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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 19/08/2026

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the #UniKonstanz examines how AI agents reach a consensus. The results show that artificial intelligence operates similar to people in relationship to each other – but at a significantly larger scale. Details: t1p.de/7obk7 Giordano De Marzo @dgarcia.eu

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 06/07/2026

Do you want to get in touch or learn more about the Masters in Social and Economic Data Science in Konstanz? Join us at the first SEDS Conference on October 1st! www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/studium/mast...

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WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🔥 Happening now: The 2nd General Assembly Meeting of the WHAT-IF project is currently taking place in 📍 Bucharest, Romania. Over the coming days, partners from across the consortium will come together to share progress, discuss preliminary findings and explore new research ideas. Stay tuned!

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🚨 New preprint Do LLMs have stable dispositions measurable using instruments designed for humans? Led by @jelenameyer.bsky.social, our new preprint shows that LLM responses are driven by response bias, rendering their psychological profiles method artifacts. @dgarcia.eu @arc-mpib.bsky.social

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 30/05/2026

It was such a blast to give a talk at the Presidential Symposium of #APS2026bcn Slides are here: dgarcia.eu/CollectiveAI...

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Looking back on #InequalityConference2026: inspiring keynotes, the In_equality Research Award, engaging talks, fresh insights from the satellite program, and a vibrant social program in Konstanz. Thanks to everyone who joined us-we’re already looking forward to the next conference! @uni-konstanz.de

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 23/03/2026

Registration is open for the Master in Social and Economic Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Please distribute and feel free to DM if you have any questions! www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/studium/mast...

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How to apply | Master Social and Economic Data Science | Master | Studium | Fachbereich Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

⏰ Registration reminder: In_equality Conference 2026 📅 15–17 April | Konstanz & online ⚠️ On-site deadline: 15 March Online registration: until 8 April Keynotes: Jana Diesner, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Attila Lindner & @mschaeffer.bsky.social. Register now 👇 inequality-conference.de

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In_equality Conference 2026

The "Politics of Inequality” research center invites interdisciplinary & international researchers to Konstanz, Germany, for the In_equality Conference, 15-17 April 2026.

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 30/01/2026

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...

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Doctoral Position in Social Data Science

Deadline: 15.02.2026

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WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Developing the first simulation prototype based on the systematic literature review in beautiful Konstanz 🏔️ ☀️ with Stephen Tyndel, Giordano de Marzo, @aytalina.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & Taehee Kim

WHAT-IF researchers during their coffee break in Konstanz

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 17/12/2025

Join us in Konstanz! For anyone interested, feel free to DM if you have questions.

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Alina Herderich, PhD @hailina.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

@uni-graz.at featured our brand-new article on collective moderation of online spaces published in @pnasnexus.org 🥳 Wanna read what citizen-based strategies can be a remedy against online hate? Click here: ow.ly/csZK50XGteK @janalasser.bsky.social @aroyehuns.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu

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Azza Bouleimen @azza-bouleimen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

LLMs excel at mimicking individual text, but what about collective conversations? 🤔 In our recent paper 📄, we conducted a Turing Test to see if GPT4 and Llama 3-generated social media conversations can fool humans into believing they're authentic! arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08592

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded. We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths. Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

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Eva Thomann @evathomann.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'm hiring! Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production! @excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

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Post-doctoral researcher – KOMEX director

Deadline: October 31, 2025

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 13/10/2025

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

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One postdoctoral Research Position

Deadline: November 15th, 2025

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 25/09/2025

🚨Call for papers for the 2026 Inequality conference in Konstanz. I'm co-organizing it and we welcome submissions from Computational Social Science. The deadline is approaching quickly! inequality-conference.de

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In_equality Conference 2026

The "Politics of Inequality” research center invites interdisciplinary & international researchers to Konstanz, Germany, for the In_equality Conference, 15-17 April 2026.

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 30/07/2025

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes - cup.org/3H8EebY - @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Mats Faulborn & @dgarcia.eu #FirstView #LLM

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to? We review the current literature in our #ACL2025 Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/

Screenshot of our paper "Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs"

Details about what we annotated in our systematic review

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Georg Ahnert @ahnert.eurosky.social · 16/06/2025

Excited to present our paper with @maxpe.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu, and @mstrohm.bsky.social next week at #ICWSM! ✨ We extend social simulation with LLMs to a longitudinal setting by fine-tuning Temporal Adapters—here's how: 🧵

A lineplot that shows how scared people in the UK were over time, during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Our method (Llama 3 Temporal Adapters) produces similar estimates of as the survey data gathered by YouGov.

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 14/05/2025

A few months ago I was like "why is there so much gay porn in my anti-AI app" and now there is none of it in my discover feed. It's just a matter of time for the algorithm to sort it out.

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Márton Karsai @martonkarsai.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Are you interested in inequalities, mobility and cities? Come to work with us as a postdoc at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social in Vienna in the Computational Human Dynamics Lab of @martonkarsai.bsky.social. Check the post here: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P... @ic2s2.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 10/04/2025

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 26/03/2025

"I can do things with LLMs" seems to be the next "I can get Twitter data" in Computational Social Science. Not that I think it's bad, it's just funny to see how things change.

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 17/03/2025

We are looking for a German-speaking lab manager for the Social Data Science lab in Konstanz. More info here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

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Lab Manager*in (AG Social and Behavioral Data Science) (w/m/d)

Bewerberfrist: 07.04.2025

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Alexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm really happy to welcome David Garcia @dgarcia.eu at the DM3L for a talk on "Polarization and consensus: between online discussions and generative agents" Join us if you are in Zurich next Thursday! dm3l.uzh.ch/news?nId=69

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 17/02/2025

EPJ Data Science Highlight - Mapping the cross-generational impact of musical sampling www.epj.org/113-epj-ds/2...

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Fabio Carrella @fabiocarrella.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How politicians communicate shapes online discourse in ways we might overlook. Our new paper shows that their choice between a fact-based (evidence-driven) and a belief-based (sincerity-driven) honesty creates a "contagion" effect, influencing how users engage and respond. ⬇️(1/8)

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WHAT-IF @what-if-horizon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hello world! Meet our consortium—15 organizations, 10 countries—joining forces to rethink the digital political information space. 🚀 Last week, we kicked off our project WHAT-IF, setting the stage to build a digital twin that will help us test the impact of policy interventions. More in the 🧵!

Picture of the WHAT-IF project consortium at the kick-off meeting in Amsterdam

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 26/01/2025

It's supercool that Deepseek v3 is open, but it's pretty censored at least through the Android app. It refused to answer about Tiananmen and when asked about the capital of Taiwan, it deleted the output mid-generation.

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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

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View of Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data

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Hannah May (née Metzler) @hannahmetzler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

😡Emotions ≠ 🤓Reasoning?! Nope! 😎 @apeksha.bsky.social's & @julaluehring.bsky.social's first PhD paper on recognizing COVID-19 misinformation & links with emotions got accepted! If you haven't already seen the preprint, have a look at the paper or this 🧵! doi.org/10.1186/s412...

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 15/01/2025

I'm glad to announce that I just started as co-Editor-in-chief of EPJ Data Science with @yelenamejova.bsky.social Looking forward to building the community around one of my favorite journals! www.epj.org/113-epj-ds/2...

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EPJ

The EPJ portal gives you access to EPJA, EPJB, EPJC, EPJD, EPJE, EPJAP, EPJST, EPJH, EPJPlus, EPJ Data Science, EPJ Photovoltaics, EPJ Web of Conferences, EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies, EPJ ...

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Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 06/01/2025

I have an open 3-year PostDoc position in my research group, centered on the extraction and analysis of relations of societal actors (e.g. politicians, CEOs, ...) from unstructured text data. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! Deadline is Jan 1st. jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/a122...

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Universität Graz

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 26/12/2024

Which celebrities are the most popular and unpopular on social media? We are working on a new Holiday Paper Series article on that! We are changing to a Summer schedule for the HPS. On the meantime, here is a teaser for Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Britney Spears: dgarcia.eu/CSS_Holiday_...

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 19/12/2024

Very interesting paper that is making rounds on Bluesky but please notice this issue is for *proprietary* LLMs like the OpenAI ones. Running Llama locally was remarkably stable. In general, using any kind of proprietary software, especially through an API, is bad for reproducibility.

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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing @i2sc.net · 12/12/2024

Join us tomorrow (Friday, December 13th) for the fourth talk in the I2SC Lecture Series by @dgarcia.eu from 12:00-13:00 in building E 1.7, Room 3.23.

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 10/12/2024

Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

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Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science

Deadline: 7th of January 2025

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 05/12/2024

Looking forward to giving a talk about gender inequality in digital traces and AI today at 15:30 at ETH Zurich: www.swish.ethz.ch/events/ Slides are available here: dgarcia.eu/eth-gender-2...

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Curating and sharing high-quality datasets is the foundation of good empirical science. @icwsm.bsky.social promotes dataset creation through a dedicated conference track published in the conference's regular proceedings. Submit your dataset paper by Jan 15th! www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 26/11/2024

I'm so glad to see the one-day-in-twitter dataset being used for projects like this one! I miss our old spreadsheets full of API keys...

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 26/11/2024

You can measure the political beliefs of economists from their language and use that to measure their priors in statistics. I saw Suresh Naidu presenting this at a UCLA IPAM workshop back in 2016. It's exciting to see it out but concerning to see it took so long. academic.oup.com/ej/article/1...

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Political Language in Economics

Abstract. Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic e

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