We are seeking two ambitious postdoctoral researchers to join the interdisciplinary Research Priority Area AI & Politics.
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Deadline: 23 March 2026
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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).
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Deadline: 2 March 2026
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We are pleased to #welcomeπ 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 π 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.
π dashboardr is out!
An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.
Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (π included).
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Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo π¨
We are pleased to #welcome π our new postdoctoral researcher, Yagmur Ozbay!
She will study how social media design influences (dis)engagement, with a focus on promoting young peopleβs autonomy and reducing digital overuse, in collaboration with Dr. Sindy Sumter and Dr. Helen Vossen.
We are pleased to #welcome π 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 π 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 π 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: βThatβs (not) appropriateβ β the Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Votersβ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning.
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Deadline: 18 January 2026
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We are looking for a motivated, junior #Postdoc Researcher to join the project βMIND-CHAT: May I help you? An Intervention for Depression through a culturally-sensitive Chatbot".
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Deadline: 9 January 2026
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Dominique Wirz
#Congratulations π to ASCoR member @dominiquewirz.bsky.social, who has recently been awarded an #NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2025 grant for the project βEffects of Short-Form Video Use on Recovery and Well-Being.β
Learn more about the Open Competition SSH XSβfunded projects π
#Congratulations π to ASCoR Researchers Prof. Dr. Guda van Noort, @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social and @christianburgers.bsky.social on the NWO KIC grant of β¬3.2 million for their AuthentiMark project, which aims to combat online impersonation
Read more π° #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 π 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.
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Join us on 6 Nov for the AISSR Lecture by Renee DiResta, @noupside.bsky.social, author of the book ππ―π·πͺπ΄πͺπ£ππ¦ ππΆππ¦π³π΄. On how social media reshapes power & politics. Co-hosted by @ascor.bsky.social
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Deadline: November 1st, 2025
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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.
We are pleased to #welcome π our new PhD candidate, Teresa Valle!
Teresa is working on the project βVisual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publicsβ. Her research focuses on visual political communication and how visuals may be used to represent and elicit political anger.
We are pleased to #welcome π our new PhD candidate, Michael van Straelen!
His research examines how people engage in political conversations with generative AI, how they perceive these tools, and how such interactions influence their political views and ideological (de) polarisation.
We are pleased to #welcome π our new PhD candidate, Jade van Dorth!
Jade's #PhD project examines adolescentsβ synthetic relationships with conversational AI, exploring their prevalence, causes, and effects on companionship, empowerment, isolation, and autonomy.
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Deadline: 9 October 2025
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Weβre seeking a motivated PhD candidate passionate about advertising, algorithms & social media to join our project βAlgorithmic Persuasion on TikTok: A Differential Vulnerability Perspectiveβ at the Persuasive Communication Program Group.
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Deadline: 5 October 2025
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Weβre looking for a motivated #PhD candidate to join our project βAddressing Craving in the City: Using system insights for personalized context-driven interventions to combat nicotine use,β focusing on personalized, context-driven interventions to tackle smoking and vaping.
We are pleased to #welcome π our new #PhD candidate, Tasha de Vries.
Her PhD project, titled βQuestioning Synthetic Advertising in a Synthetic World,β conceptualizes the notion of synthetic advertising and explores how consumers engage with it within a synthetic environment.
We #congratulateπ @claesdevreese.bsky.social on receiving this yearβs Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize for his extensive and internationally acclaimed research into the role played by algorithms and artificial intelligence in democratic processes.
