Katrin Weller

Social Media Research Toolkit - Social Media Lab The Social Media Research Toolkit is a curated collection of more than 50 tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab.

Are you starting a new social media research project? Check out our free Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 tools. socialmedialab.ca/apps/social-...

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#PleaseShare PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, AI, and Disinformation: Develop AI tools for fact-checking & media literacy, tackle disinformation & create open science resources
Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026
👉 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246
@hheuer.bsky.social

Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...

🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates
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Great work everyone! #digitalservicesact

#LoveData26 #FDMPower #thematiccollections #researchtopic
Are you looking for data for your research topic?

Our database is also organized by subject area so that you can get a quick overview of the data we have available.

📅 Mittwoch, 11.02.2026 | 14–16 Uhr

Im Rahmen des FDM Jour Fix der Landesinitiative fdm.nrw stellt Birte Lindstädt den Zertifikatskurs Forschungsdatenmanagement vor.

Der Kurs wird in Kooperation von ZB MED, TH Köln, ZBIW und fdm.nrw durchgeführt.

Join us for the #KODAQS #Toolbox #Talk tomorrow!

Yannik Peters will present #TextPrep, a tool to assess how preprocessing methods can improve the quality of social media data.

🗓️ Thursday, 5 Feburary, 2026, 1-2 pm.
📌 Online, register here: www.gesis.org/angebot/wiss...

Logo der Love Data Week 2026.

💕 Die AG Inklusion im #FDM ist wieder bei der #LoveDataWeek dabei!

💕 Am Montag, 09. Februar, um 11:30 Uhr: Barrierefreie Datenreports in R

💕 Anmeldung: forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/veranstaltun...

💕 Wir sehen uns! 🥰

I've always appreciated what FreDA offers on women's and men's attitudes toward family processes! @freda-panel.bsky.social #sociology #demography

Rote Schrift auf weißen Hintergrund: Love Data Week 2026. Dadrunter ein Herz aus vielen Icons zum FDM, z.B. eine Cloud, ein Schloss, eine Datenbank...Und unten drunter steht das Datum: 9.-13.Feb 2026

Love Data Week 2026
Where’s the Data?
09.–13. Februar 2026
Eine internationale Woche rund um Forschungsdaten und gutes Datenmanagement. forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deuts...
#LoveData26 #FDMPower

#savethedate #LoveData26 #FDMPower #comingsoon

The pixelated picture of a caterpillar. Text reads: What if this were Wikipedia’s logo? Before the puzzle globe, Wikipedia’s community explored other possibilities. And the early 2000s delivered.

Have you met the Wikipede? In another universe, maybe it has been Wikipedia's logo for over two decades. Community members submitted many designs, proposed changes, and debated them openly 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Some sessions on the first day are in German, but the rmain part will be in English.

You can also register for online attendance! (but of course I'd love to meet many of you onsite in Frankfurt)

The event will also feature a pre-conference workshop/datasprint and a tutorial on preparing data access applications under the Digital Services Act. #DSA #digitalservicesact

Keynote by Prof. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) titled "Nearly a Decade after the APIcalypse: Where Are We Now on Social Media Data Access?"

Social Media Access Days Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access.

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms The Digital Services Act (DSA) is reshaping how researchers access social media data. From new legal rights to platform transparency obligations, this blog explores what the DSA means for research and...

if you missed @dscheykopp.bsky.social present on the Digital Services Act in the @nfdi.de Social Media - Show and Tell Series, you can now read our blog post about his talk here: textplus.hypotheses.org/15885 #dsa #article40dsa #digitalservicesact

This Friday 16.1. - you can still sign up to join us for this talk by Julian Jaursch / Bundesnetzagentur #dataaccess #digitalservicesact #dsa #article40

Help us shape the programme for the DANS Open Day 2026! 🤝To ensure an insightful and inspiring day, we'd love to hear what you'd like to experience at the DANS Open Day. Let us know via this link: edu.nl/mbqyv

reminder: please register for this talk by Julian Jaursch if you want to learn more about the #DigitalServicesAct and the DSA Data Access portal next week!

Last day 📢📢📢

Call for Proposals: Schwerpunktthema „#Immigration und Einstellungen gegenüber ethnischen und religiösen #Minderheiten“ im #ALLBUS 2027

Der ALLBUS 2027 ist als selbstadministrierte Mixed-Mode-Erhebung (schriftlich-postalisch/online) geplant. Die Befragungsdauer beträgt insgesamt ca. 45 Minuten.

"Show & Tell - Social Media Data in research practice" is an initiative of @nfdi4culture.bsky.social, @berd-nfdi.bsky.social, @konsortswd.bsky.social and #Text+. Julian Jaursch's talk is one of three presentations on #DSA topics curated by @jbgruber.bsky.social @yapete.bsky.social and me.

Applications via the EU's DSA Data Access Portal: An Introduction Researchers can submit requests to the EU's "Data Access Portal" to obtain non-public data from very large online platforms in certain cases. What information do researchers need to provide and what d...

January 16, 2026: Julian Jaursch from the German Digital Service Coordinator @bnetza.bsky.social will introduce the EU's #DSA Data Access Portal during the series "Show & Tell – Social Media Data in Research Practice". Register here: events.gwdg.de/event/1259/ #digitalservicesact #platformdata

Your Data Access toolkit 👇🏽

Our latest update shows major platforms still make researcher access slow, inconsistent, and overly restricted.

We clearly lay out what data’s available, what’s missing, and how platforms and the European Commission can fix it.

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Wir suchen für #Köln oder #Mannheim im Team #Drittmittel eine*n Referent*in Drittmittel
(EG 13 TV-L, bis zu 100 % Arbeitszeit, unbefristet):
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My dataset covering #Querdenken has been awarded dataset of the month @gesis.org – which kind of feels like a bucket list moment I didn‘t even know was on the map 😇

⏱️There's still time to register for our #TrustedFlagger information session on 3 December. This hybrid event will provide updates and learnings regarding the Trusted Flagger status introduced by the Digital Services Act Regulation (DSA). Register at the link below 👇🏼

Congrats to Bonnie (and @cessda.bsky.social)!

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Neues von @konsortswd.bsky.social und @ratswd.bsky.social: Open Call: Beiträge für die 10|KSWD ‒ Konferenz für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten gesucht.

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#Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience