What a blast this was! I am already looking forward to next year!

🥳 @comptext.bsky.social conference 2026 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social is over! I had the chance to give a 3-hour workshop on high-performance computing for computational social scientists, during which we covered cluster access hurdles, hands-on sessions, and workflow management tools. #COMPTEXT2026

My 2nd @comptext.bsky.social is officially in the books! It was an incredible conference and a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet so many new faces in the field. Huge thanks to everyone involved in organizing #COMPTEXT2026, I‘m already looking forward to next year!

On my way back from my first ever @comptext.bsky.social conference. Can't believe I left it so long. The field is moving so fast and I'm already looking forward to next year. Thanks so much to the organizers of #COMPTEXT2026 (that Joseph Chamberlain Clock Tower is a beaut!)

That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!

@fabiennelind.bsky.social kicking off the second plenary at @comptext.bsky.social 2026 on AI and Sustainability

What an epic dinner at @comptext.bsky.social yesterday in the Cricket stadium! Clearly next level. All praise to Aditi Dutta for scouting this one out. #comptext2026 #sciencerocks

@comptext.bsky.social 2026 plenary on failure in academic research and careers

The General Meeting of the COMPTEXT Association is now in the books. Our officers (@jamespcross.bsky.social, @fabiennelind.bsky.social, @zdgreene.bsky.social and @miklossebok.bsky.social) and chief organiser (@chrisguarnold.bsky.social) reviewed current affairs and fielded questions from members.

Thank you very much for the support! 🌈

New postdoc vacancy in political science/ CSS at Uni Saarland Please share widely/ consider applying If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a DM or find me at the @comptext.bsky.social conference in a few weeks

Tired of looking for a way to safely share, search, and analyze research data? Then do not miss my @comptext.bsky.social workshop: 📅Tomorrow, April 23rd between 9:30 and 12:30 hrs. 📍119 Seminar Room, Teaching and Learning Building, University of Birmingham.

Meet our delegation to the #COMPTEXT2026 conference in Birmingham: @selmasarenkapa.bsky.social, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social and @luissattelmayer.bsky.social are there! Full programme on @comptext.bsky.social's website: www.comptextconference.org/8th-annual-c...

We are happy to announce the recipients of the COMPTEXT Association travel grants. Grants were based on priorities such as ensuring global attendance and diversity. 2026 recipients are: Anne Clausen, Xiran Liu, Mafalda Patacão Zúquete, Fulvio Raddi, Stefano Sangiovanni @stesangio.bsky.social

The Annual General Meeting is under way at #COMPTEXT2026 – you can still make it and make your voice heard!

Still processing this—our growing community has brought us to the 8th annual #COMPTEXT ✨ #COMPTEXT2026 at IDAI, University of Birmingham is underway! Day 1 is all about training in text-, image-, & video-as-data for social research. 10 tutorials, packed rooms, brilliant scholars: bit.ly/4mLbFlf

⏳Final reminder: Registration for #COMPTEXT2026 closes today. 📍University of Birmingham 📅23–25 April 2026 Workshops (23 April): bit.ly/4bW0AZN Registration: bit.ly/4v4ghXC If you have trouble meeting the registration deadline, contact the organisers: comptext26(at)comptextconference.org

📣Call for Bids! We’re seeking hosts for the 9th & 10th International #COMPTEXT conferences (2027 & 2028). 📅Bid deadline: March 15, 2026 Request materials: [email protected] Please circulate within your networks!

Thank you everyone for a huge number of submissions, we are humbled by the overwhelming interest in COMPTEXT 2026! The variety of research topics, methods, and tutorials previews a great conference at the University of Birmingham! Acceptance notifications will be sent by 17 February.

Submissions to COMPTEXT 2026 close tomorrow! Showcase your text-, image-, and video-as-data research, get useful feedback, join the training workshops, and connect with like-minded researchers at our social events in Birmingham. See you there!

Submission for #COMPTEXT2026 is still open 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers and panels. We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/gRg0p! See you in Birmingham, 23–25 April 2026!

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!

SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!

Even though COMPTEXT2025 closed last weekend, its spirit will live on in the splendid photography of our dedicated group of colleagues from the University of Vienna: @jamoeberl.bsky.social, @amplanitzer.bsky.social, @apeksha.bsky.social! We thank and appreciate their work!

Thank you, #COMPTEXT2025! ❤️ It was amazing to see familiar faces, meet new ones, and have so many insightful conversations and discussions. Thank you for the great feedback and inspiring presentations! I'm excited about where the field of computational social science is heading!

Thanks @comptext.bsky.social for a great conference in #Vienna! I presented (1) a new method -- "MQ-Class" -- for LLM-classifying the full spectrum of media ideology and (2) my project mapping the 2D structure of global media ideology. Great people, panels, and most importantly food! #COMPTEXT2025

Thanks also to @comptext.bsky.social for keeping the ball rolling! I couldn't be happier this beautiful community exists 😁

The validation panels were epspecially popular at #COMPTEXT2025 To continue the discussion in June:👇

Off to Vienna for this year’s #COMPTEXT2025 conference. Really looking forward to seeing everyone again!

Absolutely excited to have @ahrabhikat.bsky.social in Vienna - for COMPTEXT2025 and also for coffee ☕💚

I absolutely loved @holnburger.bsky.social‘s presentation of his tool crowdbucket.io! What a well-designed service to have LLM topic modeling results validated by humans in a convenient and fun way…like swiping on Tinder. Will definitely use it for my historical gossip! #COMPTEXT2025

🔥second-to-last panel at #COMPTEXT2025 on Hate, Counterspeech & Algorithmic Influence! @simonkarg.bsky.social on tracking hate/counterspeech Thomas Kirchmair on cross-platform variations of hate Chico Camargo on (in)effective user agency Chaired/discussed by Travis Coan & @jadevrielink.bsky.social 👏

Such a great & needed roundtable - for #COMPTEXT2025 and beyond! 👏👏

Where does the bias hide? 🔎 Let's discuss the applicability of multimodal models for clustering multilingual SM data w @daweg.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social @hdnrch.bsky.social Sunny Yang @tristancann.bsky.social Chair @hajoboo.bsky.social An awesome panel to end #COMPTEXT2025 ! ✍️

Had an amazing time at my first #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna. Happy to see so much cool research, get the chance present our paper and represent a growing team of researchers from the Institute of Political Studies @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

My personal highlight of #COMPTEXT2025 😊

Forgot to mention: there are now also other #rstats packages that connect to Ollama like ellmar, tidyllm, ollamar. I still think ours works best for annotation and other tasks, but you might like the syntax or approach of something else more...

Post-Conference-Schnitzel. #COMPTEXT2025

#COMPTEXT was great, thanks to the organizers for putting together such a strong interdisciplinary conference!

As this amazingly successful #COMPTEXT2025 comes to an end, it’s time for a bit of self-reflection 🔥

Started at COMPTEXT two years ago, I was very happy to present today the complete models for detecting social group appeals at #COMPTEXT2025 with @lenamariahuber.bsky.social and @rwillh11.bsky.social Watch this space for use and access details in the coming weeks!

Some statements from the last two days of #COMPTEXT2025 worth discussing…🧐 🤓 come to the TOP cinema bar tonight to keep the conversation going and to 🥳 party with us after an inspiring conference! 🥂After Drinks & After Thoughts starting at 7pm🥂 @compcommlab.bsky.social @comptext.bsky.social

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!

The success of COMPTEXT 2025 was made possible by the indefatigable and amazing work of the local organising team led by @fabiennelind.bsky.social + @hajoboo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @compcommlab.bsky.social. The COMPTEXT Association is grateful for their work and to our sponsors (bit.ly/430VUye)!

We are happy to announce the recipients of the COMPTEXT Association travel grants. Grants were based on priorities such as ensuring global attendance and diversity. 2025 recipients are: Junaid Ahmed, Jiyoung Lee, Larissa Miller, Naama Rivlin, Ren Tao, Zeynep Zulfikar

A lively late morning at #COMPTEXT2025 brought stimulating sessions on narrative and framing, LLM performance, affective polarisation, political language in crisis, media bias, and protest in authoritarian regimes.

Happening now at #COMPTEXT2025 🤩🤩🤩 @ahrabhikat.bsky.social @krangelie.bsky.social @indiiigo.bsky.social

Absolutely fascinating and packed panel on enhancing and (critically) evaluating LLM performance at #COMPTEXT2025 this morning. w/ great work by @zacdgreene.bsky.social, Laura Liebig, Lukas Erhardt, and @christianpipal.bsky.social. Excellently chaired by @amplanitzer.bsky.social! 👏