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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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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 8d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 10d
"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"

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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 · 11d
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

fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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 · 13d
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 · 14d
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 · 14d
You mean, decline to review a R&R?

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 15d
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 · 15d
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 · 16d
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 · 19d
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 · 21d
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 · 22d
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

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 23d
Ok, #ica26 (or is it #ica2026 ?) reviewers - what are you doing with AI generated papers? (I got triggered by the writing style, went to check references, and some don't exist; where they even exist, DOIs are there but either don't exist (the DOI) or lead to completely different papers)

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 23d
I'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/

curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
CURIA - Documents
curia.europa.eu

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · 26d
Het is bijna als in een karikatuur van een autocratie - alleen dat dit niet De Speld is ⬇️
locuta.bsky.social Kirsten Verdel @locuta.bsky.social · 26d
- Het Witte Huis lanceert op WH.gov/MediaBias een pagina die media en journalisten aanwijst als „verkeerd” of „partijdig”, met ranglijsten en een „Hall of Shame”.

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Kirsten Verdel @locuta.bsky.social · 26d
- Het Witte Huis lanceert op WH.gov/MediaBias een pagina die media en journalisten aanwijst als „verkeerd” of „partijdig”, met ranglijsten en een „Hall of Shame”.

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Laurens Verhagen @laurensvhg.bsky.social · 28d
Column: over het vertrek van de NOS op X en de daaropvolgende reactie van Mona Keijzer. www.volkskrant.nl/tech/de-nos-...

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Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social · 29d
🔍 Insightful piece debunking some of the "mythology” behind Big Data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#commsky #polsky #bigdata
Rethinking Scaling Up Content Analysis: A Reappraisal of Justifications and Practices for Large-Scale Content Analysis - Maximilian Linde, Chung-hong Chan, Paul Balluff, 2025
The use of automated coding procedures to scale up content analysis has risen over the last years. Using a mixed-method approach, we examine researchers’ justif...
journals.sagepub.com

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Nov 24
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · Nov 21
Na de Raad van State pleit men op rechts ook voor politisering van de wetenschap, zie ik.

“Er zou een fonds voor tegendraads onderzoek moeten worden opgericht, zegt Steije Hofhuis. ‘Laat partijen in de Tweede Kamer in roulatie wetenschappers aanwijzen die in zo’n commissie voorstellen beoordelen.”
‘De balans is zoek’, schrijft Wierd Duk, maar dat geldt vooral voor zijn absurde verdachtmakingen
Is het werkelijk zo bar en boos gesteld met universiteiten als De Telegraaf suggereert? Staat de academische vrijheid op het spel? Of werkt De T. zelf mee aan de ondermijning van wetenschap én journal...
www.mareonline.nl

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Mathijs van der Loo @mvanderloo.bsky.social · Nov 20
Hardop moeten grinniken bij dit artikel van @mareonline.nl die een close read geeft van een stuj uit de Telegraaf over de "linkse vooringenomenheid" van het academisch debat
‘De balans is zoek’, schrijft Wierd Duk, maar dat geldt vooral voor zijn absurde verdachtmakingen
Is het werkelijk zo bar en boos gesteld met universiteiten als De Telegraaf suggereert? Staat de academische vrijheid op het spel? Of werkt De T. zelf mee aan de ondermijning van wetenschap én journal...
www.mareonline.nl

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Computational Communication Research @computationalcommunication.org · Nov 19
📢 CCR needs a new Editor in Chief! 📢
@vanatteveldt.com is rotating out so we are inviting (self)nominations to lead our journal through its next phase. Deadline 15 January, see link for details: journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
CCR Editor in Chief - call for nominations | Computational Communication Research
journal.computationalcommunication.org

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · Nov 18
Oh "AI-powered" Google scholar search is coming. What could possibly go wrong?! I hate this.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Nov 17
No. This is a fundamentally bad choice. I get that journals scramble for audiences and interactions. The costs of fragmentation are real.

But going back to X is imho fundamentally wrong and sends a poor signal. Don’t.

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Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net · Nov 17
Wij zijn op zoek naar een universitair docent (UD) journalistiekwetenschap! Sla jij graag bruggen tussen theorie en praktijk, in zowel onderwijs als onderzoek? Neem vooral contact met me op als je nog meer wilt weten. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/un...
Vacature — Universitair Docent journalistiekwetenschap
Voor het versterken van de leerstoelgroep journalistiekwetenschap zoeken wij een universitair docent. Wil je meewerken aan kwalitatief hoogstaand onderwijs dat de brug slaat tussen theorie en praktijk...
werkenbij.vu.nl

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Nikki Sterkenburg @sterknikki.bsky.social · Nov 16
BE.LANG (het; o; meervoud: belangen)

1.iets dat iem. raakt doordat zijn voordeel ermee gemoeid is (Van Dale)

Een van de eerste lessen die ik als journalist leerde, was de afweging: “wat is iemands belang?” Dan kreeg ik een geweldige tip (“je hebt het niet van mij, maar…”), /1
Foto van tijdschrift met het woord BELANG