Can we use (DeepL) machine translation in party research? 🤖 Extremely happy to share my research note „Advantages and pitfalls of machine translation for party research“ in which I investigate this question! Open access and out now with Frontiers in Political Science 🔥🤩 @hhu.bsky.social

We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵:

New #rstats package incoming! 🚀 With the fantastic @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social, I introduce: {atr} A package to get and post things here on BlueSky! jbgruber.github.io/atr/index.html

Wrapper for the AT Protocol behind Bluesky

atr wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://blueskyweb.xyz>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network ...

jbgruber.github.io

We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted. But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now. And that worries me.

Very interesting findings! This is probably also something of interest for everybody on youthpolrep

Armin Schaefer@arminschaefer.bsky.social · 3y ago

For an unpublished manuscript, Claudia Landwehr and I surveyed German MPs to find out which groups they felt deserved to be represented. The differences between the parties are quite stark. From left to right, MPs become less supportive. 1/2

How common is opposition to wind energy and what predicts where it occurs? My new open-access research in @PNASNews looks at wind energy opposition across North America between 2000 to 2016. We find opposition is common and growing over time. THREAD🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Hey @profmusgrave.bsky.social , could you add me to the #polisky list? :) Thanks a lot for setting this up!