Best way of conference traveling: Bring a bike 🚲!
Omw (with a 🐰 detour) to Vienna for @comptext.bsky.social and to grab my PhD certificate in efficient packing. 😏🧳

Still cannot believe it, but it's a wrap: I successfully defended my PhD yesterday at @univie.ac.at 🍾🎓✨

Thank you to my wonderful reviewers @lindabos.bsky.social & Nina Springer; to my supervisor Birgit Sauer; and @fabiennelind.bsky.social for the organizaion 🪄! Vienna treated me so well. 💖

When you've done so many
#ica reviews that you can easily plot them. I call it #ica2025 #wrapped 👀✨
#rstats #commsky #polcom

#Bayesian, multilevel regression was used to estimate influence of contextual and media factors on populism below news. Mentioning the government, experts, COVID-19, and restrictions was associated with higher levels of populism. Interestingly, lower levels for tabloids!
3/4

Leveraging machine translation, custom-trained word embeddings, and distributed dictionary representation I measured #populism in 3.4M #multilingual Facebook comments on news media pages from 7 European countries (AT, DE, FR, IT, NL, SE, UK).
Tool: github.com/thieled/dict...
2/4

I'm over the moon happy to see my 3rd dissertation paper finally published in @computationalcommunication.org:
Were #populist user comments fueled by restrictive #COVID-19 policies? Only in some countries, my study finds.
doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
#socialmedia #textasdata

🏆📄🚨 We have a winner of the @ecpr.bsky.social PolCom Best Paper Award 2023! 🎊🍾 Huge congrats to @turkenburgemma.bsky.social!

Paper title:
"From rudeness to reflection? Assessing the impact of uncivil mediated discourse on political reasoning"

+ Thx to the jury (👀 replies) & the steering committee!

Visiting my favorite city Vienna is always a blast, even more if there's such a great crowd to work with as the one of the OPINION COST network. Thanks @fabiennelind.bsky.social for hosting and @jbgruber.bsky.social et al. for organizing! 🙌

Read about OPINION:
www.opinion-network.eu

Schluss mit prekärer Beschäftigung an den Hochschulen! Heute ist Streiktag #ichbinhannah #TVStud bundesweit now!

Leaving this here without comment. 🐌

Call for sections for next year's @ecpr.bsky.social gc 🍀 is now open!
It was a lot of fun and great networking opportunity to put together this year's polcom program. Come get involved! - reach out to @lindabos.bsky.social @kgattermann.bsky.social et al.
I'm also happy to answer questions, ofc 🙏

@favstats.bsky.social will love this 🤭:

Happy to be back at U. Mannheim for attending a Gesis course (⛪🧀👨‍🏫). enjoying flashbacks to undergrad times & as student assistant at GLES many (😲🙈) years ago. how the time flies.

I created a polcom feed for political communication research.

it should pick up any mentions of "polcom", "polcomm", & "political communication".
(not sure if the latter worked, tests appreciated)

nudging polisky commsky @claesdevreese.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social @snurb.bsky.social

Appreciate this strategy. although Stan MCMC here redirects to dog content 🐕📊

Happy BiVisibilityDay, folks!
💖💜💙🥳

Mood: microblogging platforms may come and go, the only relevant online social networks are these two, anyway. 🤷‍♂️