Starting on March 1st, our Department Computational Social Science at GESIS is looking for a Team Leader for the “Digital Society Observatory” (15 TV-L, 4 years with possible tenure): hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

@sebstier.bsky.social @schochastics.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social

We are hiring! The German Longitudinal Environmental Study opens several positions:

LMU: shorturl.at/ikyRZ (Survey Management)
LMU: shorturl.at/muLNZ (User Service)
LMU: shorturl.at/buV14 (Data Scientists)
LMU: shorturl.at/bdpzC (Survey Programmierer)
RPTU: shorturl.at/dnqAM (PostDoc spatial data)

Congrats! Welcome to Mannheim, yay!

It's announcement day 🙋‍♂️
I am very happy that I was recently appointed as a Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Mannheim 👨‍🏫
This is a joint appointment with GESIS to serve as the Co-Director of my beloved CSS department together with the brilliant Claudia Wagner!

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

#stats Be sure to follow JSSAM for ALL the articles!

Learning curves for 5 BERT models trained on 5 versions of training data collection instrument, showing differences in balanced accuracy by version

New paper: What social science can teach AI and ML researchers about how to collect training data

arxiv.org/abs/2311.14212
forthcoming in EMNLP 2023 FIndings

(My first paper thread on Bluesky, we'll see how this goes)

My team at GESIS is looking for a new PhD student to work on a Horizon Europe project on delivering evidence based policy suggestions based on harmonized survey data. We are cool, and this is interesting: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

There are about two weeks left to apply for the role of editor-in-chief of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. I have loved this role, including learning so many new areas in our field, but it’s time to move on. Happy to chat with anyone about it!
academic.oup.com/jssam/pages/...

After clicking many "follow" buttons I am impressed how many colleagues are already here. Feels like I was the last one to move ;)

Moved over... thanks to @joross.bsky.social for providing the code :)