ökonomischen Eliten anzulegen. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Linus Westheuser: "Die SPD muss bereit sein, sich mit den ökonomischen Eliten anzulegen"

Hat die SPD die Arbeiter verloren, weil sie zu viel über das Bürgergeld redet? Unsinn, findet der Soziologe Linus Westheuser. Die SPD brauche ein völlig anderes Konzept.

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

‼️ Last day to register ‼️ #ICA25 #hackica25 We'll close registration on May 23. Last chance to come to the ICA 2025 pre-conference hackathon. 📍 UC Boulder – Just a short ride from Denver (shuttle service available) 🗓 June 11-12, 2025 📝https://forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaCE7MU9

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Where will you be hacking during #ICA25? We’re thrilled to be hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) at UC Boulder — join us in their state-of-the-art CMCI Studio: www.colorado.edu/cmci/facilit... #hackica25 👨‍💻

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

‼️ t-3, register until May 23 ‼️ 50 registrations and counting. Will we break our record of 70+ hackers from Toronto 2023? This year, ICA 2025: 📍 UC Boulder – Just a short ride from Denver (shuttle service available) 🗓 June 11-12, 2025 📝https://forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaCE7MU9

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

‼️4 days left to register 👾 Got an idea? A laptop? A love for code? 👩‍💻 Then you’ve got what it takes. Join the ICA25 Hackathon. 📍 Boulder, June 11 & 12 🚌 Shuttle from and back to Denver included Let’s make it happen, register here → forms.gle/ssZFtZmfWYaC... More info → hackingcommsci.org #hackica25

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

‼️ 5 days left to register ‼️ ICA 2025 Pre-conference Hackathon Registration closes May 23 — don’t miss coding sessions, Git & LLM tutorials, and get together afterwards! 👨‍💻🍻 🗓️ June 11–12 at UC Boulder (and yes, there’s a shuttle service🚌) Sign up now: hackingcommsci.org

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hackingcommsci @hackingcommsci.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

ICA 2025 Pre-conference Hackathon Registration closes May 23 — don’t miss coding sessions, Git & LLM tutorials, and beers after! 👨‍💻🍻 🗓️ June 11–12 at UC Boulder (and yes, there’s a shuttle service🚌) Sign up now: hackingcommsci.org

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 28/04/2025

#Homeownership #WealthInequality #SocialMobility #Housing #Sociology 🏠 Who gets to own a home – and why? New study by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and klauspforr.bsky.social shows: ➡️ #Inheritances & family gifts – even just expected – strongly influence who buys property.

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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

All praise to @seanhp.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social for producing and presenting this fantastic paper! Check out the results and the R adaptation of CodeCarbon on linktr.ee/comptext25

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@comptext25 | Linktree

S. Palicki, I. Bravo & C. Claessen (2025)

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