Johannes Breuer
LightNews LightNews
banner
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Johannes Breuer
@johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
44 followers 2 following 82 posts
Professor of Digital Social Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen and head of the team Research Data & Methods @CAISnrw.

Interested in the uses and […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fediscience.org/@JohannesBreuer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 13
Together with Silke Fürst, @strippel, Erik Koenen, Dimitri Prandner, and Christian Schwarzenegger, I am editing a special issue on "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies" in the journal "Media and Communication". Abstracts are due in the 1st half of […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Really cool new tool by @Yannik_Peters93 et al. for checking inconsistencies in social media data sets:
https://shiny.gesis.org/datcha/
October 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Dritte Runde des Show-und-Tell-Formats zu “KI in der Kommunikationswissenschaft”: Online am 27.11. (Fr.) von 13:00–14:00 mit Sonja Utz, Daniel Possler und Felix Dietrich:
Weitere Infos & Anmeldung:
https://forms.gle/6WDzApQbXQP35otB7
September 23, 2026 at 2:14 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Join our hybrid symposium "More than compliance checks and harm prevention? The work of ethics committees in the social and behavioral sciences in a changing research landscape" on Nov 25 (13:00–15:30 CET)!

Keynote by @lakens
+ roundtable w/ Hella von Unger & Christian Merz.

📍@CAISnrw
(Bochum […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
September 16, 2026 at 8:59 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
New discussion paper published in Nature Human Behavior: "Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences"
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02570-w
#reproducibility
September 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
According to my GitHub stats I am a 87-rated CAM ⚽💻

get scouted →
https://gitfut.com/jobreu
GitFut — your GitHub, rated out of 99
Rate any GitHub profile out of 99 as a FIFA-Ultimate-Team-style player card, scored from real commits, stars and contributions. Get scouted and share your card.
gitfut.com
July 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
New preprint: "A Framework for Reproducible AI-Assisted Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences"
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xdtqh_v1
#reproducibility #metascience #OpenScience
May 19, 2026 at 12:34 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
I feel you, ChatGPT!
And the new album by Nekrogoblikon does not help...
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-became-so-obsessed-with-goblins-that-openai-had-to-intervene-a6644e66
May 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned. https://german.millermanschool.com/
Screenshot of the German vs Autistic test. The result is 51% German, 40% Autistic. The Wittgenstein result.
April 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
New paper by Philipp Darius, Jasmin Riedl, Felicia Loecherbach, @meinungsfuehrer , Sebastian Stier, and me in Internet Policy Review: "Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act" […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
February 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
#computationalsocialscience #commodon […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
From Clawdbot/Moltbook/Openclaw to Moltbook to this within a few days. We live in interesting times (when it comes to technology).
https://rentahuman.ai/
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.
rentahuman.ai
February 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Lobbyverbände zum CDU-"Wirtschaftsrat":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQyQLs2THM
February 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Not sure if fun experiment or the beginning of Sky net 🤔
https://www.moltbook.com/
Moltbook
Moltbook (www.moltbook.com) 11:55  ↑ 114 HN Points
www.moltbook.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
caisnrw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🌱💻 Bits & Bäume NRW 2026 | Jetzt anmelden!
Wie kann Digitalisierung in NRW nachhaltig und sozial gerecht gestaltet werden? Wir laden Euch ein, diese Fragen zu diskutieren und gemeinsam ins Handeln zu kommen. Am 5. & 6. März treffen sich im Makerspace der […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"

George Orwell, 1984
January 25, 2026 at 8:46 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

George Orwell, 1984
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Brilliant piece: "What matters is not the books themselves, but the thinking they reward. They cultivate a taste for compression over depth, for transferable lessons over context, for confidence over uncertainty. They attract people who want the world to be legible in a handful of rules, who […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 23, 2026 at 8:40 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
It is time to bring back this classic. Insert AI!
https://xkcd.com/1289/
Simple Answers
xkcd.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
New @GESIS data set publication: "Social Media Accounts of German Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025"
https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14694
January 15, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Es ist jetzt sehr kurzfristig, aber am kommenden Freitag, dem 16.01., gebe ich von 9:15 bis 10:45 Uhr eine kurze Online-Fortbildung mit dem Titel „Die Anwendung von R für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften: Warum und wie?”. Die Fortbildung wird von der Universität Leipzig organisiert und […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Postdoc position in #computationalsocialscience / sociology at University of Duisburg-Essen:
https://www.uni-due.de/karriere/stelle.php?kennziffer=664-25

EG 13 TV-L for three years

Focus: independent and collaborative research with a focus on the use of LLMs/AI for reconstructive qualitative […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Rats in a haze 🐀💨
"Identifying behavioral and biological predictors of cannabis vapor self-administration in rats"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02286-x.epdf
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Came across this via Julia Rohrer on Bluesky. Great tool to #checkyourprivileges . Would also be super-interesting to factor in some personal demographic variables. What if you were born male/female or 10 years earlier/later?
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
kudusch.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy
If everyone's doing it, why shouldn't your #terminal get its own year in review?

#terminal_wrapped: A little #rstats #quarto experiment that reads your .zsh_history, .bash_history, .fish_history, or any other shell history file and produces an html report […]

[Original post on social.tchncs.de]
A screenshot of a webpage with the title "Terminal Wrapped". The first thing visible is a colorful column chart showing terminal usage over time. A column chart with the title "Your Top Commands in 2025". The chart shows that 'l' is the most used command, followed by 'git status' and 'cd Desktop'. A chart that shows at what time of day the terminal was used. It shows a distribution of usage across weekday and time of day (0–24 hours). There is a gap between 3 and 10 o'clock and low activity on weekends.
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
johannesbreuer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Duo is heel trots op mij 🇳🇱🦉
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM