Marco Waehner

🚨 Application deadline approaching!
Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Don’t miss the chance: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...

Deutsche Bahn 🤝 Windows

dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:

Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

Morgen noch nichts vor und zufällig in Düsseldorf? Ich halte einen Workshop dazu, wie und warum KI diskriminierend sein kann und wie wir damit umgehen können! Tickets sind kostenlos! 🦜

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List with Fellowship Highlights: - Open to all career stages - Project focus: Digital transformation & society - 6 or 3 months dedicated to your research - Generous funding & support - Free furnished apartment & private office - Lively, interdisciplinary research community - Weekly academic & social gatherings - Based in Bochum, Germany – at the heart of the Rhine-Ruhr science region

Part of a map of Europe showing where Bochum is located and photos of Bochum (CAIS building, Bochum lettering, photo of researchers riding bicycles)

🚀 Apply now for the #CAISFellowship 2026/27!
You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany.
+ Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟
🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025
👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...

#CAIScollege #Bochum

How were, are, and can we measure #racism using #CSS?

Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗

Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...

Are you interested in social science methods training?

Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...

Portrait of David Guerrero

🔍 Meet the #CAISfellows: David Guerrero, University of Barcelona @david-guerrero.bsky.social
His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom”
🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#FreedomOfExpression

I am hosting a workshop next week - we will talk about current issues, our academic utopia, and how we can implement strategies in our academic work to address discrimination - you can still sign up! ✨

Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 feat @carlislerainey.bsky.social #MetaScience doi.org/10.1017/S104... Insightful descriptive analysis showing code and data availability increases exponentially. In absolute terms, availabilty is modest at best w 31% 1/

How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!

Titel des Workshopbeitrags von Besjon: “Supporting Investigative Reporting using Programming-by-Demonstration and Generative AI”

Titel des Beitrags von Jasmin “Human-AI News Interaction: Co-creating LLM-Based News Recommendations with People of the Working-Class”

🎌 CAIS in Japan:
Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at #CHI2025. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".

Danke!:)

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Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!

Positron works well under Ubuntu. So far no problems with the package management #RStats

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025 01 to 26 September 2025 Mannheim | Online

📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025

The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open!

🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025

Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Mannheim
💻 Online

More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar

🚨 Editor of Open Science - call for applications

At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs)

Interested? Check out the call below!

DL April 17

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CAIS sucht studentische Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion der Internet Policy Review. Gesucht: Englischkenntnisse und Interesse an Forschung. Mit Teamfoto und Logos.

✨ Studierende aufgepasst!
Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review.

✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals
✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten
✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse

🚀 Join #TeamCAIS!

Das CAIS unterstützt Empfehlungen für ein unabhängiges und wirksames Desinformationsmonitoring im digitalen Raum, initiiert von Bertelsmann-Stiftung @bertelsmannst.bsky.social und @cemas.io – Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie. Zum Newsbeitrag: www.cais-research.de/news/empfehl...

At the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH, we have provided recommendations on establishing independent and effective disinformation monitoring in digital spaces for the next German federal government.

New publication in the @gesis.org Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and me:
"Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
rrr.is/dbdethics

Interested in conducting #comparative research? Check out our review of articles from 2003-2021 to get an insight into trends and what we still lack in #commsky comparative studies! 🚀

Do you want to learn more about our upcoming #CHI2025 contributions to AI, HCI, Content Moderation, Journalism, and Chatbots? 🤖✨

Join our @cais-research.bsky.social Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program!

📅 5.3.25 16h
📍 Bochum & Webex

Register via email: kolleg@cais-research.de

Wie politisch sind die TikTok-Feeds? Und wie beeinflusst das die Meinungsbildung? @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social und Uni Zürich starten zusammen mit @br24.de & @stuttgarter-zeitung.de ein Datenspendeprojekt. Hierfür sind wir auf Mithilfe von TikTok-Nutzern angewiesen: dein-feed-deine-wahl.de

Some say: science runs on caffeine, panic, and last-minute submissions - so don't miss our deadline tomorrow! ☕📄🔥 #CfP

Exciting news! ✨A #SpecialIssue in the Internet Policy Review will follow our conference in 2026. Outstanding submissions & contributions will be invited for publication! 🔗 More info: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa... @policyr.bsky.social #InternetPolicyReview

🦋 A starter pack of academic journals in Sociology 👥

#sociology #sociologie #sociologia #demography #SocSky #PolSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky #Academia #AcademicChatter #Academics #PeerReview #BlueSky #OpenScience #PhDSky #PhD #PhDChat #EduSky #research #science

Einblicke ins CAIS-Fellowship-Programm am CAIS

🌍 Applications Open: CAIS #Fellowships in Bochum, Germany! Explore the social, cultural, or technical aspects of digitalization in a 3–6 month funded program. Enjoy private offices, rent-free housing & interdisciplinary exchange with experts worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: February 28, 2025 #Research

I created this Starter Packer with all members of @cais-research.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Rvto81e