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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Academy of Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie, not on Bsky wut?) is offering a 1,500 Euro prize for the best #replication study in #sociology as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de #openscience 🧪

AS Conference 2025

as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

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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Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 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 …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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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Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 5d

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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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 5d

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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Zeynep Somer-Topcu @zeynsom.bsky.social · 7d

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

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

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

media.tenor.com

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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 6d

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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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 7d

🤝 @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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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 6d

Great to finally see this important paper published! ⬇️

Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 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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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations 🎉

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

📢 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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 12d

Good points if you exclude validity of task-accomplishment, increasing fraud potential in teaching / research & associated time costs, dependency on non-academic AI producers or exploding energy costs for universities, & increasing over-use of natural resources from "AI's role in science".

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 13d

LMU Professors from various disciplines share their perspectives on the role of AI in science
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 13d

Good point

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 13d

This is exactly it: AI as a practical support. My rule for using AI in my own work is: don't use it for anything that, if time and money were no object, you wouldn't be able to do yourself. That and: don't use it for writing. I like writing. It's one of the reasons I decided to do this for a living.

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 13d

LMU Professors from various disciplines share their perspectives on the role of AI in science
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 13d

LMU Professors from various disciplines share their perspectives on the role of AI in science
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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