Apeksha Shetty
@apeksha.bsky.social
She/her | PhD Candidate at Complexity Science Hub & University of Vienna's @compcommlab.bsky.social | Currently studying misinformation & social identity on social media | Mundus Journalism alumna
Check out @julaluehring.bsky.social 's novel study that uses causal inference to untangle if misinformation on social media truly leads to more engagement and more emotional discussions than reliable news. 👇
Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
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November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Check out @julaluehring.bsky.social 's novel study that uses causal inference to untangle if misinformation on social media truly leads to more engagement and more emotional discussions than reliable news. 👇
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Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
One postdoctoral Research Position
Deadline: November 15th, 2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
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We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects related to media trust, pluralism, media effects and/or political satire.
Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher on themes related to journalism with an affinity for quantitative methods. Are you interested in topics, such as media trust, pluralism, media effects and/...
werkenbij.uva.nl
May 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We have a vacancy for "Postdoctoral Researcher on the Topics of Journalism and Infotainment" with affinity for quantitative methods. Work includes projects related to media trust, pluralism, media effects and/or political satire.
Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Please help me share it 🙏
Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Please help me share it 🙏
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After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!
April 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!
Learning about efficient LLM training at @comptext.bsky.social with @cklamm.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025 🤓
April 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Learning about efficient LLM training at @comptext.bsky.social with @cklamm.bsky.social #COMPTEXT2025 🤓
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⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰
Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST!
Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community.
Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳
👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP
Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST!
Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community.
Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳
👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP
April 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
⏰ Less than 2 days left! ⏰
Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST!
Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community.
Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳
👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP
Registration for #COMPTEXT2025 closes April 10 at 23:59 CEST!
Join us in Vienna (April 24–26) for cutting-edge research on text-, image-, and video-as-data, hands-on workshops, and a brilliant community.
Don't miss your chance—this is the final call! 🚂🧳
👉 bit.ly/4hJ7thP
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A CSH study challenges the widely held belief that #emotions make us more susceptible to #misinformation. The study, led by @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, reveals that emotions shape our perceptions, but don't impair our ability to distinguish between real and #falsenews. 👉 shorturl.at/FzHs1
Complexity Science Hub * News * Do Emotions Make Us More Susceptible To Misinformation? Not Per Se, According To A New Study
A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub challenges the belief that emotions make us more susceptible to misinformation, revealing that pre-existing
shorturl.at
March 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A CSH study challenges the widely held belief that #emotions make us more susceptible to #misinformation. The study, led by @hannahmetzler.bsky.social, reveals that emotions shape our perceptions, but don't impair our ability to distinguish between real and #falsenews. 👉 shorturl.at/FzHs1
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First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Tools of the Trade – When Are Software Tools Mentioned in Computational Text Analysis Research? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
The use of computational methods for text analysis has been rapidly gaining a foothold in computational social science.
Yet, little is known about the reporting practices of the software tools utilise...
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀
In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.
Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
The timing of an emotion (before vs after news exposure) matters to understand if emotions influence misinformation belief. Further, it's not enough to say that people react emotionally to misinformation: People react with anger both when they believe and disbelieve false news items. More details 👇
😡Emotions ≠ 🤓Reasoning?! Nope! 😎
@apeksha.bsky.social's & @julaluehring.bsky.social's first PhD paper on recognizing COVID-19 misinformation & links with emotions got accepted! If you haven't already seen the preprint, have a look at the paper or this 🧵! doi.org/10.1186/s412...
@apeksha.bsky.social's & @julaluehring.bsky.social's first PhD paper on recognizing COVID-19 misinformation & links with emotions got accepted! If you haven't already seen the preprint, have a look at the paper or this 🧵! doi.org/10.1186/s412...
January 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The timing of an emotion (before vs after news exposure) matters to understand if emotions influence misinformation belief. Further, it's not enough to say that people react emotionally to misinformation: People react with anger both when they believe and disbelieve false news items. More details 👇
Cool work by @julaluehring.bsky.social on NewsGuard as a resource for misinformation research!
The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇
The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇
January 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Cool work by @julaluehring.bsky.social on NewsGuard as a resource for misinformation research!
The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇
The paper also touches on NewsGuard's usefulness for source-based research on misinformation in countries other than the US. 👇
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⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025!
Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀
Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀
Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.
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January 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025!
Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀
Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀
Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
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Time for the annual final sprint 📈 COMPTEXT2025 deadline is approaching (January 15, midnight). www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Time for the annual final sprint 📈 COMPTEXT2025 deadline is approaching (January 15, midnight). www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-c...
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6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌
Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽♀️ (Social Programme preview)
Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽♀️ (Social Programme preview)
Submission for #COMPTEXT2025 is still open until January 15! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers, panels, and data presentations! We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! See you at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April!
January 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌
Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽♀️ (Social Programme preview)
Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽♀️ (Social Programme preview)
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🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨
🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis 🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits
🧐 Bayesian text analysis
…and more!
Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX
🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis 🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits
🧐 Bayesian text analysis
…and more!
Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
shorturl.at
January 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨
🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis 🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits
🧐 Bayesian text analysis
…and more!
Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX
🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis 🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits
🧐 Bayesian text analysis
…and more!
Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX
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🎉 Happy New Year!
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
shorturl.at
January 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🎉 Happy New Year!
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
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⏳ Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025
Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
shorturl.at
December 16, 2024 at 8:01 AM
⏳ Less than a month left to submit your paper, panel, or data proposals for #COMPTEXT2025
Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
Don’t miss out! Join us in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025, to discuss computational social science 🤩
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
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I would interpret this as a result of "quantity before quality" design of social media (and ultimately reflects the business model), where everything, the velocity, the scrolling, the thumbnails, the share button, encourages this (+ motives of signalling identity rather than sharing information).
Not very surprising, but good to have an estimate: "shares without clicks’ (SwoCs) constitute around 75% of forwarded links." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour
Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:02 AM
I would interpret this as a result of "quantity before quality" design of social media (and ultimately reflects the business model), where everything, the velocity, the scrolling, the thumbnails, the share button, encourages this (+ motives of signalling identity rather than sharing information).
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Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
#css #commsky #polisky
November 14, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
#css #commsky #polisky
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🚨New publication alert on news avoidance (open-access) 🚫📰 With @hajoboo.bsky.social, @solecheler.bsky.social and Svenja Schäfer, we looked at which perceptions of media and politics predict intentional news avoidance or low news consumption (or both!). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
February 5, 2024 at 11:01 AM
🚨New publication alert on news avoidance (open-access) 🚫📰 With @hajoboo.bsky.social, @solecheler.bsky.social and Svenja Schäfer, we looked at which perceptions of media and politics predict intentional news avoidance or low news consumption (or both!). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I had a fantastic time at MISDOOM, learning about what's going on in the field of mis- and disinformation.
I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.
I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.
November 23, 2023 at 11:02 AM
I had a fantastic time at MISDOOM, learning about what's going on in the field of mis- and disinformation.
I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.
I also presented our team's work (@julaluehring.bsky.social @hannahmetzler.bsky.social) on emotions and misinformation.
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🎉 Exciting News! My first #dissertation paper has just been published open access in Annals of the ICA! 📚🌐
🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.
🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.
doi.org
November 10, 2023 at 3:06 PM
🎉 Exciting News! My first #dissertation paper has just been published open access in Annals of the ICA! 📚🌐
🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.
🔍 In this comprehensive study, I explore the nuances of far-right social media communication through the unique perspective of technology affordances.