In new joint work with @sebastianjblock.bsky.social, Sandra Jaworeck, Manuel Holz, and Philipp Spielbauer, we examine textual complexity in sociology using a corpus of more than 1,700 full-text articles from major German sociology journals. osf.io/preprints/so...

Falls Jemandem am Wochenende langweilig sein sollte. 😊

Martin Gross@martingross.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...

New open-access paper out in Social Media + Society: "Incentivised Engagement: How Party Characteristics and Individual Factors Shape Politicians' TikTok Use" with Merle Huber & Tomas Ruiz. 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051261432483 🧵 #TikTok #PoliticalCommunication #CSS

Incentivised Engagement: How Party Characteristics and Individual Factors Shape Politicians’ TikTok Use - Merle Huber, Sebastian Block, Tomas Ruiz, 2026

TikTok has shifted from a once marginal entertainment platform to an important channel of parliamentary communication, yet we still know little about who uses i...

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🎉 New Open-Access paper in EJPR together with Morten Harmening, Jona Baumert, @martingross.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social & @jvelimsky.bsky.social Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from PQs in German city councils 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils

A well-established body of research has highlighted the importance of geographic representation in party-centred political systems. In party-centred systems, geographic ties are commonly expressed th...

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@martingross.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @sebastianjblock.bsky.social & @jvelimsky.bsky.social deal with issue emphasis 💡Key findings: 1️⃣More attention to issues where municipalities have more legal leeway 2️⃣Effect is moderated by municipalities' financial constraints doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics

Political parties are not free to choose which issues to focus on in parliament. At the national level, it is mostly economic and societal problem pressures which impact parties' issue attention. In ...

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🧵 New paper out in EJPR! Morten Harmening, Jona-Frederik Baumert @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social & I examine how parties engage in geographic representation in local politics using parliamentary questions in 12 German city councils. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils

A well-established body of research has highlighted the importance of geographic representation in party-centred political systems. In party-centred systems, geographic ties are commonly expressed th....

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I am pleased to share that my article "Legislative Oversight and Control of Independent Portfolios" has now been published in print in Government and Opposition @govandopp and is freely accessible: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #legislative #accountability #PoliticalScience

Ergebnisse der KoaV-AG „Bildung, Forschung & Innovation“: Was ist drin für #IchBinHanna? Was unklar? Was fehlt? 1 🧵. Tl,dr: 1. Eindruck erfreulich, aber 🐘 im Raum – konkrete Ausgestaltung der Postdoc-Phase zur Schaffung langfristiger Perspektiven – wird nicht ausreichend adressiert. (1/13)

Koalitionsverhandlungen CDU/CSU/SPD AG 8 - Bildung, Forschung und Innovation

Schwarzer Text: Einigkeit Blauer Text: nicht geeint, Union-Forderung Roter Text: nicht geeint, SPD-Forderung [Zu den Ergebnissen der anderen Arbeitsgruppen geht es hier.](https://fragdenstaat.de/ar...

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LMs are used to process text from many topics, styles, dialects, etc., but how well do they do? 📈 Evaluating perplexity on just one corpus like C4 doesn't tell the whole story 📉 ✨📃✨ We introduce Paloma, a benchmark of 585 domains from NY Times to r/depression on Reddit.

LLMs generate novel word sequences not contained in their pretraining data. However, compared to humans, models generate significantly fewer novel n-grams. RLHF = 30% *more* copying than base! Awesome work from the awesome Ximing Lu (gloriaximinglu.github.io) et al. 🤩 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.04265

Very happy (and proud b/c it took a loooong time to finalise this paper) to share new research, together with Alejandro Ecker, on how local politicians in 🇩🇪 allocate portfolios. In short, they behave like their counterparts at the federal & state levels: both quant. & qual. considerations matter!

West European Politics@wepsocial.bsky.social · 2y ago

Online first & part of the Symposium "Competition & Cooperation at the Local Level": "Equitability or proportionality? Local-level portfolio allocation in Germany" by Alejandro Ecker & @martingross.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #PoliSky

Online first @spsr.bsky.social: Our new article "The Impact of Institutional and Financial Constraints on Party Behaviour in Local Politics" (w/ @donyhu.bsky.social @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #polisky /1

I am delighted to see our new paper "Electoral Campaigns and Parliamentary Practice: Do Parties Pursue the Issues They Campaigned On?" out in Swiss Political Science Review as #OpenAccess! @martingross.bsky.social wrote a very nice thread summarizing our findings!

Martin Gross@martingross.bsky.social · 3y ago

📣Thrilled to see our paper "Electoral Campaigns and Parliamentary Practice: Do Parties Pursue the Issues They Campaigned On?" published in Swiss Political Science Review! This is joint work with @donyhu.bsky.social @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/spsr.1

I am extremely happy to see our paper on "The impact of occupational background on issue representation" out @wepsocial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... The contribution is joint work with my great colleagues @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @martingross.bsky.social & @donyhu.bsky.social

I'm extremely happy to announce that my first single-author paper is now out and open-access at EPSR doi.org/10.1017/S175... I focus on intra-coalition control in mixed regimes, where the control becomes more complex due to a dual executive structure (as shown by @laderafrutal.bsky.social)

I've posted a new short paper called "Practical Advice for Producing Better Graphs" that ... provides practical advice for producing better graphs. 😀 Comments and suggestions welcome. jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/document/91

I've written a blog-post showing how to fine-tune a language model for the purposes of (three-way) text classification. It's a (partial) replication of Müller, Temporal Focus of Campaign Communication (JOP 2022). Find it at chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/finetu...

chris hanretty - Replicating Mueller, “The temporal focus of Campaign Communication”

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Dive into the world of multilingual text analysis? @haukelicht.bsky.social and I wrote this paper as a first go-to resource for a comprehensive overview of research design considerations. Big thanks to the editors @marikenvelden.bsky.social, Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Baden of the special issue!

Do you want to analyze documents written in different languages, but you don't know what challenges you'll face and what solutions exist? Then @fabiennelind.bsky.social and I got you covered with our guide to multilingual text analysis in Comp Comm. Research. 👇👇 www.aup-online.com/content/jour...