Carsten Schwemmer
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerIf you haven't done yet, please try Claude Coworker just to get an idea about its capabilities. It took 2 minutes for it to read our paper, provide perfectly running R-code to justify a case selection across 14 countries using Vdem. Produced a 10 pager underlining our case selection.
- Reposted by Carsten Schwemmer🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerBig news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerWe are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerOoooh {stringr} now includes a function for my favorite naming convention, snake_case. ☺️
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerCool PhD Position in an amazing project 🚀
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerJust out in Nature Communications: "Examining public support for Ukraine’s defense against autocratic aggression". With F. Haggerty and P. Thurner, we show that Western citizens back Ukraine’s fight, but moral and strategic concerns, as well as internal divisions, impose restraints. rdcu.be/eYKAr
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerDid you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerA new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
- A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerMost LLM evals use API calls or offline inference, testing models in a memory-less silo. Our new Patterns paper shows this misses how LLMs actually behave in real user interfaces, where personalization and interaction history shape responses: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19364
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerNew paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerIt's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
- Reposted by Carsten Schwemmer🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerWe're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerIn light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerWrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...
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- Reposted by Carsten Schwemmernew paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerWe're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerBillions of regressions ≠ robustness. My new PNAS Letter shows how unjustified models can drown out justified ones — and why thoughtful model selection matters👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerLAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area. Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15! Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerLetzte Woche haben wir 5 Jahre #95vsWissZeitVG gefeiert. Viel hat sich seit 2020 & besonders seit #IchBinHanna geändert, nur ein paar spezielle Quatsch-Argumente für Befristung kommen immer wieder. Damit wir sie nicht ständig von vorn widerlegen müssen, hab ich das heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss gemacht!
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerWe have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
- Reposted by Carsten Schwemmer🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerAny experiences with data donation of #Spotify listening history? I requested to download my full listening history and it said that it would take 30 days to produce the download. 2 hours later I received the link to the zip file with full JSON records. Any other experiences with this?
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerWhen there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.
- Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerJob Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerJoin 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.
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerNew article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute... - Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerHow common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerYale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709
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- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerVery interesting mentorship program for early career folks working on wealth inequality and related topics, run out of the Munich Stone Center for Inequality Research www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerToday I learned that there is a Stone Center in Munich!
- Very interesting mentorship program for early career folks working on wealth inequality and related topics, run out of the Munich Stone Center for Inequality Research www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...
- Reposted by Carsten SchwemmerA few more weeks to apply for this tenure-track job in sociology at the University of Vienna, focus on quant research methods jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
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