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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 12h

Trying to register a move in Germany online.

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Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rechts vor links lernt jedes Kind. Was mit unseren #Daten im Internet passiert, weiß kaum jemand. Brauchen wir einen Netz-Führerschein? Im #DigitalerSalon diskutieren wir über #Datenkompetenz, #Bildung & selbstbestimmte Entscheidungen. 👉 Am HIIG oder im Livestream: www.hiig.de/events/digit...

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views A growing number of social media creators are pushing the boundaries of safety and good taste to feed algorithms and win followers. New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...

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Risks for Clicks: Why Online Influencers Push Shock Content

A growing number of social media creators are pushing the boundaries of safety and good taste to feed algorithms and win followers.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/09/2026

From architecture to political power, hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything in ancient Andean civilization. scim.ag/4inBfNg

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Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

Hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything from architecture to political power

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New preprint! How do opposition voters evaluate electoral loss in autocracies? Leveraging an exploratory online survey in Turkey at the end of 2023, my amazing co-author @draege.bsky.social and I show that…

Vote choices for the 2023 elections in Turkey.

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in a new SNSF/DFG-funded project on nationalist mobilization. More details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/5.... Please share widely!

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Postdoctoral Position in Computational Social Science

Deadline: 04.10.2026

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/09/2026

Sci-fi writers need to work hard to keep up with this level of real world dystopia. People are renting their faces to AI tools to be used in microdramas.

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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interesting (and scary) presentation by @argohdes.bsky.social on how the social media system is changing and what this means for conflict mobilization research. Now I really don’t trust any video or image content 😭

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very interesting study illustrating that (online) contention still happens even in the most repressive and controlled enviroments. Reminds me a lot on the study by @neilketchley.bsky.social and me on Day of Rage protests in Egypt www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just started as a senior researcher at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), continuing and expanding my work on digital politics from an empirical social science perspective.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am very much looking forward to present my work (together w/ Vilde Lunnan Djuve) in the first Digital Publics conference @ University of Zurich in October. See the program here: digitalpublics.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/... @ipz.bsky.social

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Don't sleep on this opportunity to join my former department. The Department of Methodology at LSE is a great place to work, and London is a great place to live.

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We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great keynote by @dzobrien.bsky.social and @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social opening the #WhoGoV mini-conference organized by @jacobnyrup.bsky.social and team at the UiO. Fantastic program and conference so far!

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you were on here yesterday, you experienced what DDoS attacks feel like: the site just not loading. Now imagine you're an exiled news outlet and this happens every time you publish something critical. I summarized my research for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/how-cyberatt...

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How Cyberattacks Became a Censorship Tool

The internet made it easier to evade traditional censorship, but Philipp Lutscher writes that cyberattacks are a cheap and deniable authoritarian countermove.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very interesting (German-language) analysis on online censorship dynamics as a cat-and-mouse game in Russia: www.republik.ch/2026/08/12/u... --- also reflects the online tactical evasion arguments we make in our article on Egypt doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Und plötzlich ist das Internet weg

Wie Apple und Google mit der russischen Zensurbehörde kooperieren.

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Katrin Paula @kpaula.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 Job Alert - PostDoc🚨 Come work with us and join our team as a postdoctoral fellow (100% position for two years, with the possibility of an extension up to one year) in beautiful Munich at @tum.de and @hfp.tum.de ☀️ Deadline: September 30, 2026 Find out more: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=...

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Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/x) bei Hochschule für Politik München

Munich School of Politics and Public Policy The Munich School of Politics and Public Policy (HfP) combines excellence in political science with a commitment to dialogue between politics, society, busi...

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reading Labatut’s the MANIAC - very intense but brilliant.

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That's probably one reason why I haven't visited China yet.

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Vilde Lunnan Djuve @vldjuve.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New paper out in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social! Here, I look at the non-linear relationship between levels of executive constraints and a country's risk of experiencing incumbent takeovers. academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

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Executive constraints and incumbent takeovers

Abstract. This paper provides a systematic study of how judicial and legislative constraints on the executive safeguard against incumbent-driven regime tra

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Voll arbeiten – oder mehr – und nur für Teilzeit bezahlt werden? Klingt unlogisch, ist an Unis und in Forschungsprojekten aber Alltag. Befristungen begünstigen die „freiwillige“ Mehrarbeit, auch nachts und am Wochenende. Diskutiert mit: veranstaltung.akwien.at/de/arbeiten-...

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Arbeiten zwischen Anspruch und Vertrag: Teilzeit an Universitäten im Fokus

Diskussion und Vernetzung

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I can only recommend taking the effort and spend 16 minutes listening to this talk:

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is great in today's high-paced research output world.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Russians can only access Telegram now by using a VPN to encrypt traffic and conceal their location. Yet state bodies including the Kremlin and the defence ministry continue to post ⁠to it on a daily basis.”

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Russia charges Telegram founder Durov with aiding terrorism, he gives Moscow the finger

Russia said on Wednesday it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity, alleging that his hugely popular messaging app was being used by ‌Ukrainian spies to organis...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 28/07/2026

#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social - Rival or Villain? The Evolution of Language Depicting the Opposition under Authoritarianisation - cup.org/4wrDIdB - @yagcialper.bsky.social, Cemal Yılmaz & Uzay Çetin #FirstView

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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 25/07/2026

If you tell G:M 5.2 that they're Claude, they're more willing to talk about subjects like Taiwan/Tibet x.com/benji_berczi...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The World Cup ended Sunday, but the increased surveillance won't, write Ranking Digital Rights’ Tayrine dos Santos Dias and Leandro Ucciferri. Their investigation maps the companies behind the data harvesting, predictive policing, and aerial surveillance across 16 host cities.

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The Silent World Cup Winners are the Companies Normalizing Surveillance

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) released an investigation into the companies supporting surveillance and policing in the 16 host cities of the 2026 World Cup.

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚? Our new (well…) study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social suggests that commitment to democratic rights and procedures does not look particularly robust once citizens face concrete crisis-related trade-offs. (1/6)

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I used my rainy Saturday in Oslo to update my website and write a short post on my study of DDoS attacks against news websites: philipplutscher.net/post/hot_topics/ Sadly still very much relevant today: cpj.org/2026/06/7-exiled-belarusian-media-sites-hit-by-ddos-attacks/

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Something totally unrelated but relevant tomorrow happening in Berlin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa24...

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The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever Berlin 2024

YouTube video by Epha Radar

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

While I think still Bluesky could be a really good platform for science communication, I came to realize that the community on LinkedIn appears to be much more active.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If there’s one thing history has taught us you do not mess with subsistence farmers

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence ...

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dead Internet has arrived

Headline: 'Bots have now passed buman traffic online' cloud flare boss laments - says agentic traffic wasn't expected to eclipse real people until next year

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Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

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Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

PS: Hard propaganda over the top!

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is the funniest fucking shit I've seen all week

Trump military slop with the caption "you're getting discombobulated"

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