Lisa Oswald

Great 5(!)-year postdoc position in FFM!

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

We wrapped up the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social).

ECRs from around the world joined us to share their insights on rationality, cognition, and decision-making.

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FINALLY 😌

The Delegated Act is here.

The Act clarifies rules for data access under the Digital Services Act #DSA

#dataaccess #research #eusky #commsky #polisky #csssky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

Postdoctoral Position | Center for Adaptive Rationality

We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored.
Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me:
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.

Academic mothers are much more likely to...

◾temporarily leave the labor force

◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.

scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

The Trump regime is purporting to occupy a major American city with military troops while secret agents kidnap people off the street. A US senator was just arrested and the President has entertained questions about arresting the governor. Authoritarianism is on the march; an extremely dangerous time

Overview of legislator Twitter behaviors targeted at academic researchers.

Here are some of the 🔑 findings:

- Legislators across the 12 countries DO follow researchers but seldom visibly engage.

*Also, most of their engagement is with social scientists.

Title page of the preprint

🤔 How much do politicians engage with academic researchers online?

In my latest paper, I find that politicians from 12 countries rarely engage with researchers on social media, but this can change when expertise gains salience

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/wqbe4_v1

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So delighted by this news! Looking forward to the next 7 years of research - there is lots to do 🏃‍♀️

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.

It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.

All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

The best places to be a working woman in 2025 Economist glass-ceiling index graphic

Im @economist.com-Ranking ist Deutschland in Sachen Gleichstellung übrigens sogar zurückgefallen.

So viel zu „zu viel Feminimus macht die AfD stark“, liebe Märchenonkel.

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Moving towards informative and actionable social media research Social media is nearly ubiquitous in modern life, and concerns have been raised about its putative societal impacts, ranging from undermining mental health and exacerbating polarization to fomenting v...

New preprint with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social where we argue for a complex-system perspective to understand the causal effects of social media on society and for a triangulation of methods
arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

expertvoicestogether.org

GERDA: The German Election Database - Scientific Data Scientific Data - GERDA: The German Election Database

Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Norrköping campus at sunset

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word

🚨 Update on our case against #X:
A #Berlin court has confirmed that researchers can enforce their right to access platform #data in their own national courts. No need to sue in Ireland, where X is based.

Here’s why this matters 👇

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The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy by Eunji Kim

How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in America.

The American Mirage by @eunjikim.bsky.social is out now.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉
summerschoolwpm.org

Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social

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I was just contacted on LinkedIn for a role that requires a PhD in social science to curate and annotate training data for a major Gen AI company (undisclosed).

They are offering... $15 an hour.

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We've built a tool to make it easy to run experimental studies on social media interventions. Check it out. understanding.social

Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled.

Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges.

Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading.

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Updates on NSF Priorities

NEW: NSF announces it's "terminating awards that are not aligned with agency priorities...including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation." #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Digital media – a threat to democracy? The evidence is piling up Digital media are increasingly shaping the political landscape worldwide. A new replication study takes a closer look at earlier research on the influence of digital media on democracy and confirms wo...

Excited about this coverage of our work and the replication by @maxplanck.de with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social

www.mpg.de/24519906/dig...

Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition - Nature Human Behaviour This research explores the linguistic traces of evidence-based reasoning and intuitive decision-making in congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022. The analysis suggests that evidence-based language h...

Examining Congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022, @aroyehuns.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social et al. suggest that evidence-based language has continued to decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity. @bristoluni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...