Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam

Marvin is inviting you to the hackathon! 🤓😍@hackingcommsci.bsky.social

🚀 Yaay, it's time to register for the hackathon! 🚀

🚨 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

The 2026 DMRC Summer School is officially underway!

With 72 delegates in attendance, today's sessions explored a diverse range of topics with the highlight being a keynote address by Nina Jankowicz, internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization.

Thank you, Kateryna! It was nice that you joined and shared your perspective! 🙌

Inspiring talks by @ninajankowicz.com and @ahrabhikat.bsky.social (on attacks towards academics and activists and bias in computational social science, respectively) were my highlights for the day #dmrcss26

🚀 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! 🌍✨

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.

Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry?

New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com.

Thread tomorrow.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Submissions to COMPTEXT 2026 close tomorrow!
Showcase your text-, image-, and video-as-data research, get useful feedback, join the training workshops, and connect with like-minded researchers at our social events in Birmingham. See you there!

Conference update: IC2S2 Virtual Day. While Vermont is an incredibly kind and welcoming state, national policies and federal actions have a real impact on conference access, particularly for people from countries who cannot enter the US due to federally enacted travel bans. 1/6

Great opportunity to work on an important project #commsky

Four days to sign up for the @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School 2016! I'm happy to host a workshop with the title "Biased by Design? Unpacking Social Bias in CSS". We will explore how social bias might impact participants' CSS projects and how we can deal with it! 🤓🙌

Congrats! Great news 🙌

Drawing on existing literature, we discuss these dimensions and examine how social bias can be detected within CSS, as well as how CSS can be used to study social bias in society. We also outline ways to mitigate social bias to move forward. 🚀

Preprint alert! 🥳

How are social bias and CSS interconnected? 🤔

@aytalina.bsky.social, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, and I argue that social bias shapes CSS as a field and as a methodology. Progress in CSS depends on engaging with both dimensions! osf.io/preprints/so...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

TikTok Starter Workshop Das Social Media Observatory (SMO) des Hamburger Standorts des Forschungsinstituts Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) veranstaltet einen Starter Workshop zum Thema TikTok. Der Workshop findet onlin...

📣 Das Social Media Observatory am @bredowinstitut.bsky.social und @fgz-risc.bsky.social lädt zum TikTok Starter Workshop ein!

🗓 Wann? 2.12. 13:00 - 3.12. 14:00 Uhr
🌐 Wo? Online (Zoom)
👨‍💻 mit @boesch.bsky.social, @julianhohner.bsky.social & @lionw.bsky.social

Infos 👉 leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/t...

New publication in Review of International Studies!

Jelena Cupać and I examine how feminist and conservative NGOs differ in their legitimacy beliefs about the UN, and how perceptions shape their engagement amid growing ideological polarization.

Open-access article here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

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We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)!

We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.

See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Man sieht anschaulich, wie sich Merz’ Dogwhistle in Realität übersetzt – wenn die Polizei mehr Befugnisse fordert, um gegen nicht-weiße Menschen vorzugehen.

#DataMethods #OpenScience

#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.

methodshub.gesis.org/

Als nicht-weiße Person in Deutschland sind die rassistischen „Stadtbild“ Ausführungen des Bundeskanzlers unerträglich. Schlimmer ist aber, gelernt zu haben, dass SPD und Grüne nicht für meine Rechte einstehen werden. Minderheitenrechte sind verhandelbar geworden. Angeblich elitär und „linksgrün“

2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics.

Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...

PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

⌛ Reminder: Submit your contribution to the Special Issue "Inclusive by Design? Participatory Governance and the Future of Digital Public Spaces" by October 15.

ℹ️ policyreview.info/events/call-...

#CAISdigitalfutures2025

Today I discussed academic freedom (and the role of research infrastructure). Thanks to the team at @cais-research.bsky.social for hosting this event!

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI.

Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

What are threats to academic freedom, and what can we do to strengthen it?

We will explore these questions with Ina Brandes (NRW), @kwelle.bsky.social (GESIS), Manfred Bayer (TU Dortmund), and Tim Majchrzak (CAIS) at the panel that I am hosting this Friday 🙌