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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for a Data Discussion on October 10! 📅

Frederik Hjorth will open the session with a discussion on the political origins of critical social science, followed by Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, who will examine the reliability of AI interviewers.

Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

SODAS Data Discussion 2 (Fall 2025)

SODAS is delighted to host Frederik Hjorth and Hjalmar Bang Carlsen for the Fall 2025 Data Discussion series!

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 6d

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 6d

Greece has unusually many news outlets, but that does not mean its media landscape is diverse. Most websites cover the same broad topics--even more so when they take over news agency content, and when websites have the same owner. Read more in Yani Kartalis' paper: eprints.lse.ac.uk/129624/1/Gre...

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Michele Coscia @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I'm glad to be a coauthor of the excellent Marilena Hohmann for this paper proposing a way to measure affective polarization on social media: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328210

Estimating affective polarization on a social network

Concerns about polarization and hate speech on social media are widespread. Affective polarization, i.e., hostility among partisans, is crucial in this regard as it links political disagreements to hostile language online. However, only a few methods are available to measure how affectively polarized an online debate is, and the existing approaches do not investigate jointly two defining features of affective polarization: hostility and social distance. To address this methodological gap, we propose a network-based measure of affective polarization that combines both aspects – which allows them to be studied independently. We show that our measure accurately captures the relation between the level of disagreement and the hostility expressed towards others (affective component) and whom individuals choose to interact with or avoid (social distance component). Applying our measure to a large-scale Twitter data set on COVID-19, we find that affective polarization was low in February 2020 and increased to high levels as more users joined the Twitter discussion in the following months.

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 9d

In a new DR article (🇩🇰), Morten Axel Pedersen comments on the new "extreme sport" of going without your smartphone, on daydreaming, and on the meditativeness of manning a conveyor belt. Link: www.dr.dk/nyheder/kult...

Det er blevet så almindeligt konstant at bruge sin smartphone, at der er kommet et ord for at lade være

Det er blevet så almindeligt altid at bruge sin telefon, at der er kommet et ord for at lade være.

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 21d

The first Data Discussion of the fall is happening this Friday! 📢

Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 28d

Join us for the first Data Discussion of the fall on September 19! 📅

Berit Heling will present an exploration of the psychometrics of employer image attributes with LLMs, while August Lohse will discuss insights from 10 years of student exams and generative AI.

Event 🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

SODAS Data Discussion 1 (Fall 2025)

SODAS is delighted to host Berit Tricia Heling and August Lohse for the Fall 2025 Data Discussion series!

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 28d

Join us for the first Data Discussion of the fall on September 19! 📅

Berit Heling will present an exploration of the psychometrics of employer image attributes with LLMs, while August Lohse will discuss insights from 10 years of student exams and generative AI.

Event 🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

SODAS Data Discussion 1 (Fall 2025)

SODAS is delighted to host Berit Tricia Heling and August Lohse for the Fall 2025 Data Discussion series!

sodas.ku.dk

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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · Sep 6

Several of my great new colleagues at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social and their collaborators have to put together this blockbuster paper on what happened when the UK Labour Party adopted radical right rhetoric on immigration. A must read for centre left parties across Europe.

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · Sep 1

* Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility *

🌍🚶 How much of our movement is about human choice and how much is constrained by geography and the spatial layout of locations?

Our paper (out in Nature Human Behavior) gives you a practical way to tell:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Emilie Munch Gregersen wrote chapter 9, “Samarbejde i det kollektive feltarbejde”, in the 2nd edition of the book Antropologiske Projekter. They show how collective fieldwork benefits from a shared methodological infrastructure. samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/antropol...

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Sep 1

We warmly welcome @keltonminor.bsky.social as a new Associate Professor in Planetary Behavioral Data Science, in a joint position with the Psychology Dept.

Kelton's research examines how individuals and populations adapt to rapid global changes in the atmosphere, biosphere, and cybersphere.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Jul 3

Rare open-rank researcher job in environmental psychology, Copenhagen employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Call for open-rank academic position in Environmental Psychology and Sustainability

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Aug 29

When it comes to ethnic discrimination, a story is worth a thousand data points. A new paper shows that one anecdote about a teen of Lebanese origin being turned down for a job 👦 is as powerful as a large audit study 📑 in convincing people that discrimination is real. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

A graph showing that a "supermarket story" has a larger effect on "seeing discrimination as a problem" compared to an "audit study", and about the same effect on "seeing discimination as widespread".

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Last week, the SODAS gang went on a two-day retreat to sunny Hornbæk. After countless PechaKucha presentations, much swimming in the Baltic, and several worthy attempts at snatching the next Ig Nobel prize, we are ready for another academic year. 💪 See you in the classroom and the conference center!

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Aug 13

What happens when anthropologists turn their analytical gaze on their own archive—not through fieldwork, but through computational analysis? In a new article, @krisalbris.bsky.social and co. investigate the intellectual history of anthropology. Read more: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst....

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Tereza Blazkova @terezablazek.bsky.social · Jul 21

While human behavior and the data describing it evolve over time, fairness is often evaluated at a single snapshot. Yet, as we show in our newly published paper, fairness is dynamic. We studied how fairness evolves in dropout prediction across enrollment and found that it shifts over time.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Jul 10

Cecilie Strandsbjerg @cphsodas.bsky.social and I have a short review of recent research on personality states out in Current Opinion in Psychology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Personality States

Personality states refer to an individuals’ feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and goals at a particular time. We review recent research with a focus on …

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hear Malene Hostrup Jensen explain her paper with SODAS colleagues on Danes' apparent addiction to passive screen time and their difficulty doing something about it. On Danish radio, listen from 39:04: www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-mo...

P1 Morgen | Lørdag 28. jun. 2025 | Lyt som podcast | DR LYD

Lyt som podcast her på DR LYD. Skal EU rulle grønne tiltag tilbage af hensyn til konkurrenceevnen? Kan præstestyret i Iran afskrække befolkningen med masseanholdelser og henrettelser? Og hvorfor smage...

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 27

DR reporting today on a SODAS research paper, finding that Danes don't like how much time they spend scrolling on social media, but the vast majority don't do anything about it. Of 9500 respondents, only 30% have turned off notifications or deleted apps. www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide... (in 🇩🇰)

Ny forskning: Mange er trætte af at doomscrolle - men vi gør sjældent noget ved det

Mere end halvdelene af os bliver utilpasse, når vi ikke har telefonen på os, viser ny forskning.

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Yevgeniy Golovchenko @golovchenko.bsky.social · Jun 25

1/ What happens when you give social data science students 821.6 GB of public vessel geolocation data (AIS) and just 9 hours to identify potentially suspicious behavior near the Danish coast?

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congrats to Anna Helene Kvist Møller for receiving a Carlsberg internationalization grant! Her project investigates how subtle signs of taste in visual content become thresholds for algorithms to control the (in)visibility of users in different 🌎 and cultures. www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 20

At this year’s Folkemøde, Morten Axel Pedersen was spontaneously invited to give a talk to a visiting group of German democracy advocates. During the talk, he shared his research outcomes on democracy festivals with the "German Democracy Gang."

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 19

In a new paper, Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and co. present “broad data ethnography”. They outline four principles for the analysis of e.g. field notes: compilability (a shared data structure), compatibility (similarity in data content), counting, and computability. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · Jun 16

SODAS at Folkemødet 2025!

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Karoline Husbond Andersen and Magnus Nørtoft presented findings from studying the Danish People’s Meeting (Folkemødet) in 2021 and 2022 on the Research Stage at the People’s Meeting.

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