Marko Bachl

screenshot of the website "rückmeldung zum promotionsvorhaben". Includes a captcha in which the supervisor has to select all cars

Has Charité a problem with bot PhD supervisors? Or is finding all the cars the minimal requirement for supervision?

Oh hey, I am on this list. 🤩 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

¯\_.(ツ)._/¯

YouTube video by splash! Babyjoy LIVE @ splash! Festival 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJD...

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 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

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

📍 Location: Munich
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ 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...

An article titled "Enhancing critical thinking and journalism skills through artificial intelligence literacy: A case study of journalism students in Tajik National University, Tajikistan" in the layout of the journal. However, the article did not appear in the journal...