#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.

7/ Kernel Approximation Ideal Point Poisson Factorization - scalable Bayesian ideological estimation from billions of observations, applied to 134 million TikTok comments to map ideology on the platform. @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social

Sophie Mainz has been awarded the John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student presented at any of the panels organized by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section at last year’s APSA conference. Congratulations to @sophiemainz.bsky.social !

Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004