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media psychologist | prof at @IWMTue | interests: knowledge-related (effects of) social media use, ambient awareness, human-machine communication, algorithm acceptance
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To clarify: This is for people with a master degree who want to pursue a PhD

I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...

The doctoral consortium is starting - looking forward to discussing the projects! #ica25 @icamobile.bsky.social #ica_cat

Also der Zug nach Tübingen ist schon ne halbe Stunde zu spät (beim daheim losfahren nur 13 Minuten) und als Ausgleich für die frustrierten Fahrgäste fährt er jetzt nur bis Reutlingen. So wird das nur war mir der #bahn

Did I already mention that I have a lovely team? @everydaymedialab.bsky.social back from 2 months lab visit in Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social (Homero Gil de Zuniga)

Zweiter Tag diese Woche ohne gemütliches Frühstück und ausreichend Kaffee, weil der 7:57 nicht fährt...

Did you know that #Skype will be shut down today? Here's an interview with our lab member Carolin, who's investigating how you can still keep in touch ✉️ with your #long-distance friends👭: www.spiegel.de/psychologie/...

Important because many studies on #algorithmicfairness only use one general fairness item or adapt measures from procedural fairness without considering issues like #groupdiscrimination. Our multidimensional measure addresses this problem; you can also use just one subscale depending on your RQ

Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖 May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields. jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

that was fun! Inspiring discussions about interesting talks today in #Salamanca Credibility of AI, Conversion Stories in Political Advertising and how Science gets attacked in Latin America in times of disinformation and populism

Still remember the first MediaPsych in Duisburg 2009 - I'm getting old ;-)

@irodriguezdedios.bsky.social cuando tienes tiempo

Next week - if you happen to be in/around Salamanca!

Trump hält sich für den ultimativen Dealmaker – doch Putin führt ihn am Nasenring durch die Manege. Während Russland weiter Krieg führt, verkauft Putin minimale Zugeständnisse als "historischen Fortschritt". Kein Wunder, dass Trump als Geschäftsmann so oft pleiteging.

The best thing at my current office in #Salamanca? I can see the stork from my window!

This was a cool experiment because we collaborated with a chatbot company - so real chatbot interactions but in a controlled field setting (not a vignette study)

Not good :-(

Mal wieder #explodierte eine #Elon #Rakete, diesmal flogen die Trümmer so nahe an Flugzeugen vorbei, dass es ein Glück war, das keines zerlöchert abstürzte. Dieses Video wurde aus einem dieser Flugzeuge aufgenommen. Scary shit! ⬇️

My office for the next two months is in one of the oldest universities in Europe - looking forward to interesting discussions on news-finds-me and ambient awareness with the lab of Homero Gil de Zuniga in #Salamanca

Trump's goal is NOT to make the economy strong. The tariffs & gov't cuts indicate a different strategy: Trump is trying to enrich the U.S. gov't (at the expense of taxpayers). Why? It's not for gov't programs. He's thinking about it as his own personal bank account. It's corruption, folks.

Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

#StellDirVor … … im Wahlkampf geht es um Fakten. Mit deiner Hilfe! Link: www.volksverpetzer.de/stell-dir-vo...

Worth noting that this was even before this administration took office – and is probably going to look a lot worse with the next update. 🔥

Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.

Critical funding is being cut for research that saves lives, helps the vulnerable and promotes a better society in the name of eliminating waste, but, sure, we can spend money on cyber trucks from a guy in charge of, checks notes, “eliminating government waste.”

Die Tatsache, dass das Thema #Klimakrise in einem sogenannten „TV-Duell“ zwischen zwei Kandidaten kein einziges Mal vorkam, offenbart ein öffentlich-rechtliches Medienversagen von epischem Ausmaß. @ARD und @ZFD werden ihrem Auftrag so nicht gerecht. 1/2

How did Americans defeat the fascists in the past, does anyone know? Asking for a worried nation.

🌍 Applications Open: CAIS #Fellowships in Bochum, Germany! Explore the social, cultural, or technical aspects of digitalization in a 3–6 month funded program. Enjoy private offices, rent-free housing & interdisciplinary exchange with experts worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: February 28, 2025 #Research

Don't miss out! 📣 Appliance for ZeMKIs Fellowship Program ends on January 31! Researchers are invited to Bremen to deepen and connect their research in the transformation of media, communication, and information. Secure your place now! For more information click here: zemki.uni-bremen.de/...

I asked DeepSeek three questions: - How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims? - Is Taiwan part of China? - What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s? Here are DeepSeek's answers:

"Both #OpenAccess 🔓 and #preprints 📝 are performing strongly on Bluesky 🦋 ... #arXiv is currently the most popular source of shared research, with the journals Nature, Nature Communications, and New England Journal of Medicine performing strongly ..." @altmetric.com

On my way to @zemki.bsky.social in Bremen; looking forward to discussions after my lecture tonight! zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/event/pro...

Hast du schon an unserer Youtube-Umfrage teilgenommen? Falls nicht: ich würde mich freuen - es dauert auch nicht lange! #mathe #wisskomm #bluelz #bluecampus

Dabei unterstützt ihr auch den gemeinsam von Christian und mir betreuten Bacheloranden!

Faktenchecks sind keine Zensur, auch Labels in Social Media sind keine. Mit diesem populistischen Vokabular wird unsere Arbeit seit Jahren diskreditiert. Niemand liefert handfeste Belege für unseren angeblichen Bias oder gar fehlerhafte Recherchen. Doch der Diskurs wurde erfolgreich verschoben.

Fully agree!

📍#Tbilisi, Day 31 of Pro-European #GeorgiaProtests 👫Chain of Unity for #Georgia: At 3:00 PM, citizens will gather on five main bridges in the capital. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Similar “Chains of Unity” will take place in cities across Georgia, as well as by Georgian diaspora across the world.

With “Tübingen Women in Machine Learning”, Claire Vernade and her team have created a local community. Their aim is to empower women and make them more visible. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/a-network... @twiml.bsky.social #TWiML #WiML