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Katrin Weller
@kwelle.bsky.social

Scientific director of the department "Data Services for the Social Sciences" at GESIS in Köln, Germany (@gesis.org).
Professor for Research Data Management for the Social Sciences at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (@hhu.de)

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Communication & Media Studies 33%
Computer science 31%

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⏱️There's still time to register for our #TrustedFlagger information session on 3 December. This hybrid event will provide updates and learnings regarding the Trusted Flagger status introduced by the Digital Services Act Regulation (DSA). Register at the link below 👇🏼
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com

Congrats to Bonnie (and @cessda.bsky.social)!
Big news from the ERIC Forum annual meeting!
CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has just been elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the ERIC Forum. Eija Juurola, Director General of ACTRIS ERIC, becomes the new Vice Chair.
read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#ERICForum #SSHOC

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Big news from the ERIC Forum annual meeting!
CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has just been elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the ERIC Forum. Eija Juurola, Director General of ACTRIS ERIC, becomes the new Vice Chair.
read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#ERICForum #SSHOC
This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.
Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)
This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.
www.404media.co
Neues von @konsortswd.bsky.social und @ratswd.bsky.social: Open Call: Beiträge für die 10|KSWD ‒ Konferenz für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten gesucht.

forschungsdaten.info/nachrichten/...

#Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience
🎓 We’re hiring!
Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺
🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments
🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews
Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

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Heute Abend, 19 Uhr, auch online: im Digitalen Salon des @hiigberlin.bsky.social geht es um wichtiges Thema: die ökologischen Kosten der KI-Systeme und welche politischen und technischen Weichenstellungen für klimafreundliche Lösungen erforderlich sind leibniz-hbi.de/hbi-events/w...
Warum KI-Systeme einen ökologischen Preis haben
In der Veranstaltungsreihe „Digitaler Salon“ des Humboldt Instituts für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) geht es unter dem Titel „Watt für’n Prompt“ um den ökologischen Preis von KI-Systemen. Katharin...
leibniz-hbi.de
My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)!

We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.

See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
Universität Graz
jobs.uni-graz.at

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Here is the first piece in a series of short articles I'm doing about the DSA and researcher access to publicly available information.

It focuses on categories of researchers under the DSA, and what data they are each authorized to use. 1/

verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...
Using the DSA to Study Platforms
verfassungsblog.de

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2/2
Uns fehlt ein Bild!
"...ruft die Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz deshalb alle Berliner*innen auf, zu Hause in ihren Fotoalben und Fotosammlungen zu schauen."
www.ghwk.de/de/blog/samm...
Uns fehlt ein Bild: Sammelaufruf Deportationen Berlin | Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Die Gedenkstätte dokumentiert die Wannsee-Konferenz und setzt sich mit Ausstellungen, Bildungsangeboten und einer Bibliothek mit dem Holocaust auseinander.
www.ghwk.de

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@democracyreporting.bsky.social is searching for a Data Protection Consultant to conduct consulting for developing a Rresearch Data Protection Framework specifically tailored to the processing of social media data for research purposes democracy-reporting.org/en/office/gl...
democracy-reporting.org
Two Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in Sociology/Social Sciences at the University of Oldenburg (Germany)
Position 1 – Computational Text Analysis / LLMs — uol.de/job790en

Position 2 – Survey Research / Experiments — uol.de/job791en
Postdoctoral Researcher, SCEPTIC-Position 1 // University of Oldenburg
uol.de

JOB: Zum Thema Forschungsdatenmanagement im Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung suchen wir eine Elternzeitvertretung: www.gesis.org/institut/kar... Die Stelle ist eng in die Arbeiten der GESIS Data Services eingebunden und bietet weitere Vernetzungen in die Bildungsforschung. Bei Fragen gerne melden!
Details
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org

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#DataCollection #ResearchTools #OpenScience #GESISMethodsHub #Mastodon #Telegram

👉 Looking for online data for your research? Methods Hub has you covered.

👉 Capture Mastodon data for social media analysis: doi.org/10.71627/rtoot

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*JOB* As part of the @assured.bsky.social project, we are searching for a person to work in our Secure Data Center team at @gesis.org to create safe researcher trainings. www.gesis.org/en/institute...
The position is open until filled, so do not hesitate to reach our directly if you are interested!
Details
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org

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#COVID #conspiracy #scapegoating
Out now: Jedinger, Alexander, Marcus Eisentraut, and Lena Masch. 2025 (online first). "The COVID-19 pandemic and the search for scapegoats: Examining the link between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and ethnic prejudice." Psychological Reports.
doi.org/10.1177/0033...

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Studentische Kolleg*in an der @hhu.de gesucht: Ab Januar suche ich eine stud. Hilfskraft mit 17 Stunden/Woche für zunächst 12 Monate (Verlängerung bis 3 Jahre ist durch Projektlaufzeit gesichert). Details in der Stellenbeschreibung
#JoinTeamHHU #Stellenangebot #HHU #eLearning #digitaleLehre
Studentische*r Kolleg*in mit bis zu 17 Stunden/Woche für mind. 12 Monate gesucht (SHK) | stellenwerk duesseldorf
Für verschiedene Projekte rund um digitale Lehre, eLearning und Prüfungen suchen wir ab dem 1.
www.stellenwerk.de

Actually, I mixed up the names - it's @flxvctr.bsky.social and @yapete.bsky.social. Sorry for that!

Safe travels to my GESIS colleagues @yapete.bsky.social and @dede1989.bsky.social who are attending #aoir2025 in Brazil this week! Enjoy your time with great talks, inspiring people and new connections there!

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A publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.

🔗 www.404media.co/save-our-sig...
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
www.404media.co
ENDSPURT!! Knapp 800 Unterschriften in nur wenigen Tagen - helft uns dabei,die 1k zu knacken! Unterzeichnet unseren Brief an die Bildungsministerkonferenz (15.10.) & verbreitet den Link: c.org/PSwFM4FJFx

Gegen das Prekariat der PDs & für 1 besseres #WissSystem!! #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

Today I discussed academic freedom (and the role of research infrastructure). Thanks to the team at @cais-research.bsky.social for hosting this event!
This morning, at our panel “Academic Freedom: Foundations for the Future,” Ina Brandes, Manfred Bayer, Katrin Weller & Tim A. Majchrzak, moderated by Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, discussed threats and opportunities for academic freedom. #CAISdigitalfutures2025 #Day2

@ahrabhikat.bsky.social

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This morning, at our panel “Academic Freedom: Foundations for the Future,” Ina Brandes, Manfred Bayer, Katrin Weller & Tim A. Majchrzak, moderated by Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, discussed threats and opportunities for academic freedom. #CAISdigitalfutures2025 #Day2

@ahrabhikat.bsky.social
[Admin] Hallo alle miteinander, hier bei @realscientists.de ist spontan eine Woche frei geworden: die ab dem 20. Oktober. Wenn ihr schon immer mal eine Woche lang diesen Account bespielen wolltet, ist JETZT eure Gelegenheit dazu.
#ASConference25
Societal Challenges and the important infrastructures for the Social Sciences on the way to get answers. Sebastian Stier shows how to unlock digital behavioral data.

as25.sociology.uni-m...
Today is fully dedicated to all the exciting research happening at @gesis.org. Beatrice Rammstedt opened the GESIS research day this morning and now we have various sessions on computational and survey methods and current social science research.
It’s almost time! This Thursday, our conference “Creating Spaces for Digital Futures” starts at the Makerspace of Ruhr University Bochum.
📺 Join the livestream of our panel "Academic Freedom: Foundations for the Future" on Friday, 9:30 AM: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...
#CAISdigitalfutures2025
📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
Details
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org
Submission deadline (31 Oct) for Social Media Access Days coming closer. Looking forward to your abstracts: www.dnb.de/DE/Professio.... w/ @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social #NFDI4DataScience @berd-nfdi.bsky.social @gesis.org @trovdimi.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy