Also, I couldn´t be happier that Jan Vondráček and @vojtechpohanka.bsky.social will join me in the sister PhD program in Political Science! Another wave of Quantitative PoliSci at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz, stay tuned for some stats, NLP & DAGs from us🙂(and hopefully the paper us 3 are writing)

I mainly want to thank my future dissertation supervisor Michal Parizek and my current diploma supervisor Jakub Tesař for their continued support and help. I am really happy to continue at my alma mater and looking forward to this new challenge🔽

🥳Extremely happy that I have been accepted for a PhD position in International Relations at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. I will (hopefully) research the politicization of international economic cooperation in Europe using NLP and quantitative methods in a IR + party politics setting 🔽

Stance score formula here. A score of (+/-) 0.4 is actually really high given the normalization including neutral mentions.

For new parties we see arguably better overlap. SPD being by far the party most opposed to the EU.

While the general trends are comparable, the Social Dems (ČSSD) and Civic Dems (ODS) show relatively bigger swings in discoursive stances and the last years show a swap of overall stances (my prior is that the Ukraine war drives this). New CHES should drop this year. 2/

Comparing Chapel Hill scores of EU positions of Czech parties with their discursive stances estimated from parliamentary debates (using the zero-shot Political DEBATE model for stance detection on 40k observations). Overall we see pretty good overlap with some exceptions 1/contd.

Had an amazing time at my first #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna. Happy to see so much cool research, get the chance present our paper and represent a growing team of researchers from the Institute of Political Studies @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

Illuminated contours of the Gulf of México.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

The fires are revealing how good elected officials are at their jobs.

Unbiased information systematically affects electoral fortunes.

This is why natural disasters being bad for incumbents on average isn't evidence of voter irrationality.

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Bee-nado, meet sharknado! :P 🦈

#rayvertex adventures, an #rstats tale