Reminder, my live-stream on how to fine-tune LLMs in Python and Colab starts this Friday @instats.bsky.social @quantlab.bsky.social

... and if you would like to learn how to fine-tune open-source LLMs, I also offer an advanced workshop on AI-assisted text analysis, live-streamed on July 11! @quantlab.bsky.social instats.org/seminar/usin...

Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we are offering a full-day online workshop - suitable for beginners - on AI-assisted text analysis in the programming language R, live-streamed on July 4 instats.org/seminar/usin...

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Hey! If you're in Melbs next Monday, drop by to my hands-on ✨ Shut up and git! ✨ session with the @quantlab.bsky.social at the unimelb! Thanks @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and @irmamooi.bsky.social for the invitation to present! #git #GitHub #cooperation

Last chance to register, the advanced workshop is live-streamed early next week!

This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

We at @quantlab.bsky.social prepared a new, completely free and brief online tutorial on how to use open-source LLMs in R for text classification tasks - accessible for R beginners - check it out here: quantilab.github.io/blog/tutoria...

Want to learn about how to use ChatGPT and open-source LLMs for basic and advanced text analysis tasks? Join me for my full-day online workshops in February with @quantlab.bsky.social Instats - as usual, people from University of Melbourne can sign up for free! instats.org/structuredco...

Apply to participate in the 3* APSG Conference in London! Deadline is *16 February* don’t miss it!

This article is part of a special issue "Authoritarianism reinvented: The interplay between online and offline tactics" edited by @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and Lisa Garbe. Stay tuned for more great articles to follow soon!

I did my first TV interviews yesterday, talking to rbb's 'Abendschau' and 'Brandenburg aktuell' about the current protests. It's so difficult to be short when talking research - but maybe that's a take-away for teaching as well?🤫 www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/v... www.rbb-online.de/brandenburga...

Blick vom Paul-Löbe-Haus auf den Platz vorm Reichstag heute 21.1.24 17 Uhr. Die Polizei spricht von 100k die Veranstalter von 350.000 Demonstrant:innen. Fakt ist: Bereits am Hauptbahnhof ging nix mehr weil es selbst für den größten Bahnhof Europas zu Viele waren DAS ist die Brandmauer gegen Rechts!

Hunderttausende Menschen gehen auf die Straßen, um gegen Rechtsextremismus zu demonstrieren. Bemerkenswert ist auch der Aufbruch in Ostdeutschland.

Very interesting report on disinfo narratives pushed in the 2022 elections in Brazil: inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/u...

Happy to share a new working paper together with @carlhknutsen and @JonasDraege titled "The Diverse Effects of Hard Propaganda in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes": osf.io/n4g6k/ -- What is it about? (1/7) polsky dictatorsky menasky

📢 I’m excited to share that my article on autocratic performance legitimacy and the COVID response policies in Saudi Arabia has been published in PoP (open-access)👇 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Dictatorsky Personalisation of politics in #Uzbekistan entails transformation of president into untouchable figure. Similar dynamics already at play in Gulf states, where public mentions of emirs or sheikhs are limited to glorification of leadership. eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-t...

This is a great initiative, I have just donated another invite code :-) spread the word!

Yes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Is there some place where one can “donate” invite codes?

Please follow the WissenchaftsZentrum Berlin Transformations of Democracy research unit here (Failed in my first effort to provide link) @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social

🆕PUBLICATION ALERT To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out @JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/

📣@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are organizing an english-language open panel on Text as Data Approaches to measuring political competition and representation at the 2024 DVPW conference in Göttingen. Submissions open until 31/10/23 Panel n° 89: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2024/cal... polisky polcom cssky

Interested in transnational repression? Check out this (open access!) online first article by me, Saipira Furstenberg, Sebastian Hellmeier & Redmond Scales in Journal of Conflict Resolution “The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression” dictatorsky

Post doc deadline coming up ⬇️ Join our new research initiative on AI and politics at the University of Amsterdam. Details below. 🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 Deadline October 18 polisky csssky commsky polcom

Job market candidates working on authoritarianism: if you’d like your profile to be promoted on the APSG social media, please fill out this form: tinyurl.com/488s6dpp. We will feature you in a thread and add you to the list of job market candidates: tinyurl.com/2p9ybc7c.

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

How to test if AI gives good answers to people’s questions about climate change? 🤖 We collaborated with Google DeepMind and the ETH Zurich to evaluate if Large Language Models (LLMs) provide adequate responses to user queries about climate. Our study is now available as a preprint (URL below) 👇🏻

If you are interested in joining our community at the Center for International Security @ the Hertie School, consider applying to our fellowship(s)! www.hertie-school.org/en/internati...

JOB! My department has posted a Program Director position at the Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level (open field). Join me at one of the best political science departments in the country, not to mention one of the best cities in the world 🤓 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/37... polisky

das klima bricht gerade zusammen und joa nur falls es euch juckt sorry wenn nicht

Right now I am trying to organize a Closed Panel on "Democratic Backsliding and Resilience" at the DVPW Convention 2024 (for further information: www.dvpw.de/en/dvpw2024). If you are interested in contributing as a paper presenter, just contact me by the end of October ☺️

The PopuList 3.0 is LIVE! Explore our updated database of European populist, far-left, and far-right parties since 1989 here. It includes a thorough revision, an extension with the 2020-2022 period, and detailed country reports. A #thread. 1/9 popu-list.org

Hey PoliSky, i just set up a feed for sharing and finding new data! Tag @kristineichhorn.bsky.social to be added. Use PolDataSky|PoliSkyData|PolSciData|📊 for posting. bsky.app/profile/did:...