Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com ..
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Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
Reposted by Paul Nightingale, Johannes Breuer
Interviews were done by Anthropic Interviewer, a #GenAI tool for conducting research interviews at scale:
Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law, Peter M. Cox , and 29 more Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law, Peter M. Cox, Will Jennings, Peter Thorne, Luc Int Panis, Albert Weale, Tim Bale, Rosemary A. Joyce, Conor McCarthy, Rupert Read, Alison Phipps, Edgar Morgenroth, Göran Bolin, Smith, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Rasmus K. Storm, Laurence Piper, Jason Lyall, Johannes Breuer, Jos Akkermans, Martin Lenz, Tim Stephens, Gilles Louppe, Olivier Mannoni, Nicolas Hervé, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Stefano Gualeni, Morwenna Ludlow, Antonio Fatás, David Darmofal
We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers
link.europa.eu/bcmC87
Reposted by Jörg Peters, Johannes Breuer, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Zur Mitteilung👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#CommSky #replication
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
We will meet online (May 6-7, 2026) and in person in Washington, D.C., USA (June 8-10, 2026).
We are looking forward to your proposals, so don't miss the submission deadlines:
📅 January 23, for in-person SIPS 2026
📅 February 27, for online SIPS 2026
Reposted by Marc Debus
“If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”
Reposted by Mark Rubin, Madeleine Pownall, Johannes Breuer
In this brief comment (all four pages are here ⬇️), @iaiversen.bsky.social and I cover the benefits and challenges of living systematic reviews, along with two ways to increase their uptake
🧵 1/8
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
Predictably, big cities have the highest property prices. This pattern is typical now.
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
This means you can run our fully open 7B and 32B models — including Think and Instruct variants — via serverless API with no infrastructure to manage.
Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Johannes Breuer
Reposted by Johannes Breuer, Aleksandra Urman
How are social bias and CSS interconnected? 🤔
@aytalina.bsky.social, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @valeriehase.bsky.social, and I argue that social bias shapes CSS as a field and as a methodology. Progress in CSS depends on engaging with both dimensions! osf.io/preprints/so...
Reposted by Ian Hussey, Johannes Breuer
Reposted by Johannes Breuer, Aleksandra Urman
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Thread:
*** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 15, 2026 (firm deadline) ***
More details here:
css2.lakecomoschool.org
Reposted by Johannes Breuer, Jill A. Jacobson
osf.io/preprints/ps...
People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
You can find more here: lnkd.in/dJDKFNsX
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
Reposted by Flávio Azevedo, Patrick S. Forscher, Johannes Breuer
#CommSky
#CommSky
Reposted by David Lazer, Johannes Breuer
The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow @cs2italy.bsky.social for updates and visit our website cs2italy.org for details.
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
Reposted by Johannes Breuer
📝Submit your 200–300 word abstract by 19 January 2026
osf.io/8u6gw