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Allison Koh

@allisonwkoh.bsky.social
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researcher, R nerd, city rat 🏳️‍🌈 (she/they) research fellow in NLProc @ university of birmingham • 💭📝 geopolitics of communication; AI applications in human rights monitoring allisonkoh.github.io

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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I had the best time getting ✨multilingual✨ in R and Python at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🤗 Couldn’t ask for a more supportive group; very important when several hours of live-coding is involved 🙈
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Our #EPSA2025 roundtable will be happening soon in the auditorium, see you there 🤩
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If you are attending #EPSA2025 and interested in uncovering the black box that is the postdoctoral job market, you're in luck! Marta Antonetti (LSE) and I will be hosting a roundtable on Thursday at 13:10 dedicated to the topic. 🧵👇
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05
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Summer School for Women in Political Methodology
20 to 26 July 2025 at the University of Bremen
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Kicking off the 2025 conference season in Chicago for #ISA2025 🎉 I’ll be around for the next week; my DMs are open for ☕️ or 🍻
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...
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Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
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South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/11/2024
heyyy there's a Connections: Strike Edition from the @nytguildtech.bsky.social (along with a bunch of others: nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-b...) 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Guild BuildsGuild Builds
A series of games made by NY Tech Guild members
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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
It is a beautiful day in Taiwan for an election! 台灣加油! 🗳️🗳️🗳️
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
German academia, alongside the government and media outlets, is misusing legacies of the Holocaust "to silence dissent while fostering xenophobia and Islamophobia." You can still sign this open letter here:
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Germany's Departure from Reason: Global Scholars' Letter Condemning Germany's Role in Silencing and ...
We, as academics from various global regions, wish to voice our concerns: The recent censorship, persecution, and threats faced by both German and non-German academics in Germany due to their critiqu...
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Are you researching TikTok? Or do you want to? Major update to #rstats `traktok`: search and download videos with just a regular account or use the full Research API: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2023-12...
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Re-Release: `traktok` | Johannes B. Gruber
I’m happy to announce that traktok, my package to get content from TikTok, has returned from the dead. That’s slightly exaggerated, because it actually always worked in some shape or form, but up ...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
It is not normal to absorb this much info about extreme violence. It is not normal to constantly think that only by pure chance, you could have been subjected to the same. I feel like something is eroding in our humanity, because we numb our feelings to deal with the terrible reality we live in
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Centre for International Security - Hertie School @hertiesecurity.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
📢 Interested in how online censorship influences offline protests? Join us for Dr. Lisa Garbe's talk at @hertiesecurity.bsky.social. Dive into the dynamics of digital policy and its real-world impact. 📆 Thursday, 30.11 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (CET) Register 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
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Deterrence or backlash: How online censorship affects offline protest
Lisa Garbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), presents her research on the consequences of sudden restrictions on internet access for mobilization.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 13/11/2023
Just updated my #QuartoPub extension for generating accurate word counts (i.e. *including* references!) so that it can now count appendix content separately! #rstats github.com/andrewheiss/...
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Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
The utter stress of living in Germany these days I swear. On the bright side (other foreign) friends who were previously less outspoken on Palestine are becoming radicalized.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20/11/2023
i am less convinced that AI is going to replace jobs than i am that companies are going to cut jobs on the premise of AI replacing them and then hire those people back as contractors for less money and fewer protections, because that’s what’s happened a *lot* in the last 20 years.
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned of the 10/7 attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. She reflects: “A reconsideration of the nation-state as the sole source of safety, as well as the notion of a state-based sovereignty, is essential.” newlinesmag.com/first-person...
Text: “The world’s solution to safety and security, for Jews and for others, continues to be inextricably linked to the nation-state and its sovereignty — to militarized borders and an obsession with demography. As modern history has shown, such an idea always has the potential for exclusionary politics and mass violence. Perhaps most damaging of all is how such a solution propagates a diminished understanding of safety: It is the state that needs defending, not people. It is the state that holds sovereignty, not people. This logically leads to policies that label certain elements of society acceptable losses in times of conflict — sacrifices in the name of the state. And it facilitates an essentialist view of the world that cannot include the history of human migration and leaves no room for the fluidity of identity.”Text: “A reconsideration of the nation-state as the sole source of safety, as well as the notion of a state-based sovereignty, is essential. It is people who have sovereignty: People have the right to a dignified life, to self-determination, to control of their environment and a say in their future. And people can only be safe collectively by ensuring those around them are also safe. States are the way we organize our world, and they can provide forms of safety, but often narrowly, fleetingly and by denying safety to others. A state that continues to deny sovereignty cannot sustain safety. In the name of sovereignty and safety, it will continue to cause violence. And a garrison can only protect for so long.”
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
#AcWriMo November writing goal: Submit PhD dissertation 🫣
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
I've had a lot of convos w/ folks confused about the crackdown in Germany against the most basic support for Palestinians. This is deeply tied to Germany's Holocaust remembrance culture, which happens to be something I study. Here's a thread of resources in English for those who want to learn. 1/
Text: "He continued: 'It seems hard to get institutions and politicians in Germany to recognise that Palestinians are human beings.'"
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Horrific xenophobic language from the leader of a purportedly center-left party, mirroring the Tories in the UK and Trumpists in the US, and a reminder that racism and white supremacy benefit white liberals & leftists as much as the right.
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(S+) Olaf Scholz: Neue Härte in der Flüchtlingspolitik: »Wir müssen endlich im großen Stil absc...
Die neue Härte des Kanzlers: Olaf Scholz macht die irreguläre Migration zur Chefsache und erklärt, wie er die Zahl der Flüchtlinge reduzieren will. Außerdem hat er eine Botschaft an die Jüdinnen...
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
This sort of language legitimizes the racist policing of brown/queer bodies in Berlin that has escalated over the last few days. It’s always been complicated to be Jewish and racially ambiguous in this city. Things are getting worse.
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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Internet Archive Scholar? YES PLEASE! scholar.archive.org
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Internet Archive Scholar
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Love Christensen @lchristensen.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
More and more reports of violent spillovers from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are coming in. My research together with Jakob Enlund shows that the conflict violence does indeed increase hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the US. WP: lovechristensen.com/files/christ...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/10/2023
NEW: The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has faced criticism from advocates who say Republican politicians could weaponize it to target LGBTQ+ content. But the ACLU, EFF, and Fight for the Future said state AGs could also use it to censor info about abortion. 22 Democratic Senators cosponsor the bill
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22 Democrats Sponsor a Bill That Could Censor Abortion Info From the Internet
The Kids Online Safety Act is “a blank check” for Republican AGs to "intimidate any way they can," a digital civil liberties advocate told Jezebel.
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 13/10/2023
This looks fun: Massive fast fuzzy joins with {zoomerjoin}, a Rust/R package from Beniamino Green. statsky polisky
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Insanely fast fuzzy joins
Zoomerjoin empowers users to fuzzily-merge dataframes with millions or tens of millions of rows in minuites with low memory usage. The package uses two locality sensitive hashing algorithms to avoid ...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.
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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Check out this helpful article with best practices for academics on how to talk to journalists. Thank you @alicetiara.bsky.social for this great resource! citap.pubpub.org/pub/2ie80mi4... #academicsky #sociology
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How to talk to journalists: Best practices for academics · The Bulletin of Technology & Public Life
Although academics frequently speak to the press, we aren't taught how and mostly learn by doing. This is a crowd-sourced guide to working with journalists.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Surviving the breakup 🐦👋🏼 “as a platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away.” Polcom commsky polisky niemanreports.org/articles/npr...
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Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports
The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic.
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
TikTok is a digital news desert 📰 New algorithmic audit by Hagar & @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social finds that TikTok does little to recommend news to users and only slightly responds to users' news interest, not leading to increased exposure to credible news journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Figure 2. Diagram outlining each agent's decision-making processTable 3.Figure 3.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
I don’t think @thierrybreton.bsky.social timestamped his letter yesterday to Musk. But the 24 hr deadline to respond will run out in a couple of hours, late in the day October 11 ⏰ Genuinely interested to see how X will address the responsibilities its has under DSA 🇪🇺 Commsky polcom eusky
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
New #rstats package incoming! 🚀 With the fantastic @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social, I introduce: {atr} A package to get and post things here on BlueSky! jbgruber.github.io/atr/index.html
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Wrapper for the AT Protocol behind Bluesky
atr wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://blueskyweb.xyz>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network ...
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Thanks to @bellingcat.com for putting out these investigations: www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10...
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Hamas Attacks, Israel Bombs Gaza and Misinformation Surges Online - bellingcat
Videos supposedly from the latest escalation of the conflict are actually years old, from the wrong country or don’t depict a warzone at all.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
For those unfamiliar with the diaspora experience of living through major geopolitical events: Check-ins from outside of the community can be overwhelming for some of us. Consider whether your support is driven by a genuine sense of shared humanity, not racial/religious differences.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Those who are not Palestinians or Israelis, and those who do not study Palestine or Israel - I'm here to let you know that there is also the option of staying quiet. Perhaps even learning from others? Idk just a thought For real I cant understand the confidence yall have
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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Check out the program of the 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop, Oct 26-27, University of Zurich Keynote by Atoosa Kasirzadeh: "Can we reconcile the governmental use of online targeting with democracy?" Free attendance, registration required polisky commsky cssky
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26./27.10: 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop
The Digital Democracy Workshop is co-organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative and the Digital Democracy Lab at the University of Zurich. It aims to facilitate exchange…
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Michael Heseltine @michaelheseltine.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
👍 Across tasks and languages, we test the viablility of LLMs like GPT-4 to replace human coders for machine learning training data, with mostly strong results! Negligable downstream effects on trained transformer models. We also offer a suggested pipeline for researchers. Polisky osf.io/cx752
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
The EU's DSA database is live! In theory it should include every Statement or Reasons sent by platforms explaining content moderation decisions. I've groused about it, but it's an amazingly ambitious effort and already pretty interesting. 1/ transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/statement-se...
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Statements - DSA Transparency Database
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Allison Koh @allisonwkoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Also note that asking openly gay researchers about the “culture wars” can place us in unnecessarily vulnerable positions, coercing us to either lie or talk about our personal lives in ways that non-queer researchers aren’t expected to.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
I am begging y'all to stop calling violent rhetoric about whether queer and trans people should be allowed to exist the "culture wars."
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Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Read our latest in the MERIP “Transnational Repression Against Exiled Women Activists” merip.org/2023/09/exil...
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Transnational Repression Against Exiled Women Activists - MERIP
n Spring 2011, as the uprising against Bashar Al-Assad erupted in Syria, Sana, the daughter of Syrian exiles living in Canada, began engaging in online activism. Her support for the revolution rapidly...
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
If you just joined, know that you'll have invite codes appear in your profile soon. 🙋🏼‍♀️ May I humbly suggest you directly offer them to folks who are currently underrepresented here. As long as this place relies on gatekeepers it's going to lean heavily towards some groups and that's... not great.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Security agencies will respond to the most extreme fringe behaviors (& sometimes not even then), but not to the overall ideology—because they don't view the ideology as the problem. My fave piece of historical scholarship explaining this is here:
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Understanding State Responses to Left- versus Right-Wing Threats | Social Science History | Cambridg...
Understanding State Responses to Left- versus Right-Wing Threats - Volume 27 Issue 3
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