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Arno Simons

@arnosimons.bsky.social
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Science Studies | Policy Studies | Discourse Analysis | Language Modeling Postdoc at TU Berlin: www.tu.berlin/en/hps-mod-sci/arno-s…

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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
How can we use LLMs to understand science? 🤔 Our new open access volume is out now 🎉 It features almost 30 chapters by more than 50 international scholars, exploring LLMs as research tools for the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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Understanding Science with Large Language Models?
How do LLMs change research about science, and create new insights and challenges for the humanities, social sciences, and AI?
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Our programmatic article on using LLMs for science studies just got published 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Large language models for history, philosophy, and sociology of science: Interpretive uses, methodological challenges, and critical perspectives
This paper examines large language models (LLMs) as research tools in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). Because LLMs can work …
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Alexander Schniedermann @aschniedermann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Remember Ludwig Fleck's socio-intellectual forms of science? In 1935, he described the novelty of findings along different document types in science. Today, we know many of such links, think of #Preprints, #SystematicReviews #MetaAnalysis #Guidelines #Handbooks #SoftwarePaper #DataPaper etc. 1/2
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We thought that the Covid-19 pandemic would be a great opportunity to study the dynamics of the different document types. So, we displayed the Dtypes of 5.76 million publications from PubMed and OpenAlex since January 2020 in a dahsboard:
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Alexander Schniedermann @aschniedermann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Lion Cassens @lion-c.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bsky is being flooded with German speaking AI powered bots. A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election 1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):
Likely AI generated responses to a german news article.
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
How does Wikipedia decide whether a scientist should be mentioned in an article that is not about them? 🤷 We call this the problem of "micro-notability", and we've studied how Wikipedia editors deal with it in two articles on CRISPR/Cas9: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Had I read this Kurzweil interview 10 years ago, which I didn't, I would have dismissed most of his predictions as rediculous (especially those concerning language understanding). How foolish I would have been then... 😬 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Are the robots about to rise? Google's new director of engineering thinks so…
Ray Kurzweil popularised the 'singularity' concept, when artificial intelligence overtakes human thinking. Now he is trying to make it a reality for Google. Carole Cadwalladr meets him
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
OpenAI teams up with Axel Springer "to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism" 🤣👍 (aka good bye journalism) openai.com/blog/axel-sp...
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Partnership with Axel Springer to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism
Axel Springer is the first publishing house globally to partner with us on a deeper integration of journalism in AI technologies.
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
More than 1000 unmarked graves-discovered along EU migration routes, the Guardian reports: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... In total more than 29,000 people died on European migration routes in the past decade, according to the Missing Migrants Project: missingmigrants.iom.int/data
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Google's new Gemini AI could soon disrupt the way we're doing research... Especially how we find AND interpret relevant literature 😳🔎📚📚📚 youtu.be/sPiOP_CB54A?...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=v8HGwatxcDdw21cB&v=sPiOP_CB54A&feature=youtu.be
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Arno Simons @arnosimons.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
New paper out (with @aschniedermann.bsky.social) on the reception of preprints in the German press, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on distant reading of 390K news articles 🔎📰. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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3. Preprints in the German news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparative mixed-m...
3. Preprints in the German news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparative mixed-method analysis was published in The Science-Media Interface on page 53.
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