Wie cool!! (der Job sowie der Aufzug 😄) Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Lisa 🥳
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Wie cool!! (der Job sowie der Aufzug 😄) Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Lisa 🥳
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 22 July to 14 August 2026 Cologne | Online
📣 The program of the #GESISsummerschool is out & registration is open!
🗓️ 22 July – 14 Aug 2026
Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Cologne
💻 Online
More info at gesis.org/summerschool. Full program & registration at t1p.de/GSS26-Program.
An image of the schedule with speaker images. You can find the full schedule on tada.cool.
🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨
We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.
Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!
More info & signup: tada.cool
🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
📢 Study out in Research & Politics!
We (@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @msaeltzer.bsky.social) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media.
🔍 doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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GESIS Workshop Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R 13 to 15 April 2026 | Online Lea Kaftan (GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics)
Ready to dive into the exciting world of computational text analysis? In this #GESISworkshop, @dielea.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social cover core concepts and methods – from preprocessing and dictionaries to topic models and classification (with and without LLMs).
Info ➡️ t1p.de/TextAnalysisR
Upcoming 2026-05-13 | Input talk | Lion Behrens (Data Scientist & Independent Researcher) Modeling Causal Heterogeneity with Machine Learning more 2026-04-22 | Input talk | Leah von der Heyde (GESIS) AIn't Nothing But a Survey? Using Large Language Models for Coding Open-Ended Survey Responses more 2026-03-11 | Input talk | Andreas Küpfer (TU Darmstadt & University of Birmingham) Politics in Action: Studying Multimodal Data from Local Meetings to National Parliaments more 2026-02-25 | Input talk | Klara Müller (University of Mannheim) When Events Change Samples: Disentangling Causal Effects from Compositional Bias in Quasi-Experimental Designs more
▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Spring 2026 Events
Four input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)!
🗓️ Details & Zoom:
socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/
👥 Organizers:
@rubac.bsky.social,
@denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz
Congratulations again, Lisa 🥳 Hope you have a fantastic start in Frankfurt!
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!! 🥳
📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...
Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Call for Applications for the Data Quality #Academy Certificate Program 2026
The call for applications for the #KODAQS Academy’s certificate program is open: www.gesis.org/en/ges...
The program is aimed at early-career researchers from various disciplines who work with social science data.
Line chart of Google search interest for “Christmas gift wife” and “Christmas gift husband” from November 18 to December 24. Bold lines show the average pattern across 2020–2024, while lighter shaded lines represent individual years. Shaded areas highlight which term has higher search interest at each point in time. The chart shows that searches for gifts for wives peak later in December than searches for gifts for husbands.
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc!
Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you.
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Congratulations, Paulina 🥳
Join us in three hours (17:00 CET) for our last session of this term to discuss a conceptual framework for understanding, reporting, and validating text-to-measure pipelines for supervised learning!
Link to Zoom in our newsletter ⬇️ or Slack channel (#reading-group) join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc....
Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."
📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)
More info: tada.cool
🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!
We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop
@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation
🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset".
If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
Be the change you want to see in the world ;)
In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Happening Today! 👇
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
We might ask whether we still need data visualization training when we have powerful LLMs to help us. Certainly, LLMs can help to optimize our code. But without a profound understanding of the produced code, we run the risk of creating figures that may look nice but that misrepresent our data. (6/n)
🚨 One more week to sign up for this three-day online workshop, in which you'll learn everything from A to Z that you'll need to write your own R Packages! #rstats
Join us in 3 hours (at 17:00 Berlin time) to discuss replication problems of language models and recommendations for research!
🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual
This likely puts you in the 0.001% of the world's population who've ever made bitterballen from scratch 😅
Always wanted to learn how to create your own R Packages? Then take a look at this upcoming workshop with @ellakaye.co.uk ⬇️