So this happened. My wife and I became happy parents in Kyiv during the war with Russia. This thread describes our experience with maternity hospitals and logistics. A testament to my wife's strength and also to the government's capacity to provide public goods despite the war🧵

This is a very niche longshot question, but asking the Twitter hivemind anyway: What companies are good at running surveys in Latvia, Estonia or Lithuania? I am dreaming of running one single survey in both scandinavian and baltic states.

Want to do a PhD about the way search results influence people's knowledge and opinions? We at Social Computing Group in Zurich led by Ancsa Hannak have 2 PhD positions open! One is focused on algorithm auditing, another one on HCI, all details here ifi.uzh.ch/en/scg/jobs.ht…

Looking for a postdoc or a PhD position? This looks like an awesome project. Also working in Denmark is great.

V. happy to share that my article 'Does Election Fraud Erode Support for Autocrats?' has been accepted Comparative Political Studies

I examine how RUS voters update beliefs abt elections, the RUS regime, and Putin when exposed to fraud revelations

Here's a short-ish thread on the main findings

.ZacharyST presenting on how to measure effect of state & protester violence using computer vision & social media images Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science Incl. micro lecture on fine tuning CV algos & arguing for calling curvilinear effects n- not inverse-u shaped. h/t Yevgeniy Golovchenko for organizing.

📢 New preprint alert! We just published our (w Mykola Makhortykh) preprint on political bias in Large Language Models (LLMs). It's about ChatGPT, Bard and Bing Chat, political censorship, and Russia. Intrigued? Here is the link osf.io/q9v8f the summary is 👇 1/11

We're looking for an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Department of Communication Københavns Uni. Unlimited contract after 6 years, great environment, wonderful colleagues, and amazing city. Highly recommend! Deadline 22 Oct. employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/?… #AcademicTwitter

I have been less active these days due to work. Now working somewhere surrounded by a forest in Sweden in search for a new research idea. Thinking of new stuff is much harder than I remember : )

🚨Software Publication Alert🚨
This one is for you, text-analysis folks:

I am very happy to share the publication of my text annotation R-package 'handcodeR' 🥳, which is now available on CRAN. 🧵1/7

CRAN.R-project.org/package=handco…

#CRAN #rstats #TextAsData #TextAnnotation

Do voters tolerate undemocratic behavior by politicians with whom they share partisanship or policy preferences?

Delighted that my paper answering this question has received final acceptance from Journal of Politics @[email protected].

Last night's drone attacks on Moscow aren't being entirely ignored by the Russian state media (TV news bulletins have briefly reported on them, for example)

But tellingly, Olga Skabeyeva's 60 Minutes didn't mention them once during this morning's show (running time 2hr 30mins)

Slowly getting back into the media routine this Saturday morning after being away. This time on Danish TV2 News talking about RU coverage of the attacks in Rostov region as well as the logic behind RU propaganda more generally.

So exciting to _finally_ get to talk about the US 2020 FB and IG Election Project!

A few notes from my perspective as a methodological collaborator kind of on the border between the academic and the Meta teams. 🧵

A new special issue of Science investigates social media’s impact on elections through a pioneering collaboration between independent academics and Meta researchers.

Learn more: scim.ag/3vL #SocialMediaAndElections

🚨 New paper in HKS Misinformation Review 🚨

We surveyed 150 experts on misinformation and identified areas of expert consensus regarding definitions of misinformation, its determinants, solutions, and the future of the field.

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/a-surv…

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Today is publication day for the first 4 papers resulting from a unique collaboration between Meta researchers and outside academics to study the political effects of Facebook and Instagram in the 2020 U.S. election! 🧵 1/N