Lukas Birkenmaier
@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social
Research Associate and PhD Candidate @gesis_org | Interested in text as data, validity, political communication; 🔗https://lukasbirkenmaier.de/
📢 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... Some Highlights [1/3]
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
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Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)
🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience
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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
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We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
Using Principal-Agent Theory, our new paper argues delegating governmental tasks to #AI undermines feelings of being in control, leading to a "failure-by-success": Initial AI efficiency drives wider adoption, ultimately eroding citizens' sense of control, a cornerstone of democratic legitimacy
Very sad that I can't join #comptext25 this year -.- but for those interested in political psychology, we just published the preprint of my last dissertation paper where we conducted a validation study for measuring politicians' public personality traits using text as data: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 👇
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#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Our Department Survey Design & Methodology (SDM), Team Scale Development and Documentation, located in #Mannheim, is looking for a #ResearchAssociate (Doctoral student) (Salary group 13 TV-L, 75 % working time, limited to 4 years): www.hidden-professio...
🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
Dataset alert ⏰ We just uploaded the preprint for a novel dataset of German politicians' public broadcast interviews (around 100 interviews, 30 politicians, 28k sentences) sourced from YouTube & manually validated + speaker identification and timestamps, ready for re-use 👍 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04484?
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⏳ Last day to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025! Deadline: January 15, 2025, 11:59:59pm CET 🚀 Details: shorturl.at/AmocX
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.
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🚨 Reminder: The application deadline for two open positions @gesis.org department Computational Social Science is approaching quickly! 📅 Application deadline: January 20
Sebastian Stier@sebstier.bsky.social · 2y ago🚀 Two open positions in our project “Developing AI-Powered Survey Infrastructures” 🚀 🔬 Postdoc: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... 📚 Doctoral researcher: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... 🌟 Be part of an interdisciplinary team and combine surveys, digital behavioral data and LLMs
@zeit.de has just published a data-driven article on 📮 postal voting (Briefwahl) for the upcoming federal election, which also features a brief interview with me: www.zeit.de/politik/deut... (Zeit+ subscription required)
Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl: Die Risiken der Briefwahl stärken vor allem eine Partei
Wahlleiter warnen vor der Briefwahl – viele Stimmen könnten auf dem Postweg liegen bleiben. Das könnte die nahende Bundestagswahl zugunsten der AfD verschieben.
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🚨 #COMPTEXT2025 Workshops – Sneak Peek! 🚨 🧰 Data donations and digital trace data 📖 Narratives in large datasets 🖼️ Visual data analysis 🛠️ Creative text analysis toolkits 🧐 Bayesian text analysis …and more! Don’t miss your chance—submit your abstracts (250 words) by January 15 👉 shorturl.at/AmocX
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
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Heute erstes Live-Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk ✅ über die Herausforderungen der Fristen für Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2025✉️ Ich freue mich über Feedback! :) www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bundestagswa...
Bundestagswahl am 23. Februar: Stolpersteine bei der Briefwahl
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Heute erstes Live-Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk ✅ über die Herausforderungen der Fristen für Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2025✉️ Ich freue mich über Feedback! :) www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/bundestagswa...
Bundestagswahl am 23. Februar: Stolpersteine bei der Briefwahl
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My first paper has been published at PVS. In it, I investigate the strategic incentives behind parliamentary interruptions using data from the German Bundestag. In this thread you can find a short summary of the paper, which is available under open access here: rdcu.be/d4mHq
Explaining Interruption Behavior in Parliament: The Role of Topic Expertise, Career Status, and Government-Opposition Dynamics
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I've been building a small library for working with prompt templates on the @huggingface.bsky.social Hub: `pip install prompt-templates`. Motivation: The community currently shares prompt templates in a wide variety of formats: in datasets, in model cards, as strings in .py files, as .txt/... 🧵
gesistraining.bsky.social is now on bluesky as well! Receive news on our training program by following the account. #methods #methodstraining #socialscience
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GESIS Training offers state-of-the-art trainings for the national and international scientific community. Focus: Data Analysis, Survey Methodology, Computational Social Science, Research Data Manageme...
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Tenure, CSS, great team, Cologne,….✌️ Great position that needs your application :)
Sebastian Stier@sebstier.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
Very happy to share the full-fledged and #OpenAccess version of our paper "The Search for Solid Ground in Text as Data: A Systematic Review of Validation Practices and Practical Recommendations for Validation", published with C. Lechner and Claudia Wagner in CMM✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Search for Solid Ground in Text as Data: A Systematic Review of Validation Practices and Practic...
Communication research frequently applies computational text analysis methods (CTAM) to detect and measure social science constructs. However, the validity of these measures can be difficult to ass...
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💡We just released a preprint on how theory-driven synthetic training data based on measurement instruments (e.g., codebooks) can help substitute large amounts of human-labeled data for supervised text classification. \w great Matthias Roth& @indiiigo.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2410.12622
From Measurement Instruments to Training Data: Leveraging Theory-Driven Synthetic Training Data for Measuring Social Constructs
Computational text classification is a challenging task, especially for multi-dimensional social constructs. Recently, there has been increasing discussion that synthetic training data could enhance c...
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I will be in Berlin the next couple of days 🙌! If you want to grab a coffee and (re-)connect about any topic such as NLP and css, shoot me a message ☕️
🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government . If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4) wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
As a pollster, I'm asked constantly about the election. My consistent but frustrating answer: Polling won't tell you who is going to win. You've probably heard that a lot, but since many have asked, let me share a thread of explanation with links to others who probably said it better 🧵 (1/11)