Marko Bachl
communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
- Sad :'(
- attention ever who wants to travel to @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marko Bachldplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
- You should all absolutely read this paper by @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Miriam Siemon.
- Super example for the value of descriptive research. Also very nice presentation
- Short announcement before the data get too old: ccsmainz.github.io/platformnews/. With 571 news outlets on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram across 46 countries, matching the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR. Computational analyses on topics, platformization, diversity, etc. Feedback welcome.
- Read this paper, it's good
- Don't know anything about the presentation, but amazing title chart
- I had the absolute pleasure to visit @craicexeter.bsky.social, where I laid out an argument for how critical & computational scholars should lead the conversation on AI. We need to expand research on harms, interrogate corporate hype, and support people’s critical understanding these technologies
- Now that 5/5 day seems to have moved almost completely to Linkedin, it seems like a good time for me to quit academic social media. #ica26
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- Best news zum Jahresauftakt :)
- 🎉 Die DFG hat eine Emmy Noether-Gruppe am Weizenbaum-Institut bewilligt. Das Projekt „Ortsbasierte Themenöffentlichkeiten: Die Neuordnung lokaler Öffentlichkeiten in einer digitalisierten und globalisierten Welt“ wird von Daniela Stoltenberg aufgebaut & geleitet. Mehr im Interview.: buff.ly/fPX0cLp
- this is true, and truly sad :(
- Best holiday letter received until now
- Look, it is our special issue :)
- One of the best places to do computational communication work
- 📍 Location: Munich 📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026 ⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026 Details: German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6... English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
- Reposted by Marko Bachl📍 Location: Munich 📅 Start: 1 Apr 2026 ⏳ Apply by: 31 Jan 2026 Details: German: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6... English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
- For example, in case you wonder whether it is still ok to use self-reports of media exposure, you can now cite me for saying "yes, sure" - doi.org/10.4337/9781... Preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
- After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
- You should absolutely apply to work with @dstoltenberg.bsky.social on this important project!
- 📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
- TIL about a new form of fraudulent academic publishing. A student pointed me to this article in the repository of the University of Limerick, doi.org/10.34961/res..., asking whether it is a credible source.
- PSA: If you have somewhat chaotic folder and project structures in RStudio or Quarto projects, don't update {here} to 1.0.2: github.com/r-lib/here/i... Broke my lecture materials website (presentation project within book project) and cost me an hour of sleep to figure out what went wrong. #rstats
- Come visit us in Berlin
- Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/
- This semester, I am teaching the third iteration of my "Content Analysis with Generative LLMs" class. For the first time, I am using a local cloud infrastructure, supported by the de.NBI infrastructure, instead of the OpenAI API. They published my testimonial here: cloud.denbi.de/about/testim...
- As sad as it is to read another LLM-generated student proposal, at least TIL that LLMs have deeply internalized this classic PDH comic, at least the colon part: phdcomics.com/comics/archi...
- Reposted by Marko BachlAfter a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
- New CRAN package traktok with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=traktok
- Reposted by Marko Bachl#DataMethods #OpenScience #GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences. methodshub.gesis.org/
- Happy start of the Berlin (German) Vorlesungszeit to all who celebrate!
- Also available in English: www.rki.de/EN/Topics/In...
- Interesting page to watch today: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
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- Reposted by Marko Bachl🎉 As of today, September 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer heads the "Research Data & Methods" team at CAIS. Together with the University of Duisburg-Essen, he has been appointed Professor of Digital Social Sciences. 🎉 🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/news/joha... @johannesbreuer.com @unidue.bsky.social
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- Very nice location for our 4th DiMES workshop today with @audreyalejandro.bsky.social. Thanks to @jojukao.bsky.social for organizing and @dennmis.bsky.social for setting us up in Villa Engler @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...
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- This paper seems relevant, claiming (per title) "AI-assisted audio-learning improves academic achievement through motivation and reading engagement" (doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...). Yet, excluding half of the treatment for not listening to the podcast seems like a problem, no?
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