The University of Birmingham's School of Government seeks another Assistant/Associate Professor of Government and Artificial Intelligence. If you want to chat about this role, e.g., at #EPSA2024 in Cologne next week, please get in touch! #sciencerocks linkedin.com/jobs/view/3952…

The new paper from my thesis is out. Huge thanks to Royce Carroll, Nicole B, Government @ Essex, Stefan Müller, UCD Politics and International Relations NexSys for support. Thanks to many colleagues & reviewers for the comments and to Legislative Studies Quarterly editors for a very thorough and efficient review process.

Supervised machine learning was going to revolutionize prediction/inference for politics. What happened? New WP w Marco Morucci uses "intrinsic dimension" to show it's v hard to beat simple (OLS, logit) models for "our" polisci tabular data. Ppr: arthurspirling.org/documents/Moru… (1/n)

Sven-Oliver Proksch Sven-Oliver Proksch kicked off our SGParliaments Summer School at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt (with TU Darmstadt) with a great talk on computational analysis of legislative behavior. More to come, check out: ecpr.eu/Events/265

Today, Helene Helboe gave an inspiring talk on beliefs about parliaments and MPs at our SGParliaments Summer School on Parliaments, commented on PhD papers, and provided excellent advice on finishing a dissertation in a Q&A. More to come, check out: ecpr.eu/Events/265

On day 5 of our SGParliaments Summer School on Parliaments, Tiffany D. Barnes delivered a great workshop on *who enters parliaments, why, and with what effects*, and shared valuable key insights in a Q&A on *how to get published*. More to come, check out: ecpr.eu/Events/265

Today, Maria Thürk gave a great workshop (with an activating introductory session) on *government formation and stability* and discussed PhD papers at our SGParliaments Summer School on Parliaments. More to come, check out: ecpr.eu/Events/265

Die AfD wird in Thüringen stärkste Kraft - aber nur, weil das Wahlsystem die vollständigen Parteipräferenzen der Wähler ignoriert. @SteffenGanghofund ich zeigen, dass ein besseres System die Partei mit der größten Unterstützung (hier die CDU) entdeckt. 🧵👉shorturl.at/hee4H

In den letzten drei Wochen vor den Landtagswahlen hatten wir - mit Martin Gross & Christina-Marie Juen - eine bevölkerungsrepräsentative Umfrage in Sachsen, Thüringen und Westdeutschland(!) im Feld. Erste Ergebnisse (Durchschnittswerte für die Wähler der verschiedenen Parteien) im 🧵

An honour to lecture SGParliaments Summer School on Parliaments and see such amazing ECRs and doctoral research in legislative studies. Many thanks to the participants, and to the organizers (Jan Berz, Christian Stecker, Andreas Küpfer, and twitterless but redoubtable Thomas Zittel)

🚨 My book is out today: academic.oup.com/book/57946 🚨 2024 has been full of elections. In many, radical-right politicians made important electoral gains. My book hopes to contribute to debates on the rise of these politicians by putting forward a theory around social norms. 1/23

Thrilled to release the Fall 2024 Event Schedule of the MZES Social Science Data Lab (jointly organized with Ruben Bach and Andreas Küpfer)! Check out the thread for an overview 👇 More details and Zoom links for all events on our web site: …alsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

Very little polisci work using LLMs is "replicable" in the usual sense of that term. If this sounds like a problem, come see ppr w Christopher Barrie and Lexi Palmer Thurs @ APSA 12-130pm, PCC112A. We give some theory + empirics on where things stand and where we should be trying to go

🚀Excited to present our project with Elena Sirotkina at #APSA2024! We propose a scalable solution for a big challenge in #computervision: how to predict visual sentiment-subjective interpretations&attitudes about visuals-when people disagree on what they feel about what they see

Preprint of our #APSA2024 paper on #imageasdata: arxiv.org/abs/2409.00216 (or join us Friday @ 8am, Panel "Automated Annotation of Text, Image, and Video Data")