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Any tips/recommendations are welcome! P.S. Is Qualtrics pricing itself out of the academic market purposefully, you think?

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Fellow academics: what are your experiences with renewing Qualtrics contracts (institutional or individual)? We’re seeing absolutely outrageous price increases.

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I really don't like seeing those two numbers together in that sentence 👴🏻

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seems like kids nowadays are using instagram as a deliberately bad substitute for tiktok (it's crappy so they spend less time on it)

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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

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Musk’s next move: adding hooks to X‘s logo

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‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

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In one of my exams, students had to answer open-ended questions about a research paper. I graded them myself but tested GPT-4 with the following inputs: text of the paper, model answer, student answer. Grading scale: 1-6 w/o half grades. - Correlation: 0.85 - Cohen's Kappa (weighted): 0.82

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We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen! 🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance" 📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE 🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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My new year resolution: changing file name separators from - to _

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🚨 New Preview of Our Upcoming Report 🚨 Leaked Meta guidelines suggest harmful speech like "Immigrants are filthy pieces of shit" or "Gays are freaks" may soon be allowed. Does this policy shift reflect public opinion? Our survey across 10 countries finds no evidence of support for such content.

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Turns out there’s many, many more academics on LinkedIn than I had thought

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Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩

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I’m setting up a LinkedIn profile, and it definitely has a Microsoft vibe

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🚨 Assistant Professorship in Computational Social Science 🚨 Konstanz has a call for a 6-year junior professorship. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... This is an amazing department & a strong community. Happy to share more about my own (great) experience there! Deadline SOON: 2 DAYS left ‼️

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Key points: Switzerland has negotiated a very good deal that will allow it to maintain its tailor-made „bilateral path“ with the EU. As always, international agreements require compromise and a challenge will be to convince voters that this is better than the cherrypicking dreams floating around.

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I totally get it, but it’s also important to remember that switching off for two weeks is possible. I do it, and it’s great! And it also helps with productivity in the long term. Highly recommended.

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Happy our correspondence is published: + Narratives on gen AI: existential risks, immediate risks, acceleration, balanced risks + They shape public perceptions & policy + We need more research to understand their impact w/ @argohdes.bsky.social A. Kasirzadeh et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Leiden University is looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, with a focus on digital governance www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

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I’m seeing a bat-signal for my template so here it is fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

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⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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⏰ FINAL CALL ⏰ Special issue CfP on disinformation and (generative) AI Editing special issue of Intl Journal of Communication with Aqsa Farooq as part of @edmo-eu.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024 #disinformation #academicsky #commsky #polcom #csssky edmo.eu/edmo-news/ca...

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✨ New LLM paper ✨ > Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks > Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4 > Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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it’s like raaaaain on your wedding day...

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A tricky thing with "AI-generated" labels: this video about NJ drones was labeled as "AI generated" (by TikTok, not the creator) but it seems it's because of a voice effect, not the video itself

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Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working. Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did. Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

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📢 We’re hiring! PhD and Postdoc Positions Available! Come join the Chair of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich and be part of our Transparency in Content Moderation project, with Molly Roberts & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: Feb 1. portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

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Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

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📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣 sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... #polisky

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💡Ready for 3 days of inspiring discussions, meeting great people, and stimulating keynotes by Jale Tosun & @fgilardi.bsky.social—all by the beautiful Lake of Constance? Apply now for the Annual Comparative Agendas Project Conference 2025, organized by @breunig.bsky.social and me in Konstanz!

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Stockholm Syndrome

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"exposure to evidence-based mental health TikTok videos can increase young people’s perceived and objective emotional support competencies" comparison: TikToks made be lifestyle influencer pre vs. post research-based training h/t @sachaltay.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

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helpful analogy to remember the difference between precision and recall

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Border liberalization and immigration increased voting for the far right in Switzerland. This is despite the lack of prominence of traditional predictors associated with anti-immigration, including cultural and economic threats. Instead, we suggest a top-down mechanism to explain this finding.

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We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

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Crowdsourcing for my undergrad misinformation course. Looking for readings on: (1) The role of AI in creating/spreading misinfo , (2)Using AI to fight misinfo (3) The legal/regulatory framework surrounding misifo and related free speech concerns. Accessible current academic articles best. Thanks!

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OpenAI has a new office in Zurich, and Anthropic too apparently

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"describing a scientist as high (versus low) in intellectual humility increased perceived trustworthiness of the scientist, belief in their research, intentions to follow their research-based recommendations, and information-seeking behaviour"

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I’ve been hoping that Google Scholar picks it up but no luck so far

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Periodic reminder for all thesis students - I just recommended again @fgilardi.bsky.social 's spot-on abstract template to a student to structure her thinking about her thesis topic: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa... It really helps specifying your thesis topic! #academicsky #commsky #polsky

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