Yesterday we had the pleasure to welcome @benjaminrohr.bsky.social to present his new work on the Weimar Republic!

We thank @s7css.bsky.social for the opportunity to present our work as well as @emilienschultz.bsky.social for his support on this project.

Happy to share my new paper with Cat Dang Ton and @eollion.bsky.social on how to use generative LLMs for extracting information from textual data (conditionally accepted at Sociological Methods & Research)

Here's a rundown..

osf.io/preprints/so...

Today we had a joint meeting with our group and @demolabs.bsky.social to talk about current projects! We never thought about democracy on Mars - Thanks for the visit!

I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @oms279.bsky.social to present on "Temporalities of Climate Change in U.S. Media (2000-2021)" at our departmental colloquium!

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏

- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs

arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

The pleasure was ours!

Yesterday, @s7css.bsky.social invited me to present my dissertation at the University of Stuttgart. It was a blast — thanks to the chair of Prof. Heiberger for their invitation, the audience for their amazing feedback, and the city for their hospitality! I'd love to come back one day!

🚨 New publication by Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger: Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention. The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X) #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS #SocialMedia #Policy

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Pop2net, a powerful new #Python package developed by Marius Kaffai & Lukas Erhard! 🎉
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🚨 We're excited to share the latest publication of our members @luerhard.bsky.social , Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger in Political Analysis: 'PopBERT: Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag'. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/pan.... #PoliticalScience #Populism

Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @hendrik-erz.de to present on "Economic Policymaking in U.S. Congress. Discursive Dynamics, 1960–1990" at our departmental colloquium!

Check out our paper "Network community detection via neural embeddings" led by @skojaku.bsky.social (w Filippo Radicchi and Santo Fortunato)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We argue that n2v can encode community structure down to the detectability limit due to its connection to spectral embedding.

🚨 We're excited to share the latest publication of our members @luerhard.bsky.social , Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger in Political Analysis: 'PopBERT: Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag'. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/pan.... #PoliticalScience #Populism

With customizable contact layers, it offers flexibility and control for building realistic interaction structures.
Perfect for anyone working with #AgentBasedModeling in Python!
Learn more & try it out here: mariuzka.github.io/pop2net/
#NetworkModeling #ResearchSoftware (3/3)

Pop2net is designed to help researchers easily generate network models for agent-based simulations—filling the gap between unavailable empirical data and overly abstract models. (2/3)

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Pop2net, a powerful new #Python package developed by Marius Kaffai & Lukas Erhard! 🎉
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Excited to start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at CEU in Vienna. I am deeply grateful to the scholars I met at University of Cologne, @unistuttgart.bsky.social, and Dan McFarland's Mimir Lab for their support, intellectual generosity and kindness. Thank you!

🚨New job alert from our colleagues at the University of Amsterdam! 🚨
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

🚨 New publication by Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger: Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention. The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X) #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS #SocialMedia #Policy

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...