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Joshua Claassen
@jclaass.bsky.social
PhD candidate at DZHW | web survey methodology & digital trace data
🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨

Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET).

🗓️ Sign up until Tuesday (January 27): ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 AM
🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨

Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET).

A great chance to learn how to enrich web surveys with digital data, such as images!

👉 Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Great paper @jclaass.bsky.social ‼️ Well done🤓😎

Check out our prediction models on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social for detecting bots in your web survey⬇️

doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.

New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
January 20, 2026 at 6:59 AM
🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.

New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
January 20, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
Last call📢📢 Don't be late😉

MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. APPLY APPLY APPLY📮⬇️

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January 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
Wie konnte die #AfD bei den #Integrationsratswahlen 2025 in NRW ausgerechnet unter Wähler:innen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte große Erfolge erzielen? 🤔 (1/2)
January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Gentle reminder📢📢 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. Check out the call⬇️ and apply‼️

massworkshop.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review.

“Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”.

doi.org/10.1177/0197...
January 7, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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(1/3) 💫New open-access article on trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds in International Review of Sociology.

“Understanding trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds – a latent profile approach”.

doi.org/10.1080/0390...
December 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys.

Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections.

🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨

Zaza Zindel talks about Social media as a tool for survey recruitment on November 25, 03:15 to 04:00 PM (CET).

🗓️ Sign up until Monday: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📢 New insights on #GenAI interviewing agents asking sensitive open questions compared to a text-based web survey.

Answers to male agent include more topics, but no evidence of social desirability.

👉 New #OpenAccess paper with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #cneuert in #IJMR.

🌐 doi.org/10.1177/1470...
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Ever wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐

👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions.

🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...
Asking for Feedback: Innovating Final Comment Questions in Self-Administered Web Surveys
Abstract. Web surveys frequently include so-called “final comment questions” (FCQs) to provide respondents the opportunity to express their experiences wit
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October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
Thrilled to talk about how seemingly small decisions in silicon sampling can have a large impact on simulated survey responses 👀 Join us on Oct 29th! 👈
🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨

@wanlo.bsky.social talks about analytic flexibility in silicon samples on October 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM CET).

Great opportunity to gain novel insights into how survey responses can be generated with #LLMs.

Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨

@wanlo.bsky.social talks about analytic flexibility in silicon samples on October 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM CET).

Great opportunity to gain novel insights into how survey responses can be generated with #LLMs.

Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...
October 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥

👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest.

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper with #tlenzner @jkhoehne.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social in #mda.

🌐 doi.org/10.12758/mda...
October 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🚨🚨 Application deadline ends tomorrow!

We're hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science at DZHW (Hannover, Germany).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

👉 Apply here: karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢One week left to apply!

DZHW is hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science (Hannover).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

I'd apply myself if I weren't already on the team🤓

👉 karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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🚨🚨Attention please!! I'm looking for a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science at DZHW in Hannover (Germany). Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary research setting and with an excellent supervision. Apply now⬇️

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September 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! 💫

📣 On Wednesday, I will present joint work with @ackermannk.bsky.social on attitudes toward noncitizen voting.

📣 On Friday, I will present results from my interviews with local politicians in the US.

Excited to meet everyone! #ECPRgc25
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I’m presenting my paper on political trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds today at #EPSA2025 (@epsanet.bsky.social).

Come join us at 11.20 in room -1.A.04! 📣
June 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
❕📣 My first paper is now published!

“They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA.

It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.

doi.org/10.1007/s121...
June 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reposted by Joshua Claassen
Thanks to @jkhoehne.bsky.social & @jclaass.bsky.social for inviting me! The slides from my CS3 Lab presentation on "Ethical questions in research with digital trace data" are now available here: jkhoehne.eu/cs3-lab/
#computationalsocialscience #researchethics #digitaltraces
- Dr. Jan Karem Höhne
CS3 lab for Computational Survey and Social Science is an interdisciplinary group of researchers from various fields, such as social
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June 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM