Sebastian Karcher

@adam42smith.bsky.social

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Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account).
Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods
https://sebastiankarcher.com

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1h

The Dataverse publications typically lag up to 24hs or so behind -- longer this time bc of US holiday. We'll publish on Monday

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, we offer all critiqued authors a response @apsrjournal.bsky.social. Responses are peer reviewed and, if accepted, published in the same issue as the critique. The last team published a thoughtful summary of the process which has remained mostly unchanged. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques - Volume 118 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

This is a case study paper -- it's not intended, or possible to, 'replicate'. Trust in the authors is particularly important here and given what we know about industry sponsored or conducted research in general & for AI in particular, healthy skepticism is warranted

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh 😩

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like the NSF funding for APSA's DDRIG is through 2026, so one more round apsanet.org/programs/doc...

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - American Political Science Association (APSA)

2025 APSA DDRIG The 2025 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant awards were announced on August 19, 2025.Details about the 2026 cycle will be

apsanet.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn't make it much better, but APSA took over the polisci DDRIG (w NSF finding) in 2020 and it looks like they'll have at least one more funding round in 2026: apsanet.org/programs/doc...

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - American Political Science Association (APSA)

2025 APSA DDRIG The 2025 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant awards were announced on August 19, 2025.Details about the 2026 cycle will be

apsanet.org

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Carl T. Bergstrom, Mark J. Brandt , and 12 more Brigitte Nerlich, Carl T. Bergstrom, Mark J. Brandt, Maarten van Smeden, Philip N. Cohen, Pierre Bataille, Benjamin Braun, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Sebastian Karcher, Zen Faulkes, Sofia Stathi, Patrick Präg, Jack Stilgoe, Florian Keusch, Samuel Coavoux

SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 2d

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

ASA and APSA run their own DDRIG competition with NSF funding. I'd guess they might be OK for a bit longer? @elizabethbitmeehan.com do you know anything about this?

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

I tracked down the source...
homebay.com/moving-trends/

Data includes responses from 1,000 Americans who moved in 2022. For this question, respondents were asked to pick their top 5 cities.
Source: Clever Real Estate Moving Trends, December 2022

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

I'm convinced something went wrong w the survey. The numbers are too even and... Baltimore? Nothing against the place but no way it makes 1/6 "I want to live there" lists

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

It's quite limited as an LMS so YMMV. You can't really use it for submitting work, obv, discussion features are poor, etc. It works really well for this particular purpose though

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

We moved a large summer institute from distributing lit via Blackboard to Zotero & that was very popular (also w the GA in charge of uploading...).
I also just interviewed an undergrad RA & she mentioned having used Z in several classes, so this doesn't seem unusual

Reposted by Miles Corak, Sebastian Karcher, David Underdown , and 1 more Miles Corak, Sebastian Karcher, David Underdown, Evan Roberts

scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.

It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.

Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 4d

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved

newsletter.dancohen.org

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Charles West, Miles Corak , and 7 more Martin Paul Eve, Charles West, Miles Corak, Rebecca Tushnet, Margot C. Finn, Sebastian Karcher, David Underdown, Michael Jones‐Correa, Michael Hancher, Evan Roberts

Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 4d

The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved

newsletter.dancohen.org

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sebastian Karcher, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 1 more Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Sebastian Karcher, Michael Jones‐Correa, David Darmofal

Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 4d

Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!

www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, R. M. Wilson, Jacob T. Levy , and 5 more Rosemary A. Joyce, R. M. Wilson, Jacob T. Levy, Sebastian Karcher, Brian Keegan, Zen Faulkes, Erin O’Donnell, Morwenna Ludlow

violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

How far back do you go? At the risk of being purged, I thought his blogging as a grad student ~2008/2009 was quite good and I don't remember seeing much of a sign of things to come.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

We published this excellent piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social last December & it references related lit published in most major journals. Do you mean American Politics? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians - Volume 119 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

But what does being on YT mean? Id imagine the share interacting much w original content creators is much smaller, more in the Tiktok ballpark

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

There's nothing special -- Zotero embeds all the metadata for the citations in the document itself, so you can just copy the sections authored by author B into the document authored by author A.
As @evangelinewarren.com notes, the same work cited by both authors will show up twice in bib.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

So to confirm, yes you can. What's a little awkward is that you can't update the metadata of the citations your co-author added in Zotero (e.g. to fix typo in title) or vice versa.
That's why working in a joint group is better if you remember to do so from the start

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8d

OH SHIT THE BILLS HALLMARK XMAS MOVIE IS AIRING ON SATURDAY

The *entire* city of Buffalo participated in the filming of this movie LOL they filled the stadium and everyone was talking about it 😂

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 8d

Depends on what you're after, but I have this Mighty Wallet and am very fond of it:
mightywallet.shop/products/dot...

Dot Matrix Pi Mighty Wallet

Geek Chic. Printed with the first 2940 digits of the calculation of pi 3.141593... in the classic Dot Matrix printer font on standard blue bar fan-fold paper complete with faux tractor holes! NOTE: Th...

mightywallet.shop

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

You can see the 2025 list of courses & instructors as iqmrnavigator.org/schedule/ -- 2026 is going to look quite similar with some exciting additions to be announced shortly.

IQMR 2025 Schedule

Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) 2025

iqmrnavigator.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

Less than 2 weeks to apply to the Open Pool Fellowships of the Institute for #Qualitative & #Multi-Method Research (IQMR)
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...

web.apsanet.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

Now we're all in prime Wutbürger age...

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 10d

Ironically, given it appears in a thread about pseudo intellectualism, this is not something Einstein ever said. It's not even clear he believed it, given that the theory of relativity is quite hard to explain in simple terms

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 10d

I make a Data Sources Catalog for every project I work with and I can't tell you how often the project team refers to this document to remember what measures are being collected and when. I highly recommend summarizing your plan in a simple format like this.

datamgmtinedresearch.com/dmp#dmp-cata...

Reposted by Jamie Morgan

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 10d

Ethnographers be like

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 10d

Having recently read a bunch of old psych papers, the true retro is "blue books and course credit for lab experiments"

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