Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we offer a hands-on workshop on @instats.bsky.social for qualitative researchers to use LLMs for annotating texts, images, audio, etc. without requiring deep programming skills but with the full flexibility and fun of R. instats.org/seminar/ai-p...

AI-Powered Qualitative Analysis in R - Livestreamed Research Training | Instats

PhD-level seminar on AI-Powered Qualitative Analysis in R with Kenneth Benoit & Seraphine Maerz . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.

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Ready to integrate ChatGPT and open-source LLMs into your research? Join Dr. @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social for our online course on AI-assisted Text Analysis. - Full hands-on setup - Reproducible workflows in R - Critical reflection on ethics 📅 23-25 Feb, 2026 🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/mc-ekomex...

Reminder, my live-stream on how to fine-tune LLMs in Python and Colab starts this Friday @instats.bsky.social @quantlab.bsky.social

Seraphine F Maerz@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · last yr.

... and if you would like to learn how to fine-tune open-source LLMs, I also offer an advanced workshop on AI-assisted text analysis, live-streamed on July 11! @quantlab.bsky.social instats.org/seminar/usin...

... and if you would like to learn how to fine-tune open-source LLMs, I also offer an advanced workshop on AI-assisted text analysis, live-streamed on July 11! @quantlab.bsky.social instats.org/seminar/usin...

Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications - Live-streaming:

This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications taught by Seraphine Maerz will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!

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Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we are offering a full-day online workshop - suitable for beginners - on AI-assisted text analysis in the programming language R, live-streamed on July 4 instats.org/seminar/usin...

Using AI for Text Analysis: An Introduction - Live-streaming:

This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: An Introduction taught by Seraphine Maerz & Kenneth Benoit will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!

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“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance

Dean Schafer, Seraphine F. Maerz, Carsten Q. Schneider, Alexandra Krasnokutskaya

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Hey! If you're in Melbs next Monday, drop by to my hands-on ✨ Shut up and git! ✨ session with the @quantlab.bsky.social at the unimelb! Thanks @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and @irmamooi.bsky.social for the invitation to present! #git #GitHub #cooperation

Last chance to register, the advanced workshop is live-streamed early next week!

Seraphine F Maerz@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Want to learn about how to use ChatGPT and open-source LLMs for basic and advanced text analysis tasks? Join me for my full-day online workshops in February with @quantlab.bsky.social Instats - as usual, people from University of Melbourne can sign up for free! instats.org/structuredco...

This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

V-Dem Institute@vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢Applications Open for New Director of the V-Dem Institute V-Dem Institute and the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg is looking for a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science & Director of the V-Dem Institute. To application: shorturl.at/9rvmx 📆 March 27, 2025.

We at @quantlab.bsky.social prepared a new, completely free and brief online tutorial on how to use open-source LLMs in R for text classification tasks - accessible for R beginners - check it out here: quantilab.github.io/blog/tutoria...

Want to learn about how to use ChatGPT and open-source LLMs for basic and advanced text analysis tasks? Join me for my full-day online workshops in February with @quantlab.bsky.social Instats - as usual, people from University of Melbourne can sign up for free! instats.org/structuredco...

Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications with Drs Maerz

In this structured statistics course, you will learn about Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications from world renown experts - DrsMaerz

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Apply to participate in the 3* APSG Conference in London! Deadline is *16 February* don’t miss it!

Authoritarian Political Systems Group@apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 2y ago

Polisky Dictatorsky CfP is now open for our Third Conference on Authoritarian Politics taking place at King’s College, London, on 23-24 June 2025! To apply, complete this form with a 200-word abstract before 16 February 2025.: forms.gle/KBDiwPMABykv...

This article is part of a special issue "Authoritarianism reinvented: The interplay between online and offline tactics" edited by @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and Lisa Garbe. Stay tuned for more great articles to follow soon!

I did my first TV interviews yesterday, talking to rbb's 'Abendschau' and 'Brandenburg aktuell' about the current protests. It's so difficult to be short when talking research - but maybe that's a take-away for teaching as well?🤫 www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/v... www.rbb-online.de/brandenburga...

Mehr als 150.000 Menschen demonstrieren gegen Rechtsextremismus

Zehntausende Menschen haben sich am Samstag vor dem Reichstag versammelt und gegen Rechtsextremismus demonstriert. Zu der Kundgebung hatten 1.800 Organisationen aufgerufen, darunter Gewerkschaften, Ki...

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Blick vom Paul-Löbe-Haus auf den Platz vorm Reichstag heute 21.1.24 17 Uhr. Die Polizei spricht von 100k die Veranstalter von 350.000 Demonstrant:innen. Fakt ist: Bereits am Hauptbahnhof ging nix mehr weil es selbst für den größten Bahnhof Europas zu Viele waren DAS ist die Brandmauer gegen Rechts!

Hunderttausende Menschen gehen auf die Straßen, um gegen Rechtsextremismus zu demonstrieren. Bemerkenswert ist auch der Aufbruch in Ostdeutschland.

Demos gegen rechts: Deutschland unteilbar

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Very interesting report on disinfo narratives pushed in the 2022 elections in Brazil: inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/u...

Happy to share a new working paper together with @carlhknutsen and @JonasDraege titled "The Diverse Effects of Hard Propaganda in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes": osf.io/n4g6k/ -- What is it about? (1/7) polsky dictatorsky menasky

📢 I’m excited to share that my article on autocratic performance legitimacy and the COVID response policies in Saudi Arabia has been published in PoP (open-access)👇 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Dictatorsky Personalisation of politics in #Uzbekistan entails transformation of president into untouchable figure. Similar dynamics already at play in Gulf states, where public mentions of emirs or sheikhs are limited to glorification of leadership. eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-t...

This is a great initiative, I have just donated another invite code :-) spread the word!

Christian Rauh@chrauh.bsky.social · 3y ago

Yes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Is there some place where one can “donate” invite codes?

Please follow the WissenchaftsZentrum Berlin Transformations of Democracy research unit here (Failed in my first effort to provide link) @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social

🆕PUBLICATION ALERT To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out @JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/

📣@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are organizing an english-language open panel on Text as Data Approaches to measuring political competition and representation at the 2024 DVPW conference in Göttingen. Submissions open until 31/10/23 Panel n° 89: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2024/cal... polisky polcom cssky

Interested in transnational repression? Check out this (open access!) online first article by me, Saipira Furstenberg, Sebastian Hellmeier & Redmond Scales in Journal of Conflict Resolution “The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression” dictatorsky

Post doc deadline coming up ⬇️ Join our new research initiative on AI and politics at the University of Amsterdam. Details below. 🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 Deadline October 18 polisky csssky commsky polcom

Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 3y ago

🚨Job alert 🚨 We have 2️⃣ postdoc positions in our new interdisciplinary research priority area AI & Politics. We define both AI and politics broadly. Think 'impact of AI on politics' or 'politicisation of AI'. Please share.And apply by 🗓️ October 18 polisky commsky vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

Job market candidates working on authoritarianism: if you’d like your profile to be promoted on the APSG social media, please fill out this form: tinyurl.com/488s6dpp. We will feature you in a thread and add you to the list of job market candidates: tinyurl.com/2p9ybc7c.

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!