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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jul 8

Reminder, my live-stream on how to fine-tune LLMs in Python and Colab starts this Friday @instats.bsky.social @quantlab.bsky.social

Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jun 10

... and if you would like to learn how to fine-tune open-source LLMs, I also offer an advanced workshop on AI-assisted text analysis, live-streamed on July 11! @quantlab.bsky.social instats.org/seminar/usin...

Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications - Live-streaming:

This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications taught by Seraphine Maerz will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yes, we plan to offer the workshop soon again for European/US time zones, stay tuned!

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jun 10

... and if you would like to learn how to fine-tune open-source LLMs, I also offer an advanced workshop on AI-assisted text analysis, live-streamed on July 11! @quantlab.bsky.social instats.org/seminar/usin...

Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications - Live-streaming:

This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications taught by Seraphine Maerz will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!

instats.org

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jun 10

Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we are offering a full-day online workshop - suitable for beginners - on AI-assisted text analysis in the programming language R, live-streamed on July 4 instats.org/seminar/usin...

Using AI for Text Analysis: An Introduction - Live-streaming:

This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: An Introduction taught by Seraphine Maerz & Kenneth Benoit will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!

instats.org

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · May 30

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance

Dean Schafer, Seraphine F. Maerz, Carsten Q. Schneider, Alexandra Krasnokutskaya

www.cogitatiopress.com

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Tomasz Woźniak @tomaszwozniak.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hey! If you're in Melbs next Monday, drop by to my hands-on ✨ Shut up and git! ✨ session with the @quantlab.bsky.social at the unimelb!

Thanks @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and @irmamooi.bsky.social for the invitation to present!

#git #GitHub #cooperation

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Feb 13

Last chance to register, the advanced workshop is live-streamed early next week!

Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jan 20

Want to learn about how to use ChatGPT and open-source LLMs for basic and advanced text analysis tasks? Join me for my full-day online workshops in February with @quantlab.bsky.social Instats - as usual, people from University of Melbourne can sign up for free! instats.org/structuredco...

Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications with Drs Maerz

In this structured statistics course, you will learn about Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications from world renown experts - DrsMaerz

instats.org

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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · Feb 11

This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · Feb 11

📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute
V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute.
To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx
📆 March 27, 2025.

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jan 28

We at @quantlab.bsky.social prepared a new, completely free and brief online tutorial on how to use open-source LLMs in R for text classification tasks - accessible for R beginners - check it out here: quantilab.github.io/blog/tutoria...

How to use an open-source LLM in R for text analysis tasks – QuantLab

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Jan 20

Want to learn about how to use ChatGPT and open-source LLMs for basic and advanced text analysis tasks? Join me for my full-day online workshops in February with @quantlab.bsky.social Instats - as usual, people from University of Melbourne can sign up for free! instats.org/structuredco...

Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications with Drs Maerz

In this structured statistics course, you will learn about Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications from world renown experts - DrsMaerz

instats.org

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Fabio Angiolillo @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social · Jan 16

Apply to participate in the 3* APSG Conference in London!

Deadline is *16 February* don’t miss it!

Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · Jan 16

Polisky Dictatorsky
CfP is now open for our Third Conference on Authoritarian Politics taking place at King’s College, London, on 23-24 June 2025!
To apply, complete this form with a 200-word abstract before 16 February 2025.: forms.gle/KBDiwPMABykv...

Apply: 3° APSG Authoritarian Politics Conference

Complete the form to be considered for the 3° APSG Conference on Authoritarian Politics that will be held on 23-24 June 2025 in London (King's College).

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Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social · Dec 10

This article is part of a special issue "Authoritarianism reinvented: The interplay between online and offline tactics" edited by @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and Lisa Garbe. Stay tuned for more great articles to follow soon!

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Feb 4

I did my first TV interviews yesterday, talking to rbb's 'Abendschau' and 'Brandenburg aktuell' about the current protests.
It's so difficult to be short when talking research - but maybe that's a take-away for teaching as well?🤫

www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/v...

www.rbb-online.de/brandenburga...

Mehr als 150.000 Menschen demonstrieren gegen Rechtsextremismus

Zehntausende Menschen haben sich am Samstag vor dem Reichstag versammelt und gegen Rechtsextremismus demonstriert. Zu der Kundgebung hatten 1.800 Organisationen aufgerufen, darunter Gewerkschaften, Ki...

www.rbb-online.de

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Marianne Blum @marihatschi.bsky.social · Jan 21

Blick vom Paul-Löbe-Haus auf den Platz vorm Reichstag heute 21.1.24 17 Uhr. Die Polizei spricht von 100k die Veranstalter von 350.000 Demonstrant:innen. Fakt ist: Bereits am Hauptbahnhof ging nix mehr weil es selbst für den größten Bahnhof Europas zu Viele waren
DAS ist die Brandmauer gegen Rechts!

Menschenmassen, die vor dem Reichstag im Berlin gegen Rechts demonstrieren

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taz @taz.de · Jan 21

Hunderttausende Menschen gehen auf die Straßen, um gegen Rechtsextremismus zu demonstrieren. Bemerkenswert ist auch der Aufbruch in Ostdeutschland.

Demos gegen rechts: Deutschland unteilbar

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Nov 23

Very interesting report on disinfo narratives pushed in the 2022 elections in Brazil: inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/u...

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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · Nov 22

Happy to share a new working paper together with @carlhknutsen and @JonasDraege titled "The Diverse Effects of Hard Propaganda in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes": osf.io/n4g6k/ -- What is it about? (1/7) polsky dictatorsky menasky

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Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social · Nov 22

📢 I’m excited to share that my article on autocratic performance legitimacy and the COVID response policies in Saudi Arabia has been published in PoP (open-access)👇

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

“The Pandemic Was a Global Exam, and Our Country Came in First”: Autocratic Performance Legitima...

“The Pandemic Was a Global Exam, and Our Country Came in First”: Autocratic Performance Legitimacy in Saudi Arabia

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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · Nov 14

Dictatorsky

Personalisation of politics in #Uzbekistan entails transformation of president into untouchable figure. Similar dynamics already at play in Gulf states, where public mentions of emirs or sheikhs are limited to glorification of leadership.

eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-t...

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · Nov 3

This is a great initiative, I have just donated another invite code :-) spread the word!

Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Nov 2

Yes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Nov 2

Yes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · Nov 2

Is there some place where one can “donate” invite codes?

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Nov 2

Please follow the WissenchaftsZentrum Berlin Transformations of Democracy research unit here
(Failed in my first effort to provide link)

@wzbdemocracy.bsky.social

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · Oct 19

🆕PUBLICATION ALERT
To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out
@JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Oct 16

📣@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are organizing an english-language open panel on Text as Data Approaches to measuring political competition and representation at the 2024 DVPW conference in Göttingen.

Submissions open until 31/10/23
Panel n° 89: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2024/cal... polisky polcom cssky

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