Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)

compcommlab.bsky.social

17 October 2026 09:13

🎓 CONGRATS to @julaluehring.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation on socio-affective dynamics in misinformation spread! 👏Thanks to advisors @anniewald.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & @hannahmetzler.bsky.social! Jula continues at GESIS as Senior Researcher. All the best for what’s next! 🥂

Johannes Breuer

johannesbreuer.com

14 October 2026 23:44

I was in Vienna for a little over 24hrs and am very satisfied with my intake of "süße Mehlspeisen": I had Kaiserschmarrn, Apfelstrudel, and Topfenknödel. I am less satisfied with my coffee intake: I had no Melange, Einspänner or Kapuziner. Gives me yet another reason to come back...

CSS Lab, LMU Munich

css-lmu.bsky.social

30 September 2026 11:33

A great week of international exchange and collaboration! 🇦🇺🇩🇪 Following a joint conference tour around our collaborative projects at SEASON and @ecreaeu.bsky.social conference, we had big fun to welcome colleagues from @qutdmrc.bsky.social to Munich at @lmu.de and @ifkw.bsky.social.

Petter Törnberg

pettertornberg.com

25 September 2026 07:37

Will AI give us a shared basis for political knowledge, or will Democrats and Republicans end up asking increasingly different chatbots? New preprint: We find a self-reinforcing loop that can pull AI models apart politically. We call it the Centrifugal Alignment Spiral 🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.28486

Christian Katzenbach

ckatzenbach.bsky.social

15 September 2026 23:52

"No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might." I have read quite a few good takes about the new wave of "our products are so powerful that they are getting too dangerous" discourse. But the best one is by @vdignum.bsky.social, I think.