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Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social
communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
this is true, and truly sad :(
Anyway, I really feel like the whole environment, including the state of the published literature, is really colluding against students learning how to do proper research. That’s a shame; I always have the impression our students really do want to learn how to do things the right way.
December 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Best holiday letter received until now
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Look, it is our special issue :)
Currently in Volume 19, Issue 4 of Communication Methods and Measures #CMM:

“Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science” by @valeriehase.bsky.social @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis

Read this SI editorial: doi.org/10.1080/1931...
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
One of the best places to do computational communication work
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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📍 Location: Munich
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026

Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
PostDoc in CSS / CCS (m/w/d)
job-portal.lmu.de
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!
📣 Job alert! 📣

For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!

www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
3 research associates in social science (m/w/d)
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TIL about a new form of fraudulent academic publishing. A student pointed me to this article in the repository of the University of Limerick, doi.org/10.34961/res..., asking whether it is a credible source.
Enhancing critical thinking and journalism skills through artificial intelligence literacy: A case study of journalism students in Tajik National University, Tajikistan
In the age of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology, this research paper explores the impact of AI literacy and the incorporation of ChatGPT-3 in improving critical thinking skills...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
PSA: If you have somewhat chaotic folder and project structures in RStudio or Quarto projects, don't update {here} to 1.0.2: github.com/r-lib/here/i...

Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong.

#rstats
here v1.0.2 · Issue #151 · r-lib/here
Just a small note that here v1.0.2 adding support for detecting Quarto and other project types is probably a bigger change than is signaled with the patch release version bump. I have a repo with a...
github.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Come visit us in Berlin
Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Marko Bachl
As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
Your Thesis Title
Link to phdcomics.com
phdcomics.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This semester, I am teaching the third iteration of my "Content Analysis with Generative LLMs" class. For the first time, I am using a local cloud infrastructure, supported by the de.NBI infrastructure, instead of the OpenAI API. They published my testimonial here: cloud.denbi.de/about/testim...
Teaching Content Analysis with LLMs - de.NBI Cloud
cloud.denbi.de
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
Your Thesis Title
Link to phdcomics.com
phdcomics.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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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/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#DataMethods #OpenScience

#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.

methodshub.gesis.org/
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Happy start of the Berlin (German) Vorlesungszeit to all who celebrate!
October 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Also available in English: www.rki.de/EN/Topics/In...
September 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Interesting page to watch today: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
September 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Die Aufklärung von Falschinformationen & Impfmythen ist ein wichtiges Anliegen, daher klären wir regelmäßig auf.
Fakt heute:
Autismus entsteht durch Veränderungen in der früh­kindlichen Gehirn­entwicklung.
Als Haupt­ursache gelten genetische Faktoren.

🔗 www.rki.de/impfmythen
September 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
September 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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🎉 As of today, September 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer heads the "Research Data & Methods" team at CAIS. Together with the University of Duisburg-Essen, he has been appointed Professor of Digital Social Sciences. 🎉
🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/news/joha...
@johannesbreuer.com @unidue.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM