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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · Jun 23

💥💥💥 Deadline tomorrow!

Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · Jun 5

Hey y'all I am hiring a PhD student. Minimal teaching load and many opportunities for more ;)

uol.de/job566en

Research Associate in the field of "Digital Social Science" // University of Oldenburg

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · May 13

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · May 5

Using Principal-Agent Theory, our new paper argues delegating governmental tasks to #AI undermines feelings of being in control, leading to a "failure-by-success":

Initial AI efficiency drives wider adoption, ultimately eroding citizens' sense of control, a cornerstone of democratic legitimacy

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

@clint0475.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social @johannesbreuer.com @alessandronai.bsky.social @adamramey.bsky.social @kgattermann.bsky.social

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

Our results suggest that computational methods can capture meaningful personality cues in text. We also highlight several limitations and next steps—curious to hear your thoughts and feedback on the paper! :)

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

For 2) we confirm previous findings that Donald Trump signals more agency-related cues, whereas Kamala Harris signals more communion-related cues during their presidential debate

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

For 1), we see a clear and consistent negative relationship between the parties CHES ("left-right") score and the politicians’ share of communion. This association is particularly
pronounced for the economic dimension (left panel), but also present in the cultural dimension (right panel).

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

We also demonstrate that our measure is sensitive to partisan differences for (1) aggregated communion scores of politicians across political parties in the German Bundes-
tag, and (2) individual scores for the U.S. Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on September 10, 2024

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

We observe that Deepseek-V3 achieved the strongest performance, closely followed by GPT-4o. At the same time, traditional methods (SVM, XLM-RoBERTa) showed weaker results across validation steps (e.g., comparison with human labels (left plot) & functional tests with designed examples (right plot)).

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

💻 We then apply a systematic research design that includes
1) extensive operationalisation of two traits (agency and communion) using a validated framework
2) Human labelling and validation, and
3) multiple methods (SVM, XLM-RoBERTa, GPT-4o, Llama-3-8B, Deepseak-V3) and measurement strategies!

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

We started conceptualizing how "politicians' personality" can be measured by focusing on observable personality cues as the main empirical indicators in language. These cues reflect an amalgamation of politicians' true intrinsic traits shaped by (unobservable) strategic considerations.

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Apr 26

Very sad that I can't join #comptext25 this year -.- but for those interested in political psychology, we just published the preprint of my last dissertation paper where we conducted a validation study for measuring politicians' public personality traits using text as data: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 👇

OSF

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Mar 26

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · Mar 14

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
Our Department Survey Design & Methodology (SDM), Team Scale Development and Documentation, located in #Mannheim, is looking for a #ResearchAssociate (Doctoral student) (Salary group 13 TV-L, 75 % working time, limited to 4 years):
www.hidden-professio...

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Jan 20

Dataset alert ⏰
We just uploaded the preprint for a novel dataset of German politicians' public broadcast interviews (around 100 interviews, 30 politicians, 28k sentences) sourced from YouTube & manually validated + speaker identification and timestamps, ready for re-use 👍 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04484?

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Jan 15

⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025!
Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀
Details: shorturl.at/AmocX

7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project

While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨 Reminder: The application deadline for two open positions @gesis.org department Computational Social Science is approaching quickly!

📅 Application deadline: January 20

Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Dec 19

🚀 Two open positions in our project “Developing AI-Powered Survey Infrastructures” 🚀

🔬 Postdoc: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
📚 Doctoral researcher: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
🌟 Be part of an interdisciplinary team and combine surveys, digital behavioral data and LLMs

Postdoc in Social Data Science

GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association. Starting on April 1st ...

www.hidden-professionals.de

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Jan 9

@zeit.de has just published a data-driven article on 📮 postal voting (Briefwahl) for the upcoming federal election, which also features a brief interview with me: www.zeit.de/politik/deut... (Zeit+ subscription required)

Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl: Die Risiken der Briefwahl stärken vor allem eine Partei

Wahlleiter warnen vor der Briefwahl – viele Stimmen könnten auf dem Postweg liegen bleiben. Das könnte die nahende Bundestagswahl zugunsten der AfD verschieben.

www.zeit.de

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Jan 8

🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨
🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis  🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits
🧐 Bayesian text analysis
…and more!
Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX

7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Jan 7

Heute erstes Live-Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk ✅ über die Herausforderungen der Fristen für Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2025✉️ Ich freue mich über Feedback! :)
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bundestagswa...

Bundestagswahl am 23. Februar: Stolpersteine bei der Briefwahl

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Lukas Birkenmaier @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social · Jan 7

Heute erstes Live-Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk ✅ über die Herausforderungen der Fristen für Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2025✉️ Ich freue mich über Feedback! :)
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bundestagswa...

Bundestagswahl am 23. Februar: Stolpersteine bei der Briefwahl

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

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Julius Diener @dienerjulius.bsky.social · Jan 7

My first paper has been published at PVS. In it, I investigate the strategic incentives behind parliamentary interruptions using data from the German Bundestag. In this thread you can find a short summary of the paper, which is available under open access here: rdcu.be/d4mHq

Explaining Interruption Behavior in Parliament: The Role of Topic Expertise, Career Status, and Government-Opposition Dynamics

rdcu.be

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