What if the biggest threat to your survey could also become your best testing tool? 🤔 @jclaass.bsky.social and @jkhoehne.bsky.social are ready to make the case - and show you how. 👉 t1p.de/GSS26-C8

GESIS Training@gesistraining.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bots in web surveys - threat or opportunity? 🤖 In our #GESISsummerschool course, learn how bots operate, how to detect and prevent them, and even how to use them for pretesting, all while considering ethics and data integrity. Info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/GSS26-C8 #LLMs #websurveys @gesis.org

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨 @jclaass.bsky.social talks about processing, enriching, and analyzing #digital #traces on 🗓️July 14, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn more about interpreting #traces obtained through web tracking and data donation! 🔍 🌐 Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Don't forget to sign up! 🚨 Registration for our upcoming #CS3Meeting with @angelomoretti.bsky.social about small area estimation is open until Sunday (June 28). 👉 ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Joshua Claassen@jclaass.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 Registration now open! 📢 Join @angelomoretti.bsky.social for our next #CS3Meeting on June 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about #small #area #estimation and new data forms, such as satellite imagery, mobile phone records, and social media data. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

📢 Registration now open! 📢 Join @angelomoretti.bsky.social for our next #CS3Meeting on June 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about #small #area #estimation and new data forms, such as satellite imagery, mobile phone records, and social media data. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Vienna is wonderful, and so was the #DACH-CSS conference at @weareceu.bsky.social @csh.ac.at! 🇦🇹 Great discussions about democracy, LLMs, and the integrity of #CSS research. Looking forward to next year!

🚨 Last chance to register for tomorrow's #CS3Meeting! 🚨 👉 Sign up to learn more about #APIs in #CSS with a particular focus on #reproducibility. Free registration is open until the end of today: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Joshua Claassen@jclaass.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Register now!! 📢 Join Johanna Hölzl for our next #CS3Meeting on May 19, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about the generalizability, reliability, and validity of #APIs (e.g., #YouTube @nytimes.com) and their implications for reproducibility in #CSS. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Sign up‼️ And learn from Johanna Hölzl about her outstanding research on API-based data⬇️

Joshua Claassen@jclaass.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Register now!! 📢 Join Johanna Hölzl for our next #CS3Meeting on May 19, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about the generalizability, reliability, and validity of #APIs (e.g., #YouTube @nytimes.com) and their implications for reproducibility in #CSS. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

📢 Register now!! 📢 Join Johanna Hölzl for our next #CS3Meeting on May 19, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about the generalizability, reliability, and validity of #APIs (e.g., #YouTube @nytimes.com) and their implications for reproducibility in #CSS. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

New paper using GLES data 👇

Jessica Kuhlmann@jessicakuhlm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper out with @antonialang.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 📣 Why is support for the Alternative for Germany often high in low-diversity rural areas, while ethnically diverse cities show mixed patterns? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out with @antonialang.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 📣 Why is support for the Alternative for Germany often high in low-diversity rural areas, while ethnically diverse cities show mixed patterns? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢📢 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 📢📢 Free registration is open until tomorrow evening 👉 ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Joshua Claassen@jclaass.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨 @jkhoehne.bsky.social talks about processing and analyzing audio data on April 22, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn more about how to gain insights from audio files, automated transcriptions, and text-as-data methods! 🎙️🎧📊 Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨 @jkhoehne.bsky.social talks about processing and analyzing audio data on April 22, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn more about how to gain insights from audio files, automated transcriptions, and text-as-data methods! 🎙️🎧📊 Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Sign up⬇️ and learn how to protect the scientific integrity of your web-based studies🛡 See you in Cologne👋

GESIS Training@gesistraining.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔍 Read our interview with @jkhoehne.bsky.social & @jclaass.bsky.social on #Bots in web-based studies 👉 t1p.de/Training-NL-...

Bots in web surveys - threat or opportunity? 🤖 In our #GESISsummerschool course, learn how bots operate, how to detect and prevent them, and even how to use them for pretesting, all while considering ethics and data integrity. Info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/GSS26-C8 #LLMs #websurveys @gesis.org

📢 Our study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s116... 👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success ❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success

Conrad Ziller@conradziller.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

Do voters vote strategically to prevent the AfD from winning a direct mandate? Short answer: yes. Long answer: read now in a new open access paper by Sven Hillen and @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Blocking the Radical Right: Evidence from Strategic Candidate Voting Against the AfD in Germany’s 2025 Federal Election - Politische Vierteljahresschrift

This paper examines strategic candidate voting against radical-right parties, focusing on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany’s 2025 federal election. Germany has long been considered “hard g...

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Neu im #DVPWblog: Sven Hillen @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de und Jessica Kuhlmann @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social zeigen zur Bundestagswahl 2025: In engen Wahlkreisen wurde die Erststimme strategisch gegen die AfD gebündelt – besonders von politisch Interessierten. 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/blockie... #PoWi #BTW2025

🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨 Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). 🗓️ Sign up until Tuesday (January 27): ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨 Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). A great chance to learn how to enrich web surveys with digital data, such as images! 👉 Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Great paper @jclaass.bsky.social ‼️ Well done🤓😎 Check out our prediction models on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social for detecting bots in your web survey⬇️ doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Joshua Claassen@jclaass.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT. New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...

🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT. New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Last call📢📢 Don't be late😉 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. APPLY APPLY APPLY📮⬇️ massworkshop.org

Wie konnte die #AfD bei den #Integrationsratswahlen 2025 in NRW ausgerechnet unter Wähler:innen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte große Erfolge erzielen? 🤔 (1/2)

Gentle reminder📢📢 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. Check out the call⬇️ and apply‼️ massworkshop.org

📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review. “Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

(1/3) 💫New open-access article on trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds in International Review of Sociology. “Understanding trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds – a latent profile approach”. doi.org/10.1080/0390...

🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys. Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections. 🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨 Zaza Zindel talks about Social media as a tool for survey recruitment on November 25, 03:15 to 04:00 PM (CET). 🗓️ Sign up until Monday: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

📢 New insights on #GenAI interviewing agents asking sensitive open questions compared to a text-based web survey. Answers to male agent include more topics, but no evidence of social desirability. 👉 New #OpenAccess paper with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #cneuert in #IJMR. 🌐 doi.org/10.1177/1470...

🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)