📢📢 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 📢📢

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🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨

@jkhoehne.bsky.social talks about processing and analyzing audio data on April 22, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST).

Learn more about how to gain insights from audio files, automated transcriptions, and text-as-data methods! 🎙️🎧📊

Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Sign up⬇️ and learn how to protect the scientific integrity of your web-based studies🛡 See you in Cologne👋

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology Applied Introduction to Bots in Web-based Studies 10 to 14 August 2025 | Hybrid (Cologne & online) Jan Karem Höhne & Joshua Claassen (both University Hannover)

Bots in web surveys - threat or opportunity? 🤖
In our #GESISsummerschool course, learn how bots operate, how to detect and prevent them, and even how to use them for pretesting, all while considering ethics and data integrity.

Info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/GSS26-C8

#LLMs #websurveys

@gesis.org

📢 Our study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social

📖 doi.org/10.1007/s116...

👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success
❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success

Blocking the Radical Right: Evidence from Strategic Candidate Voting Against the AfD in Germany’s 2025 Federal Election - Politische Vierteljahresschrift This paper examines strategic candidate voting against radical-right parties, focusing on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany’s 2025 federal election. Germany has long been considered “hard g...

Do voters vote strategically to prevent the AfD from winning a direct mandate?
Short answer: yes. Long answer: read now in a new open access paper by Sven Hillen and @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ein Blatt Papier ist in eine Schreibmaschine eingespannt. Unten rechts das Logo der DVPW. Auf dem Papier steht in Maschinenschrift: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft. DVPW-Blog. 16. Februar 2026. Blockieren Wähler*innen die AfD mit der Erststimme? Strategisches Wählen bei der Bundestagswahl 2025. Sven Hillen und Jessica Kuhlmann.

Neu im #DVPWblog: Sven Hillen @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de und Jessica Kuhlmann @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social zeigen zur Bundestagswahl 2025: In engen Wahlkreisen wurde die Erststimme strategisch gegen die AfD gebündelt – besonders von politisch Interessierten.

👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/blockie...

#PoWi #BTW2025

🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨

Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET).

🗓️ Sign up until Tuesday (January 27): ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨

Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET).

A great chance to learn how to enrich web surveys with digital data, such as images!

👉 Sign up now: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Great paper @jclaass.bsky.social ‼️ Well done🤓😎

Check out our prediction models on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social for detecting bots in your web survey⬇️

doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.

New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Last call📢📢 Don't be late😉

MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. APPLY APPLY APPLY📮⬇️

massworkshop.org

Wie konnte die #AfD bei den #Integrationsratswahlen 2025 in NRW ausgerechnet unter Wähler:innen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte große Erfolge erzielen? 🤔 (1/2)

Gentle reminder📢📢 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. Check out the call⬇️ and apply‼️

massworkshop.org

📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review.

“Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”.

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

(1/3) 💫New open-access article on trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds in International Review of Sociology.

“Understanding trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds – a latent profile approach”.

doi.org/10.1080/0390...

🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys.

Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections.

🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨

Zaza Zindel talks about Social media as a tool for survey recruitment on November 25, 03:15 to 04:00 PM (CET).

🗓️ Sign up until Monday: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

📢 New insights on #GenAI interviewing agents asking sensitive open questions compared to a text-based web survey.

Answers to male agent include more topics, but no evidence of social desirability.

👉 New #OpenAccess paper with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #cneuert in #IJMR.

🌐 doi.org/10.1177/1470...

🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

Asking for Feedback: Innovating Final Comment Questions in Self-Administered Web Surveys Abstract. Web surveys frequently include so-called “final comment questions” (FCQs) to provide respondents the opportunity to express their experiences wit

Ever wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐

👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions.

🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

Thrilled to talk about how seemingly small decisions in silicon sampling can have a large impact on simulated survey responses 👀 Join us on Oct 29th! 👈

🚨 Upcoming #CS3Meeting 🚨

@wanlo.bsky.social talks about analytic flexibility in silicon samples on October 29, 3:15 to 4:00 PM CET).

Great opportunity to gain novel insights into how survey responses can be generated with #LLMs.

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🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥

👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest.

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper with #tlenzner @jkhoehne.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social in #mda.

🌐 doi.org/10.12758/mda...

Promotionsstelle

🚨🚨 Application deadline ends tomorrow!

We're hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science at DZHW (Hannover, Germany).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

👉 Apply here: karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...

Promotionsstelle

📢One week left to apply!

DZHW is hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science (Hannover).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

I'd apply myself if I weren't already on the team🤓

👉 karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...

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Looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! 💫

📣 On Wednesday, I will present joint work with @ackermannk.bsky.social on attitudes toward noncitizen voting.

📣 On Friday, I will present results from my interviews with local politicians in the US.

Excited to meet everyone! #ECPRgc25

I’m presenting my paper on political trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds today at #EPSA2025 (@epsanet.bsky.social).

Come join us at 11.20 in room -1.A.04! 📣