Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social
communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26
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January 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26
Reposted by Marko Bachl
so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices
January 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
so who's excited about the lme4 getting covariance matrices
Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)
🎉 Die DFG hat eine Emmy Noether-Gruppe am Weizenbaum-Institut bewilligt. Das Projekt „Ortsbasierte Themenöffentlichkeiten: Die Neuordnung lokaler Öffentlichkeiten in einer digitalisierten und globalisierten Welt“ wird von Daniela Stoltenberg aufgebaut & geleitet.
Mehr im Interview.: buff.ly/fPX0cLp
Mehr im Interview.: buff.ly/fPX0cLp
Vom Dorf zur Weltbühne: Die Entgrenzung lokaler Konflikte im digitalen Zeitalter
Ein Interview mit Dr. Daniela Stoltenberg, Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Emmy Noether.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)
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
this is true, and truly sad :(
Best holiday letter received until now
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Best holiday letter received until now
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...
“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
Look, it is our special issue :)
One of the best places to do computational communication work
📍 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...
📅 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 7:33 AM
One of the best places to do computational communication work
Reposted by Marko Bachl
📍 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...
📅 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
📍 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...
📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026
⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026
Details:
German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
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...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 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...
Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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...
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
You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
So it turns out (my student pointed me to this) that the article was actually published in a likely predatory journal: www.gssrjournal.com/article/inte...
GSSR - Global Social Sciences Review
www.gssrjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So it turns out (my student pointed me to this) that the article was actually published in a likely predatory journal: www.gssrjournal.com/article/inte...
Well, at least this one did not pay $$$ to some fraudster publisher...
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Well, at least this one did not pay $$$ to some fraudster publisher...
And it was cited in an AEJMC journal, so it's already sneaking into the literature: doi.org/10.1177/1077...
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
And it was cited in an AEJMC journal, so it's already sneaking into the literature: doi.org/10.1177/1077...
An article titled "Enhancing critical thinking and journalism skills through artificial intelligence literacy: A case study of journalism students in Tajik National University, Tajikistan" in the layout of the journal. However, the article did not appear in the journal...
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
An article titled "Enhancing critical thinking and journalism skills through artificial intelligence literacy: A case study of journalism students in Tajik National University, Tajikistan" in the layout of the journal. However, the article did not appear in the journal...
Searching for the author in the journal shows no relevant hits: ijonses.net/index.php/ij..., so it does not seem like a typo in the citation or another simple mix-up.
Search
| International Journal on Social and Education Sciences
ijonses.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Searching for the author in the journal shows no relevant hits: ijonses.net/index.php/ij..., so it does not seem like a typo in the citation or another simple mix-up.
I followed the DOI on the paper PDF, doi.org/10.46328/ijo.... Turns out, this leads indeed links to the 1st article in Vol 5, Issue 1 of the International Journal on Social and Education Sciences. However, this is a different article.
Using Computer Applications in Teaching Play Skills to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
| International Journal on Social and Education Sciences
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I followed the DOI on the paper PDF, doi.org/10.46328/ijo.... Turns out, this leads indeed links to the 1st article in Vol 5, Issue 1 of the International Journal on Social and Education Sciences. However, this is a different article.
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
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.
"Solution":
remotes::install_version("here", version = "1.0.1")
remotes::install_version("here", version = "1.0.1")
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"Solution":
remotes::install_version("here", version = "1.0.1")
remotes::install_version("here", version = "1.0.1")
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
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
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
Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong.
#rstats
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
Come visit us in Berlin
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
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...
de.NBI is the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure - Service, Training, Cooperations & Cloud Computing. They are working on expanding their services beyond bioinformatics. If you are interested and associated with an eligible organization, I encourage you to contact them.
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
de.NBI is the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure - Service, Training, Cooperations & Cloud Computing. They are working on expanding their services beyond bioinformatics. If you are interested and associated with an eligible organization, I encourage you to contact them.