🇪🇺 Yesterday the draft delegated act on data access under the DSA was published! After taking some time to read the draft act I would like to share my 5 main take-aways from a researcher perspective:
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#EU#DSA#DataAccess#DigitalGovernance#Regulation#CSS#PolComm
Representative samples are free forever! 🎉
You read that right. We’ve made representative samples and political representative samples on our platform FREE for researchers indefinitely.
You can find out how it works at https://t.co/ZL3pdF6bmC 🔗
Platforms know about hate speech, and accept trusted reports of it, but frequently fail to act, breaking their agreements with governments. Where's the push back? https://t.co/KVqbldtEb1
New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. https://t.co/4Q0bVOgMgf
Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research?
I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering!
To learn more: https://t.co/LDqjTva4Ed
🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at @UZH_en. Come work with me and @fgilardi at @IPZ_ch!
This is part of an #SNF project together with Dominik Hangartner and @gloriagennaro. Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️
https://t.co/tp64JVIzPL
🚨NOW OUT in @JEPS_ed🍾🥳🚨
➡️Short interventions circulated on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic by @SSTSundhed reduce intentions to share misinformation and boost people's feelings of competence
Paper: https://t.co/dS2ac9fR8O /w @LasseLindekilde@M_B_Petersen
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Interested in (mis)perceptions of economic inequality?
I am looking for a postdoc (3 years) to work with me on investigating how cognitive biases might be hindering our understanding of economic inequality and hinder support for redistribution
https://t.co/8TnAxgCi7g
I am deeply honored to receive this year's Solomon Asch Early Career Prize for my paper examining fans' responses to a social media scandal. Thank you to @SocialPsychBull!
Of course, I'm super grateful to my collaborators on this paper, Michelle Lim, and @SimoneSchnall!! 🙌🙌
Congratulations to Simon Tobias Karg for winning this year's Solomon Asch Early Career Prize 🏆 The awarded paper entitled "Followers Forever: Prior Commitment Predicts Post-Scandal Support of a Social Media Celebrity" was co-authored by Michelle Lim and @SimoneSchnall. 👏 [1/3]
Do you have a Twitter project that was canceled or changed? @transparenttech is conducting a survey to understand how research is impacted by changes to Twitter. To participate, please fill out this survey: https://t.co/8zYoPT6uwk #research#socialmedia#twitter
Knock, knock!
-Who’s there?
Just @TobiasWidmann & I checking in to see if this place still works 4 disseminating cool, new research
-So, what have you got?
A real banger abt when parties moralize!
-Sounds cool, but also: that’s it?
Ofc not, we also have a new text tool 2 share!👇🏻