I’m incredibly grateful for all the academic, social, and emotional support I received on this journey from everyone at @ipz.bsky.social. Thank you for being part of this adventure!

I want to thank my committee: @fgilardi.bsky.social, @karstendonnay.bsky.social, and @stefanmueller.bsky.social as well as the chair, Prof. Dr. Daniel Kübler, and minute-taker @emmahoes.bsky.social. Your guidance and support made this possible!

After 4½ years, I’m thrilled to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled “Framing Artificial Intelligence: Understanding How AI Is Framed in EU Political and Media Discourse Using Large Language Models.” PhDone! 🎓

✨ New LLM paper ✨

> Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks
> Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4
> Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data

w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New publication alert in PSRM! 🚨

Our latest paper examines gender bias in media coverage of elections and the factors influencing it.

Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

With @fgilardi.bsky.social y.social & @gessler.bsky.social

suggested criteria for the responsible use of LLMs in academic work

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We are thrilled to share our new publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining! 🚀

We compare methods for creating a national random sample of Twitter/X users for digital research and social media analysis.

Explore the findings here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"We find that sustained negative coverage significantly predicts changes to platforms’ user policies, highlighting the role of public pressure in shaping the governance of online platforms."

by @emmahoes.bsky.social @klueserthan.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social @malizadeh.bsky.social et al.

✨ Call for papers ✨

Digital Democracy Workshop
University of Zurich, 24-25 October 2024
Submission deadline: 2 June 2024

Pls share widely!

democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-1...

I'm hiring a postdoc!

> Aug 2024 - July 2027
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Interest in digital technology & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> Salary: CHF 81,400/yr

Pls help me spread the word!

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

I'll talk about co-authored work with @fgilardi.bsky.social and @maelkubli.bsky.social in Mannheim today on how advocacy campaigns influence gender bias in election coverage.

Looking to see some familiar faces, whether online or in person. 👋

happening next week: our 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop

if you happen to be in Zurich, please register here: digdemlab.io/forms/regist...

should be a good one :)

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!