Looking back on #InequalityConference2026: inspiring keynotes, the In_equality Research Award, engaging talks, fresh insights from the satellite program, and a vibrant social program in Konstanz. Thanks to everyone who joined us-we’re already looking forward to the next conference! @uni-konstanz.de
Congratulations, Tiago! Great to have you in Germany
Registration is open for the Master in Social and Economic Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Please distribute and feel free to DM if you have any questions!
www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/studium/mast...
⏰ Registration reminder: In_equality Conference 2026
📅 15–17 April | Konstanz & online
⚠️ On-site deadline: 15 March
Online registration: until 8 April
Keynotes: Jana Diesner, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Attila Lindner & @mschaeffer.bsky.social.
Register now 👇
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Congratulations, Lisa! Looking forward to your future work there
We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions!
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...
WHAT-IF researchers during their coffee break in Konstanz
Developing the first simulation prototype based on the systematic literature review in beautiful Konstanz 🏔️ ☀️
with Stephen Tyndel, Giordano de Marzo, @aytalina.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & Taehee Kim
Join us in Konstanz! For anyone interested, feel free to DM if you have questions.
@uni-graz.at featured our brand-new article on collective moderation of online spaces published in @pnasnexus.org 🥳 Wanna read what citizen-based strategies can be a remedy against online hate? Click here: ow.ly/csZK50XGteK @janalasser.bsky.social @aroyehuns.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu
LLMs excel at mimicking individual text, but what about collective conversations? 🤔
In our recent paper 📄, we conducted a Turing Test to see if GPT4 and Llama 3-generated social media conversations can fool humans into believing they're authentic!
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08592
Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.
We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.
Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵
I'm hiring!
Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director
Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production!
@excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...
We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.
🚨Call for papers for the 2026 Inequality conference in Konstanz. I'm co-organizing it and we welcome submissions from Computational Social Science. The deadline is approaching quickly!
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📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality
Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de
Logo of PS: Political Science & Politics with '#OpenAccess' next to an aerial view of a crowded crosswalk.
#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -
Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes - cup.org/3H8EebY
- @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Mats Faulborn & @dgarcia.eu
#FirstView #LLM
Screenshot of our paper "Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs"
Details about what we annotated in our systematic review
Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to?
We review the current literature in our #ACL2025 Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs:
osf.io/preprints/so...
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A lineplot that shows how scared people in the UK were over time, during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Our method (Llama 3 Temporal Adapters) produces similar estimates of as the survey data gathered by YouGov.
Excited to present our paper with @maxpe.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu, and @mstrohm.bsky.social next week at #ICWSM! ✨
We extend social simulation with LLMs to a longitudinal setting by fine-tuning Temporal Adapters—here's how: 🧵
New preprint with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social where we argue for a complex-system perspective to understand the causal effects of social media on society and for a triangulation of methods
arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254
A few months ago I was like "why is there so much gay porn in my anti-AI app" and now there is none of it in my discover feed. It's just a matter of time for the algorithm to sort it out.
Are you interested in inequalities, mobility and cities? Come to work with us as a postdoc at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social in Vienna in the Computational Human Dynamics Lab of @martonkarsai.bsky.social. Check the post here: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...
@ic2s2.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social
Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they?
One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers.
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Now available on arxiv: "Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes" (with Mats Faulborn and @dgarcia.eu) arxiv.org/abs/2503.22315
Ulrike Hahn asked me precisely that when the last talk I gave in her seminar had no Twitter data and lots about LLMs. However, I think the API problem is not as bad as to give up social media. We still have lots of Reddit, the Meta Content Library, Bluesky... it's just not as easy as with Twitter.
"I can do things with LLMs" seems to be the next "I can get Twitter data" in Computational Social Science.
Not that I think it's bad, it's just funny to see how things change.
We are looking for a German-speaking lab manager for the Social Data Science lab in Konstanz. More info here:
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...
I'm really happy to welcome David Garcia @dgarcia.eu at the DM3L for a talk on "Polarization and consensus: between online discussions and generative agents"
Join us if you are in Zurich next Thursday! dm3l.uzh.ch/news?nId=69
Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
EPJ Data Science Highlight - Mapping the cross-generational impact of musical sampling
www.epj.org/113-epj-ds/2...
How politicians communicate shapes online discourse in ways we might overlook.
Our new paper shows that their choice between a fact-based (evidence-driven) and a belief-based (sincerity-driven) honesty creates a "contagion" effect, influencing how users engage and respond. ⬇️(1/8)