PaCSS (Politics and Computational Social Science) is back! APSA preconference at BU joint with Political Communication, deadline for submission is May 8. Should be great!

cssi.umass.edu/pacss2026

What do people think about AI-driven persuasion? In a new working paper with @adrauc.bsky.social, we show the hidden costs of attempts at automated opinion change in politics. arxiv.org/abs/2603.27413

📣 CFP DGPuK Methods 2026 (@gesis.org, Köln)
🧠 Measuring Media Use & Effects: Computational Opportunities & Challenges
topics: theorizing media use & effects in algorithmically shaped environments, concepts and measurement, ethics & bias ...
🗓️ 30 Sep–2 Oct | ⏳ Deadline: 15 May
🔗https://t1p.de/q6ram

We opened a new PhD position in our department focusing on CSS research on and with AI agents. Please share the job ad and contact us if you have questions: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2594220?...

Join us in week one! Many great collegues from the CSS department (e.g., @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social) will be involved!

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 Mannheim or online

📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open!

🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026
📍 GESIS Mannheim or online

More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program.

@gesis.org

The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources(SOUNDS) initiative is hiring a Postdoc for Computational Social Science. Apply by 24.04.2026

Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...

SOUNDS: www.sounds-observatory.org

@ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @saarland-informatics-campus.de

#MeetTheExperts #mte #newseason
The GESIS online series "Meet the Experts" will start its 10thseason on April 23rd, this time on “GESIS Guides: Survey Methodology and Digital Behavioral Data explained”!

You can find the registration and information about the talks here:
www.gesis.org/en/ser...

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

Back home after "Social Media Access Days - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access" www.dnb.de/EN/Professio.... It was a pleasure to co-host, thanks to my co-organizers and the professional local team at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social #smad2026

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social

Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments.

📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026

Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

⌛ Only one week left to apply! *Deadline 17.3.2026*
Come and work with us on innovative approaches to gain insights into misinformation dynamics across platforms specifically endangering young people.

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (Doktorand*in) GESIS Panel | Jobs bei GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften GESIS ist eine der weltweit führenden Infrastruktureinrichtungen für die Sozialwissenschaften und steht Forscher*innen mit Expertise und Infrastrukturangeboten auf allen Ebenen ihrer Forschungsprojekt...

📢 Promotionsstelle zum 01.07.2026 bei GESIS

- Standort: Mannheim
- Team: GESIS Panel
- Aufgabenprofil: survey-methodisch, facettenreich, innovativ & team-orientiert
- Vertragslänge: 4 Jahre
- Gehaltseingruppierung: TVL 13, 75%
- Bewerbungsfrist: 12.04.2026
- gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2553179?...

#EDGE – Enhancing Democratic Support under Conditions of Geographic and Intersectional Inequalities in Europe has been funded under Horizon Europe. My first Horizon project as coordinator—and the first coordination for @gesis.org On my side as Co-PI the amazing @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social

Political campaigns worldwide experiment with AI. But how do people see different electoral uses of AI and with what consequences?

In a new study in @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @adrauc.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social, we address these questions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

The SOUNDS initiative is hiring for 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻/ 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱
𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻/ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗸𝘂𝘀
𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 (𝗺/𝘄/𝗱).

Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...

@ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social

Really enjoyed writing this piece with @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social. Helped me structure my own thinking about when and how to use digital behavioral data for causal inference. Hope others find it useful as well!

Very happy to see this out now! 📃

Coincidentally well timed with the ongoing DSA Observatory Conference in Amsterdam, a new publication titled “Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act” has been published in Internet Policy Review today! ✨

Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of regulated data access under the European Digital Services Act for election research.

New paper by @philippdarius.bsky.social, @jasminriedl.bsky.social, @feloe.bsky.social, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, and me in @policyr.bsky.social: "Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act"
policyreview.info/articles/ana...

The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) project is inviting applications for the following position:

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗳/𝗺/𝘅) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗿𝗲𝗳: 𝗪𝟮𝟴𝟬𝟭)
Paygrade: E13 TV-L 100%
Duration: 2 years

@ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de

Upcoming Workshops May 2026: Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data 04 – 05 May | Hybrid (Cologne | Online) Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments 06 – 07 May | Online Introduction to R 06 – 08 May | Online

New skills bloom this May with #GESISworkshops 🌸

Explore:
🌐📊 Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data
🧩📈 Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments
💻⏱️ Introduction to R

@gesis.org

Full program ➡️ gesis.org/training
Workshop details 🧵👇

Congrats Lisa. Well deserved! Wish you a great start in Frankfurt.

Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main!

www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...

Introducing the GESIS AppKit: An app-based mobile data collection infrastructure: https://osf.io/q8v72

Since joining the GESIS Panel in 2024, the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample has released its first dataset, opening new research opportunities by using survey data linked with digital behavioral data.
Dataset: search.gesis.org/research_dat...
Documentation: shiny.gesis.org/gpdbd/

Mitarbeiter*in für vertrauenswürdige Forschungsumgebungen (DSS-25) | Jobs bei GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften GESIS ist eine der weltweit führenden Infrastruktureinrichtungen für die Sozialwissenschaften und steht Forscher*innen mit Expertise und Infrastrukturangeboten auf allen Ebenen ihrer Forschungsprojekt...

There is a permanent position available in my team! You will help researchers gain access to highly sensitive data and analyse them in a secure environment: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2495658?...

Go for it and see you in Cologne ❤️🤍

🚨 Coming up: DACH-CSS 2026 Conference
“Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS”

📅 Date: May 21–22, 2026
📍 Location: CEU, Vienna, Austria
🔗 Program and Registration: computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

#AI #GESISPanel #DBD
1st wave of data from GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample: The data covers topics such as demographics, internet use, attitudes toward AI, trust in the media. In the future, the data can be linked to a wide variety of digital behavioral data.
search.gesis.org/res...

New @gesis.org data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025"
doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

Digital Technologies and Sampling. Comparing Estimates From Different Recruitment - Approaches Within the GESIS Panel.dbd. Using a dataset of the GESIS Panel.dbd from 2023, this article examines AI use and attitudes in Germany. Almost half of the respondents had tried ChatGPT while one in five had not heard of it.

#blog
The new post on the #GESISblog highlights the use of and attitudes toward #AI in Germany. Julius Kleinbub, Dr. Joachim Piepenburg, and Katharina Kraft show that most people had heard about ChatGPT, while frequent use was scare, with mixed attitudes toward AI.

Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social:
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
EG 13 TV-L for three years
Please apply before Feb 5th 2026
Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience