"claims utilized by conservative think tanks & contrarian blogs focused on attacking integrity of climate science/scientists & increasingly challenged climate policy & renewable energy" buff.ly/3LAu1VG by @TravisCoan1 Constantine Boussalis John Cook & Mirjam Nanko #ScholarSunday

OK, here it is: a line in the sand (in nature). I am very wary about scientists---including political scientists---embracing/pushing proprietary LLMs. Let's try an open science approach. Hope this take is a useful one. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Research by Constantine Boussalis me, and the twitterless Johannes Gerschewski in the current issue of Problems of Post-Communism We analyze 🇰🇵 media to evaluate different theories of authoritarian propaganda. 50 free e-prints ⬇️ tandfonline.com/eprint/XFRKXAV…

Ready to tackle real-world social problems using cutting-edge quantitative methods? Springboard applications are now open for Trinity College Dublin's Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Data Science: springboardcourses.ie/details/11036

📢 Job alert - postdoc position at the Data Science Lab Hertie School Data Science Lab 📢 Are you working on data science and public policy? Join Lynn Kaack @conjugateprior (and more great people whose names I am not allowed to reveal yet) and myself in the heart of Berlin! 1/2

#EPSA2023 Day 2: listening to great work from Marina Schenkel | @marinaschenkel.bsky.social on Medical Populism and Policy responses!

Journalist researching for a piece, seeing an article by 3 political scientists on relevant topic, decides to cite said article by referencing the two male co-authors and dropping completely the *female lead* author. Sarah Wagner I hope you’re enraged. I would have exploded!

Job alert 🚨 POSTDOC UCD DeepLab - Digital Economy & Extreme Politics is hiring an European Research Council (ERC) postdoc in Computer Social Sciences to work in a project on authoritarianism in the global south. We are a diverse, fun, and motivated team based in beautiful Dublin! ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/

We have three Assistant/Associate Professor positions open @gov_uob Uni of Birmingham. Two positions in computational social science, social data science or any subfield at the intersection of AI and political science.

👏 Congratulations to our BCS Futures Award Winner Gaëtan Robillard 👏 ✨ Sponsored by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Winning Artwork: Critical Climate Machine lumenprize.com/2023-bcs-futur… #lumenprize #artaward

Today, we launch our third Deny, Deceive, Delay report, offering a snapshot of climate conversations ahead of COP28. In summary, it shows that climate lies are running rampant head of the summit. ⬇️ for key findings. caad.info/analysis/repor…

This seminar series is a great venue for discussions on COVID responses. Happy to share some thesis preliminary results using Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker data to understand how populism influenced policy decisions. Register in the URL below if you’re interested:

Congrats to all the awardees and especially to my PhD student Marina Schenkel | @marinaschenkel.bsky.social who constantly gives her 110%. Well deserved!

Really cool work from Olga Gasparyan and Elena Sirotkina 👁️

This was followed by Constantine Boussalis, who presented work on using large visual language models to explore visual portrayal of heatwaves in 15 countries around the world. Interesting results on how themes in heatwave images vary by geography.

Couldn’t agree more. Educators will need to adjust assessment to the new reality. At a fundamental level, this means more in person assessments. But we also have an obligation to instruct students how to use these new tools in a positive and productive manner.

Great academic position of Assistant Professor in Quantitative Sociology at TCD Sociology!! Trinity College Dublin Trinity Research in Social Sciences @TCD_SSP 👇👇

#OutNow in #ICS Moderating extremist speech in mainstream platforms has brought together the far right in less popular ones, in which discourses of victimhood fosters radicalisation and participation. Article by Callum Craig, Constantine Boussalis, and Aaron Rudkin. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very happy to see work funded by Norface GOVERNANCE with Callum Craig and Aaron Rudkin finally out. In this paper we investigate the use of collective victimhood narratives among far right channels on Telegram Messenger

We’re excited to announce two Assistant Professor (5-year tenure track) openings in Political Science: 1️⃣ International Relations jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/ass… 2️⃣ Comparative Politics jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/ass… 🗓️ 12 Noon (IST), 8th January 2025 See: jobs.tcd.ie