🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges 👤 @indiiigo.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) 📺 youtu.be/p5wPJHK-74M 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'What Shapes Voter Perceptions of Election Polls? The Impact of Partisanship and Visual Design' by @eliaskoch.bsky.social (Hertie School) ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "What Shapes Voter Perceptions of Election Polls? The Impact of Partisanship and Visual Design" 👤 @eliaskoch.bsky.social (Hertie School) 🗓️ Wed, November 5, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges' by @indiiigo.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges" 👤 Indira Sen (University of Mannheim) 🗓️ Wed, October 22, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New workshop materials published! ➡️ Roundtable Discussion: New Developments in Large-Scale Survey Data in Germany 👤 Claudia Schmiedeberg, Pablo Christmann, Stefanie Wolter, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Roundtable Discussion: New Developments in Large-Scale Survey Data in Germany' by Claudia Schmiedeberg, Pablo Christmann, Stefanie Wolter, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "Roundtable Discussion: New Developments in Large-Scale Survey Data in Germany" 👤 Claudia Schmiedeberg, Pablo Christmann, Stefanie Wolter, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann 🗓️ Wed, September 24, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Assessing the Reproducibility of Observational Social Research' by @lschaechtele.bsky.social (LMU Munich) ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "Assessing the Reproducibility of Observational Social Research" 👤 @lschaechtele.bsky.social (LMU Munich) 🗓️ Wed, September 10, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Fall 2025 Events Six input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)! 🗓️ Details & Zoom: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/ 👥 Organizers: @rubac.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Forecasting the German Federal Election 2025 - Different Modelling Approaches 👤 @hannahrajski.bsky.social (Uni Mannheim) & @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social (Witten/Herdecke Uni) 📺 youtu.be/iQXUQ3NsKsk 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Analyzing Survey Data with Weights – A Practical Introduction 👤 Stefan Zins (Institute for Employment Research) 📺 youtu.be/uAHYkvoWY-Q 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

CANCELLED: Unfortunately, @indiiigo.bsky.social SSDL talk tomorrow has been cancelled for this semester. The talk will take place next semester instead. We will share the new date and details as soon as they are confirmed. 🔗 Stay updated: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events

🚨 Upcoming: "Shuffled and Permutated Personas: How Reliable are LLMs at Emulating Personas?" 👤 @indiiigo.bsky.social Indira Sen (University of Mannheim) 🗓️ Wed, May 28, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Forecasting the German Federal Election 2025 - Different Modelling Approaches' by @hannahrajski.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) & @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social (Witten/Herdecke University). ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "Forecasting the German Federal Election 2025 - Different Modelling Approaches" 👤 @hannahrajski.bsky.social (Uni Mannheim) & @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social (Witten/Herdecke Uni) 🗓️ Wed, May 21, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Surveying Diversity: Integrating Queer Perspectives in Survey Research 👤 @lisadevries.bsky.social (German Institute for Adult Education) 📺 youtu.be/zfKwaJtuA9c 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Analyzing Survey Data with Weights – A Practical Introduction' by Stefan Zins (Institute for Employment Research, IAB). ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "Analyzing Survey Data with Weights – A Practical Introduction" 👤 Stefan Zins (Institute for Employment Research, IAB) 🗓️ Wed, April 30, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

🚨 Upcoming: "Surveying Diversity: Integrating Queer Perspectives in Survey Research" 👤 @lisadevries.bsky.social (German Institute for Adult Ed.) 🗓️ Wed, April 9, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events

🚨 Upcoming: "Digital Data, Contextual Complexities, and Lessons for Social Scientists" 👤 @nschwitter.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) 🗓️ Wed, March 5, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Spring 2025 Events Five input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)! 🗓️ Details & Zoom: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/ 👥 Organizers: @rubac.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz

🆕 Content alert on Methods Bites & Workshop Video Recording ▶️ "Computationally Analyzing Politicians’ Body Language Using Pose Estimation" 👤 Oliver Rittmann (MZES, University of Mannheim) 🔗 Blogpost: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/article/comp... 🔗 Video Recording: youtu.be/w6orbDvQSN4

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Using YouTube Data for Social Science Research: Studying American Local Politics with Government Meeting Videos' by Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social (Princeton University). ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Using Data Donations to Collect Digital Trace Data: Promises and Pitfalls for the Social Sciences 👤 @valeriehase.bsky.social (LMU Munich) 📺 youtu.be/ANOg51z1K3w 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

🚨 Upcoming: "Using YouTube Data for Social Science Research" 👤 @simko.bsky.social (Princeton University) 🗓️ Wed, Dec 4, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

🚨 CfA: MZES-DVPW Conference "Methods of Political Science" 🗓️ Mannheim, Mar 27-28, 2025 ⏰ Deadline: Dec 16, 2024 🔗Apply via sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... @gessler.bsky.social, @aleininger.bsky.social, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann & I look forward to your submissions!

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for this exciting talk on decomposing group inequalities by @crowold.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social). ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 Upcoming: "Towards more life-course-sensitive decompositions of group-inequalities" 👤 @crowold.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) 🗓️ Wed, April 24, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

Join us *today*, 13:45-15:15 CET, for Olga Kononykhina's talk "Using AI tools for research". Details below ⬇️

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ▶️ Survey mastery: a deep dive into SQP 3.0 to enhance questionnaire development 👤 @lydiarepke.bsky.social (GESIS) 📺 youtu.be/0zvMVONgurY 📄 github.com/SocialScienceDataLab/survey-sqp-questionaire

🚨 Upcoming: "Using AI tools for research" 👤 Olga Kononykhina (LMU Munich) 🗓️ Wed, April 17, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 Details: www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ▶️ Models all the way down 👤 Asya Magazinnik (@hertiedatascience.bsky.social) 📺 youtu.be/8f09PffqvWg 📄 github.com/SocialScienc...

Join us *today*, 13:45-15:15 CET, for Lydia Repke's talk "Survey mastery: a deep dive into SQP 3.0 to enhance questionnaire development". Details below ⬇️

🚨 Upcoming: "Survey mastery: a deep dive into SQP 3.0 to enhance questionnaire development" 👤 @lydiarepke.bsky.social (GESIS) 🗓️ Wed, March 13, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 Details: www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

Join us *today*, 13:45-15:15 CET, for Asya Magazinnik's talk "Models all the way down". Details below ⬇️

🚨 Upcoming: "Models all the way down" 👤 Aysa Magazinnik (@hertiedatascience.bsky.social) 🗓️ Wed, Feb 21, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 Details: mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

🚨 Spring 2024 Events 🚨 Mark your calendars: 👤 Aysa Magazinnik (@hertiedatascience.bsky.social) 👤 Lydia Repke @lydiarepke.bsky.social (GESIS) 👤 Olga Kononykhina (LMU) 👤 Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social (Oxford) 🗓️ Details, ICS files, and Zoom links: www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

Head into a well-deserved break with some new content ⬇️ ▶️ Research data 👥 Irene Schumm & Uli Krieger 📺 youtu.be/UlJBXcE-L10 📄 github.com/SocialScienc... ▶️ Power analysis 👥 @denis-cohen.bsky.social & Alex Wenz 📺 youtu.be/Stp8gNCs6PE 📄 github.com/SocialScienc...

🕑 Reminder: Join us *tomorrow*, Dec 06, 13:45-15:15 CET for @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz' workshop "Power analysis for social science research". 📺 Zoom link and details below 👇

🚨 Upcoming: "Power analysis for social science research" 👥 @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz (MZES) 🗓️ Wed, Dec 06, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗Details: www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

🕑 Reminder: Join us *today* at 13:45-15:15 CET for Irene Schumm and Ulrich Krieger's talk "Find, accessing, and re-using research data", with a special emphasis on the UB Mannheim Research Data Center and BERD@NFDI. 📺 Zoom link and details below 👇

🚨 Upcoming: "Finding, accessing, and re-using research data" 👥 Irene Schumm (UB Mannheim) and Ulrich Krieger (UB Mannheim, BERD@NFDI) 🗓️ Wed, Nov 15, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 Details: www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...

🚨 Content alert 🚨 Start your weekend with some quantitative and computational social science ⬇️ ▶️ Hidden Markov models 👤 Paulina Pankowska 📺 youtu.be/8-ASuz0hdq4 📄 github.com/SocialScienc... ▶️ Neural nets for social scientists 👤 Jack Collins 📺 youtu.be/UKFwn14vvic 📄 github.com/SocialScienc...

🕑 Reminder: Join us *today* at 13:45-15:15 CET for Jack Collins' talk on neural nets for social scientists. 📺 Zoom link and details below 👇

🗓️ Reminder: Join us tomorrow, Oct 18, 13:45-15:15 CET, for Jack Collins' talk on neural nets for social scientists. 📺 Zoom link and details below 👇

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🚨 Upcoming: "A beginner's guide to neural networks for social scientists" 👤 John 'Jack' Collins (@MZESUniMannheim) 🗓️ Wed, Oct 18, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 Details: www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialscienc...