AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

🎉 Online first: LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience? @kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And now the #EPSS2026 afterparty at Lavery‘s

Friday reception time at #EPSS2026! Food by Posh Nosh Venue: Belfast City Hall @epssnet.bsky.social

A year ago I backed moving European political science from a for-profit model to a member-run non-profit. @epssnet.bsky.social's first conference in Belfast: 1,500 delegates from 44 countries, 2500+ submissions. It was the right move. 🎂 www.linkedin.com/posts/krbeno... #EPSS2026

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🎂 Happy first birthday, EPSS! 🥳 One year ago, at the European Political Science Association council meeting, I backed a proposal some saw as a gamble: to move our community from a privately owned, fo...

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🚨Reminder that the application for the @epssnet.bsky.social mentoring program is March 31, details below👇

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community. March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027. More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...

Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding by Kenneth Benoit, Scott De Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma is now available in Early View. @kenbenoit.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/03/24/u...

#EPSS2026 currently at over 1,100 submissions and climbing, report the conference committee chairs. Submissions close tomorrow. Don't forget to submit! app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266... All your questions answered here: epssnet.org/conferences/... @epssnet.bsky.social

"Where's next year's 'EPSA'?" The answer: BELFAST. Under new management. Be sure to apply to the right one, and be sure not to miss the deadline! If you have any doubt, read this: epssnet.org/uncategorize...

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November. There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week. We've put together a quick FAQs about submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...

Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting ⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...

EPSS 2026 submissions FAQ - EPSS

Submissions are coming in fast for Belfast 2026 and so are your questions about submissions. Here are answers to the most common questions: Where do I go to submit? For panel submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/75765/symposia/create For paper submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266/submissions/new? How many papers can I submit? We put a constraint of max one presentation per person. This does …

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🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support! The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join Let’s do this together.

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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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The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.

Welcome BlueSky, moving this new community from x.com/kenbenoit. I'll be using this account for #politicalscience, #datascience, computational social science #CSS, my work in the #rstats developer community, and following others' opinions on news and current events.