Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Come along to this Data Discussion on Friday! 📣 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can human-AI teams outperform either one by themselves? @officialberger.bsky.social, @jasonburton.bsky.social and co. found that they can, but it's important that the human gets explanations for the AI's answers and a chance to learn from wrong decisions. More in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 022
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Join us for a Data Discussion on October 2! 📅 Sergey Belomestnykh will discuss mapping research communities working on AI and sustainability, while Benjamin Kohler will discuss experimental evidence on AI guidance and admission choices 🤖 Event 🔗 : sodas.ku.dk/events/2026/...sodas.ku.dkSODAS Data Discussion II (Fall 2026)We are delighted to host Sergey Belmestnykh and Benjamin Kohler for the Fall 2026 SODAS Data Discussion series! 011
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026PSE9 on January 27-29 2027 at the University of Copenhagen! 📣 PSE centres work on error, reproducibility and research integrity across disciplines. Submit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/9UNz7aDe1Z Register: eventsignup.ku.dk/workshoponpe... 📅 Deadline: October 16, 2026 Read more: errorsin.science 021
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Come along for this exciting SODAS Lecture on Friday! 📣 Event 🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/2026/...sodas.ku.dkThe Past, Present, and Future of Computational Social ScienceSODAS Lecture with Christopher Bail, Duke University. 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Join us for a Data Discussion on Friday!📣 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Join us for the first SODAS Lecture of the fall on September 18! 📅 In this lecture, @chrisbail.bsky.social will explore the past, present, and future of computational social science! 💻📚 Come along to Auditorium 1 at Gothersgade 140 from 13.30–15.00 for this exciting lecture! 📣 010
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026SODAS Data Discussion on September 11! 📅 @ariannapera.bsky.social will discuss media representations of climate action, while @antonkronborg.bsky.social will explore pork-barrel politics in Zambia. Join us in the SODAS Conference Room (1.1.12) at CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5a from 11.00-12.00! 📣 030
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Ole Teutloff told Politiken about his research on which jobs are most vulnerable to being taken over by AI. Surprisingly in first place: legal occupations. Read more (in 🇩🇰): politiken.dk/danmark/oeko...politiken.dkEn højtuddannet faggruppe er særligt i fare for at miste jobHidtil har nye maskiner taget jobbet fra folk med manuelt arbejde. Med kunstig intelligens bliver det helt anderledes. 020
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026@louisboucherie.com was interviewed about Copenhagen Fashion Week 💃 and body representation in Politiken today: politiken.dk/kultur/art10... Louis and co recently analyzed fashion records spanning 25 years and found a paradox: diversity has increased, but the typical model body hasn't changed. 111
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Anna Louise Malfilâtre, Rachele Mazzini, @laulilleholt.bsky.social and co asked Danish doctors & nurses about honesty in tough conversations. One theme was seeing (measured) honesty as a kind of care. Another was relying on their professional role. Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...onlinelibrary.wiley.comHonesty in Difficult Conversations: Insights From Healthcare ProfessionalsWhen being honest is expected to cause emotional distress to those it concerns, it can be difficult to practice. This study examines how honesty is understood and accounted for in situations of emoti... 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Congrats to @louisboucherie.com on being awarded a @carlsbergfondet.dk Internationalisation Fellowship! He'll be at Columbia, then at Princeton, and finally back at SODAS. He'll model how life events shift people's health years later, e.g. if job loss at 50 changes the risk of heart disease at 60. 🧓 071
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026@hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social and Jonas Toubøl find that people are driven to volunteer by "demand networks": others asking them to help. Women and altruists are most likely to respond to needs. They show this with a survey on COVID volunteering. Paper out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 111
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We're delighted that @abbasrizi.bsky.social received Novo Nordisk's Postdoctoral Fellowship for Oxford. 🥳 He'll be there for 2 years, then at SODAS for 1. He'll work on minimal network models for epidemic control, to find out how much complexity is actually needed to guide public health decisions. 041
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Clara Vandeweerdt @claravandeweerdt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Dr. Ben Kenward and I showed a hundred different articles about disruptive protests to people and measured their climate attitudes. It turns out that the type of activism, whether you poop in a lake or climb a smokestack, does not matter. He blogged about it: boiledfrogs.substack.com/p/details-of...boiledfrogs.substack.comDetails of disruptive environmental protest don’t matter much; but audience ideology doesEnvironmentalists agonise a lot about how to protest the destruction of everything keeping us alive, but our latest results show the issue doesn’t matter as much as they think. 001
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Does personality predict crime? @laulilleholt.bsky.social, Ingo Zettler and co. found a clear relationship between the "Dark Factor of Personality" and both self-reported crime and registered criminal convictions. Article: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1... More on the Dark Factor: darkfactor.org 111
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 29/06/2026One of the things that AI now gets thrown into is qualitative interviews. I'm very lucky to work with real social scientists on the pros and cons of that. The first outcome of our @villumfonden.bsky.social grant with @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social is ACL'26 demo: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-dem... /1aclanthology.orgAInterviewer: A Platform for Designing and Conducting AI-led Qualitative InterviewsTobias Gårdhus, Nikolas Vitsakis, Fie Lejre Frederiksen, Anna Rogers, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System De... 1163
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026New book alert: "Kits for Digital Methods: Doing Sociotechnical Research". Samantha Breslin wrote the "Programming as Participant Observation Kit". She explains basic steps like choosing a language, setting up an environment and tracking research insights while coding. Preorder: kitsformethods.com 010
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026@lgajo.bsky.social and co. analyzed the trajectories of over 500k scientific collaborations: www.nature.com/articles/s44... • Smaller teams form faster and last longer, but larger teams are more productive • Proximity matters: 75% of persistent collaborations are based on the same institution (1/2)nature.comTeam careers in science: formation, composition and success of persistent collaborations - npj Complexitynpj Complexity - Team careers in science: formation, composition and success of persistent collaborations 132
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Ole Teutloff talked to newspaper Berlingske about the jobs that will be most affected by AI in the future, and who will benefit from the returns of AI. Read more about which jobs are at the top and bottom of his "change list" (in 🇩🇰): www.berlingske.dk/vores-liv/li...berlingske.dkListe viser, hvilke job der vil forandre sig mest med kunstig intelligensDen tyske forsker Ole Teutloff er medforfatter til et forskningsprojekt, der giver et praj om, hvilke job der vil blive hårdest ramt af ai. Han peger på to mulige fremtider, men den ene er »desværre n... 010
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026We are hiring a postdoc for a project on emergent deception in human-AI interaction, combining behavioural psychology, economics, and machine learning. Supervised by Ingo Zettler and me at @copenlu.bsky.social & @cphsodas.bsky.social , Copenhagen. ⏰Deadline: 5/July/2026 📅Start: 1/10/2026 Link 👇 1128
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Louis Boucherie @louisboucherie.com · 22/05/2026Is the fashion industry actually becoming more inclusive? We analyzed 793,199 records over 25 years to find out. Our results are published today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgCultural evolution of beauty standards | PNASBeauty standards shape self-perception and health through social comparison and objectification, while exposure to idealized imagery exacerbates bo... 1104
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Come along to this exciting Data Discussion tomorrow! 📣 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Data Discussion on May 22! 📅 Agnete Meldgaard Hansen will begin with a discussion on the ethical implications of the use of AI in eldercare services, followed by @jliu2024.bsky.social , who will discuss AI benchmarks as both technical and social artefacts 💻 Event: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...sodas.ku.dkSODAS Data Discussion 4 (Spring 2026)SODAS is delighted to host CAISA Fellows Agnete Meldgaard Hansen and Jun Liu for the Spring 2026 Data Discussion series! 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026SODAS Meets Geopolitics on June 2! 📆 Join us for presentations by SODAS researchers, followed by a talk and Q&A with @robert-habeck.de, Senior Analyst at the Danish Institute for International Studies and former Vice Chancellor of Germany. Register here: eventsignup.ku.dk/sodasmeetsge...eventsignup.ku.dkSODAS Meets Geopolitics 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026In a new preprint, Jonas Raaschou-Pedersen explores instrumented diff-in-diffs w/ covariates and staggered exposure. He constructs doubly robust estimands for the local average treatment effect on the treated compared to two control groups: never-exposed and not-yet-exposed. arxiv.org/abs/2605.03699arxiv.orgDoubly Robust Instrumented Difference-in-DifferencesWe study estimation of the local average treatment effect on the treated ($LATT$) in instrumented difference-in-differences (IDiD) designs with covariates and staggered instrument exposure. We derive ... 110
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Come along to this exciting lecture on Friday! 📣 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Until 2025, the CDC emphasized that scientists agreed there is no link between vaccines and autism. Now, they say that a link can't be ruled out. @robertboehm.bsky.social, @schneali.bsky.social, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @laulilleholt.bsky.social show this erodes Americans' trust in vaccines. 111
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026🚨 New in @science.org: CDC communication undermines trust in vaccines Link to the publication: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I’m excited to share this paper, which I wrote together with @schneali.bsky.social, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @laulilleholt.bsky.social (1/5) 14118
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Join us for the last SODAS Lecture of the spring on May 8! 📅 In this lecture, @sebstier.bsky.social will explore advances in user-centered data collection approaches, using examples from the field of political communication 📣 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas... 063
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Come along to an exciting Data Discussion tomorrow! 📣 010
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Join us for a Data Discussion on April 24! 📅 @keltonminor.bsky.social will begin with a discussion on temperature and the spectra of mental health, while @sandrofsousa.bsky.social will explore the complex patterns of climate- and conflict-induced displacement. Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...sodas.ku.dkSODAS Data Discussion 3 (Spring 2026)SODAS is delighted to host Kelton Minor and Sandro Sousa for the Spring 2026 Data Discussion series! 010
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Join us for this important lecture on Friday! 📣 010
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026SODAS researchers @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and @fghjorth.bsky.social are featured in this upcoming panel about political leanings of LLMs, and how voters use these models to get voting advice. More info: caisa.dk/event/who-wo... Sign up here: www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto...caisa.dkCAISA | Who would ChatGPT vote for and why should we care?Apr 16, 2026 | Se dette og mange flere events fra Det Nationale Center for AI i Samfundet (CAISA). 011
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026SODAS Lecture on April 17! 📅 Come and join us for this exciting lecture, where @lenafrescamente.bsky.social will discuss the complexity of misinformation. With new insights, the lecture explores the complex systems through which misinformation perpetuates 💻 Event 🔗 : sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas... 021
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026@keltonminor.bsky.social and co just published a "wake-up call" on the effect of climate change on sleep. Especially in the poorest & hottest regions, we don't know enough about how much sleep people are losing due to heat. Summary: news.ku.dk/all_news/202... Academic paper: doi.org/10.1093/slee... 110
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Kristian Roed Nielsen @roednielsen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026📢 3-year Postdoc at Copenhagen Business School Join our project that explores how social contagion and individual thresholds affect tipping points in sustainable behavior. You’ll work with: 🔹 Large-scale behavioral data 🔹 Experiments 🔹 Computational models of diffusion 📅 Start: Sept 2026 (flex.)cbs.dkDepartment of Management, Society and CommunicationA transdisciplinary hub for studies of business in society 043
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Friedolin Merhout @fmerhout.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Exciting times for computational social science / social data science in 🇩🇰 Attracting bright minds & establishing networks across and beyond the country. Today @jolukito.bsky.social talking about social media data access @cphsodas.bsky.social 071
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Do disruptive protests help or hurt? In a new review, @claravandeweerdt.bsky.social finds they're great at getting attention from media and the public for their issue. They have no or small positive effects on public opinion about the cause, and on people's intentions to act. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... 100
Reposted by Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)Ilias Chalkidis @kiddothe2b.bsky.social · 28/07/2025New preprint 📚 "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns", joint work with @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Paris Aslanidis. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303 #NLProc #PoliSci #LLMs 👇A TL;DR thread 🕸️ 1/5 172
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Come along for an exciting Data Discussion this Friday! 📣 000
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Data Discussion on March 27! 📅 In this session, @jolukito.bsky.social will discuss data access and digital media research epistemology, while @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social will discuss how religion shapes nonprofit activity in the United States. Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...sodas.ku.dkSODAS Data Discussion 2 (Spring 2026)SODAS is delighted to host Jo Lukito and Jeanet Sinding Bentzen for the Spring 2026 Data Discussion series! 062
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Join us for this exciting talk on Friday!📣 001
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Talk by Francesco Pierri on March 20! In this exciting talk, @frapierri.bsky.social will examine the advances and challenges of large language models and AI-powered search engines, and emphasise the need to safeguard AI-human interactions online. Event 🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/talk-...sodas.ku.dkTalk by Francesco PierriSODAS is delighted to host Francesco Pierri on March 20! 020
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026@claravandeweerdt.bsky.social, @gregoryeady.bsky.social, @fghjorth.bsky.social and Peter Thisted Dinesen present a method for measuring people's social identities from short self-descriptions. The unsupervised algorithm discovers identities bottom-up: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 142
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This exciting lecture is on Friday! 📣 032
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SODAS researchers and co. investigated the correlation between "dark" personality traits and job choice. They found that people with dark traits tend not to choose social jobs (like nurse, −.50 ≤ r ≤ −.21) but also artistic jobs (−.31 ≤ r ≤ −.12). Read more: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.... 121
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026SODAS Lecture on March 13! 📅 Join us for this fascinating lecture, where @marioluissmall.bsky.social will discuss the availability of large-scale data and the spread of computational social science 💻 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas... 152
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Come along for this exciting Data Discussion on Friday! 📣 010
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Yani Kartalis and co. connect media habits with far-right voting & find that readers of a Spanish conservative paper and Portuguese tabloid are more likely to develop nostalgia for authoritarian times, which correlates with support for the far right. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 021