Divya Mani Adhikari

The SOUNDS initiative is hiring for 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻/ 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱
𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻/ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗸𝘂𝘀
𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝘀𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 (𝗺/𝘄/𝗱).

Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...

@ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social

The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) project is inviting applications for the following position:

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗳/𝗺/𝘅) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗿𝗲𝗳: 𝗪𝟮𝟴𝟬𝟭)
Paygrade: E13 TV-L 100%
Duration: 2 years

@ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de

We're #hiring: This time we're looking for a project lead assistant for our large-scale #compsocsci project SOUNDS!

Another day, another job ad: We're also looking for a student assistant for a new project at our chair!

#hiring

And another job ad: We're looking for four student assistants! #hiring

We are looking for a teamlead for our large-scale project SOUNDS!

#compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert

We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS!

Learn more: bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager

#compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert

GitHub - Societal-Computing/SICSS_Saarbruecken_2025: This repository contains all materials used in the SICSS summer school, 2025. This repository contains all materials used in the SICSS summer school, 2025. - Societal-Computing/SICSS_Saarbruecken_2025

The materials for the summer school are available here: github.com/Societal-Com...

On the second day of SICSS Saarbrücken, participants attended a lecture by @zsavvas90.bsky.social (TU Delft) on “𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴”, where he provided a deep dive into methods for analyzing multimodal content shared on social platforms.

Project analysing society and the economy with new data sources garners millions in state funding Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, b...

The amount of data available is greater than ever, yet remains mostly unused by social scientists & #PoliSci researchers. The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) aims to change that - and receives 29 million Euro in funding from Saarland's state gov!🎉

Read more: bit.ly/SoundsPM

🚨Job Alert
W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society"
@saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Thanks to Vikram Cannanure, @alexhartland.bsky.social, @ingmarweber.de and @i2sc.net .

In this work, we evaluated the potential of LLMs in generating survey questionnaires through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and pretesting through an LLM-simulated Pilot study.

Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires | Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

I am happy to share that our work titled "Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires" has been accepted to the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Conference 2025.

Check our work: doi.org/10.1145/3719...

@cui.acm.org #CUI2025 #ACM

Observatory of Online Politics - TikTok_2025 20.06.2025 While TikTok is becoming increasingly relevant among social media users, its role in elections remains understudied. The successful social media campaign targeting youth by the party Die L...

📢 New on the Observatory of Online Politics blog!

🎯 TikTok and its role in the 2025 German Elections
By @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & Ariq Suryo Hadi P.

Read more
politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/ti...

TEDx Saarbrigge – Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter - mehr bei Dock 11 Eine TEDx Veranstaltung am 14.6. zum Thema: Strategien für eine lebendige und stabile Demokratie im Angesicht digitaler Herausforderungen.

We are bringing TEDx to Saarbrücken. Join us on 14th June 2025 for interesting talks and discussions with Speakers from interdisciplinary fields.

📅When: June 14, 2025, 13:00 - 18:00 PM
📍Where: CoHub, Neumarkt 15, 66117 Saarbrücken

Signup for the event: dock11.saarland/events/tedx-...

Only 3 more days until the deadline!!! Apply now to SICSS Saarbrücken: sicss.io/2025/saarbru...

Team of researchers after a productive meeting

Great meeting today with the newest members of @o3pol.bsky.social! Excited to dive into cutting-edge research on online politics and explore how digital spaces shape political behavior. Stay tuned for more!

Porträtfoto mit Bäumen im Hintergrund

Lügen lohnt sich: Wer im Internet die Unwahrheit sagt, hat oft Erfolg in der Politik. Über längere Zeiträume sind die Folgen von Falschaussagen noch nicht wissenschaftlich beobachtet worden. Dies will die „Beobachtungsstelle für Online-Politik“ an der Saar-Uni ändern (© privat): tinyurl.com/2339gxbz

Are you interested in Computational Social Science? The Saarbrücken Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science is now open for applications. Two weeks of lectures, keynote presentations, networking, and more. Check out sicss.io/2025/saarbru... for more details. Deadline April 25, 2025.

Observatory of Online Politics - 19.02.2025 19.02.2025 In the next few days, Germans will choose their next government, which will have to navigate a complex polycrisis. While every election is important because it determines the path the count...

Elections 2021 vs. 2025: The Normalization of Disinformation

Two days before the German election, I’m sharing an article from our Observatory of Online Politics on how democracy's resilience against disinformation in 2021 may no longer be enough in 2025.

politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/19...

In 4 days we will have elections in Germany... What can we learn about parties' social media activity during rhe campaign? The great @alexhartland.bsky.social tell us more about it.

🖊️New blogpost🖊️

Ahead of the German elections next Sunday, what can we learn about the parties’ online presence? Despite the efforts of some platforms, we are not completely in the dark.

Thanks to Bluesky's open API, we know Green and Die Linke MdBs are unsurprisingly increasingly active here.

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Bevorzugte Twitter die Tweets rechter Politiker? Internationale Studie dazu endet unfreiwillig 2023

Bevorzugte Twitter die Tweets rechter Politiker? Internationale Studie dazu endet unfreiwillig 2023

The recording for this talk is now available here: youtu.be/Hy4IFZnwyFI

New publication alert!

We look at how engagement received by parties and politicians in 12 countries shifted after Musk took over the platform and until June 2023.

Check it out at journalqd.org/article/view....

@ingmarweber.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @giucarny.bsky.social

Check out this new work by @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social and team from I2SC!

Join us tomorrow (Friday, January 24th) for the final talk in the I2SC Lecture Series for this semester by Kiran Garimella from 12:00-13:00 in building E 1.7, Room 3.23.

traveling to Luxembourg today --> giving a talk on Friday in Saarbrücken at the Saarland University Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing --> hanging out in Paris for the weekend

Please join for the talk if you're nearby!

Join us tomorrow (Friday, January 10th) for the fifth talk in the I2SC Lecture Series (and the first in 2025!) by @mariaa.bsky.social from 12:00-13:00 in building E 1.7, Room 3.23.