Jana Lasser
@janalasser.bsky.social
Professor for Data Analysis @UniGraz | Computational Social Science, Data Science, complex systems, computational modelling | #OpenScience, #coder | she/her
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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? 🧵
OSF
osf.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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? 🧵
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...
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
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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...
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...
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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/
#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
#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/
#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/
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Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
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Ein großes Problem für den Kampf gegen #Machtmissbrauch ist der Mangel an verlässlichen Daten. Umso wichtiger ist die Forschung so engagierter Wissenschaftler*innen wie @leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social oder Andrea Kübler.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ein großes Problem für den Kampf gegen #Machtmissbrauch ist der Mangel an verlässlichen Daten. Umso wichtiger ist die Forschung so engagierter Wissenschaftler*innen wie @leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social oder Andrea Kübler.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Kanzler gewählt. Dann können wir uns jetzt wieder mit #Machtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft beschäftigen... #IchBinHanna #IchBinTina
@leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
@leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Kanzler gewählt. Dann können wir uns jetzt wieder mit #Machtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft beschäftigen... #IchBinHanna #IchBinTina
@leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
@leising.bsky.social @janalasser.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
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Fuck Harry Potter
Go read the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich
It gives the same Britishness, sense of history, and magical powers, but with a setting of detectives and mysteries, and the characters from marginalized backgrounds are fully developed, not just caricatures.
Go read the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich
It gives the same Britishness, sense of history, and magical powers, but with a setting of detectives and mysteries, and the characters from marginalized backgrounds are fully developed, not just caricatures.
Fuck Harry Potter
Go read Venco by Cherie Dimaline
It's about a woman who finds out she's part of a powerful legacy of witches and must race against time across Turtle Island to find the last witch in her coven before an immortal erases their chance to turn the tides of the world
Go read Venco by Cherie Dimaline
It's about a woman who finds out she's part of a powerful legacy of witches and must race against time across Turtle Island to find the last witch in her coven before an immortal erases their chance to turn the tides of the world
Fuck Harry Potter
Go read the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix
It's about deadbeat dads, chosen ones, necromancy through the power of bells, and choosing kindness over pragmatism, acceptance over defiance, and integrity over expediency.
Go read the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix
It's about deadbeat dads, chosen ones, necromancy through the power of bells, and choosing kindness over pragmatism, acceptance over defiance, and integrity over expediency.
May 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Fuck Harry Potter
Go read the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich
It gives the same Britishness, sense of history, and magical powers, but with a setting of detectives and mysteries, and the characters from marginalized backgrounds are fully developed, not just caricatures.
Go read the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich
It gives the same Britishness, sense of history, and magical powers, but with a setting of detectives and mysteries, and the characters from marginalized backgrounds are fully developed, not just caricatures.
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We are advertising a permanent senior lecturer position teaching Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Vienna! Please forward to anyone interested.
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology
jobs.univie.ac.at
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We are advertising a permanent senior lecturer position teaching Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Vienna! Please forward to anyone interested.
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
April 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
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Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort!
w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
April 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort!
w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
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If you have a #quarto #rstats pandoc workflow, and need to create a track-changes version of your revised paper for resubmission, try pandiff, which can do that for you for docx, pdf, and html 🧪 github.com/davidar/pand...
You'll first need to install Node and npm: nodejs.org/en/download
You'll first need to install Node and npm: nodejs.org/en/download
April 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you have a #quarto #rstats pandoc workflow, and need to create a track-changes version of your revised paper for resubmission, try pandiff, which can do that for you for docx, pdf, and html 🧪 github.com/davidar/pand...
You'll first need to install Node and npm: nodejs.org/en/download
You'll first need to install Node and npm: nodejs.org/en/download
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🇺🇸 Eine Auswertung von acht Millionen politischen Reden unter Beteiligung der #unigraz zeigt: Nie zuvor wurde im US-Kongress so viel nach persönlichen Überzeugungen argumentiert – und so wenig nach #Fakten:
🔗 www.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...
#weworkfortomorrow #universityofgraz
🔗 www.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...
#weworkfortomorrow #universityofgraz
April 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🇺🇸 Eine Auswertung von acht Millionen politischen Reden unter Beteiligung der #unigraz zeigt: Nie zuvor wurde im US-Kongress so viel nach persönlichen Überzeugungen argumentiert – und so wenig nach #Fakten:
🔗 www.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...
#weworkfortomorrow #universityofgraz
🔗 www.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...
#weworkfortomorrow #universityofgraz
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🚨🤖👥
Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs"
April 24 5-6pm CET
www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina...
Register
nesta.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers:
- Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School
- Lucie Flek, University of Bonn
- Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs"
April 24 5-6pm CET
www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina...
Register
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Speakers:
- Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School
- Lucie Flek, University of Bonn
- Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
April 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚨🤖👥
Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs"
April 24 5-6pm CET
www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina...
Register
nesta.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers:
- Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School
- Lucie Flek, University of Bonn
- Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs"
April 24 5-6pm CET
www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina...
Register
nesta.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Speakers:
- Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School
- Lucie Flek, University of Bonn
- Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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I try to be clear: We may still need to figure out some mechanisms, but there is enough evidence that it is high time for the public to take back control of the online environment, be it through data access, the development of alternatives or through regulation. But we need to take this seriously!
Excited about this coverage of our work and the replication by @maxplanck.de with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social and Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social
www.mpg.de/24519906/dig...
www.mpg.de/24519906/dig...
Digital media – a threat to democracy? The evidence is piling up
Digital media are increasingly shaping the political landscape worldwide. A new replication study takes a closer look at earlier research on the influence of digital media on democracy and confirms wo...
www.mpg.de
April 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I try to be clear: We may still need to figure out some mechanisms, but there is enough evidence that it is high time for the public to take back control of the online environment, be it through data access, the development of alternatives or through regulation. But we need to take this seriously!
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Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
April 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
1/n
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Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
NeurIPS participation in Europe
We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...
docs.google.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)
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>>New open access publication<<
With @laurensnaudts.bsky.social as a lead author, we discuss how with the arrival of the DSA we should pay more critical (regulatory) attention to optimization logics, which permeate and shape the entire stack of digital services.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
With @laurensnaudts.bsky.social as a lead author, we discuss how with the arrival of the DSA we should pay more critical (regulatory) attention to optimization logics, which permeate and shape the entire stack of digital services.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Right to Constructive Optimization: A Public Interest Approach to Recommender Systems in the Digital Services Act - Journal of Consumer Policy
The technological promise of recommender systems should not be misused by those with decisional power over the infrastructural, data, and knowledge resources needed for their design. The ideal of pers...
link.springer.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
>>New open access publication<<
With @laurensnaudts.bsky.social as a lead author, we discuss how with the arrival of the DSA we should pay more critical (regulatory) attention to optimization logics, which permeate and shape the entire stack of digital services.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
With @laurensnaudts.bsky.social as a lead author, we discuss how with the arrival of the DSA we should pay more critical (regulatory) attention to optimization logics, which permeate and shape the entire stack of digital services.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Very glad to start our teaching activities as a team next week. Offering different aspects of computational social science at @tudresden.bsky.social at the sociology and computer science departments:
css-synosys.github.io/teaching/
css-synosys.github.io/teaching/
Teaching | CSS-Synosys
Research Group Computational Social Science within SynoSys and CIDS at TU Dresden.
css-synosys.github.io
April 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Very glad to start our teaching activities as a team next week. Offering different aspects of computational social science at @tudresden.bsky.social at the sociology and computer science departments:
css-synosys.github.io/teaching/
css-synosys.github.io/teaching/
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Are you an internationally-minded researcher? We just opened the 2025 call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges:
🔹 12-month secondments for knowledge & skills exchange
🔹 €97.7 million for some 85 research projects
🔹 International collaboration in innovation
Apply by 8 October!
🔹 12-month secondments for knowledge & skills exchange
🔹 €97.7 million for some 85 research projects
🔹 International collaboration in innovation
Apply by 8 October!
March 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Are you an internationally-minded researcher? We just opened the 2025 call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges:
🔹 12-month secondments for knowledge & skills exchange
🔹 €97.7 million for some 85 research projects
🔹 International collaboration in innovation
Apply by 8 October!
🔹 12-month secondments for knowledge & skills exchange
🔹 €97.7 million for some 85 research projects
🔹 International collaboration in innovation
Apply by 8 October!
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A friend and colleague at my lab (the CS² under @janalasser.bsky.social ) is organizing a super nice school on democracy and social media here in Graz!
If you're interested, check it out and share! Link: sicss.io/2025/graz/
If you're interested, check it out and share! Link: sicss.io/2025/graz/
March 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A friend and colleague at my lab (the CS² under @janalasser.bsky.social ) is organizing a super nice school on democracy and social media here in Graz!
If you're interested, check it out and share! Link: sicss.io/2025/graz/
If you're interested, check it out and share! Link: sicss.io/2025/graz/
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Algorithmus-Forscherin @janalasser.bsky.social im Interview von @claudiazettel.bsky.social futurezone.at/science/soci...
Social Media: "Gefahr für Demokratien ist nicht zu vernachlässigen"
Die Algorithmus-Forscherin Jana Lasser spricht über Fehlentwicklungen in großen sozialen Medien und wie Alternativen aussehen könnten.
futurezone.at
March 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Algorithmus-Forscherin @janalasser.bsky.social im Interview von @claudiazettel.bsky.social futurezone.at/science/soci...
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This is a good and useful essay about AI and society. Recommended, as is the thread below.
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
www.science.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is a good and useful essay about AI and society. Recommended, as is the thread below.
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Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
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March 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM