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Damian Trilling 🟥
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Professor of Journalism Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. About me: https://damiantrilling.net . Our group is here: @journstudiesvu.bsky.social and here: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism .. more

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 16h
Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main!

www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
Who we are - Center for critical computational studies
www.c3s-frankfurt.de

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Dimitri Tokmetzis @tokmetzis.bsky.social · 3d
We hebben een toffe vacature. Wil je baanbrekend onderzoek doen en daar ook tijd voor krijgen? We zoeken een nieuwe datajournalist. Leuk werk, leuk bedrijf. Dus solliciteer. www.ftm.nl/vacature-dat...
Vacature data-onderzoeks­journalist
Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
www.ftm.nl

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Etmaal2026 @etmaal2026.bsky.social · 5d
‼️ Today is the 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘆 to register for Etmaal 2026 at the regular fee! From Jan 29 onwards, you will need to pay the last-minute registration fee. Register now via www.etmaal2026.nl/registration ⏰

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Michel van Baal @michelvanbaal.bsky.social · 8d
Voor mijn gevoel is het echt dringend nodig om binnen de journalistiek een (zichtbaar) debat te hebben over of je in deze tijden zo ‘neutraal’ een verklaring moet overnemen van een partij die bewezen desinformatie verspreidt. Is ‘hoor/wederhoor’ nog houdbaar? 🤔

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Juliana Chueri @julianachueri.bsky.social · 12d
📢 We’re hiring @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

PhD position in my ERC project: Welfare State Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Interested in how AI is reshaping labor markets, social protection, and the politics of redistribution?

Apply here: lnkd.in/eCcAXsaS

Please share widely!

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 12d
📣Call for Bids! We’re seeking hosts for the 9th & 10th International #COMPTEXT conferences (2027 & 2028).
📅Bid deadline: March 15, 2026
Request materials: [email protected]
Please circulate within your networks!

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Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social · 12d
4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.

Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre
Application deadline: February 15th, 2026, 23:59 CET/CEST.
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 13d
Unfortunately, this one is on its way to become a modern classic.

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 14d
The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
www.heise.de

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15d
i already dislike the QRP label to lump together a bunch of research practices of varying levels of appropriateness or ethicality but some of these are flat out weird and impossible to consistently interpret without further context?? relying on such data to reinforce crisis narratives is fraught.
Questionable research practices listed in the survey. I failed to cite publications that contradict my beliefs I did not conduct a thorough literature review I chose not to report my own findings if they contradicted my theories I used a researcher’s idea without giving credit I failed to disclose conflicts of interest I included authors who had not contributed sufficiently I inadequately supervised a junior co-worker I carried out research without ethical approval I cited papers without consulting the primary source I developed hypotheses after seeing the results I cited scientifically irrelevant publications out of dependence or friendship I cited publications only because they were already visible in the scientific community

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 19d
MS Office is zo'n flutproduct. Als zo'n taalfout in een opensource-product stond zou iedereen grappen maken dat je geen kwaliteit kunt verwachten als iedereen zomaar kan bijdragen, dat het geen professioneel product is, ... Maar als je Microsoft heet koopt iedereen het toch, dus waarom je best doen?
Zoekveld van Outlook 365 "Deze bericht"

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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 26d
ICE-agent schiet vrouw dood in Minneapolis, 'reed in op agenten'
ICE-agent schiet vrouw dood in Minneapolis, 'reed in op agenten'
De agent handelde uit zelfverdediging, zegt het Amerikaanse ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid.
nos.nl

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Rutger de Quay @rutgerdequay.nl · 27d
Ze hadden dit net zoals de coronapersconferenties op alle televisiezenders tegelijk moeten uitzetten, met doventolk aan toe.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 27d
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026

We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

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Cas Mudde #AbolishICE @casmudde.bsky.social · Dec 18
Ik gaf een nogal deprimerend eindejaarsinterview aan @markla94.bsky.social van het NRC Handelsblad.
Cas Mudde: ‘Mensen worden opgesloten in detentiekampen. Daar ben ik panisch voor’
Populisme: Zijn hele leven schreef politicoloog Cas Mudde, die al zeventien jaar in de VS woont en werkt, over radicaal-rechts populisme. Maar nu dat om hem heen de realiteit is, is hij stilgevallen. ...
www.nrc.nl

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · Dec 18
You mean I can't just make up people instead of studying people? www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Dec 16
Just decline the peer review invitation.

What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Dec 16
Our NEWSFLOWS project is coming to its end, but if you want to get a little glimpse into our work, you may want to read this interview erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
News beyond the echo chamber
When people worry about ‘the algorithm’, they often imagine invisible machines quietly narrowi
erc.europa.eu

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · Dec 16
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · Dec 15
"In three rounds of testing, between 68% and 84% of the Post's AI podcasts' scripts failed... The tool also sometimes inserts commentary, they said — for instance, by interpreting a source’s quotes as the paper’s position on an issue"

🫠
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Exclusive: ‘Iterate through’: Why The Washington Post launched an error-ridden AI product
Between 68% and 84% of AI-generated scripts failed the Post’s own internal testing, but the paper launched the AI podcast feature anyway.
www.semafor.com

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Dec 15
Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Top conditions, environment & colleagues.

Candidates welcome across places and disciplines.

🗓️ DL: March 15, 2026

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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy
Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Dec 12
The leading scholars of democratic decline say the US "has descended into competitive authoritarianism" - we "ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany, or even Argentina are democracies" - but caution that it can be contested and reversed
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Dec 11
In that case, I only decline in very exceptional situations - or, if I recommended a clear reject before and made clear that I think the errors are not fixable. Because then, I would not have anything new to add in the new round (and I would also find it unfair towards the author)

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Dec 11
You mean, decline to review a R&R?

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · Dec 11
It's out!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Dec 10
New research on Twitter (right before rebranding to X) shows right leaning accounts got outsized visibility from the algorithm & suggests this bias stemmed from different content production techniques (more sensational, outrage-bait) and from direct interaction w/ the new king of the platform: Musk.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Dec 9
Update. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is migrating from #microsoftoffice to #LibreOffice. It expects to save €15 million in 2026 alone.
https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#Germany #Microsoft #opensource
Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
itsfoss.com

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Dec 7
Interessant stuk! We maakten met een groep van 11 hoogleraren een soortgelijk punt in een opiniestuk in het AD www.ad.nl/praat-mee/op...
Opinie hoogleraren: ‘Aanvallen op de NPO verzwakken de democratie’
Media moeten onafhankelijk kunnen werken om burgers te informeren over politiek en maatschappelijke onderwerpen. De termen ‘activistisch’ en ‘staatsomroep’ zijn misplaatst en schadelijk, stellen elf h...
www.ad.nl

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · Dec 5
The EU Commission did not blink, it seems.

It announced today a fine of $120M on X for several violations including deceptive design of the blue checkmark
Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act
Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
ec.europa.eu

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Sjoerd de Jong @sjoerdjong.bsky.social · Dec 4
Dus oud-minister Bruins vindt dat de wetenschap zich ook niets moet aantrekken van de EU-sancties tegen Rusland (die zijn kabinet onderschreef)?
Opinie | Alleen de wetenschap zelf kan voorkomen dat academische vrijheid politiek wordt gekaapt
Zoals in Nederland een scheiding tussen kerk en staat bestaat, zo moet er ook een radicale scheiding tussen wetenschap en politiek zijn, betoogt Eppo Bruins.
www.nrc.nl