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Alexander Wuttke

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Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵‍♂️🐶

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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 15h

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 ⬇️

The image shows photos and names of the five speakers of the TADA Speaker Series for the Fall term 2025.

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 21h

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 1d

We started @metaror.bsky.social MetaROR.org in part because of the absence of a journal that publishes metascience. But rather than a traditional journal, as metascientists we wanted to explore the next frontier - Publish, Review, Curate.

Home - MetaROR

MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform

MetaROR.org

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 1d

Sehenswertes Begrüßungsstatement des neuen LMU Präsidenten Matthias Tschöp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHdVJDDat0

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic. Congratulations, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social !

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 2d

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides."

OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages.

(And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter revolutionised my career.

I learnt a huge amount about causal inference through #EpiTwitter.

And I met many amazing people who I've since had the joy of working with (Eg @epiellie.bsky.social, @epidbydesign.bsky.social, @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @jlrohmann.bsky.social, etc etc)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 3d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵

In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan

The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 4d

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our findings...

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions

www.cambridge.org

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 7d

7 years ago Tim Cook told the European Parliament:

“We're responsible for recognizing that the devices we make and platforms we build have real…lasting…even permanent effects on individuals and communities who use them

We must never stop asking ourselves What kind of world do we want to live in?"

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 7d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Claus Offe. He built his own monument in his work; here’s something great.
www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...

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Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 8d

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 8d

The—AI-related—stigmatization of the em dash makes it even harder to squeze my very German thoughts into english words.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations 🎉

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Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social

We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 9d

🤝 @jochemvanagt.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik, @luanarusso.bsky.social, and @markuswagner.bsky.social show that when the mainstream right signals openness to govern with the far right, it eases tensions on the right but amplifies antipathy on the left 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right

Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...

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Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social · 10d

Still confused about EPSA vs. EPSS? Which conference should you go to? Here is a link to clarify things: epssnet.org/uncategorize... TL;DR: "EPSA" community will be in Belfast. Same community, new organisation, bigger mission; slightly new name; and a very different foundation @epssnet.bsky.social

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ALT: a man with glasses says look can 't you see it 's obvious netflix

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 10d

oder Jan Dul (2016) — Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA): Logic and Methodology of “Necessary but Not Sufficient” Causality,

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 10d

LLM sagt: Bear F. Braumoeller & Gary Goertz (2000) The Methodology of Necessary Conditions, AJPS. oder Gary Goertz (2006) Assessing the Trivialness, Relevance, and Relative Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Social Science

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Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 11d

I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students.

We covered:

1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences

The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...

GitHub - nicolaiberk/llm_ws: Materials for my Workshop on LLMs

Materials for my Workshop on LLMs. Contribute to nicolaiberk/llm_ws development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 11d

📢 New Journal Article: AI & Deliberation 📢

What impact does #AI have on democratic deliberation? Together with @adrauc.bsky.social, I explore this question in a new article in Government Information Quarterly. Findings in the thread 🧵👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) promise help for democratic deliberation, such as processing information, moderating discussion, and fact-che…

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 13d

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real…
🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social

The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

Screenshot of the article “Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure ‘Monitoring Electoral Democracy’ (MEDem)” published in European Political Science. The header shows the journal name, DOI link, and the label “DEBATE.” Below, the title is followed by the author list: Hajo Boomgaarden, Alexia Katsanidou, Sylvia Kritzinger, Georg Lutz, Johanna Willmann, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl. The abstract explains the aims of MEDem as a European research infrastructure to make democracy research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). Keywords listed include open science, FAIR data, ESFRI roadmap, research infrastructure, democracy research, data harmonization, data linking, and data set search. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00534-8

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 14d

That assumes replication studies are easy to publish and often cited. In reality, neither holds, with some exceptions

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 14d

Agreed. I overemphasized benefits. I meant only to argue that AI in Science can assist with routine research tasks, not that it is necessary good for big ideas.

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 15d

Good point