📢 Reminder: Apply to the @odissei-soda.bsky.social SoDa Fellowship 2026! If you’re an early-career social scientist in 🇳🇱 looking to strengthen your data science skills, this is your sign💡 The fellowship offers a 3–6 month paid position, expert mentorship, and more! Deadline: June 11 🔗 edu.nl/xut9k

What can 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 reveal about society, markets, and financial systems that 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 often misses? 🤔

Are you excited about bridging the gap between advanced statistical and data science methods and pressing computational social science questions? Then you may be the new colleague we are looking for! 🚀

📣 Early-career social scientists in the Netherlands: the SoDa Fellowship 2026 is open! Develop data science skills, receive expert mentorship & access national data infrastructure, all while working on your own project 🌟 📆 Deadline: June 11 🔗 edu.nl/xut9k @odissei-soda.bsky.social

We’re excited to share our latest work: the new preprint for our 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in social science and humanities research!🚀 Large language models are rapidly transforming how researchers work with text—but getting started (and getting it right) is not always straightforward.

Introducing our new member: Taymara Abreu! She is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University, and will join SoDa as our operational manager. Alongside that, Taymara will also be involved in the team as data scientist.

𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: we are now moving our monthly online 𝗦𝗼𝗗𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽-𝗜𝗻 to 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 of the month! Join the upcoming one on Tuesday, March 17th at 16:00. Mark your calendar and find more information on: odissei-soda.nl 🌟

Having questions or issues about your research data or methods? We are happy to help through our short consultations! 😉 Join our monthly online 𝗦𝗼𝗗𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽-𝗜𝗻 next 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 at 𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬. Mark your calendar and find more information on: odissei-soda.nl 🌟

Today's ongoing 𝗦𝗼𝗗𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻/𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 session. Lovely seeing the participants' enthusiasm! ☺️

Are you a social scientist and/or humanities researcher who are working with textual data? Then you would know how time-consuming the text annotation step can be! 😪

We are delighted to invite you to our next workshop: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗗𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻/𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻/𝗥)!🤩📊 odissei-data.nl/event/worksh... Large language models (LLMs) have become an essential tool for social scientists and humanities (SSH) researchers who work with textual data.

Hello, Bluesky! We are ODISSEI Social Data Science Team, also known as SoDa. This is our new official Bluesky account and we would love to interact more with you. 👋 We have a mission of 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵. 🤝