Andreu Casas
@andreucasas.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Communication and Computational Social Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. Director of the London Social Media Observatory. UKRI Future Leader Fellow.
This is very timely! We looked into the posting/moderation anomalies last week in the US. Special kudos to @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @solmg.bsky.social and @kengchichang.bsky.social. An outage rather than targeted censorship is what makes the most sense in this case, we’ll stay vigilant.
🌐 📲 With international collaborators, the Observatory’s director @andreucasas.bsky.social revisited recent “TikTok censorship” claims after the TikTok USDS takeover
➡️ Detailed information about the analysis available: goodauthority.org/news/was-the...
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Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?
A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.
goodauthority.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:22 AM
This is very timely! We looked into the posting/moderation anomalies last week in the US. Special kudos to @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @solmg.bsky.social and @kengchichang.bsky.social. An outage rather than targeted censorship is what makes the most sense in this case, we’ll stay vigilant.
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Great time at the @psampg.bsky.social annual conference in Bournemouth. #AI #theory #discourse and #moderation discussed by our team me, Marco Guglielmo and @andreucasas.bsky.social. Thanks Dan Jackson and all the organisers.
January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Great time at the @psampg.bsky.social annual conference in Bournemouth. #AI #theory #discourse and #moderation discussed by our team me, Marco Guglielmo and @andreucasas.bsky.social. Thanks Dan Jackson and all the organisers.
🚨 One more week to apply to the PhD position at the London Social Media Observatory. If you are interested in empirical, quantitative, and/or computational approaches to studying social media and politics, apply! 😊
🔭🚨 One more week to apply to the fully funded (3.5 years) PhD position at the Observatory!
💻 Deadline: 2nd November
ℹ️ For more information, see the link below!
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💻 Deadline: 2nd November
ℹ️ For more information, see the link below!
➡️ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨 One more week to apply to the PhD position at the London Social Media Observatory. If you are interested in empirical, quantitative, and/or computational approaches to studying social media and politics, apply! 😊
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🎉 We're really excited to be collaborating with our excellent partners on this, as part of WP3 of the What-If Horizon project, hosted at the Observatory.
🎯 Understanding what interventions affect citizen misinformation effects is crucial to build evidence based policy in the area!
More insights 🔜
🎯 Understanding what interventions affect citizen misinformation effects is crucial to build evidence based policy in the area!
More insights 🔜
Learn more about this partnership here: what-if-horizon.eu/2025/09/30/s...
Strategic Partnership to Advance Misinformation Research Through Real-World Collaboration
WHAT-IF colleagues from Work Packages 3 and 5—Andreu Casas (UK) and Sílvia Majó-Vázquez (Spain)—have established a strategic partnership with two leading Spanish organizations at the forefront of c…
what-if-horizon.eu
October 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎉 We're really excited to be collaborating with our excellent partners on this, as part of WP3 of the What-If Horizon project, hosted at the Observatory.
🎯 Understanding what interventions affect citizen misinformation effects is crucial to build evidence based policy in the area!
More insights 🔜
🎯 Understanding what interventions affect citizen misinformation effects is crucial to build evidence based policy in the area!
More insights 🔜
The candidate will also have the opportunity to work in other international projects, with societal partners and policymakers, network with top scholars in the field, and the opportunity to teach in our department from the second year onwards.
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The candidate will also have the opportunity to work in other international projects, with societal partners and policymakers, network with top scholars in the field, and the opportunity to teach in our department from the second year onwards.
The candidate will join a very exciting work environment, work side by side with me and the team in our central London location, and have access to funding for conferences, training, and data collection, on top of the stipend. Help me spread the word!
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The candidate will join a very exciting work environment, work side by side with me and the team in our central London location, and have access to funding for conferences, training, and data collection, on top of the stipend. Help me spread the word!
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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September 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I hope I’m wrong and the UK government is still committed to transparency, academic access to tech/platform data, and independent/external scrutiny of the impact of these products on society. Time will tell I suppose. Meanwhile, we’ll keep advocating for what we think is right.
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I hope I’m wrong and the UK government is still committed to transparency, academic access to tech/platform data, and independent/external scrutiny of the impact of these products on society. Time will tell I suppose. Meanwhile, we’ll keep advocating for what we think is right.
The Memorandum of Understanding from the UK government about the deal I fear confirms some of these suspicions, with language such as “advancing pro-innovation AI policy frameworks and efforts to support U.S. and UK-led AI technology adoption” (full memo here: lnkd.in/dw3NYvGz).
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September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The Memorandum of Understanding from the UK government about the deal I fear confirms some of these suspicions, with language such as “advancing pro-innovation AI policy frameworks and efforts to support U.S. and UK-led AI technology adoption” (full memo here: lnkd.in/dw3NYvGz).
The US-UK tech deal last week left me worried. There was already a feeling the UK government was abandoning the idea of regulating tech companies/platforms, to facilitate trade deals with the US, incl legislation for better academic data access, and external scrutiny of tech products and platforms.
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The US-UK tech deal last week left me worried. There was already a feeling the UK government was abandoning the idea of regulating tech companies/platforms, to facilitate trade deals with the US, incl legislation for better academic data access, and external scrutiny of tech products and platforms.
We went to Berlin this week to learn more from our peers about ways to leverage DSA to access platfrom data and conduct relevant research, and to keep building a coalition to advocate for this topic in the EU, the UK, and everywhere.
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We went to Berlin this week to learn more from our peers about ways to leverage DSA to access platfrom data and conduct relevant research, and to keep building a coalition to advocate for this topic in the EU, the UK, and everywhere.
Very happy to have people from our @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social attend the DSA40 Data Access Days organized by @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social. With threats to our online and political safety in the rise, access to platform data for independent and academic researchers is more important than ever.
🇩🇪 Hello from Berlin!
📍This week, LSMO is at the #DSA40 Workshop, thanks @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social for the invitation!
🤝 We’re here to connect with other academics to learn more about how to access platform data for research via DSA & to advocate for better data access more generally
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📍This week, LSMO is at the #DSA40 Workshop, thanks @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social for the invitation!
🤝 We’re here to connect with other academics to learn more about how to access platform data for research via DSA & to advocate for better data access more generally
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September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Very happy to have people from our @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social attend the DSA40 Data Access Days organized by @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social. With threats to our online and political safety in the rise, access to platform data for independent and academic researchers is more important than ever.
What a pity that my usual partner in crime on this one couldn’t make it this time around 🥺 @feloe.bsky.social we really missed you!
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What a pity that my usual partner in crime on this one couldn’t make it this time around 🥺 @feloe.bsky.social we really missed you!
And as usual, the highlight of the week was to learn about the participants’ projects and to discuss with them how to take them to the next level. Here a few pictures from our traditional final session “Slides with Slices” 🍕 where participants presented the projects they worked on during the week.
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
And as usual, the highlight of the week was to learn about the participants’ projects and to discuss with them how to take them to the next level. Here a few pictures from our traditional final session “Slides with Slices” 🍕 where participants presented the projects they worked on during the week.
Thanks @gesistraining.bsky.social for having me again. @marlenemauk.bsky.social @verenakunz.bsky.social and the team always make me feel at home in Mannheim for one week a year. Is Mannheim growing on me? 🤔
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Thanks @gesistraining.bsky.social for having me again. @marlenemauk.bsky.social @verenakunz.bsky.social and the team always make me feel at home in Mannheim for one week a year. Is Mannheim growing on me? 🤔
🥰I had so much fun again teaching computer vision and other computational methods to these bright social scientists this week. (Un)supervised classification, image encoding, content similarity, object detection, face detection/analysis, muldimodal modeling, video data, etc., you name it!
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🥰I had so much fun again teaching computer vision and other computational methods to these bright social scientists this week. (Un)supervised classification, image encoding, content similarity, object detection, face detection/analysis, muldimodal modeling, video data, etc., you name it!
To junior scholars, the Observatory is the perfect home for computational social scientists to grow and shine! I’ll be soon recruiting a data engineer, PhD, and 2 postdocs, for our new offices in Bedford Square. To academics/orgs working in this area, we are eager to collaborate, please reach out!
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
To junior scholars, the Observatory is the perfect home for computational social scientists to grow and shine! I’ll be soon recruiting a data engineer, PhD, and 2 postdocs, for our new offices in Bedford Square. To academics/orgs working in this area, we are eager to collaborate, please reach out!
Additionally, the Observatory will engage with key stakeholders in this area (@ofcom.bsky.social, @electoralcommission.org.uk, platforms, and others) to promote evidence-based policymaking in this area. Stay tuned for a first public event that we are putting together for the first week of December.
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Additionally, the Observatory will engage with key stakeholders in this area (@ofcom.bsky.social, @electoralcommission.org.uk, platforms, and others) to promote evidence-based policymaking in this area. Stay tuned for a first public event that we are putting together for the first week of December.
🚨Very honored to receive the Future Leaders Fellowship from @ukri.org I’ll use this 2.3 million £ investment to create the London Social Media Observatory, for cutting-edge research on social media and politics, and novel computational tools for social science research. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚨Very honored to receive the Future Leaders Fellowship from @ukri.org I’ll use this 2.3 million £ investment to create the London Social Media Observatory, for cutting-edge research on social media and politics, and novel computational tools for social science research. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...
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📣 Last Call!
We still have spots left for our #GESISfallseminar course on Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis with @andreucasas.bsky.social.
Join us before it’s too late!⏳
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We still have spots left for our #GESISfallseminar course on Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis with @andreucasas.bsky.social.
Join us before it’s too late!⏳
➡️ t1p.de/ImageVideoAn...
Do you want to use computer vision for analyzing image and video data? Join @andreucasas.bsky.social in his #GESISfallseminar course to gain theoretical & methodological expertise and benefit from hands-on tutorials & consulting sessions.
More info & registration at
t1p.de/ImageVideoAn...
More info & registration at
t1p.de/ImageVideoAn...
August 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📣 Last Call!
We still have spots left for our #GESISfallseminar course on Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis with @andreucasas.bsky.social.
Join us before it’s too late!⏳
➡️ t1p.de/ImageVideoAn...
We still have spots left for our #GESISfallseminar course on Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis with @andreucasas.bsky.social.
Join us before it’s too late!⏳
➡️ t1p.de/ImageVideoAn...
You'll be able to master all of these and more, with a combination of lectures, hands on sessions where code is provided, and with one-on-one consulting sessions. Students will also work on a project throughout the week. Bring your own data and project, and use that week to take it to the next level
July 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You'll be able to master all of these and more, with a combination of lectures, hands on sessions where code is provided, and with one-on-one consulting sessions. Students will also work on a project throughout the week. Bring your own data and project, and use that week to take it to the next level
I will cover a wide range of relevant topics: video/image processing, supervised classification, unsupervised classification, facial analysis, multimodal modeling, Large Visual Language Models, cloud computing, etc.
July 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I will cover a wide range of relevant topics: video/image processing, supervised classification, unsupervised classification, facial analysis, multimodal modeling, Large Visual Language Models, cloud computing, etc.
Do you want to use large amounts of visual data (or text + visuals) in your research but don't know how? Join my "Computer Vision for Image and Video Analysis" course at GESIS this September (15-19th) to learn about machine learning for automatic visual analysis: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...
July 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Do you want to use large amounts of visual data (or text + visuals) in your research but don't know how? Join my "Computer Vision for Image and Video Analysis" course at GESIS this September (15-19th) to learn about machine learning for automatic visual analysis: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...
This is all work in progress ( /!\ ), so all feedback welcome. Come and share your thoughts!
June 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This is all work in progress ( /!\ ), so all feedback welcome. Come and share your thoughts!