polarization in the context of climate change and will touch both on theoretical as well as on methodological aspects. We'll have more to share after each workshop but for now we're all happy to book tickets to Bochum! @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social @uuinfolab.bsky.social @anniewald.bsky.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
we wrapped up the first of our meetings at @cais-research.bsky.social for our post-polarvis initiative. Despite the rocky start (between people falling sick and delayed trains) it was a very productive 2 days. We managed to make real progress. More to come in the next meeting.
#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.
Abstracts are already pouring in, and we are looking forward to more of them:
if you work on queer topics, are interested in aspects of in/visibility, and have always wanted to come and see Heidelberg, please consider submitting an abstract for our interdisciplinary meeting in September 2026!
Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:
Such an important special issue on oligarchic republics coauthored by Federico Rossi and with Jonas Wolff and other important pieces and contributors : forum.lasaweb.org/issues/vol56...
📄DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📄
Our former PhD & current Postdoc @emilbakke.bsky.social is first author on this important study on visual expressions in protest movements!
Together with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social and @mathiaswullum.bsky.social in @actasociologica.bsky.social !
Great work Emil et al.!
My huge: Congratulations, to Emil Bakkensen, first author and Mattias Wullum Nielsen, staring as co-authors thinking together writing and theorizing this actor networks STS visual sociological piece on momentary symbols and the Hong Kong pro democracy movement@actasociologica.bsky.social--must read
Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives”
with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A🧵 on our approach and findings:
Uni Siegen is looking for at a postdoc or a PhD candidate who want to work with me on migration, qualitative research and mobilization.
lnkd.in/eZzBnj4m
Thanks for sharing
Nicole 🐬
Join the IPB social movement conference at Bremen in October and consider submit a paper to the panel on democracy and the climate organized by Sabrina Zajak, Antje Daniel and me, cfp/deadline submission, see more here protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...
Looking forward to teaching Visual Qualitative Methods at the Lund Social Sciences Methods Center! Thanks very much, @Alison Gerber and 🐬 colleagues for having me. www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/...
Visual Methods in the Social Sciences
Watch the video Online book panel/Flexible Authoritarianism (OUP), with author
Anna Schwenck, prof Soc. i.V.Siegen U
Kristina Stoeckl, prof, Socio., LUISS, Rome,
Dr. Piotr Kocyba, EFBI, Leipzig U, Dr.
Maria Brock, Södertörn U
Host: Nicole Milman-Doerr, UCPH CoMMonS
youtu.be/MbL4nJFRDlE?...
@polarvis @commonscph.bsky.social join Tomorrow’s KU Sociology Department seminar: speaker Dr. Antje Daniel, University of Vienna, presenting her new research on
"Global Flows of Decolonial Thought: Students activism of Rhodes Must and its Decolonial Impart" 12.00, CSS 16.2.55. public. Share widely🌸
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Out today in Salon: The art of resistance: Trump’s attack on humanities triggers a blowback movement
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The rise of resistance to Trump takes root in rural America
By Michèle Lamont - Daniel B. Cornfield
www.salon.com/2025/04/21/t...
Early contender for a defining image of this era.
@UCPH next week May 1 campus lecture:
Book presentation:
Hendrik Simon, A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024.
Location: University of Copenhagen CSS, room 1.1.18 10am Open Access
academic.oup.com/book/56279
@kstoeckl.bsky.social @piotrkocyba.bsky.social
Commons Online book panel: academic.oup.com/book/55262 Flexible Authoritarianism/OUP
April 29, 14.30@UCPH
Speakers:
Anna Schwenck, UniSiegen, Kristina Stöckl, LUISS/Rome,
Piotr Kocyba, Uni Leipzig, Maria Brock, U/Södertörn,
Flexible Authoritarianism, ASA MaryDouglasPrize☀️
@kstoeckl.bsky.social @piotrkocyba.bsky.social
Online book panel: academic.oup.com/book/55262 Flexible Authoritarianism/OUP @CoMMonS@UCPH
April 29, 14.30 Copenhagen
Speakers:
Anna Schwenck, author, UniSiegen, Kristina Stöckl, LUISS/Rome,
Piotr Kocyba, EFBI/Uni Leipzig, Maria Brock, U/Södertörn,
Flexible Authoritarianism, ASA MaryDouglasPrize☀️
Highly Recommended Marie Curie workshop with Dr. Noa Milman@Grade/Goethe Uni, Frankfurt-Young Career
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
It will be hard to return the favor after @zeinmurib.bsky.social's fantastic talk at UCL, but I will tryFor those close to Fordham on April 9, please stop by!
Visual Methods PhD course organized by Brady Wagoner & Sarah Awad, specialists @AAU. Exciting class and joyful to be coteaching phdcourses.dk: phdcourses.dk/Course/128267
Watch the PolarVis video: Europe& Trump/liberal democracy faced with far right government @CoMMonS@ucph with Ruth Wodak,
Anja Wehler-Schöck (Tagesspiegel),
Jens Steffek,
ManèsWeisskircher and
Sabrina Zajak👉🏼
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te9z...
@anjaws.bsky.social @dezim-institut.de @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @commonscph.bsky.social
