Sebastian Karcher
Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account).
Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods
https://sebastiankarcher.com
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- Reposted by Sebastian Karcher1965 founding legalistion of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Title 20 U.S. Code. Chapter 26. Section 951. "The Congress finds and declares the following: The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States." (cont'd.)
- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherThis feels personal. 😠
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherOur February Issue has been published! Read it at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherThe fact that CRAN now automatically generates DOIs is really great. Trivial to slurp up via Zotero and then cite package authors like they should be.
- All the cool stuff surely is film maker mom, but polisci prof dads are taking 100% of the credit for civics lessons
- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherReally enjoyed doing this short course on causal models for qualitative and mixed methods research @gesistraining.bsky.social; what a great group All teaching materials are here: slides, exercises, videos, readings: integrated-inferences.github.io/short-course/ bsky.app/profile/gesi...
- Great start to 2026! Our first onsite #GESISworkshop in Cologne brings together participants for Causal Models for Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research with @macartan.bsky.social and @alanjacobs.bsky.social. Inspiring methodological exchange and learning!
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🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost! - Reposted by Sebastian Karcher[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherI used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
- Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherSo excited to see these new lessons in development from @carpentries.carpentries.org for open #qualitative research. librarycarpentry.github.io/lc-qualitati... for Taguette librarycarpentry.github.io/lc-qualitati... for QualCoder
- Have you ever wished there was something like a Carpentries workshop but for qualitative research tools and skills? If so, join next week's discussion session, Qualitative Research Lessons with The Carpentries. 🗓️ Tue, 20 January ⏰ 17:30 UTC Sign up on Pretix: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...
- Reposted by Sebastian KarcherDear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...
- They radicalized Ingebretsen!
- there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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- Very subtle by the Nobel Prize committee... www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
- Looking for #challah advice: I'm in the office most Fridays & that makes challah timing hard. Even if I have the dough ready & on slow rise in fridge, I don't have the time for shaping, proofing & baking when I get back from work. Anyone has a workflow that'll get me fresh challah by 5.30pm?
- Reading 'old' research #ethics literature is wild. This is from 2001 and MTF is "Monitoring the Future" a national survey that asks kids a battery of questions (in school), including prominently about drug use (the survey still runs, presumably now with proper consent/assent).
