mastodon 4.7.3GESIS is a research-based infrastructure institution for the social sciences and conducts its own continuous and interdisciplinary research in four major research areas. The results of our research serve both to gain scientific knowledge and to sustainably improve our offerings for the social sciences. With more than 300 employees at two locations - Mannheim and Cologne - GESIS provides essential and internationally relevant research-based services for the social sciences.
📣Ausschreibung des Dissertationspreises 🏆
Die Sektion Frauen- und #Geschlechterforschung in der DGS vergibt den Preis für eine herausragende #Dissertation 2026 auf dem 43. Soziologie-Kongress in Mainz.
Lena Weber, Teamleiterin des #CEWS bei GESIS, nimmt bis 📅 31.5.26 die Nominierungen entgegen, Selbstnominierung möglich.
Alle Infos hier: 👉 https://sociohub-fid.de/s/frauen-und-geschlechterforschung/custom_pages/view?id=213
#MeetTheExperts #mte #GESISGuides
Don't forget our upcoming "Meet the Experts" online talk by Dr. Aline Heller who will provide guidance on survey mode transitions in a repeated cross-sectional setting.
23.04.2026 (THU), 13:00-14:00 (CET) - Register now!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Awlc-zYSSI2BJl4FvYhSog
#bundestagswahl #btw25
In case you missed: Now available: Social Media Accounts of Candidates from the German Federal Election 2025
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14694
Coming soon: Data on candidates’ social media posting activities (stay tuned!)
#GESISblog #blog #dataspotlight #COVID-19 #TGCPD #Telegram
New on the GESIS Blog: Data Spotlight #9 introduces the “Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset (TGCPD)” - Compiled by researchers from the University of Munich, FU Berlin, and the TU Ilmenau, the dataset documents the mobilization of German-speaking protest movements on Telegram between 2020 and 2022.
2026 David Howell Award for Best Conference Paper Using #CSES Data
The David Howell Award ($250 honorarium) recognizes the outstanding conference paper presented during 2025 that makes substantial use of CSES data. Named in honor of David Howell, former CSES Director of Studies, the award celebrates his more than 20 years of leadership in developing CSES into a premier global resource for comparative electoral research.
#GESISblog #blog #Datenspenden #datadonations #Erhebungsmethode
Der neue Beitrag im GESIS Blog beschäftigt sich mit Datenspenden als Erhebungsmethode und beleuchtet die Potentiale und Herausforderungen dieser neuen Strategie der Datengewinnung.
https://blog.gesis.org/datenspenden-als-erhebungsmethode-neue-wege-zu-digitalen-verhaltensdaten/
#gutenachrichten #goodnews #evaluierung
GESIS erhält sehr gute Bewertung bei der Leibniz-Evaluierung
Bei der turnusmäßigen Evaluation wurde GESIS durch eine unabhängige Expert*innengruppe des Senats der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft bewertet. Das Ergebnis: GESIS erhielt eine herausragende Beurteilung und wurde für die positive Entwicklung seit der letzten Evaluierung gelobt.
Zur Pressemeldung: https://t1p.de/heh2o
Zum Wortlaut der Stellungnahme des Leibniz-Senats: https://t1p.de/k87o9
#onlinesurvey #RDM #ResearchDataManagement
The RDM Compas team (#KonsortSWD) would like to invite you to participate in an online survey on skills, needs and further training requirements in research data management (RDM) among RDM staff.
You can access the survey here: https://sosci.rlp.net/rdm_compas_demands_survey/
#DigitalServicesAct #DigitalPlatform
Check out this interesting #blog post by von Johannes Gruber, Yannik Peters, and Katrin Weller: Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (#DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms
#cometoGESIS #workwithus #Gastforschungsaufenthalt #researchvisit
New Call for Junior Researcher online
We invite Ph.D. students and early career postdocs to come to GESIS. Visiting researchers of the Junior Research Program are involved in our research to publish with GESIS staff, and to develop research ideas and joint projects.
#GESISblog #blog #Twitter #X #SocialMedia
To mark the 20th anniversary of Twitter/X, we conducted a fascinating interview with Prof. Axel Bruns about the network’s tumultuous history.
"Twitter became a new battleground in ideological struggles around the world."
https://blog.gesis.org/interview-with-prof-axel-bruns-the-anniversary-of-twitter-x-marks-a-bittersweet-moment-in-social-media-history/
#Twitter #X #SocialMediaResearch #digitalbehavioraldata
20 Years of Twitter/X – An Exciting Field of Research for the Social Sciences
“just setting up my twttr” – The first tweet that co-founder Jack Dorsey posted on the newly created platform on March 21, 2006, has since become world-famous. Over the following 20 years, Twitter/X evolved into such an important and central platform for communication and interaction that it has long since become a subject of social science research.
#ISSP #Data #NationalIdentity #Citizenship
Final release ISSP Data on National Identity and Citizenship out now!
ISSP 2023 - "National Identity and Citizenship" https://doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA10010.1.0.0
Combines the best from two modules…
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) has conducted a survey that sheds light on attitudes, opinions, and behavior related to National Identity and Citizenship across six continents.
#gesisreport #news
The current gesis #newsletter is out now: Just read it online...
https://www.gesis.org/institut/presse-und-medien/gesis-report/gesis-report-03/26
...or subscribe and get a monthly email newsletter:
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
https://youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg
We offer a job as a Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science with a focus on AI agents
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 75 %, limited for four years).
https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2594220?language=de&display=en
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
https://youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg
We offer a job as a #PostDoc for the Development of #Training in Empirical Social Research Methods
(Salary group 13 TV-L, 100% full-time position, initially limited to 4 years)
https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2586984?language=de&display=en
#ISSP #Data #Family #GenderRoles
Cumulated ISSP Data on “Family and Changing Gender Roles” out now!
ISSP 1988/1994/2002/2012/2022 – “Family and Changing Gender Roles I-V – Cumulation” https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14750
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) has conducted a series of surveys shedding light on respondents’ attitudes, opinions, and behavior related to Family and Changing Gender Roles across six continents.
#study #nature
Large-Scale Study Finds Conclusions Often Diverge When Hundreds of Researchers Reanalyze the Same Data
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9
In this large-scale int. collaboration, nearly 500 independent analysts examined the same datasets and frequently arrived at different conclusions.
