@simanfication

🎓 Assistant Prof at Political Science @AarhusUni Interested in political hate and counter speech on social media & all things moral psych. https://xitter.cf/t.co/HJwLdwXlX3

Joined April 2015
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Happy to be on the 🦣! Find me @SKarg@fosstodon.org
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🇪🇺 Yesterday the draft delegated act on data access under the DSA was published! After taking some time to read the draft act I would like to share my 5 main take-aways from a researcher perspective: a 🧵 #EU #DSA #DataAccess #DigitalGovernance #Regulation #CSS #PolComm
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Prolific
@Prolific30 Sep 2024
Representative samples are free forever! 🎉 You read that right. We’ve made representative samples and political representative samples on our platform FREE for researchers indefinitely. You can find out how it works at prolific.com 🔗
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Platforms know about hate speech, and accept trusted reports of it, but frequently fail to act, breaking their agreements with governments. Where's the push back? en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/Ne…

Study: Social media platforms fail to remove illegal hate speech

Preliminary results from an EU-supported project shows that most reported hate speech on social media is either not removed or left unanswered. Researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen are a...

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"Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem" by @tmh_phd, @LasseLindekilde, @simanfication, @M_B_Petersen & Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #OpenAccess

Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem

Hate is widespread online, hits everyone, and carries negative consequences. Crowd moderation—user-assisted moderation through, e. g., reporting or counter-speech—is heralded as a potential remedy....

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Mike Burnham@ML_Burn4 Sep 2024
New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078
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@skairam1 Aug 2024
Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research? I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering! To learn more: reddit.com/r/reddit4research…

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Explore this post and more from the reddit4researchers community

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🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at @UZH_en. Come work with me and @fgilardi at @IPZ_ch! This is part of an #SNF project together with Dominik Hangartner and @gloriagennaro. Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️ ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/offe…
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🚨NOW OUT in @JEPS_ed🍾🥳🚨 ➡️Short interventions circulated on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic by @SSTSundhed reduce intentions to share misinformation and boost people's feelings of competence Paper: cup.org/3QcmSwc /w @LasseLindekilde @M_B_Petersen 🧵 1/6
Cambridge University Press - Politics@CUP_PoliSci22 Apr 2024
#OpenAccess from @JEPS_ed - Public Health Communication Reduces #COVID19 Misinformation Sharing and Boosts Self-Efficacy - cup.org/3QcmSwc - @jrpsau, @LasseLindekilde & @M_B_Petersen #FirstView
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Interested in (mis)perceptions of economic inequality? I am looking for a postdoc (3 years) to work with me on investigating how cognitive biases might be hindering our understanding of economic inequality and hinder support for redistribution international.au.dk/about/pr…

Postdoctoral position in the “Understanding (mis)perceptions of economic inequality as a way to...

Vacancy at Department of Management, Aarhus University

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Eine Top-Beamtin des Bundesfinanzministeriums gibt Steuertricks an Superreiche weiter: Zur ZDF-Doku #Milliardenspiel #SZPlus sz.de/1.6317761?utm_source=T…

„Milliardenspiel“ im ZDF: Ooops, Herr Lindner

Gerda Hofmann, Top-Beamtin des Bundesfinanzministeriums, gibt Steuertricks an Superreiche weiter: Zur ZDF-Doku „Milliardenspiel“.

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I am deeply honored to receive this year's Solomon Asch Early Career Prize for my paper examining fans' responses to a social media scandal. Thank you to @SocialPsychBull! Of course, I'm super grateful to my collaborators on this paper, Michelle Lim, and @SimoneSchnall!! 🙌🙌
Social Psychological Bulletin@SocialPsychBull23 Sep 2023
Congratulations to Simon Tobias Karg for winning this year's Solomon Asch Early Career Prize 🏆 The awarded paper entitled "Followers Forever: Prior Commitment Predicts Post-Scandal Support of a Social Media Celebrity" was co-authored by Michelle Lim and @SimoneSchnall. 👏 [1/3]
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I'm on the job market, fishing for postdocs or more, available early 2024. Please RT! 🔥
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Do you have a Twitter project that was canceled or changed? @transparenttech is conducting a survey to understand how research is impacted by changes to Twitter. To participate, please fill out this survey: shorturl.at/rzL26 #research #socialmedia #twitter
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Knock, knock! -Who’s there? Just @TobiasWidmann & I checking in to see if this place still works 4 disseminating cool, new research -So, what have you got? A real banger abt when parties moralize! -Sounds cool, but also: that’s it? Ofc not, we also have a new text tool 2 share!👇🏻
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Med støtte fra @ERC_Research skal professor i statskundskab @LasseLindekilde stå i spidsen for et projekt, der skal forbedre tonen i debatten på sociale medier. Fra AU deltager også @simanfication, @tmh_phd og @jrpsau bss.au.dk/aarhus-bss-nyheder… #dkforsk #dkpol #ERCPoC
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