🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

1/10🧵Thrilled to share our new study in Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) on "Talking while walking but not with the locals: Social support and domesticity in public space before and during COVID-19 in Berlin, Germany." (w. Talja Blokland @krueger_daniela) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… What is it about?

Come join Lisa Lechner and me in Mannheim end of September to learn about advanced text analysis methods for applied social science research @ GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social's Fall Seminar👇

Can large language models (LLMs) recognize convincing arguments? Kind of. 😅 We propose evaluating LLMs' persuasiveness capabilities by measuring their ability to recognize whether an argument would convince a user with specific demographics. 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2404.00750

Join us in September to analyse some textual data! 💻🔥🚒

Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals. All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses "they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🆕 Releasing a new series of 8 zeroshot classifiers: better performance, fully commercially useable thanks to synthetic data, up to 8192 tokens, run on any hardware. Summary: 🤖 The zeroshot-v2.0-c series replaces commercially restrictive training data with synthetic data

🚨 Workshop Alert 🚨 On Friday, Apr 12 (2-5pm), I will run a workshop on fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (Yale ISPS). 👉 Full details and free registration here: dissc.yale.edu/events/fine-tu…

📢 I am teaching a 3-day online #workshop on "Intro to #DeepLearning in R" for GESIS next week. Learn about deep neural networks and how to use them for your #SocialScience research. Still a few spots available to join on short notice. training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails…

Check out Moritz Laurer's free resources for learning about fine-tuning transformers and LLMs 👇

🚨New publication in SSCR Are you collecting/analyzing/archiving digital trace data and are you interested in data quality (you should be😉)? We might have something for you: doi.org/10.1177/089443…

I am excited to announce that I started my new position as Assistant Professor of Computational Political Science at the University of Innsbruck @[email protected] yesterday! 🥳 Looking forward to this new chapter and the opportunities ahead! Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Uni Innsbruck Digital Science Center (DiSC)