📬 Questions?
Reach out to:
Dr. Tommaso Caselli – [email protected]
Dr. Marc Esteve Del Valle – [email protected]
Admin: Marjolein Talsma – [email protected]
📌 Position Details:
🕒 Duration: 4 years
🎓 Teaching: 0.4 FTE (Years 2–4)
📅 Deadline: 2 September 2025
🏛️ Funded by the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen
💡 As a PhD candidate, you will:
✅ Develop LLM tools for misinformation detection & correction
✅ Study the link between misinformation & online polarization
✅ Test argumentation-driven language models to counter false narratives
🔎 Project Focus:
Use large language models (LLMs) to detect & correct climate misinformation on social media and reduce polarization.
🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert!
Help depolarize climate discourse with Argumentative Language Models 🌍💬
Join the project DeCODA-LM at the University of Groningen!
🧵 Details in the thread 👇
🔗 Apply: rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us…
Buena entrevista de @josebaelola a @Slavojiek en el @ElPais. Me quedo con ganas de saber más sobre las implicaciones que puede tener el axioma "estado de emergencia" para la democracia y cuáles podrían ser las mejores formas de afrontarlo
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1/ 🚨 New publication in First Monday!
Excited to share my first article is out:
“Who is sharing the news? Identity construction of news sharers on Dutch-language Twitter”
📄 DOI: doi.org/10.5210/fm.v30i5.137…
🧵Thread with key findings 👇
Replying to @sustaintheconvo
Congrats Hanna! I look forward to reading it!
Marc Esteve Del Valle retweeted
My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Marc Esteve Del Valle retweeted
📢NEW EDITED BOOK
The *Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies* is now available online (print in Dec)!
Edited by @seldridge @DavidCheruiyot @BanjacSandra & @joelleswart this 2nd Edition brings together a collection of 54 original essays from academics across the globe.
Huge congratulations Hanne! Welcome to Academia. Unfortunately I could not make it because I'm at ECREA. Welcome to Academia. Let's catch up soon.
Marc Esteve Del Valle retweeted
¿Sabes cuáles son las principales tendencias en la #desinformación climática? Descubre cómo el negacionismo y el retardismo están afectando a nuestra percepción del #CambioClimático. @NetMev profundiza en estas cuestiones👇
📌 learntocheck.org/item/proteg…
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Also, thanks to the Digital Humanities Centre (@aasmanna ), the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies, and the ICOG at @FacultyofArtsUG for supporting the event. Finally many thanks to Silvia Donker for her excellent work in co-coordinating the workshop!
Many thanks to @gruzd and @PhMai, Co-directors of the @SMLabTO at @TorontoMet for coming to the @Univgroningen to deliver a workshop on conducting topic analysis via using @Communalytic
Marc Esteve Del Valle retweeted
According to this article of @berberhagedoorn, @elisax00 & @NetMev, during COVID-19 lockdowns, visual content on WhatsApp helped urban Europeans (25–49) blend news with personal interaction, fostering togetherness and coping with crisis.
➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing David and congratulations @IrisMarijkeBaas. Enjoy #ICA24
A very engaging journalism studies panel at #ica24, with @IrisMarijkeBaas brilliantly unpacking the relationship between Twitter news sharing and self-identity, based on a study done with @MJBroersma, @NetMev, and @tommaso_caselli, all from @univgroningen.











