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verenakunz.bsky.social
Scientific coordinator @gesistraining.bsky.social & PhD candidate @gessunimannheim.bsky.social. She/her. Comparative politics, legislative behaviour, European Parliament, computational political science.
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The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

In about a month, we submit our application for the ESFRI Roadmap 🇪🇺 Help us reach 1,000 researchers by showing your support here: forms.gle/dm8K4xFgXD9b... ⚙️ Regardless, we’re sure you’ll find MEDem’s tools & services useful once they’re live. We’re already working on first prototypes this year! 🏗️📊

📣 Calling all computational social scientists and those who aspire to become one! In the next months, we have an exciting line-up of #CSS #GESISworkshops on machine learning, text analysis, mobile data collection, and web tracking data. More information & registration at www.gesis.org/workshops 🧵👇

Are you an early-career researcher who's interested in collaborating with someone @gesis.org? Then look into applying for a funded research stay ⬇️ The next deadline is coming up on March 31, 2025!

📢 Ready to dive into computational text analysis with #rstats? Join @dielea.bsky.social, @janschwalbach.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social for the #GESISworkshop and gain hands-on skills to enhance your research! More info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/comp-text-an...

📱 Interested in collecting data with smartphones? Join this #GESISworkshop with @lukotto.bsky.social @gesis.org for a hands-on guide to planning, conducting & analyzing mobile, intensive-longitudinal surveys. ➡️ More info & registration: tinyurl.com/mobiledata25

Finally #PhDone! I’m incredibly happy to successfully have defended my dissertation yesterday! It’s for sure been a ride, and I’m beyond grateful to all the people in my life who supported me on this journey over the past years.

📢 Join the KODAQS Team as a Student Research Assistant! We’re hiring a Student Research Assistant (20–40 hrs./month) for the KODAQS project at GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Mannheim. 📅 Apply by 09.02.2025 Find out more: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

🆕 Content alert on Methods Bites & Workshop Video Recording ▶️ "Computationally Analyzing Politicians’ Body Language Using Pose Estimation" 👤 Oliver Rittmann (MZES, University of Mannheim) 🔗 Blogpost: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/article/comp... 🔗 Video Recording: youtu.be/w6orbDvQSN4

Machine learning is an essential tool for social scientists who wish to harness the potential of large amounts of data. Learn how to build, evaluate, compare & tune predictive models in #rstats in our upcoming #GESISworkshop. More infos+registration ➡️ tinyurl.com/AMLwR25

🚨 Reminder: The application deadline for two open positions @gesis.org department Computational Social Science is approaching quickly! 📅 Application deadline: January 20

📣 Last Call: We still have some places available for this online workshop ⬇️ Kick off the new year by diving into #rstats. More information & registration at tinyurl.com/01-25-Intro-R.

#neuhier #introduction #newhere #newkidontheblock Hi everyone at Bluesky, we just started here and would like to introduce us briefly: As the largest European infrastructure institute for the social sciences GESIS offers advice, expertise and services at all stages of scientists' research projects.

🎆 Happy New Year 🎆 Attention, future PhD students! The early application deadline for our 11 doctoral programs in Business, Economics, and Social & Behavioral Sciences is quickly approaching. 📮 Submit your application by 15 Jan for early review: www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

Working on party politics at the local level? Please join us on April 8 and 9 in Leiden at the Local Party Politics Workshop. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

🚨 New data release! 🚨 GLES Candidate Study European Election 2024 (ZA7960)!🎉 Questions include background & nomination, election campaign, attitudes, democracy & representation. Special focus on use of social media in election campaigns. ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

📂 New dataset in European Union Politics, 25(4) Lukas Obholzer and Moritz Wiesenthal present a new dataset on roll call votes in EP committees, which provides insights into: 🤝 Committee dynamics 👫 Party group cohesion 🗳️ MEP participation Check it out 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #OA 📖

Happening in a little over an hour 💫

Join us for our last talk of the winter term ❄️ **this Thursday** at 5pm (CET) featuring Tobias Hofmann on tracking shifts in asylum policy positions in parliamentary debates using large language models. More details below ⬇️

Do you want to get familiar with R? Then join Emilia Kmiotek-Meier & Anna Herdick (TA) for the online #GESISworkshop in January, during which you will be introduced to preparing, analyzing, and visualizing data in R. More information & registration ➡️ tinyurl.com/01-25-Intro-R

Join us for our last talk of the winter term ❄️ **this Thursday** at 5pm (CET) featuring Tobias Hofmann on tracking shifts in asylum policy positions in parliamentary debates using large language models. More details below ⬇️

gesistraining.bsky.social is now on bluesky as well! Receive news on our training program by following the account. #methods #methodstraining #socialscience

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...

Join us in an hour for this talk on innovation and specialization through the lens of 19th-century library data and NLP methods 💫 Zoom link in our Slack channel join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc... or send us a message!

📚💡How can we study innovation and specialization using 19th-century library data and NLP methods? Join us next Wednesday when Caterina Chiopris presents "The Diffusion of Ideas" at TaDa RG! 📅 Next Wednesday, 27.11.24, 5pm Berlin time For more info subscribe to our newsletter: tada.cool

Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers

Join us today at 17:00 (Berlin time) for our next talk 💫 For more info and the Zoom link join our Slack channel at join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc... or reach out to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, @clint0475.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social, or me.

📣 We are excited to announce that the tada.cool ✨ series is back w/ an incredible lineup for this 🍁 ❄️ term w/ @lexipalmer.bsky.social, @humeyra.bsky.social, @mlburnham.bsky.social, Caterina Chiopris & Tobias Hofmann ⬇️

We still have places available at the GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science that starts next month! The program includes introductory & advanced courses on different #CSS methods. Check out the 🧵 for infos on the courses and our full programme at gesis.org/fallseminar.

Happening this week ⬇️

Next Wednesday (📅 June 5) at 17:00, the last Text-as-Data Speaker Series talk for this spring term will take place feat. @jwaeckerle.bsky.social! Join us to learn more about the genderedness of parliamentary discourse and legislative power in a comparative perspective 🌟

⚠️ SRM Special Issue "Learning Through Failures": Updated Timeline NEW (optional): ❓ 01 Sep: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1000 words) for pre-screening to [email protected] 🗣️ 13 Sep: Feedback from eds @llhipp.bsky.social & @sewenz.bsky.social   CfP: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...

Interested in combining information from text, audio, and video data? Then join @ankuepfer.bsky.social's talk at the TaDa Speaker Series in two hours (today at 15:00 Berlin time). Zoom link at join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc....

🎉 Join us this Wednesday at 🕒 3 pm CEST for a tada.cool talk on "How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data" by the amazing @ankuepfer.bsky.social ⬇️

Check this out!!🚨 @paugc.bsky.social and Hannah Béchara will present their latest work 'PolitiCause: Causality in Political Text' this Wednesday at 5pm (CET) on Zoom! More info on Slack (Zoom Link) or on tada.cool: join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

Dear TaDa-Nerds, we are back ! Sarah Masud will make the kickoff next Wednesday 5pm (Berlin), joining from New Delhi to explain the relevance of pre-training variables in the performance of LMs in hatespeech detection! More info on Slack: join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...