Interview with Prof. Axel Bruns - The anniversary of Twitter/X "marks a bittersweet moment in social media history" Scientists, politicians, media professionals, and institutions are increasingly turning their backs on the microblogging platform X, ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X. They criticize the new owner for actively promoting

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To mark the 20th anniversary of Twitter/X, we conducted a fascinating interview with Prof. Axel Bruns Axel Bruns about the network’s tumultuous history.
"Twitter became a new battleground in ideological struggles around the world."

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What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, and @philippmayr.bsky.social documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv preprints from speedy online sharing to formal journal publication.
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Where can I find information about specific data collections?

Check out our regular series “Data Spotlight” on the GESIS blog, where we present specially curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests.

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Social Life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK  The COVID-19 pandemic officially ended almost three years ago. Let us revisit that period and examine how it changed (or not) our lives, institutions, and attitudes.  Die COVID-19-Pandemie endete offiziell vor fast drei Jahren. Lassen

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In the new post on the GESIS blog the authors Elias Naumann, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Alita Nandi, and Ettore Recchi look back on the pandemic and examine its impact:

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.

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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.

The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data Chances are, you’ve run into this before. Regression results that change depending on how you handle missing values in your dependent variable. A long item battery where many respondents select the same response option all

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The new post on the GESIS blog shows how the #KODAQS #Toolbox helps to improve the quality of survey data: "The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data".

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Ein neuer Blog-Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Qualitätskriterien für Digitale Verhaltensdaten

Soziale Medien, Online-Plattformen und Smartphones sind Teil unseres Alltags und erzeugen viele digitale Verhaltensdaten.
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Split Questionnaire Designs as a clever way to make surveys shorter Long questionnaires are a challenge for respondents and researchers alike. Split Questionnaire Designs (SQDs, Raghunathan and Grizzle, 1995) offer a clever way to make surveys shorter: instead of answering every question, respondents receive only parts

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New blog post: Long questionnaires are a challenge for respondents and researchers alike.
Split Questionnaire Designs offer a clever way to make surveys shorter.
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Neu im GESIS Blog: Theresia Ell und Dr. Lydia Repke beleuchten im dritten Teil der LoneCovid-Reihe, wie Veränderungen unserer sozialen Netzwerke in der Pandemie zu Einsamkeit beigetragen haben:
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Neu im GESIS Blog: Ein neuer Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit einem neuen Ansatz, um den Mehrwert der Datenkuratierung beziffern zu können

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New on the GESIS Blog: The new post shows how “UnScientify” can help to better identify uncertainties in research texts

The text explains that uncertainty is a fundamental part of scientific writing, yet difficult to detect automatically.

Zwischen Anspruch und Realität: Diskriminierung rassifizierter Wissenschaftlerinnen in europäischen Hochschulen Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Diskrepanz zwischen dem Selbstbild europäischer Hochschulen als diskriminierungsfreie Orte und den Erfahrungen rassifizierter Wissenschaftlerinnen. Anke Lipinsky, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira, und Vilana Pilinkaitė Sotirovič weisen in ihrer gerade erschienenen Publikation „Embracing

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Neuer Beitrag im GESIS Blog, der die Diskrepanz zwischen dem Selbstbild europäischer Hochschulen als diskriminierungsfreie Orte und den Erfahrungen rassifizierter Wissenschaftlerinnen beleuchtet.

Data Spotlight #8 As dedicated data curators, we're excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: Thematic Data Collection on Replication Material The credibility of scientific findings depends on

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New #blog post: #8 of the Data Spotlight series highlights the GESIS data collection on replication material (by Dr. A. Jedinger & D. Jekobsone) which is linked to published articles, providing the opportunity to replicate studies on a variety of topics.

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New blog post: In the fourth part of our Wi4impact series, Birte Kuhle writes about approaches and challenges in measuring knowledge transfer by linking data:

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Neuer Beitrag im GESIS-Blog zu misogynen Strukturen und deren Einfluss auf das #Wahlverhalten

Eine neue Studie von Jessica Fortin-Rittberger (Universität Salzburg) und Christina Eder (GESIS) zeigt...

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Neu im GESIS Blog: Im zweiten Teil der "LoneCovid"-Serie zeigen Theresia Ell und Dr. Lydia Repke wie sich unsere sozialen Verbindungen während der COVID-19-Krise verändert haben – und was wir daraus lernen können.

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New post on the GESIS blog: Lietz, Oliveira, and Sun on how networks from physics, biology, and social systems exhibit similar patterns at critical phenomena.

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Consolidating da|ra - Shaping the future of DOI Registration  da|ra - Registration Agency for Social Science and Economic Data, a consortium at DataCite, is currently under consolidation. Since 2010, da|ra runs its own layer to register research objects, such as data, with a Digital

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New blog post: Dr. Sebastian Netscher, Farah Karim & Jana Meichsner write about da|ra, the transfer of DOI registration from the da|ra layer to DataCite Fabrica, and the future of DOI Registration in general.

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New post on the GESIS Blog: Peters, Shah and Weller write about the challenges of dealing with new data sources

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#2: Datenqualität in der Sozialwissenschaft: Auf der Suche nach passenden Frameworks zur Beurteilung von Datenqualität Im ersten Blogbeitrag dieser Reihe haben wir die wachsende Bedeutung von Datenqualität in den Sozialwissenschaften beleuchtet und ein einheitliches Framework für die Bewertung von Datenqualitätsdimensionen vorgestellt. In diesem Beitrag wird erörtert, wie Forschende passende Frameworks

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Neuer Beitrag im GESIS Blog: Lukas Birkenmaier schreibt im 2. Teil seiner Reihe zur #Datenqualität über passende #Frameworks zum Testen von Datenqualitätsdefinitionen.

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Data Spotlight #7 As dedicated data curators, we're excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: Thematic Data Collection on Elections and Political Attitudes With the Bundestag elections on

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Data Spotlight #7 on the GESIS blog: Dr. Alex Jedinger and Dr. Christina Eder introduce a thematic data collection on elections and political attitudes:

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Wi4impact #3 – Who are we blogging and podcasting for? Digital media create new ways for communication and interaction, enabling dialogical and interactive knowledge transfer. Academia has adopted these direct communication channels to engage with the public, addressing new responsibilities embedded in the ‘third mission’

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New #blog post: Dr. Charmaine Voigt writes about #Wi4Impact and examines German academic #blogs and #podcasts, exploring their role as transfer media and investigating the conceptual goals, target audiences, and working conditions that shape their production: doi.org/10.34879/ges...

Data Spotlight #6 As dedicated data curators, we're excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: Thematic Data Collection on Science and Technology Science is a crucial resource for

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GESIS has curated a thematic data collection on science and technology, which brings together a diverse range of survey data on public opinion towards science and technology among populations of Germany and Europe.
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Wahl 2025: Wie die GLES die vorgezogene Bundestagswahl begleitet Am 5. November 2024 beantragte Olaf Scholz die Entlassung von Finanzminister Christian Lindner beim Bundespräsidenten. Darüber zerbrach die Regierungskoalition, und es kam zu vorgezogene Bundestagswah...

📢 New article in the #GESISBlog (German only) about the challenges of @gles.bsky.social to realize all #GLES studies for #BTW2025 within a few weeks instead of almost a year as planned⌛🎊
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Shift of Political Trust in Ukraine during the War The research aims to explain the recent shifts in the trust in state institutions and foresee further democratic performance in society. Since 2022, trust in institutions in Ukraine has drastically changed.  The importance of research

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New #blog #post: Dr. Nataliya Reshetova writes about the shift of political trust in #Ukraine during the #war:
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The post examines the recent trends in political trust in Ukraine.