Congratulation to our Professor of International and Cyber Security Anita Gohdes on the Goldsmith Book Prize!

The prestigous prize was awarded by the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University University for her latest book Repression in the Digital Age.
Centre for International Security - Hertie School
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🆕 The backlash against #FreeMovement

Lukas Stoetzer, M Kroh & L Dasey investigate the impact of increased #Immigration to 🇩🇪 resulting from the 2004 & 2007 eastern enlargement of the 🇪🇺 on concerns about immigration within the German population

👉 bit.ly/4a4TVtA #OA

Können wir Umfragen trauen? Sind repräsentative Surveys möglich?

Ich habe mit Kathrin Kühn vom Deutschlandfunk gesprochen. Dabei auch Werner Krause und Rainer Schnell.

Ein 20-Minuten-Panoramablick auf die Erkenntnisse der Meinungsforschung.

deutschlandfunk.de/wackeliges-fun…

European elections are looming, and everyone is talking about a green backlash. So, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Markus Kollberg, Jannik Jansen, and I collected lots of new data to see if voters are really turning away from climate policy. Here is a what we learned:
delorscentre.eu/en/publication…

🚨Job Alert🚨We are looking for a Post-doc to help us forecast the next German federal election zweitstimme.org ! 3-year position at University Witten/Herdecke. Application deadline: 04 April 2024. Please apply and reach out any for questions uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/42530117?l…

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Join us in forecasting the next federal election, and in finding out what forecasts do to voters and candidates! Plus, do a PhD at the Data Science Lab in Berlin. DM me for any questions.

Great to see our work Electoral Studies ! 👇

Today's the day! The culmination of a 14-year odyssey: Political Rumors is out and available. a.co/d/djUlyno

'Why listen to someone you know is trying to change your beliefs'? I think this theoretical puzzle could also be a great starting point for behaviour and public opinion seminars when discussing attitude/belief change. Like the paradox of voting for participation. Great paper!

I'm so excited that my article is now available on first view American Political Science Review! TLDR: New measure of political sophistication based on open-ended survey responses shows that women and men are equally sophisticated when talking politics. +R pkg to apply method: cran.r-project.org/package=discur…

⚡️ New paper ⚡️

'Open-source LLMs such as HuggingChat and FLAN exhibit text-annotation performance metrics that generally exceed those of MTurk and rival those of ChatGPT'

with meysam alizadeh @maelkubli et al.

arxiv.org/abs/2307.02179

#ChatGPT #LLMs #OpenSource #NLP

Ein Sprachmodell, das man für Wissenschaftskommunikation kurz um Rat fragen sollte: #DeppGTP Der Postillon 📯

Wissenschaftliche Karriere in D. im #WissZeitVG Vorschlag erklärt an einem Radweg:

It is wonderful to see the call for paper for the 3rd #PolMethEurope King's QPE. 👇

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨👇
The 3rd Political Methodology #Europe Meeting takes place in London KCL Department of Political Economy King's QPE KCL European & International Studies on 19-20 June (2 days before EPSA '23 in Glasgow). Send us your best paper (abstract) by Feb. 28 (midnight GMT) following this link: forms.office.com/pages/response…