Verena Kunz
@verenakunz.bsky.social
Postdoc & Scientific Coordinator @gesistraining.bsky.social. PhD from @gessunimannheim.bsky.social. She/her. Comparative politics, legislative behaviour, European Parliament, computational political science.
Reposted by Verena Kunz
🚨 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.
If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨 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.
If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
Reposted by Verena Kunz
In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
#aBitOfCCS – What is it about CCS
aboutccs.net
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Reposted by Verena Kunz
Happening Today! 👇
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Happening Today! 👇
Reposted by Verena Kunz
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
We might ask whether we still need data visualization training when we have powerful LLMs to help us. Certainly, LLMs can help to optimize our code. But without a profound understanding of the produced code, we run the risk of creating figures that may look nice but that misrepresent our data. (6/n)
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We might ask whether we still need data visualization training when we have powerful LLMs to help us. Certainly, LLMs can help to optimize our code. But without a profound understanding of the produced code, we run the risk of creating figures that may look nice but that misrepresent our data. (6/n)
Reposted by Verena Kunz
🚨 One more week to sign up for this three-day online workshop, in which you'll learn everything from A to Z that you'll need to write your own R Packages! #rstats
Packages are essential to the #rstats ecosystem for sharing code, data, and documentation.
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚨 One more week to sign up for this three-day online workshop, in which you'll learn everything from A to Z that you'll need to write your own R Packages! #rstats
Join us in 3 hours (at 17:00 Berlin time) to discuss replication problems of language models and recommendations for research!
🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual
🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Join us in 3 hours (at 17:00 Berlin time) to discuss replication problems of language models and recommendations for research!
🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual
🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual
Always wanted to learn how to create your own R Packages? Then take a look at this upcoming workshop with @ellakaye.co.uk ⬇️
Packages are essential to the #rstats ecosystem for sharing code, data, and documentation.
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Always wanted to learn how to create your own R Packages? Then take a look at this upcoming workshop with @ellakaye.co.uk ⬇️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Join us in 3 hours if you want to learn more about why you should report uncertainty estimates around the performance metrics of your ML models, and more importantly, how to draw test sets for evaluating your models more efficiently.
Information on how to join in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Information on how to join in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Join us in 3 hours if you want to learn more about why you should report uncertainty estimates around the performance metrics of your ML models, and more importantly, how to draw test sets for evaluating your models more efficiently.
Information on how to join in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Information on how to join in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
🚨 Upcoming: "Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges"
👤 Indira Sen (University of Mannheim)
🗓️ Wed, October 22, 13:45-15:15 CET
📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/
👤 Indira Sen (University of Mannheim)
🗓️ Wed, October 22, 13:45-15:15 CET
📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/
![Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges
Hybrid event [A5, 6, Room A231 + Zoom]
Oktober 22, 2025, 13:45-15:15
Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize the social sciences—for example, by accelerating content analysis or enabling realistic social simulations. In this workshop, I will discuss how LLMs can be applied and audited for social science applications, including the generation of synthetic survey responses and content analysis. I will also address how biases in LLMs can hinder these applications and explore ways to better surface and understand these biases. Finally, I will present a hands-on use case demonstrating how LLMs can be guided using demographic personas for both content analysis and simulated surveys.
Presenter(s)
Indira Sen is a Junior Faculty member at the University of Mannheim’s Business School in the Chair of Data Science for the Social and Economic Sciences. Her work lies at the intersection of NLP and Computational Social Science, specifically in developing and evaluating representative and equitable language technology, including Large Language Models.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oizrkjzyr6vekl76tjctghcl/bafkreigj6rty2hy4hgawqzq34a24si45dxzutezuphif3hprnl5amxldoy@jpeg)
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🚨 Upcoming: "Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges"
👤 Indira Sen (University of Mannheim)
🗓️ Wed, October 22, 13:45-15:15 CET
📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/
👤 Indira Sen (University of Mannheim)
🗓️ Wed, October 22, 13:45-15:15 CET
📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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
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
If you're interested in learning about explainable AI and fair machine learning, check out this upcoming online workshop ⬇️
🔍 Open the black box of your machine learning models!
Understand why your model makes certain decisions – with state-of-the-art methods in explainable AI and fair machine learning.
This hands-on #GESISworkshop with Lion Behrens & Paul C. Bauer will teach you how.
🔗 t1p.de/fair-ML-with...
Understand why your model makes certain decisions – with state-of-the-art methods in explainable AI and fair machine learning.
This hands-on #GESISworkshop with Lion Behrens & Paul C. Bauer will teach you how.
🔗 t1p.de/fair-ML-with...
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If you're interested in learning about explainable AI and fair machine learning, check out this upcoming online workshop ⬇️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
The weather in Mannheim this morning set the perfect mood for the start of the third week of the #GESISfallseminar ☀️ Welcome to all participants and our lecturers for a week of machine learning, computer vision and network analysis!
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The weather in Mannheim this morning set the perfect mood for the start of the third week of the #GESISfallseminar ☀️ Welcome to all participants and our lecturers for a week of machine learning, computer vision and network analysis!
Reposted by Verena Kunz
👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@[email protected]), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@[email protected]), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
Reposted by Verena Kunz
Packages are essential to the #rstats ecosystem for sharing code, data, and documentation.
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Packages are essential to the #rstats ecosystem for sharing code, data, and documentation.
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication
More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
Reposted by Verena Kunz
The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
Petition (de/en) ⤵️
Petition (de/en) ⤵️
Petition unterschreiben
Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master
https://www.change.org/p/keine-wiso-ohne-powi-für-eine-starke-politikwissenschaft-im-bachelor-master
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
Petition (de/en) ⤵️
Petition (de/en) ⤵️
Reposted by Verena Kunz
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
NEW -
Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ
- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ
- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
Reposted by Verena Kunz
@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca
75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
j0b.de/veca
75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca
75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
j0b.de/veca
75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Reposted by Verena Kunz
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
One month to go until it's #GESISfallseminar time again 🥳 Check out the course programme at gesis.org/fallseminar if you want to spend some time in September broadening your #CSS methods skills & feel free to reach out in case of questions 😊
August 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
One month to go until it's #GESISfallseminar time again 🥳 Check out the course programme at gesis.org/fallseminar if you want to spend some time in September broadening your #CSS methods skills & feel free to reach out in case of questions 😊