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chrauh.bsky.social
➡️ Predoctoral Research Fellow / PhD Candidate
👉 75%, 3 years, @wzb.bsky.social
👉 Focus: Quantitative text analysis ( #NLP | #CSS | #TextAsData ) on global crisis perceptions and dissertation research
👉 Full job call: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/pred...
Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) (ID 364)
For its VARICRIS project at the research department Global Governance, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center is looking for A Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) to be employed...
www.wzb.eu
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ckreudersonnen.bsky.social
➡️ Predoctoral Research Fellow / PhD Candidate
👉 75%, 3 years, @WZB Berlin
👉 Focus: Quantitative text analysis ( #NLP | #CSS | #TextAsData ) on global crisis perceptions and dissertation research
👉 Full job call: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/pred...
Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) (ID 364)
For its VARICRIS project at the research department Global Governance, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center is looking for A Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) to be employed...
www.wzb.eu
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
fidpol.bsky.social
Anmeldung noch bis kurz vor 11 Uhr geöffnet: Parlamentsdebatten auf Weboberfläche strukturiert durchsuchen: Wie das mit PoliCorp geht, zeigen wir jetzt gleich, live: uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
#StateParl #GermaParl #TextAsData #PoWi #Polsci
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
fidpol.bsky.social
📣7.10., 11-12 Uhr, PoliCorp-Webinar. Anmelden hier: uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
PoliCorp (demo-pollux.gesis.org) bietet Forschenden einen strukturierten und durchsuchbaren Zugang zu verarbeiteten Textkorpora, derzeit 76 Jahre Parlamentsdebatten. #Germaparl #textasdata #Polsci #Powi
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October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
jbgruber.bsky.social
If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high!

Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇
joachimbaumann.bsky.social Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · Sep 12
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
lisadellmuth.bsky.social
📡 In this new paper, we show how framing #climate change linkages helps or slows the spread of those linkages on social media. Big thanks to my co-author @karinashyrokykh.bsky.social! @scgg-official.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social #textasdata #polisky @esg-journal.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
geoeconomica.bsky.social
Yes. #textasdata
adam-lg.bsky.social Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · Jul 28
69. Word2vec was a bigger leap forward than the various LLMs
July 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
chrauh.bsky.social
"Trust me, Bro!": You should read this working paper if you consider using commercial #LLM endpoints for annotating #TextAsData

arthurspirling.org/documents/Ba...
arthurspirling.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
chrauh.bsky.social
🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

A thread (1/n)
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
kkvk7.bsky.social
#computationalsocialsciences, #jobsjobsjobs, #textasdata, für mein DFG-Projekt zur Fragmentierung digitaler Nachrichtenpublika mit Frank Mangold @gesis.org suche ich eine*n Doktorand*in mit Interesse an den neuesten (KI-gestützten) Methoden der Inhaltsanalyse
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
July 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
sciencespo-cee.bsky.social
3 young scholars from our centre present at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna on Fri & Sat:

@jdeyris.bsky.social on Fed discourses
@selmasarenkapa.bsky.social on social group constructions
@luissattelmayer.bsky.social on party positions

#TextAsData
cc @comptext.bsky.social @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social
Framing the Domestic Economy: Media, Policy, and Public Perception Time: Friday, 25/Apr/2025: 10:45am - 12:15pm · Location: SR 04 Session Chair: Matilde Ceron, University of Salzburg Discussant: Hugo Subtil, University of Zurich Hidden barriers to open competition: Using text mining to uncover corrupt restrictions to competition in public procurement Eszter Katona1,3, Mihály Fazekas2,3 1Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary; 2Central European University; 3Government Transparency Institute From Prices to Politics: Framing the Causes of Inflation at the Federal Reserve (1970-2023) Benjamin Braun1, Jérôme Deyris2, Monica DiLeo3 1London School of Economics; 2Sciences Po, France; 3Hertie School, Berlin Salience and anti-elitism of wealth elites in UK newspapers Michael Kevin Vaughan London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Shifting Priorities: How the New Economic Reality Influences Youth Perspectives in Türkiye Ayşe Zeynep Zülfikar1, Ubeyd Öktem1,2 1Koç University, Türkiye; 2Bilgi University, Türkiye Discourses On Group Identities and Their Measurement Time: Saturday, 26/Apr/2025: 4:30pm - 6:00pm · Location: SR 06 Session Chair: Marvin Stecker, University of Vienna Discussant: Camilo Cristancho, Universitat de Barcelona Politicians’ discursive use of social identities and citizens’ self-identification Naama Rivlin-Angert1, Yael R. Kaplan2, Guy Mor-Lan3 1The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 2The Open University of Israel; 3The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Is social group construction susceptible to crises? Selma Sarenkapa Sciences Po Paris, France SocialNER - A general method to detect social groups in computational text analysis Jonas Buettner, Pascal Jürgens, Nils Schwager Trier University, Germany Using LLMs to Detect Group Appeals in Parties’ Election Manifestos Will Horne1, Alona O. Dolinsky2, Lena Maria Huber3 1Clemson University; 2VU Amsterdam; 3MZES, University of Mannheim Politics in Data, oven-ready: A Showcase Of New Datasets Time: Friday, 25/Apr/2025: 5:00pm - 6:15pm · Location: BIG Hörsaal lecture hall Session Chair: Christian Rauh, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Analyzing Sentiments towards the European Union in Slovak Parliamentary Speeches (1994–2023) Jakub Szabo Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic EuroParlBase: A Linked Database of European Parliament Data Verena Kunz University of Mannheim & GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany ParlLawSpeech Jan Schwalbach1, Lukas Hetzer2, Proksch Sven-Oliver2, Rauh Christian3, Sebők Miklós4 1Gesis Cologne; 2University of Cologne; 3WZB Berlin, University of Potsdam; 4Centre for Social Sciences Budapest The US Congressional Speeches Dataset, 1879-2022 Segun Aroyehun University of Konstanz, Germany The Weimar Parliament Database Benjamin Rohr1, John Levi Martin2, Jan Kamlah1, Julius Diener1, David Schweizer1 1University of Mannheim, Germany; 2University of Chicago, USA Group Appeals in Historical Perspective—Comparing Over 50 Years of Parties’ Election Campaign Communication with Social Groups. Alona O. Dolinsky1, Lena Maria Huber2, Will Horne3 1VU Amsterdam; 2MZES, University of Mannheim; 3Clemson University PartySoMe: Measuring party behavior and issue attention in 25 countries on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube Luis Sattelmayer, Malo Jan SciencesPo Paris, France Shaping Politics: Constituency Influence, Parliamentary Debates, and Voter Priorities through Data-Driven Insights Time: Saturday, 26/Apr/2025: 4:30pm - 6:00pm · Location: SR 04 Session Chair: Alex Hartland, University of Saarland Discussant: Nicolai Berk, ETH Zurich Representing Prestige and Debt: How Local Attributes Influence Saliency and Ideology in Higher Education Discourse Sarah King University College Dublin, Ireland Discourse about the Left and Right in a Postcommunist Context: The Czech Case Štěpán Jabůrek, Jan Vondráček, Vojtěch Pohanka, Tomáš Kremla Charles University, Czech Republic Different priorities, different phrasing: Exploring gender differences in open-text responses to the ‘most important issue’ question. Louise Luxton1, Ceri Fowler2 1University of Manchester; 2St Hilda's College, University of Oxford United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Mainstream Party Agreement and Vote Switching to Far Right Competitors Luis Sattelmayer SciencesPo Paris, France Meanings of "The West" in Central and Eastern European Party Rhetoric Silvia Porciuleanu European University Institute, Italy
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
andreaswagnr.bsky.social
Day 2 at the #TextAsData Spring School from @dhpotsdam.bsky.social and @dhssfau.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
chrisguarnold.bsky.social
Making sure y'all saw this CfP for the Special Issue on Digital Communication in Social Movements.

Timeline: 8.3.25 abstract; 7.8.25 full paper; end of year publication.

#AI #TextasData #ImageAsData #SocialMovement #ScienceRocks

journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...
Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Digital Communication in Social Movement | Computational Communication Research
journal.computationalcommunication.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
chrauh.bsky.social
🚨 #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
February 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
fidpol.bsky.social
📣Neu bei Pollux: Pollux Political Corpora (PoliCorp)
umfangreiche politische Textsammlungen (Korpora) können hier strukturiert durchsucht und analysiert werden.
mehr Infos: pollux-fid.de/news/2025/79
Hier geht es zur Demo-Version: lnkd.in/eCb3cgx5
#GermaParl #textasdata #fürdiepolitikwissenschaft
Pollux - Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft
pollux-fid.de
January 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
mdebrito.bsky.social
Next year, we are organizing the second edition of the #textasdata workshop in hydrology, natural hazards, and climate change research. Looking forward to discussing ways to collaborate with others!

📅 28.03.2025
📍 Leipzig, Germany
Apply by 01.02.2025 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM
ahrabhikat.bsky.social
Thinking about using #LLM for your #textasdata research? …Thinktwice! And join our panel tomorrow at #aoir2024
November 2, 2024 at 8:37 AM
tillhilmar.bsky.social
"Polizeibeamter", "Selbständig", "Angestellter" - meine kleine Analyse der Berufsbezeichnungen von Kandidant:innen zur österr. Nationalratswahl 2024, mit einem Fokus auf #FPOE #nrw2024 #politischesoziologie #textasdata
tinyurl.com/yc68tfu5
October 29, 2024 at 7:37 AM
tillhilmar.bsky.social
✍️ New article in the Journal of Social Policy! My research on the sense of injustice around pandemic economic relief is now out and open access! #deservingness #moraleconomy #coronahilfen #textasdata #sociology doi.org/10.1017/S004...
@ifswien.bsky.social
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany
doi.org
September 20, 2024 at 6:16 AM
adegendre.bsky.social
Very cool and useful resource also for #econsky — more and more economists are doing amazing research using #textAsData e.g. @essobecker.bsky.social @raschky.bsky.social
kris-inwood.bsky.social Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · Sep 9
Welcoming the new, updated website for rural history diaries!
A unique resource - 243 diaries of rural life, more than 1/3 written by women. The first began in 1789. More added every month.
📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜🐳 #history #AcademicSky #polisky #geosky #sociology #histsci #HistIR #philhist #Indigisky #c19 #c18
Rural Diary Archive
ruraldiaries.uoguelph.ca
September 9, 2024 at 9:18 PM
ingorohlfing.bsky.social
The Language of (Non)Replicable Social Science #MetaScience #TextAsData
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... There are systematic differences in the discussion of findings that were and were not replicable.
I was thinking that methods competence could be a confounder 1/
August 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM
janabernhard.bsky.social
Excited to have led a workshop on validating text-as-data and topic models at COMPTEXT24! Ensuring that our analysis meets scientific standards is key & don't forget: validate, validate, validate! #textasdata #topicmodels #COMPTEXT24
dbetakova.bsky.social Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social · May 2
@janabernhard.bsky.social discussing Validation in Automated Text Analysis at the COMPTEXT conference now 👀 make sure not to miss Jana’s panel on Saturday morning 📝
May 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
abitter.bsky.social
"Potenziale von #KI für die Personalisierung von (Weiter-)Bildung" - der Vortrag von @afischer1985.bsky.social
ist nun im @zpid.bsky.social Mediacenter frei verfügbar!

👉 zpid.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

#TextAsData #Embeddings #LLM #NLP #Education
April 2, 2024 at 7:54 AM
thieled.bsky.social
I'm over the moon happy to see my 3rd dissertation paper finally published in @computationalcommunication.org:
Were #populist user comments fueled by restrictive #COVID-19 policies? Only in some countries, my study finds.
doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...
#socialmedia #textasdata
March 12, 2024 at 9:23 AM
chrishoehne.bsky.social
We use quantitative text analysis (topic modeling) to map the topics states address in their 1st and 2nd NDCs. Words that show up together in docs are grouped, allowing us to assign labels based on keywords and a qualitative assessment of texts. #textasdata.
March 12, 2024 at 9:07 AM