New project: David, Yen-Chieh Liao presents our NexSys-funded research on detecting positive, negative, and neutral stances across several languages and political contexts.

➡️ Selecting the right pre-trained model and texts for fine-tuning is essential.
COMPTEXT Conference #comptext24

Come and join us Universität zu Köln as a post-doc in computational social science! Apply by May 10! COMPTEXT Conference OPTED_H2020

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 The School of HAPP at Queen's is looking for a Lecturer in Comparative Politics and a Lecturer in Irish Politics. The closing date for applications is 6 May. Details here hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru… and here hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…

Stoneybatter, 24 hours after the fantastic community clean-up. ⤵️
The lack of enforcement against dumping, poor bin management, and disrespect by a tiny minority are appalling.
Dublin City Council are treating the cause but no the symptoms (yet?).
#LE2024
Dublin City Council – North City Centre Dublin City Council Waste Management Services

Teamwork fuels innovation. Our Strategic Plan stands as a testament to our collective vision. The process of developing the plan was engaging and collaborative. We’ve laid strong foundations for our vibrant community! Download the plan: shorturl.at/mtKNO🤝 #YAIYearOne

Great work by UK Young Academy’s neighbour Young Academy Ireland with several overlapping priorities!

The Young Academy Ireland Strategic Plan is out!

After extensive deliberations, we agreed to focus on 5 key challenges:
– Sustainability
– A fair and inclusive society
– The future of academia
– Public engagement with research
– Expertise for public policy

📕 ria.ie/sites/default/…

A brilliant collection of political datasets! so happy to see the Irish Polling Indicator among these great resources 🇮🇪

Make sure you check our shinyApp too:
irishpoliticsdata.shinyapps.io/demographicpol…

🚨We are hiring!🚨
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in European Politics and Society (0,8 - 1,0 FTE) to join our great team at the University of Groningen, NL.
⬇️Link below with more info:
rug.nl/about-ug/work-…
Please reach out if you have any questions! 🙂

📚New publication w/ ⁦Raimondas Ibenskas⁩ & Florian Weiler!We analyze individual ballots to uncover how candidate gender preferences are distributed within the electorate.Finding:More voters prefer🙋🏻‍♂️,and preference for🙋🏻‍♀️ is only revealed in lower pref.votes ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

1/9 Excited to share our new paper 'The Local Memory of Repression, and Who Fights' published in World Politics! Co-authored with Connor Huff. Available at: doi.org/10.1353/wp.202…

New article by Rory Costello in the European Journal of Political Research asks when are parties likely to engage in 'Auction politics' (i.e. try to buy elections with spending promises). Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences @UL UL Research EJPR journal
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

2024 QS World University Rankings
7 subjects in top 100 for University College Dublin Social Sciences and Law

The QS Subject Rankings are based on five criteria: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper, H-Index, and international research network index. By featuring in…

All-Island Research Culture Conference 2024
🗓️ 16 May
📍 South East Technological University, Waterford

Programme and registration: ucd.ie/researchcultur…
I’ll join the panel discussion on measuring progress in research culture.
Young Academy Ireland UCD Research Culture Initiative UCD Research UCD Social Sciences

🙌 Fresh out in PRX!

🇨🇳 Using 1.5m newspaper statements mentioning #China & #C19 📰, Stefan Müller, Samuel Brazys & Alex Dukalskis investigate whether China’s ‘mask diplomacy' efforts influenced its portrayal in the early days of the pandemic

👉 bit.ly/3VYzxqa #OA

Queen’s University Belfast are hiring two Lecturers (Assistant Professors)!

– Comparative Politics (permanent): hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…
– Irish Politics (permanent): hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…

Application deadline: 6 May
HAPP at Queen's is an excellent and very supportive School!

New paper in PRXJournal w/ Stefan Müller & Alex Dukalskis on China's #Covid image battle. Using novel measures of #maskdiplomacy & media tone, we find causal evidence that Chinese mask diplomacy efforts improved reporting about China. Open Access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I know for many covid seems like the ancient past and due to the vagaries of the academic publishing process this paper doesn't seem 'timely', but actually I really like this paper and think it still has plenty of relevance for understanding authoritarian politics.

If you want to start a quantitative PhD on questions around intergenerational housing, consider to apply by 15 May: ucd.ie/socialpolicywo…
#jobfairy #phdscholarship UCD Social Sciences UCDGradSocSciLaw UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy ENHR Social Policy Assoc ISPA SAI - Sociological Association of Ireland

Highly recommended! ⤵️

Josh Alley, our expert on Bayesian statistics at UCD Politics and International Relations is offering a free workshop next Wednesday.

You can attend in person (Newman Building, F301) or via Zoom.

Registration: ucd.ie/connected_poli…