Happy to share that I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation! Very grateful to @stefanmueller.bsky.social for being a great mentor and friend. Huge thanks to my examination committee @jamespcross.bsky.social, @maarja.bsky.social, and Caitriona Dowd.

I compared 12 machine learning models in detecting economic ideology in British manifestos benchmarked against expert coding. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.09719

When a simple concept requires an academic rebranding—2 am breakthroughs are real.

Great time with the team!

Sarah King, PhD Researcher and member of text-and-policy.com, will be teaching a free online workshop on webscraping using R. The event is open to all scholars regardless of university affiliation. Register here: forms.gle/Q3pixYrbrEY6... More info: www.ucd.ie/connected_po...