Nicole Schwitter
Postdoctoral researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research and honorary research fellow at the University of Warwick | Interested in all things computational social science
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterAre female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter🎺 On May 21/22 @lespin.bsky.social , @doriantsolak.bsky.social, and I host “Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS” in Vienna Keynotes: @lauraknelson.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitterwikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterThe kind of research that makes one jealous. “How does India Cook #Biryani”
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterWe should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterIt'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 Nicole SchwitterPlease share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterThrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterAll research is exploratory if you’re confused enough
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Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41... - Reposted by Nicole SchwitterAI is powered by Wikipedia, the world’s greatest online knowledge resource. For 25 years, editors around the world have shaped the knowledge that shapes the future. #Wikipedia25
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterHappy Thanksgiving everyone!
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterIs this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterWhy did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterI enjoyed writing this piece for the LSE Impact Blog on Musk's latest swing at Wikipedia, and its future in a hostile AI-skewed political landscape 👇
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterI think about this post every day 🧪
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter"dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap" hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
- Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterAcademics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterWe 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 Nicole SchwitterHappy 13th birthday, Wikidata! Facts do not live in isolation; they form a web of connections that shape understanding. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link facts across Wikipedia and its sister projects. ➡️ w.wiki/Jg
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterDinge, die gleichzeitig passiert sind: - Elon Musk startet "Grokipedia", eine "propagandafreie" Wikipedia-Kopie - komplett von einer KI geschrieben - Eine Studie sagt, 45% aller KI-Ergebnisse seien "falsch" Das und mehr – heute bei "Haken dran" mit @kattascha.bsky.social (zum ersten Mal bei uns!):
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterEver wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐 👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions. 🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterHappy 24th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitterrecently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterLearned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter📢 CREST & ENSAE Paris (IP Paris) are hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Sociology starting Sept 2026! crest.science/wp-content/u... 🧠 Quantitative & computational focus 🌍 Open to all 📅 Apply by Jan 31 2026 → recruitment@ensae.fr #AcademicJobs #Sociology #HiPARIS #CREST
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter📢 Join the SweCSS Community! If you would like to stay informed about upcoming events, job opportunities, and news from The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS), you are welcome to join our mailing list. #css #academicsky 👉 Sign up here: liu.se/en/research/...
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterMonty Hall reminder: the only good reason to want the car is to sell it for more goats.
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterWe're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterICYMI: If you’re working or are planning on working with Google Trends Data for research, make sure to read this article by @floriankeusch.bsky.social & co-authors. They explore common pitfalls, incl. construct validity and reliability, and show how to improve data quality to enhance robustness.
- Thanks for the recognition! 🥳 My USP: delivering reviews before the reminders.
- 🚀We are extremely grateful for the high quality support we receive each year from our reviewers, and have created a Best Reviewer Award to acknowledge this even more! It is with great pleasure that we congratulate 2025 winners: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social & #Nicole_Schwitter
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterReviewing, and doing it well, is one of the best services one can do to our profession. Massive thanks to the winners of the #ecsr2025 Best Reviewer Award: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social, Nicole Schwitter
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterWE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam. We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025. @aissr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS. ⌛Deadline: September 30th Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l... #academicsky #css
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- Reposted by Nicole Schwitter🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, @pettertornberg.com and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterWhen they tell you academia is a woke bubble just remember where we came from
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterThe University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
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- All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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- Finally got this banger of a title out: 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. If your descriptive figures and your model tell different stories, trust the figure. (And maybe rethink the model.) 👉 📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterThinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...
- Reposted by Nicole SchwitterQuite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."
- Local reactions to wolf attacks in Germany are not powerful enough to influence the election decisions of many voters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
