What a blast this was! I am already looking forward to next year!

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · 5mo ago

That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!

The General Meeting of the COMPTEXT Association is now in the books. Our officers (@jamespcross.bsky.social, @fabiennelind.bsky.social, @zdgreene.bsky.social and @miklossebok.bsky.social) and chief organiser (@chrisguarnold.bsky.social) reviewed current affairs and fielded questions from members.

Still processing this—our growing community has brought us to the 8th annual #COMPTEXT ✨ #COMPTEXT2026 at IDAI, University of Birmingham is underway! Day 1 is all about training in text-, image-, & video-as-data for social research. 10 tutorials, packed rooms, brilliant scholars: bit.ly/4mLbFlf

The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!

Very happy to see this in print! Is the systematic study of the emergence of illiberal policy frames feasible? We think so and we bring data!

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🤔 Illiberal policy frames? Turns out it’s fear-mongering, not crisis-driven 👥 @miklossebok.bsky.social, @buzogany.bsky.social, @juliafleischer.bsky.social, @gessler.bsky.social, Anna Takács, @seanmtheriault.bsky.social & Ákos Holányi 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is going to be amazing! CfP coming soon!

The COMPTEXT Association@comptext.bsky.social · 11mo ago

SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!

Celebrating Frank Baumgartner at the Annual Comparative Agendas Project conference. Immense contributions to comparative and American politics and beyond. I am honored to call him a friend and I am looking forward to learning from him for many more years to come!

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

I have always suspected that large language models need energy. But courtesy of long-needed research by @clint0475.bsky.social @patrickparschan.bsky.social and colleagues we now have more solid evidence of the impact of using them for research purposes #COMPTEXT2025

The biggest ever COMPTEXT conference at the @univie.ac.at is officially under way! Registration has opened and the first panels—on ideological estimation, misinformation, climate discourse, global economic narratives, and digital content influence—are now taking place. #COMPTEXT2025

Rooms are packed to capacity as tutorials on cutting-edge AI research techniques unfold at #COMPTEXT2025 @valeriehase.bsky.social, @frodewald.bsky.social / @hdnrch.bsky.social / Petro Tolochko

Attending this amazing workshop on data donations by @valeriehase.bsky.social @frodewald.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻 #COMPTEXT2025

#COMPTEXT2025 registration is open! ✨ If you’re more of a visual type, no worries – we’ve got a quick „walkthrough video“ 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ for you. ▶️

#COMPTEXT2025 is just 2 days away, and we cannot be more excited to meet all participants at the University of Vienna. Please find the updated and final program here: bit.ly/42WZKZa. Please find the city guide for your time in Vienna here: bit.ly/3RsZY3R See you later this week!

I first visited the Policy Agendas team at @utaustin.bsky.social a decade ago. Bryan Jones and the team graciously encouraged us to establish the Hungarian CAP project. Ten years passed, and here I was again, working with these amazing people. Here is to the next decade of great CAP research!

The @syracuseu.bsky.social Maxwell School/Campbell Institute, under the leadership of @faricy.bsky.social, have launched critical initiatives in data development for a new era of policy agenda studies. It has been a privilege to present our poltextLAB AI and large-language model solutions there!

Registration for presenters, co-authors, and all interested parties is still live for COMPTEXT 2025 until April 10! Members enjoy discounts, so please join us at bit.ly/3DvZiYl! Register here: bit.ly/4hJ7thP. See you all in Vienna!

One big step for COMPTEXT, and we’ll see about mankind! The COMPTEXT Association is finally here! After six conferences we are now ready to accept human members (agents are excluded, for now). Members enjoy perks! We welcome everyone to join us at bit.ly/3DvZiYl!

Thank you @hajoboo.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social for the kind welcome! It was a pleasure to present at CCL, one of the premier labs of computational social research in Europe! And yes: the robots are coming! :)

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday, @miklossebok.bsky.social presented #TheBabelMachine, a toolkit to make computational methods more accessible for a broader community and at the same time a first step towards consolidation in a fragmented field. 👏