13.03.2026 20:46
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Episode 77: Miscitatio | Nullius in Verba
In this episode, we discuss the problem of miscitation. How often are citations to the scientific literature outright misleading? Do we really need to spell out that people are supposed to read what…
New Nullius In Verba episode on miscitations:
nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/ep-77-misc...
How often are citations to the scientific literature outright misleading? Do we really need to spell out that people are supposed to read what they cite? And should we review citations as they do in law?
13.03.2026 21:06
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paper title: LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure. paper authors: So Kubota, Hiromu Yakura, Sho Yamada, Yuki Nakamura, Tobias Werner, Samuel Coavoux
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly accelerating scientific production, from literature synthesis to automated analysis. Yet this expansion risks creating a verification gap, in which the volume of scientific claims outpaces the community’s capacity to check their reproducibility. We argue that the same LLM capabilities driving scientific output can be redirected toward scalable verification. As a demonstration, we share insights and lessons from our attempt to reproduce the core results of popular classical papers across disciplines, which yielded not only successful cases but also failures due to underspecified methodological details. This means that automated replication does not adjudicate scientific truth, but it localizes discrepancies and documentation gaps, lowering the cost of computational reproducibility checks. We thereby propose embedding LLM-assisted replication across the research lifecycle, from pre-submission quality check, journal-integrated verification, post-publication audits, to forensic reconstruction of legacy studies. To prevent misuse and preserve trust, we call for transparent standards and community governance. If institutionalized responsibly, AI can serve not only to generate science, but to scale its self-correction.
"LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure", V2 of our preprint about how to use LLM to make better rather than more papers and assess the extent of the replication crisis in sociology osf.io/preprints/so...
13.03.2026 21:00
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Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️
13.03.2026 20:10
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I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)
13.03.2026 11:19
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Visual zur Podcastfolge mit dem Titel "Willkommen im Gruselgraben: Künstliche Avatare und echtes Vertrauen in der Wissenschaftskommunikation" und drei Icons, die Avatar, Graben und Vertrauen in Wissenschaftskommunikation symbolisieren
🎙️Fast menschlich – und genau deshalb unheimlich?
Im #CAISzeit-Podcast spricht Jasmin Baake mit Dr. Matthias Begenat über KI-Avatare in der Wissenschaftskommunikation: Wann schaffen sie Vertrauen – und wann landen wir im Uncanny Valley?
www.cais-research.de/news/willkom...
@herr-bege.bsky.social
12.03.2026 08:16
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Announcements | Journal of Open Psychology Data
If anyone is interested in a journal leadership position, there is a call for editor-in-chief for the Journal of Open Psychology Data: openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/announcements. I'm on the board, so I'm happy to chat to anyone or put your in touch with others!
11.03.2026 21:48
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Save the date: the ODISSEI Conference on 24 November celebrates a decade of advancing national research infrastructure for the social sciences.
Join computational social scientists to discuss the needs of digital and computational social science research.
Learn more: edu.nl/7cfnb
11.03.2026 08:44
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🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”.
Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)
11.03.2026 19:02
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Scientific career at GESIS
At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg
Apply now for a job as a #ResearchAssociate (#PhD Candidate) Cross-platform Social Media Mining
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited to 36 months)
gesis.jobs.personio....
06.03.2026 13:01
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Introducing the German General Social Survey Personas (GGSSP) – a #persona collection derived from the German General Social Survey (#GGSS #ALLBUS).
This data release provides plug-and-play persona descriptions to steer the generations of LLMs towards individual members of the German population.
10.03.2026 08:00
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Arbeiten bei GESIS
Profitieren Sie von vielen Vorteilen!
Wir stellen attraktive Arbeitsplätze in Köln oder Mannheim bereit und bieten Ihnen großzügige Homeoffice-Regelungen. Bei uns wird die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie großgeschrieben und unsere Mitarbeitenden profitieren von unserem betrieblichen Gesundheits
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
Arbeiten Sie bei GESIS und profitieren Sie von vielen Vorteilen.
youtu.be/t1KcoQxuvmQ...
Wir suchen für #Mannheim eine/n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (#Doktorand*in) #GESISPanel
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, AZ 75 %, 4 Jahre)
gesis.jobs.personio....
11.03.2026 08:00
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Interesting PhD opportunity at GESIS focusing on cross-platform social media mining and group-specific disinformation. Great fit for computational social science researchers interested in communication and AI ethics applications.
#AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
gesis.jobs.personio.de...
11.03.2026 11:07
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The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.
Out now!
The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡
We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions.
@saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
09.03.2026 17:15
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OSF
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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07.03.2026 20:22
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A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
05.03.2026 15:58
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‼️Es ist soweit! Die Wahl des #RatSWD läuft vom 2.-29.3., die Einladung zur online-Wahl ging heute raus.
Für die #Politikwissenschaft kandidieren
@ackermannk.bsky.social,
@wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de und
Lars Rinsdorf
👉 www.konsortswd.de/ueber-uns/ra...
#PoWi #DVPW #DGfP #DGPuK
02.03.2026 14:19
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Congratulations, @philippdarius.bsky.social ! And all the best for the new position!
05.03.2026 21:24
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This an enormous null effect. Social media ads did nothing in terms of voting.
05.03.2026 21:20
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⏰ Just a friendly reminder that the application deadline for the "PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Disinformation" ends on March 1, 2026.
If you know someone in your network who would be a strong fit for this position, please share this opportunity with them.
25.02.2026 07:12
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#MeetTheExperts #mte #KODAQS #Toolbox #TES
Don't miss the talk by our expert Leon Fröhling about the Total Error Sheets for Datasets (TES-D) which offer a structured, template-based tool for documenting datasets collected from online platforms.
Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meet...
03.03.2026 08:00
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Scientific career at GESIS
At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #ComputationalSocialScience
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg
We offer a job as a Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited until 31.03.2029):
gesis.jobs.personio....
03.03.2026 13:00
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Sharing a great opportunity for those in our field: GESIS is hiring a Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science (full-time, funded through March 2029). Excellent place to develop CSS skills in a leading research environment.
#AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg
04.03.2026 11:25
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PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.
The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
03.03.2026 11:16
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations
03.03.2026 15:01
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