In den letzten drei Wochen vor den Landtagswahlen hatten wir - mit @MartinRGross & Christina-Marie Juen - eine bevölkerungsrepräsentative Umfrage in Sachsen, Thüringen und Westdeutschland(!) im Feld. Erste Ergebnisse (Durchschnittswerte für die Wähler der verschiedenen Parteien) im 🧵

🚨 My book is out today: academic.oup.com/book/57946 🚨 2024 has been full of elections. In many, radical-right politicians made important electoral gains. My book hopes to contribute to debates on the rise of these politicians by putting forward a theory around social norms. 1/23

Thrilled to release the Fall 2024 Event Schedule of the MZES Social Science Data Lab (jointly organized with Ruben Bach and Andreas Küpfer (@ankuepfer.bsky.social))! Check out the thread for an overview 👇 More details and Zoom links for all events on our web site: …alsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

Very little polisci work using LLMs is "replicable" in the usual sense of that term. If this sounds like a problem, come see ppr w Christopher Barrie and Lexi Palmer Thurs @ APSA 12-130pm, PCC112A. We give some theory + empirics on where things stand and where we should be trying to go

🚀Excited to present our project with Elena Sirotkina at #APSA2024! We propose a scalable solution for a big challenge in #computervision: how to predict visual sentiment-subjective interpretations&attitudes about visuals-when people disagree on what they feel about what they see

Preprint of our #APSA2024 paper on #imageasdata: arxiv.org/abs/2409.00216 (or join us Friday @ 8am, Panel "Automated Annotation of Text, Image, and Video Data")

🚨 Upcoming: "Robust Causal Inference using Double/Debiased Machine Learning: A Guide for Empirical Research" 👤Achim Ahrens (Immigration Policy Lab ETH Zurich) 🗓️ Wed, Sep 18, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 🔗…alsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

We are now accepting paper proposals for our annual conference on the theme “Divisions domestically and beyond: German politics in 2024”. Join us in Darmstadt on on 12th - 13th December 2024. More info and call for papers here > iasgp.org/cfp-iasgp-2024…

Travelling to the workshop “How #ImageAsData Approaches Can Help Analysing Protest and Its Organisation” at FU Berlin by @rebecca_kittel. Looking forward to feedback on our paper “Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Object Prominence” with Andreas Küpfer (@ankuepfer.bsky.social). #sciencerocks

Yesterday, my six-month research stay MZES Uni Mannheim (Data and Methods Unit) started. I presented our project on object prominence for #imageasdata (w/ Chris Arnold), and I'll co-teach a Mannheim Graduate School (GESS) course on machine learning for SocSci (w/ Ruben Bach Christopher Klamm)! 🥳

Structured surveys can collect comparable (but rigid) data from thousands of respondents Semi-structured interviews foster depth but only in small samples due to the human interviewer AI Conversational Interviewing may overcome this scale/depth trade-off arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824

🚨 Upcoming: "Computationally Analyzing Politicians' Body Language Using Pose Estimation" 👤 Oliver Rittmann (MZES Uni Mannheim) 🗓️ Wed, Oct 16, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 🔗 …alsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

We are pleased to announce that #COMPTEXT2025 will take place at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April 2025. With the great organising team Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) IPKW – Department of Communication, UNIVIE, we will soon release the Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations! Stay tuned!

🚨 Upcoming: "Using Data Donations to Collect Digital Trace Data: Promises and Pitfalls for the Social Sciences" 👤 @hase_va (Universität München) 🗓️ Wed, Nov 20, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 🔗 …alsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) IPKW – Department of Communication, UNIVIE on 24-26 April 2025!

🚨 Upcoming: "Using YouTube Data for Social Science Research: Studying American Local Politics with Government Meeting Videos" 👤 Tyler Simko (Princeton University) 🗓️ Wed, Dec 4, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 🔗 …alsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

Kick-off for our DFG project! With multimodal ML, we study 15,000h of German parliamentary speeches. Stay tuned for how MPs handle populism, how facial expressions send coalition signals and dynamics of salience. #DreamTeam #ScienceRocks #DankeDFG Christian Stecker Andreas Küpfer (@ankuepfer.bsky.social)

What started as a political science project with Slava Jankin and Hannah Bechara spiraled into its own paper, exploring how language shapes how we perceive distances & construe events. Excited to share the journey! #sciencerocks