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felixlennert.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Sociology @ CREST/Institut Polytechnique Paris by day // sleeping soundly and never disappointing my grandmother by night // teaching CSS methods @ Uni Leipzig from time to time // he/him
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IC2S2 2025: As many of you have seen, the submission system was temporarily down. It is running again and we extended the deadline to include Feb 26. Please excuse the inconvenience

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Among other great locations, Paris will also hold a Summer Institute. This year's focus will be on LLMs and GenAI. Join us!

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Prof. Arnout Van de Rijt of Sociology at the European University Institute will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden. 🎙The long-term effects of good and bad luck on life course achievement. Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

IC2S2 2025 has received 23 tutorial proposals—thank you for your excellent proposals! Our review team is at work, and we look forward to announcing the lineup soon. Stay tuned: www.ic2s2-2025.org

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🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Tutorials deadline is just around the corner—Jan 17, 2025 Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden. Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial Keynote announcements are coming soon!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

NEW WORKING PAPER: CREST's @felixlennert.bsky.social and @ppraeg.bsky.social conduct a machine-learning text analysis of intergenerational mobility perceptions in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

I pressed some buttons on my keyboard, had a couple of meetings with Alexi Gugushvili and @ppraeg.bsky.social, and this came out: osf.io/preprints/so... Will probably write a more extensive description of this once I have wrapped up the teaching of this semester and reorganized my life.

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Are you a nerd (like me) and want to shorten your loved one's/ones' wait until Christmas? Two unacknowledged AI helpers and I (the triumvirate of code taming) teamed up to program a little Shiny Advent calendar.

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Dear all, coming Wednesday, 17/1, at 17.15, we will welcome Alex Kindel (Sciences Po médialab) to our NLP & social sciences seminar. He will talk about his recent work on word embedding association tests. You can follow online. Find more information here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...

submitted 421 days ago • 0 comments

Spent a day recording videos for my "Toolbox CSS" course. All this stuff is online, so if you want to be taught web scraping and text mining by a 27-year-old with a Trainspotting haircut and a weird accent who religiously adheres to the tidyverse style guide, I've got you covered: bit.ly/tool-css

submitted 429 days ago • 2 comments

In case you are interested in NLP and how to use it for the social sciences: tomorrow, November 22, we will welcome Isabelle Augenstein in our biweekly seminar. She will talk about “Transparent Cross-Domain Stance Detection.” Check this link for more info: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...

submitted 476 days ago • 1 comment

The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf... The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16). Happy to hear from you!

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Our reading group on NLP & social sciences will welcome Yiwei Luo on Zoom tomorrow, Nov 8, 17.15 (Paris time). She's going to talk about stance detection (arxiv.org/abs/2010.15149). Our website is down right now, but please feel free to contact me if you want to attend. Lots of love to y'all, Felix

submitted 490 days ago • 1 comment

CREST Sociology is HIRING! Tenure track or associate professor level, open field! Deadline January 31, 2023! Details here: crest.science/wp-content/u...

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Etienne Ollion (on Twitter): Cette semaine au séminaire NLP & Sciences sociales, nous recevons Pierre-Carl Langlais (pour une présentation intitulée "De l’opérationnalisation au fine-tuning : créer des LLM pour l’analyse de corpus en sciences sociales". Détails: css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...

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With Étienne Ollion I co-organize a seminar on NLP & social sciences at @crestsociology.bsky.social; we have cool talks every so often and you can find a schedule here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s... (1/2)

submitted 510 days ago • 1 comment

before starting beginning the PhD of 3rd year

submitted 511 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 519 days ago • 0 comments

I'm currently preparing my "toolbox CSS" intro slides and came – again – over this gem of an article. Maybe master's students appreciate this sort of humor, last year's bachelor's didn't even chuckle (source: archive.org/details/Onli...)

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