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PhD candidate at DZHW &
@unihannover.bsky.social
| web survey methodology & digital trace data
🚨 Last chance to register for tomorrow's
#CS3Meeting
! 🚨 👉 Sign up to learn more about
#APIs
in
#CSS
with a particular focus on
#reproducibility
. Free registration is open until the end of today:
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
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2 days ago
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Sign up‼️ And learn from Johanna Hölzl about her outstanding research on API-based data⬇️
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📢 Register now!! 📢 Join Johanna Hölzl for our next
#CS3Meeting
on May 19, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about the generalizability, reliability, and validity of
#APIs
(e.g.,
#YouTube
@nytimes.com
) and their implications for reproducibility in
#CSS
. 🚨 Sign up here:
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
8 days ago
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German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)
23 days ago
New paper using GLES data 👇
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
23 days ago
New paper out with
@antonialang.bsky.social
in
@electoralstudies.bsky.social
📣 Why is support for the Alternative for Germany often high in low-diversity rural areas, while ethnically diverse cities show mixed patterns? Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📢📢 Last chance to sign up for the next
#CS3Meeting
📢📢 Free registration is open until tomorrow evening 👉
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
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🚨 Upcoming
#CS3Meeting
🚨
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
talks about processing and analyzing audio data on April 22, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn more about how to gain insights from audio files, automated transcriptions, and text-as-data methods! 🎙️🎧📊 Sign up now:
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Sign up⬇️ and learn how to protect the scientific integrity of your web-based studies🛡 See you in Cologne👋
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GESIS Training
about 1 month ago
Bots in web surveys - threat or opportunity? 🤖 In our
#GESISsummerschool
course, learn how bots operate, how to detect and prevent them, and even how to use them for pretesting, all while considering ethics and data integrity. Info & registration ➡️
t1p.de/GSS26-C8
#LLMs
#websurveys
@gesis.org
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Conrad Ziller
3 months ago
📢 Our study (w
@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social
) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in
@pvs-journal.bsky.social
📖
doi.org/10.1007/s116...
👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success ❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success
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Politische Vierteljahresschrift
3 months ago
Do voters vote strategically to prevent the AfD from winning a direct mandate? Short answer: yes. Long answer: read now in a new open access paper by Sven Hillen and
@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Blocking the Radical Right: Evidence from Strategic Candidate Voting Against the AfD in Germany’s 2025 Federal Election - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
This paper examines strategic candidate voting against radical-right parties, focusing on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany’s 2025 federal election. Germany has long been considered “hard g...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11615-026-00648-8
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DVPW
3 months ago
Neu im
#DVPWblog
: Sven Hillen
@sfb1472.uni-siegen.de
und Jessica Kuhlmann
@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social
zeigen zur Bundestagswahl 2025: In engen Wahlkreisen wurde die Erststimme strategisch gegen die AfD gebündelt – besonders von politisch Interessierten. 👉
www.dvpw.de/blog/blockie...
#PoWi
#BTW2025
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🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next
#CS3Meeting
🚨 Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). 🗓️ Sign up until Tuesday (January 27):
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
4 months ago
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🚨 Upcoming
#CS3Meeting
🚨 Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). A great chance to learn how to enrich web surveys with digital data, such as images! 👉 Sign up now:
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
4 months ago
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
4 months ago
Great paper
@jclaass.bsky.social
‼️ Well done🤓😎 Check out our prediction models on
@harvarddataverse.bsky.social
for detecting bots in your web survey⬇️
doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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#Bots
and
#LLMs
threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning
#BERT
. New
#OpenAccess
article with
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
@rubac.bsky.social
@carohaensch.bsky.social
. 👉
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
4 months ago
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Jan Karem Höhne
4 months ago
Last call📢📢 Don't be late😉 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join
@floriankeusch.bsky.social
@peterlugtig.bsky.social
#BellaStruminskaya
#MelanieRevilla
and me. APPLY APPLY APPLY📮⬇️
massworkshop.org
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Joshua Claassen
Empirical Political Science #Duisburg
4 months ago
Wie konnte die
#AfD
bei den
#Integrationsratswahlen
2025 in NRW ausgerechnet unter Wähler:innen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte große Erfolge erzielen? 🤔 (1/2)
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
4 months ago
Gentle reminder📢📢 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join
@floriankeusch.bsky.social
@peterlugtig.bsky.social
#BellaStruminskaya
#MelanieRevilla
and me. Check out the call⬇️ and apply‼️
massworkshop.org
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
4 months ago
📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review. “Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”.
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
5 months ago
(1/3) 💫New open-access article on trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds in International Review of Sociology. “Understanding trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds – a latent profile approach”.
doi.org/10.1080/0390...
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🚨 A recent
@pnas.org
article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys. Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new
#OpenAccess
article with
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
#bwolf
, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections. 🌐
doi.org/10.1080/1364...
5 months ago
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🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next
#CS3Meeting
🚨 Zaza Zindel talks about Social media as a tool for survey recruitment on November 25, 03:15 to 04:00 PM (CET). 🗓️ Sign up until Monday:
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
6 months ago
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📢 New insights on
#GenAI
interviewing agents asking sensitive open questions compared to a text-based web survey. Answers to male agent include more topics, but no evidence of social desirability. 👉 New
#OpenAccess
paper with
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
#cneuert
in
#IJMR
. 🌐
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
6 months ago
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Joshua Claassen
Conrad Ziller
7 months ago
🗳️ New study (w
@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social
) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)
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Ever wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐 👉 Check out our new
@jssam.bsky.social
paper together with
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social
testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of
#FinalCommentQuestions
. 🌐
academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...
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Asking for Feedback: Innovating Final Comment Questions in Self-Administered Web Surveys
Abstract. Web surveys frequently include so-called “final comment questions” (FCQs) to provide respondents the opportunity to express their experiences wit
https://academic.oup.com/jssam/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jssam/smaf018/8304379?redirectedFrom=fulltext
7 months ago
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Georg Ahnert
7 months ago
Thrilled to talk about how seemingly small decisions in silicon sampling can have a large impact on simulated survey responses 👀 Join us on Oct 29th! 👈
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🚨 Upcoming
#CS3Meeting
🚨
@wanlo.bsky.social
talks about analytic flexibility in silicon samples on October 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM CET). Great opportunity to gain novel insights into how survey responses can be generated with
#LLMs
. Sign up now:
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
7 months ago
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🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥 👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest. Check out our new
#OpenAccess
paper with
#tlenzner
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
@conradziller.bsky.social
in
#mda
. 🌐
doi.org/10.12758/mda...
7 months ago
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🚨🚨 Application deadline ends tomorrow! We're hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science at DZHW (Hannover, Germany). Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision. 👉 Apply here:
karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...
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📢One week left to apply! DZHW is hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science (Hannover). Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision. I'd apply myself if I weren't already on the team🤓 👉
karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...
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7 months ago
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8 months ago
🚨🚨Attention please!! I'm looking for a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science at DZHW in Hannover (Germany). Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary research setting and with an excellent supervision. Apply now⬇️
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
9 months ago
Looking forward to my first
@ecpr.bsky.social
conference! 💫 📣 On Wednesday, I will present joint work with
@ackermannk.bsky.social
on attitudes toward noncitizen voting. 📣 On Friday, I will present results from my interviews with local politicians in the US. Excited to meet everyone!
#ECPRgc25
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
11 months ago
I’m presenting my paper on political trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds today at
#EPSA2025
(
@epsanet.bsky.social
). Come join us at 11.20 in room -1.A.04! 📣
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
11 months ago
❕📣 My first paper is now published! “They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA. It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.
doi.org/10.1007/s121...
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Johannes Breuer
11 months ago
Thanks to
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
&
@jclaass.bsky.social
for inviting me! The slides from my CS3 Lab presentation on "Ethical questions in research with digital trace data" are now available here:
jkhoehne.eu/cs3-lab/
#computationalsocialscience
#researchethics
#digitaltraces
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- Dr. Jan Karem Höhne
CS3 lab for Computational Survey and Social Science is an interdisciplinary group of researchers from various fields, such as social
https://jkhoehne.eu/cs3-lab/
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Leaving Berlin after an inspiring
#GOR25
! Great discussions on
#web
#tracking
&
#bot
#detection
, and a fantastic
#GOR
#party
. Already excited for next year!
about 1 year ago
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Joshua Claassen
Jessica Kuhlmann
about 1 year ago
💬 Tomorrow, I will present my paper on local politicians' attitudes toward noncitizen voting at the
@dvpw.bsky.social
-conference on citizen's trust and societal polarization in times of transformation at the
@uni-saarland.de
.
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Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Did you miss last week's CS3 meeting powered by
#DZHW⁉️
No problem at all.. Just download
#ARadinger
et al.'s slides here⬇️
jkhoehne.eu/cs3-lab/
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Don't forget to sign up for the next
#CS3Meeting
by Wednesday‼️
#ARadinger
et al. from
#GESIS
talk about human and machine-enabled questionnaire translation on Thursday (16th Jan) from 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). Register now⬇️⬇️
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over 1 year ago
#CS3Meeting
alert🚨
#ARadinger
et al. from
#GESIS
talk about Questionnaire translations from scratch vs. based on machine translation output on January 16, 2025 (3:15 to 4:00 PM CET). Sign up now⬇️
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Automatic Speech-to-Text transcription of survey-based voice answers works excellent. OpenAI's Whisper produces high-quality transcripts (>90%). Check out my new
#OpenAccess
paper with
#TLenzner
from
#GESIS
and
@jclaass.bsky.social
from
#DZHW
#UniHannover⬇️⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/1364...
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over 1 year ago
Did you miss last week's CS3 meeting powered by
#DZHW
⁉️ No problem at all.. Just download
#LauraBoeschoten
slides here⬇️
jkhoehne.eu/cs3-lab/
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Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Don't forget to sign up for the next
#CS3Meeting
by Wednesday‼️
#LBoeschoten
from
#UtrechtUniversity
talks about digital data collection through data donation on Thursday (12th Dec) from 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). Register now⬇️⬇️
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
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over 1 year ago
#CS3Meeting
alert🚨🚨
#LauraBoeschoten
from
#UtrechtUniversity
talks about Digital trace data collection through data donation on December 12, 2024 (3:15 to 4:00 PM CET). Sign up for the talk now⬇️ See you next week on Thursday🤗🤗
ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeting_registration/
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Are you working on agent-based interviewing⁉️ Then draft an abstract✍️ and submit it📮 to my
#ESRA25
conference session with
#MAngrisani
#FConrad
#AKapteyn
and
@floriankeusch.bsky.social
. Check out our session proposal⬇️ Submission deadline is December 20.
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Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Did you miss last week's CS3 meeting⁉️ No problem at all.. Just download the slides by
#AJungherr
here⬇️
jkhoehne.eu/cs3-lab/
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
over 1 year ago
Are you concerned about bots in your web survey😬😬 Check out my new
#openaccess
article with
@jclaass.bsky.social
#SaShahania
and
#DBroneske
from
#DZHW
⬇️ We prove conventional wisdom about bots wrong and showcase their contemporary skills🤖🤖
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Joshua Claassen
Jan Karem Höhne
over 2 years ago
Did you apply for the 5th Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (#MASS) workshop organized by
@floriankeusch.bsky.social
@peterlugtig.bsky.social
#bellastrum
and myself?? If not.. Hurry up‼️ Submission deadline is 1st December 2023. APPLY APPLY APPLY‼️
massworkshop.org/2023/10/25/c...
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