Today, we welcomed the second cohort of students to the MSc in AI & Government and MSc in AI & Sustainable Development today. Excited to support them in developing their AI & ML skills over the coming year!
#AI #MachineLearning #HigherEducation #SustainableDevelopment #AIandGovernment #ScienceRocks

Today @10 in Pacific Rim 2: our framework for assessing LLM output. a) separates general vs. domain-specific similarity b) handles existing classifiers c) accounts for probabilistic DGP d) model-independent & efficient
#APSA2025 @jamespcross.bsky.social Tim Henrichsen @christinesheldon.bsky.social

The Centre for AI in Government is at #APSA25 for the first time. Really impressive line-up and testament of a strong group of curious, committed and kind scholars. Come and find us! #sciencerocks #CAIG #computationalsocialscience #aiingovernment

@christinesheldon.bsky.social

Heading to #EPSA2025 in Madrid next week! I will be part of a paper asking:

"How Useful is Your LLM Output?"

It is the first from a project on simulating political negotiations w/ LLMs.
DM if you are around---tea, coffee, or confusion matrices?
#sciencerocks #LLMs #SyntheticData #AIandPolitics

Our MSc students in #AIGovernment & #AISustainableDevelopment swapped lecture halls for a day in #Cardiff — visiting the #WelshGovernment ’s Data Science Unit and the brilliant team at @cardiffnlp.bsky.social.
Great to see how #MachineLearning meets real-world #PublicPolicy. Also: dragon spotted. 🐉🔥

40110 #AI and #GlobalChallenges & 40111 #AI for #Government and #Policy is a wrap! From designing research to deploying ML solutions on ‘people data’—we covered it. Rewarding but challenging, given the cohort’s diversity & the material’s breadth. Want to join next round? Apply! Questions on how? PM!

On Friday, I’m presenting at TCD (w/ @ankuepfer.bsky.social . We explore how to measure object prominence in news photography & curated images.
Applications:
📌 US newspaper ideal points (Visual BoW);
📌 Gender bias in US campaign videos.
More info & enrolment: 🔗 www.tcd.ie/Political_Sc...

What started as a political science project with Slava Jankin and Hannah Béchara spiraled into its own paper, exploring how language shapes how we perceive distances & construe events. Excited to share the journey! #sciencerocks

Kick-off for our DFG project! With multimodal ML, we study 15,000h of German parliamentary speeches. Stay tuned for how MPs handle populism, how facial expressions send coalition signals and dynamics of salience. #DreamTeam #ScienceRocks #DankeDFG @pluggedchris.bsky.social @ankuepfer.bsky.social

My Book of the Year: AI Snake Oil by Narayanan & Kapoor. Dismantles AI myths, from overblown promises to doomsday fears. Practical, empowering, & helps you think critically about AI. Perfect for this time of the year. #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics #MustRead #JustSayin #ScienceRocks

Just wrapped 30+ videos for our new online maths course, tailored for MSc AI & Gov’t + MSc AI & Sustainable Dev. Built to boost skills in modeling social processes & data analysis. Kudos to our media team! Excited for its impact! #AI #SocialDataScience #HigherEd

📢 Publicationalert: "The Role of Hyperparameters in Machine Learning Models and How to Tune Them" with with Luka Biedebach Andreas Küpfer and Marcel Neunhoeffer in Political Science Research and Methods. Margeret is loving #hyperparameters. Do you? doi.org/10.1017/psrm... 🧵 [1/5]