Dear all, hi (apologies for potential cross-posting)
I hope you are well and having a great summer. I am emailing you to kindly ask that you distribute the position description (see below) for a post-doctoral position for my ERC Consolidator. As before (and thank you!), I would greatly
appreciate it if you could please forward this call below to as many contacts, students, listserves, social media, etc. as you can. I want to maximize the chances that there will be interest. The position is for 2 or 3 years, flexible start and location, and
with a high salary.
Thank you so much in advance for sharing it with your contacts (current / recent graduates? Any folks that didn’t make the cut for positions/openings you had?)
Have a great day and i look forward to seeing you all hopefully soon 😊
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Competition for a Postdoc for the ERC research project (Computer Science, Computational Social Science /
Application deadline: 15 August 2026)
Are you an expert in computational social science or computer science? Do you specialize in ML or LLMs, software development, and innovative online experiments? Are you interested in social media, their recommendation algorithms, polarization,
and misinformation?
We invite applications for the position of a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Social Sciences, University of Warsaw for the ERC NEWSUSE project (PI Magdalena Wojcieszak).
The project explores how to incentivize exposure to quality and verified political news and information online to minimize polarization, misinformation, extremism, etc. The project includes experiments on mock platforms, social media field
experiments, and computer and data science methods. The project may also entail algorithmic audits of social media platforms using automated sock puppets and prompt engineering. You will shape the specific questions and designs, and to envision and implement
innovative technological solutions to increase the external validity of these designs.