NEWS April 2026

📣 Our April newsletter is out!

🤩 Registration for #GESISfallseminar is open.
🔍 Interview with @lukotto.bsky.social & @klingelhoefer.bsky.social on mobile collection methods.
✨ Updates on #GESISworkshops on causal inference methods + Call for Individual Training.

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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

#gutenachrichten #goodnews #evaluierung
GESIS erhält sehr gute Bewertung bei der Leibniz-Evaluierung ^

Zur vollständigen Pressemeldung: https://t1p.de/heh2o
Zum Wortlaut der Stellungnahme des Senats der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft: https://t1p.de/k87o9

Effects of data-driven campaigning: an integrative framework, literature review, and research agenda Abstract. The positive and negative consequences of data-driven campaigning (DDC) in the digital era have been hotly debated among policymakers and scholar

📄 📣 New #Data-DrivenCampaigning research led by @xiaotongchu.bsky.social w/ contributions from @solecheler.bsky.social & co-authors reviews evidence on effects and outlines a research agenda on message tailoring, voter awareness, cross-national contexts and more. 🔗 academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

GESIS Workshop Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data 4 to 5 May 2026 (Hybrid: Cologne | Online) Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Helena Rauxloh (all GESIS)

Web tracking data has great potential for social science research 🚀 It also comes with its own challenges though! In this hands-on #GESISworkshop, you'll learn everything you need to know about preprocessing, handling, and analysing web tracking data.
More infos at t1p.de/WebTrackingD...

Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science (CSS-117) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

🚀 PhD (100%) | Disinformation, Youth & Cross-Platform Dynamics
👤 Profile: Strong affinity with CSS, Experience with digital data (social media, text corpora, etc.), Quantitative & computational methods (e.g., NLP, ML), Interest in political disinformation
📍 Cologne (up to 60% remote)
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Scientific career at GESIS At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy #TrustedResearchEnvironments
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
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Apply now for a job as a Associate in Trusted Research Environments (Salary group 11 TV-L, working time 39,5 h/week, unlimited contract)
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Project Implicit is one of the longest-running data collection projects in social psychology. In addition to IATs, Project Implicit has been collecting data on visitors’ attitudes, explicit bias, and stereotypes for almost thirty years.

Now it is in danger. I will be donating; I hope you will too.

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀

One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing 🫶

Please reach out if you have any questions.

@polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social

📖This is huge! Congrats to @alessandronai.bsky.social, @dominiquewirz.bsky.social and @maxgroemping.bsky.social on this success and the amazing resource for PolCom scholars. 📖

📱Also check out our (w Mareike Wieland) entry on experience sampling.📱

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

FULL PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY
...at the DDC and DIAS, here at the University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰

...open to various disciplines, including law, economics, political science, communication, journalism, or AI.

More info:
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*JOB* As part of the @assured.bsky.social project, we are searching for a person to work in our Secure Data Center team at @gesis.org to create safe researcher trainings. www.gesis.org/en/institute...
The position is open until filled, so do not hesitate to reach our directly if you are interested!

De overtuigingskracht van politieke targeting Xiaotong Chu promoveert op het proefschrift: 'The Persuasiveness of Political Targeting'. Promotoren zijn prof. dr. S. Kruikemeier en prof. dr. S.K. Lecheler. Copromotoren zijn dr. L.P. Otto en prof. ...

The Persuasiveness of Political Targeting.

That is the title of Xiaotong Chu's timely and important PhD dissertation which she defends today. Go Tong!🚀

Proud supervisors: @skruikemeier.bsky.social @solecheler.bsky.social @lukotto.bsky.social and 🙋

www.uva.nl/content/even...

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days

Social-Media-Daten zwischen Forschung und Infrastrukturen - nachhaltige Archivierung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung: An der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social finden vom 17.-19.03.2026 die Social Media Access Days statt. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 31.10.2025. www.dnb.de/DE/Professio...

GESIS Pre-Conference Workshop at the DGS Congress

On Monday September 22, Katharina Kraft, Maximilian Haag and @lukotto.bsky.social present the GESIS Panel.dbd, GESIS Surf and the GESIS AppKit in the workshop “Unlocking Digital Behavioral Data: New Frontiers in Web Tracking and App-Based Social Science Research”: www.conftool.com/dgskongress2...

ESM Tool Collection Hosted on the Open Science Framework

It could also potentially be expanded.

osf.io/um87t/

Here is a list that @juliankohne.bsky.social Mareike Wieland, Charlotte de Alwis, and I started a while ago:

toolreview.shinyapps.io/adapted_app/

The abstract submission for our special issue "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies" @cogitatiomac.bsky.social is now open! Submit your work on #data #archives and #tools! www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Book cover for “The Psychology of Attack Politics"

This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut!

Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social

Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
Job Opening! We're seeking a Postdoc in Computational Social Science to join our team at GESIS! Apply now:

www.gesis.org/en/ins...

Presentation: Measurement or intervention? On the promises and pitfalls of mobile intensive-longitudinal research designs

Research by Joachim Piepenburg and @lukotto.bsky.social presented at the European Survey Research Conference 2025 www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2025/pro...
#ESRA

Honored and thrilled for receiving the award from my „home division“.
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#GESISGuides #DBD #DigitalBehavioralData
Lux, V., & Wieland, M. (2025). How to Set up and Monitor App-based Data Collections (GESIS Guides to DBD, 22).

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This guide addresses that gap by offering practical recommendations to manage the active data collection phase.

GESIS Workshop Adapters: Lightweight Machine Learning for Social Science Research 02 to 04 June 2025 | Online Julia Romberg, Vigneshwaran Shankaran, Maximilian Maurer (all GESIS)

We still have places available for this #GESISworkshop! 🌱 Join Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your large-language models.

➡️ More information & registration at t1p.de/adapters-lig...

🎺COME WORK WITH US @LMU Munich on a new research project: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d.... (postdoc/3 years/full-time). We will develop and evaluate an agile and needs-oriented Research Data Management certificate course for researchers in psychology. Application Deadline: *May 31*

Come join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci
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