Acknowledgements and disclosures Disclosure: Ironically, no AI tools were used in the writing of this article.
Interesting overview by @solmg.bsky.social and @jatucker.bsky.social on what is going on with agentic AI in social since: www.brookings.edu/articles/the... Also this hidden gem at the end :D
screenshot of the website "rΓΌckmeldung zum promotionsvorhaben". Includes a captcha in which the supervisor has to select all cars
Has CharitΓ© a problem with bot PhD supervisors? Or is finding all the cars the minimal requirement for supervision?
Oh hey, I am on this list. π€© @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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Happy last week of the Berlin Vorlesungszeit to everyone who celebrates. You almost made it through 16 weeks
Map of bsky accounts with a cluster "German-speaking communication researchers"
A closer look at the cluster with some account names visible.
Nobody uses this anymore but now I at least know that I would mostly see German communication research if anyone every posted something: bluesky-map.theo.io
Sad :'(
attention ever who wants to travel to @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
You should all absolutely read this paper by @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Miriam Siemon.
Super example for the value of descriptive research. Also very nice presentation
Read this paper, it's good
Don't know anything about the presentation, but amazing title chart
Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26
so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices
Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)
Pic of adventskranz and drinks
this is true, and truly sad :(
Ho Ho Ho, Ihr Forschungsdatenzentrum des Statistischen Bundesamts
Ho Ho Ho, Your Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office
Best holiday letter received until now
Look, it is our special issue :)
One of the best places to do computational communication work
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Start: 1 Apr 2026
β³ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!
@cvsikorski.bsky.social
@dstoltenberg.bsky.social
So it turns out (my student pointed me to this) that the article was actually published in a likely predatory journal: www.gssrjournal.com/article/inte...
Well, at least this one did not pay $$$ to some fraudster publisher...
And it was cited in an AEJMC journal, so it's already sneaking into the literature: doi.org/10.1177/1077...
