After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

💥💥💥 Deadline tomorrow!

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

Using Principal-Agent Theory, our new paper argues delegating governmental tasks to #AI undermines feelings of being in control, leading to a "failure-by-success": Initial AI efficiency drives wider adoption, ultimately eroding citizens' sense of control, a cornerstone of democratic legitimacy

Very sad that I can't join #comptext25 this year -.- but for those interested in political psychology, we just published the preprint of my last dissertation paper where we conducted a validation study for measuring politicians' public personality traits using text as data: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 👇

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Our Department Survey Design & Methodology (SDM), Team Scale Development and Documentation, located in #Mannheim, is looking for a #ResearchAssociate (Doctoral student) (Salary group 13 TV-L, 75 % working time, limited to 4 years): www.hidden-professio...

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Dataset alert ⏰ We just uploaded the preprint for a novel dataset of German politicians' public broadcast interviews (around 100 interviews, 30 politicians, 28k sentences) sourced from YouTube & manually validated + speaker identification and timestamps, ready for re-use 👍 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04484?

⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025! Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀 Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

🚨 Reminder: The application deadline for two open positions @gesis.org department Computational Social Science is approaching quickly! 📅 Application deadline: January 20

@zeit.de has just published a data-driven article on 📮 postal voting (Briefwahl) for the upcoming federal election, which also features a brief interview with me: www.zeit.de/politik/deut... (Zeit+ subscription required)

🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨 🧰 Data donations and digital trace data
📖 Narratives in large datasets
🖼️ Visual data analysis 
🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits 🧐 Bayesian text analysis …and more! Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX

Heute erstes Live-Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk ✅ über die Herausforderungen der Fristen für Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2025✉️ Ich freue mich über Feedback! :) www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bundestagswa...

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Heute erstes Live-Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk ✅ über die Herausforderungen der Fristen für Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2025✉️ Ich freue mich über Feedback! :) www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bundestagswa...

My first paper has been published at PVS. In it, I investigate the strategic incentives behind parliamentary interruptions using data from the German Bundestag. In this thread you can find a short summary of the paper, which is available under open access here: rdcu.be/d4mHq

I've been building a small library for working with prompt templates on the @huggingface.bsky.social Hub: `pip install prompt-templates`. Motivation: The community currently shares prompt templates in a wide variety of formats: in datasets, in model cards, as strings in .py files, as .txt/... 🧵

gesistraining.bsky.social is now on bluesky as well! Receive news on our training program by following the account. #methods #methodstraining #socialscience

Tenure, CSS, great team, Cologne,….✌️ Great position that needs your application :)

Very happy to share the full-fledged and #OpenAccess version of our paper "The Search for Solid Ground in Text as Data: A Systematic Review of Validation Practices and Practical Recommendations for Validation", published with C. Lechner and Claudia Wagner in CMM✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💡We just released a preprint on how theory-driven synthetic training data based on measurement instruments (e.g., codebooks) can help substitute large amounts of human-labeled data for supervised text classification. \w great Matthias Roth& @indiiigo.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2410.12622

I will be in Berlin the next couple of days 🙌! If you want to grab a coffee and (re-)connect about any topic such as NLP and css, shoot me a message ☕️

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government . If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4) wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

As a pollster, I'm asked constantly about the election. My consistent but frustrating answer: Polling won't tell you who is going to win. You've probably heard that a lot, but since many have asked, let me share a thread of explanation with links to others who probably said it better 🧵 (1/11)

💡We just released a preprint on how theory-driven synthetic training data based on measurement instruments (e.g., codebooks) can help substitute large amounts of human-labeled data for supervised text classification. \w great Matthias Roth& @indiiigo.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2410.12622

Had a great CPSS workshop organized by @indiiigosky @GabriellaLapesa @chklamm on NLP and computational social science! I am still in rainy Vienna for the next days if you want to meet for a coffee or beer in the afternoon☕️ 🙂

@favstats.bsky.social and I wrote a piece about LLMs for the Encyclopedia of Political Communication (forthcoming '25, edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social and @dominiquewirz.bsky.social). Happy to share the accepted version! www.johannesbgruber.eu/publication/...

Need some guidance through the #validity jungle? Check out our compact overview of different meanings associated with the term validity in the social and behavioral sciences. We also offer practical guidance on assessing #measurement validity. @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social doi.org/10.15465/ges...

Our next workshop will be on February 22nd, 6 pm CET, titled Multi-class & multi-label text classification in #Python by @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #Python 📊

Am 8. Februar heißt es an der @unidue.bsky.social wieder: Zahlen, Daten, Fritten! Zum Thema "Computational Social Sciences" spricht dieses Mal @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social vom Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften GESIS. Jetzt noch schnell anmelden unter: udue.de/zdfritten

🎉New open access publication in PSRM with @msaeltzer.bsky.social 🎉 We show that Democratic candidates communicate more liberal positions during contested congressional primaries, then moderate if they lose the nomination. Republicans don't do this! doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Wofür steht Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)? 👉Dazu habe ich den BSW-O-Maten entwickelt: bswomat.de 🔗 👉Enthält 20-26 Aussagen aus dem BSW-Gründungsmanifest 📜 👉Nutzer:innen erhalten ein individuelles Ergebnis (%) für verschiedene Politikbereiche 📊 German Politics

Starting on March 1st, our Department Computational Social Science at GESIS is looking for a Team Leader for the “Digital Society Observatory” (15 TV-L, 4 years with possible tenure): hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... @sebstier.bsky.social @schochastics.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social

Kleine letzter-Arbeitstag-Lektüre gefällig? Im aktuellen @verfassungsblog.de schreiben @krausewe.bsky.social und ich über die Darstellung und Effekte von Wahlumfragen. 📊

As part of our ECPR GC24 section, we will also organise a methods panel called ‘Anatomies of Methodological Failure’, chaired by the brilliant Petro Tolochko, where we want to discuss failures in projects using computational methodologies. CSS Polsky Commsky 👉 bit.ly/polcomm-ECPR

If you are still using LDA or STM in your computational social science research, you might want to check out my new post: Topic modeling with LLMs. open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...

I highly recommend this great and very hands-on tutorial on how to fine-tune your own open-source Mistral model for different NLP tasks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmkc...

🚨The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th annual COMPTEXT conference is approaching - 20 December 2023. link: forms.gle/VrzhEzJEcTNd... This is a great conference that brings together scholars from across social and computational sciences. See more details here: www.comptextconference.org

Hi Blueksy / #cssky / #NLProc Crowd! What is currently your favorite text data annotation tool to generate gold-standard labels? 💻The more open source, browser based and adaptable to different use cases, the better 🤝🙂

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my team at the Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich. - 3 years - Focus: online toxicity, experiments, causal inference - Deadline: January 7 - Starting: April 2024 polisky Commsky csssky More portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

Very happy to share the full-fledged and #OpenAccess version of our paper "The Search for Solid Ground in Text as Data: A Systematic Review of Validation Practices and Practical Recommendations for Validation", published with C. Lechner and Claudia Wagner in CMM✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵:

Second day of the RUDE conference on rural urban divides in Frankfurt! Thanks for the opportunity to present early work with @msaeltzer.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social on politicians geographical representation using computational text analysis 💻

Great evening news: the first paper of my dissertation just got accepted for publication in Communication Methods and Measures🎉 /w Claudia Wagner & Clemens Lechner osf.io/preprints/so...

Still some time (22.02.24), but save the date and register already today if you want to learn about hands-on multi-class and multi-label text classification in python (+ want to support a good cause :)👇 bit.ly/3tYhHb4

Come join us in Vienna! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in social policy, broadly defined. Do get in touch if you have questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professor-in-the-field-of-Political-Science-with-focus-on-Social-Policy/1001235101/