3. AuthentiMark: Strengthening Public Trust and Citizen Agency, supervised by Ulrike Klinger, Christian Burgers, Olga Eisele, and Marina Tulin. More information: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...

2. AuthentiMark: Protecting and Empowering Citizens Against Digital Fraud, supervised by Guda van Noort, Bart Jacobs, Sandra Jacobs, and Tom Dobber. More information: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...

1. Adoption of AuthentiMark Within Organizations: Opportunities and Barriers Across Sectors, supervised by Christian Burgers, Sandra Jacobs, Hanna Schraffenberger, and Alain Starke. More information: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...

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Within the AuthentiMark consortium, we currently have three PhD vacancies. The project is funded by an NWA/KIC grant from NWO (the Dutch Research Council).

Application deadline for all three positions: 15 May.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, @philippdarius.bsky.social!

He is working at the Artificial Intelligence, Media & Democracy (AIMD) Lab at ASCoR and studies how AI, digital platforms, and political communication shape democratic governance.

Please note that candidates are required to possess an excellent command of both spoken and written Dutch, as the project involves analyzing Dutch-language media content, designing Dutch-language studies and conducting interviews in Dutch.

📅Deadline: 13 April 2026
🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/uk246uuh

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We are looking for a #PhD Candidate for the project "Democratic moral craftmanship and media". In this project, you examine the role of Dutch media in shaping, maintaining, and debating the democratic moral craftsmanship of politicians and administrators.

📅Deadline: 10 April 2026
🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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In this project, you will create a longitudinal dataset containing the media and web consumption patterns of individuals, linking content data with its consumers, and bridging between meso-level public debate and micro-level individual behavior and attitudes.

We are seeking two ambitious postdoctoral researchers to join the interdisciplinary Research Priority Area AI & Politics.

📅Deadline: 23 March 2026
🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Are you interested in researching the interplay between AI and politics and its societal consequences? Would you like to join a new Research Priority Area and work in an interdisciplinary team?

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ASCoR and the Digital Data Donation Infrastructure (D3I) are seeking a highly motivated Postdoc / Research Engineer to support, maintain and extend the data donation infrastructure (datadonation.eu).

📅Deadline: 2 March 2026
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We are pleased to #welcome🎉 our new #PhD candidate, Niklas Fritsche.

His research investigates how misinformation reinforces existing beliefs in polarized contexts. He focuses on how group norms and linguistic bias shape perceived accuracy, and on interventions that can reduce these effects.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new #PhD candidate, @quyangzhao.bsky.social.

Her research will focus on algorithmic persuasion on TikTok among young adults. She will investigate why certain young people are vulnerable to such persuasion, and how we can design effective interventions to address it.

🚀 dashboardr is out!

An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.

Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).

📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/

Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Yagmur Ozbay!

She will study how social media design influences (dis)engagement, with a focus on promoting young people’s autonomy and reducing digital overuse, in collaboration with Dr. Sindy Sumter and Dr. Helen Vossen.

Space Teen - Youth & Media Entertainment - ASCoR Teenagers and social media: it’s complicated. Yet, even teenagers tend to agree on one thing: sometimes they spend too much time on social media. In the Space Teen research programme researchers, desi...

Read more about the SpaceTeen Project 👇

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @lisemarienassen.bsky.social.

As a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (CCaM), Lise-Marie will work as programme manager on the SpaceTeen project, funded by CLICKNL.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. @martinjansen.bsky.social.

He has recently joined the Persuasive Communication group as a postdoctoral researcher. In his new role, he will work on a project focused on developing communication campaigns for gambling care.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Abby Qin.

Abby studies how information systems shape democratic life across individual lived experience, local information ecosystems, and institutional design.

We wish her every success in this exciting new chapter.

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We are looking for a highly motivated #postdoctoral researcher for the research project: ‘That’s (not) appropriate’ – the Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning.

📅Deadline: 18 January 2026
🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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We are looking for a motivated, junior #Postdoc Researcher to join the project “MIND-CHAT: May I help you? An Intervention for Depression through a culturally-sensitive Chatbot".

📅Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗Read More: tinyurl.com/y6hk439s

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Dominique Wirz

#Congratulations 🎉 to ASCoR member @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, who has recently been awarded an #NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2025 grant for the project “Effects of Short-Form Video Use on Recovery and Well-Being.”

Learn more about the Open Competition SSH XS–funded projects 👇

#uva #vertrouwen #phishing #fraude #misinformatie | University of Amsterdam 💰 Grote subsidie voor baanbrekend onderzoek tegen online imitatie: watermerktechnologie (English below) De NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) heeft een subsidie van €3,2 ...

#Congratulations 🎉 to ASCoR Researchers Prof. Dr. Guda van Noort, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social and @christianburgers.bsky.social on the NWO KIC grant of €3.2 million for their AuthentiMark project, which aims to combat online impersonation

Read more 📰 #InTheMedia/News:
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This work is conducted in collaboration with Dr. Andreas Schuck from our Programme Group Political Communication & Journalism and Prof. David Amodio from the Social Psychology Programme Group, and is funded by the Research Priority Area (RPA) Real Emotions.

We are pleased to #welcome 🎉 our new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Anke Stoll.

Dr. Anke Stoll is investigating how human bias - particularly the political leaning of annotators - may shape the decision-making of algorithms for facial expression recognition.

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Join us on 6 Nov for the AISSR Lecture by Renee DiResta, @noupside.bsky.social, author of the book 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴. On how social media reshapes power & politics. Co-hosted by @ascor.bsky.social

➡️ Register here: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

📅Deadline: November 1st, 2025
🔗Read More: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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The AI, Media & Democracy Lab is seeking a #postdoctoral researcher with a background in communication science to investigate how the introduction of AI is changing the relationship between media, users, and technology, and what effects this has on democratic engagement.