CSS at University of Stuttgart

🎉🚨New Publication🚨🎉 "Dynamics of Russian anti-war discourse on X (Twitter): a computational analysis using NLP and network methods" was published by our colleague Iuliia Alieva in npj Complexity! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thrilled to share our latest open access paper published in European Sociological Review by @mshu.bsky.social, Raphael Heiberger, and myself! You can find it here: academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

What gets professors into the media? 📢 New open access publication in @europeansocreview.bsky.social together with Raphael Heiberger from @s7css.bsky.social and @bashofstra.bsky.social! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Yesterday we had the pleasure to welcome @benjaminrohr.bsky.social to present his new work on the Weimar Republic!

Today we had a joint meeting with our group and @demolabs.bsky.social to talk about current projects! We never thought about democracy on Mars - Thanks for the visit!

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @oms279.bsky.social to present on "Temporalities of Climate Change in U.S. Media (2000-2021)" at our departmental colloquium!

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

Yesterday, @s7css.bsky.social invited me to present my dissertation at the University of Stuttgart. It was a blast — thanks to the chair of Prof. Heiberger for their invitation, the audience for their amazing feedback, and the city for their hospitality! I'd love to come back one day!

🚨 New publication by Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger: Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention. The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X) #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS #SocialMedia #Policy www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Pop2net, a powerful new #Python package developed by Marius Kaffai & Lukas Erhard! 🎉 (1/3)

🚨 We're excited to share the latest publication of our members @luerhard.bsky.social , Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger in Political Analysis: 'PopBERT: Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag'. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/pan.... #PoliticalScience #Populism

Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @hendrik-erz.de to present on "Economic Policymaking in U.S. Congress. Discursive Dynamics, 1960–1990" at our departmental colloquium!

Check out our paper "Network community detection via neural embeddings" led by @skojaku.bsky.social (w Filippo Radicchi and Santo Fortunato)! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We argue that n2v can encode community structure down to the detectability limit due to its connection to spectral embedding.

🚨 We're excited to share the latest publication of our members @luerhard.bsky.social , Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger in Political Analysis: 'PopBERT: Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag'. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/pan.... #PoliticalScience #Populism

Excited to start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at CEU in Vienna. I am deeply grateful to the scholars I met at University of Cologne, @unistuttgart.bsky.social, and Dan McFarland's Mimir Lab for their support, intellectual generosity and kindness. Thank you!

🚨New job alert from our colleagues at the University of Amsterdam! 🚨 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

🚨 New publication by Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger: Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention. The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X) #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS #SocialMedia #Policy www.degruyter.com/document/doi...