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🥁 Join us next Wednesday (May 13, 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting talk by Sean J. Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social on "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research". Join our newsletter 🗞️ or send me a DM for more details: tada.cool

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️

What a great initiative and research program 👩🏽‍🔬 by the Oxford Computational Political Science Group this year, and I am more than happy to be part of it and contribute to CPS in this setting. Check out the ongoing projects www.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-compu.... A lot to come 🚀

✨ We (w/ Bastián González-Bustamante & Steffen Eckhard) are excited to announce a special issue on “From Appendix to Spotlight: Validation Standards in Text-as-Data Political Science" in PS: Political Science & Politics. We’d love to see many of you submit. 🗓 Nov 1, 2026 apsanet.org/publications...

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!

CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you! It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars. We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️

🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset". If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.

Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series! This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue. If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool

Mark your calendars! 🚨 We look forward to @cc-tp.bsky.social joining us for the last talk before the ☀️ break! Next Wednesday, May 28, at 17:00 (CEST) she will talk about detecting gender biased norms in political speech. More details on the #TaDa Speaker Series & how to join the talk ⬇️

🚨 Just a month until the CPSS deadline (June 13, AoE). Super excited for the upcoming round and can’t wait to see your submissions ✨

Deadline extension! By the 10th of May submit an abstract and join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods" workshop at #ICWSM

🕔 We're excited to start in just 30 minutes (5pm Berlin time). Come join us for a fascinating talk by @taniseceron.bsky.social on "Evaluating Political Bias: Insights into Robustness and Multilinguality". We can’t wait to see many of you there ⬇️

Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

Fantastic first day at #COMPTEXT2025. Really enjoyed spreading the word about efficient LLMs 🌱✨🦙 in our workshop (w/ Julia Romberg) today. Many thanks to everyone who joined us 💚. Excited for more packed conference days ahead 🚀

🔜 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 will also be in Albuquerque at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 (@NAACL) next week. If you’re around, say hi to Quirin who will be there and check out our latest work (May 4, 09:00-17:30) ⬇️

AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824 Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨ 🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below

🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series (tada.cool) this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), we have the pleasure of welcoming @taniseceron.bsky.social to share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details ⬇️

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.

🚨 #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

The TADA Speaker Series is thrilled to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk to present his research on causal claims in economics! 🎙 Prashant Garg: Causal Claims in Economics 📅 March 19, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time 🔗 Subscribe for details: tada.cool See you next week!

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics

I had a great time at the Spring School last year! I learned a bunch and met many great young researchers during my stay @cklamm.bsky.social @winstonlee.bsky.social @lukasrae.bsky.social @cwinkler.bsky.social And all of that in a scenic location!

📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣 sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... #polisky

🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x

Super excited for the next talk (Wed 27.11. 5pm Berlin time 🕔) in our speaker series by Caterina Chiopris. Can't wait to see many of you there 😊 ⬇️

🚀 Start of the first @kodaqs.bsky.social Data Quality Academy. GESIS, LMU, and UMannheim are building an essential space for institutionalizing data quality 📚🔎 in social science research. Happy to be a part of the first round of researchers in this format.

I'm very excited for this conference we're organising with the dvpw methods section. 🎉 Plus: there'll be a conference dinner and travel stipends are available. More info & links for application 👇

My book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” has recently come out in the US. If you're interested, in this thread I’ll link different ways of learning about the book and its argument (I’ll keep adding if more come out). First, here is the link to the book: academic.oup.com/book/57946

Just launched a Political Comm/NLP/Text-as-Data Starter Pack. 🦋🤗 Join us and/or drop a message to be added! go.bsky.app/39MWTjg #starterpack #polsci

🌟 We can't wait for our upcoming talk. Join us next Wednesday at 5pm(CET) for a talk by @humeyra.bsky.social on "Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding". Find more details below ⬇️

Really cool to see our study online. Amazing interdisciplinary teamwork ✨ w/ @kunkakom.bsky.social, Matthias Aßenmacher, Max M Lang, Quirin Würschinger and Frauke Kreuter. Check out the fantastic summary by @kunkakom.bsky.social for more details ⬇️

📣 We are excited to announce that the tada.cool ✨ series is back w/ an incredible lineup for this 🍁 ❄️ term w/ @lexipalmer.bsky.social, @humeyra.bsky.social, @mlburnham.bsky.social, Caterina Chiopris & Tobias Hofmann ⬇️

Next Wednesday (📅 June 5) at 17:00, the last Text-as-Data Speaker Series talk for this spring term will take place feat. @jwaeckerle.bsky.social! Join us to learn more about the genderedness of parliamentary discourse and legislative power in a comparative perspective 🌟

🎉 Join us this Wednesday at 🕒 3 pm CEST for a tada.cool talk on "How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data" by the amazing @ankuepfer.bsky.social ⬇️

Check this out!!🚨 @paugc.bsky.social and Hannah Béchara will present their latest work 'PolitiCause: Causality in Political Text' this Wednesday at 5pm (CET) on Zoom! More info on Slack (Zoom Link) or on tada.cool: join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

We are thrilled to announce that Gabriella Lapesa will join the tada.cool speaker series this Wednesday (Feb 7, 5pm CET) for a talk on "NLP-supported (e-)deliberation: interdisciplinary challenges and real-world applications". Find all the details on Slack ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

After a little break over the holidays, we're back next Wednesday with @rebeccakittel.bsky.social's talk on language complexity in parliamentary debate among populist politicians & their mainstream competitors. Join us on Jan 10 at 5pm (CET)! 🎉 Zoom link ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

Before you start counting down the days to Christmas 🎄☃️❄️, join us for a pre-holiday surprise ⬇️

🥳 We are excited to announce that Moritz Laurer (twitter.com/MoritzLaurer) will be our next tada.cool speaker this Wednesday at 5pm (CEST) 🕔. We would be happy to have many of you join us on Zoom. You can find all the details on Slack ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

Had an inspiring time ✨ at the Oxford|Berlin Open and Responsible Research Autumn School #OXBER. Look forward to sharing my learnings. Special thanks to Monica, Jackie, Ulf, and many more who made this happen. I highly recommend applying for the next round! ox.ukrn.org/events/#2023...

🔊This Wednesday at 5 p.m., we have the distinct pleasure of having @indiiigo.bsky.social with us! You are more than welcome to join us on Zoom. Further details can be found on Slack: join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

Last chance (CfP deadline 31 Oct) to submit your paper proposal for our open panel on LLMs in Political Science at the next DVPW Convention in 2024 ➡️ www.dvpw.de/dvpw2024/cal... @denis-cohen.bsky.social and I look forward to your submissions!

📣 If you are interested in keeping up to date with posts related to text-as-data, NLProc, and Computational PolSci (CPS), you can follow the 🗞️ new feeds #TADAsky for NLP and text-as-data and #CPSky. Use multiple hashtags #TADAsky, #TADApaper, #TADAjobs, #TADAevents, and many more (same for #CPSky).

Interested in how to measure the alignment of online news articles with autocratic regimes' positions and whether more aligned news makes it to the front page? Then join us in two hours! Check join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc... (channel "reading-group") for the Zoom link. polisky cssky