Juan S. Gómez-Cruces
Postdoc in Digital Technologies, Governance and Policy @Hasso-Plattner Institute. Ph.D. in Political Science. I study the effects of emerging technologies on political behavior
https://juangomezcruces.github.io
- Can language models identify political stances as accurately as experts? We are testing language models to identify political stances using a transparent and academically rigorous approach. With only a bit more calibration, we will be close to the mean of scores provided by experts.
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- Yesterday I presented our paper "Automated Political Stance Identification” at the #11ICSSM (@isa-sociology.org) This interdisciplinary work uses a purpose-specific language model + Natural Language Inference (NLI) to detect stances in political texts.
- Reposted by Juan S. Gómez-Cruces📊 Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum? ➡️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki & @drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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- This summer I am teaching an LLMs for social research course to non-social scientists (mostly computer science people). I appreciate any advice, references, memes, etc.
- Yesterday I presented this work in progress at #epsa2025. Thank you for the helpful and on point feedback.
- I am looking forward to #WIConf25, where I'll be presenting my recent research on the impact of populist democracy on internet freedom.
- Here you can learn more about the project we presented yesterday: pathtopower.global/path-to-powe... #PathtoPower
- Thrilled to have been part of the panel discussion at “The Path to Power 2024: Democracy Disrupted?”, where we dove into the role of digital technology in the 2024 elections worldwide. Many thanks to the HPI and GIZ for supporting this project. #PathToPower
- We are #hiring a funded #PhD in open-source software or alternative economic and production structures within digital tech as part of the Digital Technology, Governance and Policy Research Group @HPI_DE at @unipotsdam Application deadline is January 16th tinyurl.com/fd2w4vu8
