Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026To stay updated, follow us on social media and sign up for our mailing list www.autpol.net/contact. #LLM #Politicalnetworks #Russia #Chinalnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 001
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The latter may be due to an exodus of experts from the field after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when #Russia temporarily ceased to be an important security threat.👇 101
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Who are the Russia and China experts? At the @asanews.bsky.social Annual Conference #ASA2026 in #NewYork we got the chance to present the first findings from our autpol project with Arthur McFarlane and Michael Rochlitz.👇 102
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026@dionstevers.bsky.social (with Charles Chang) presents first results from his WeChat experiment on why users chose to read pro-government content, wrapping up our 2nd #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast. #EPSS2026 #EPSS 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The #Russia expert community is less centered on the #US than its #China expert counterpart and apparently less male-dominated. The first findings from our www.autpol.net / @expertsurvey.bsky.social project as presented at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast! #EPSS2026 #EPSS 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Not at all #tangping (lying flat): Sungmin Rho talks with great energy about how men and women differ in their refusal to enact the scripts of social reproduction. Another great contribution to our 2nd #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast. #EPSS2026 #EPSS 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026@pierreflandry.bsky.social (with Zhang Zheng) on the importance of distinguishing the two Wang Lis when using #LLMs to build the ultimate biographical dataset of CCP officials. A great start to our 2nd #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference! #EPSS2026 #EPSS 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Jérôme DOYON (withAaron Glasserman) shows how ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in the #PRC bureaucracy, and usually constrained to their specific region and specific parts of the bureaucracy. In our first #China panel at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast #EPSS2026 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026So why didn't the #CCP just repress all religious organizations when establishing the #PRC, painting this map all red? Read @chuyuliu.bsky.social and Howard Liu's working paper on the #CCP strategy of repression and cooptation to find out! @epssnet.bsky.social #EPSS2026 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Xiaoyu Zhang, in joint research with @pierreflandry.bsky.social, discusses how the #PRC government secures its borders by building elaborate border posts to draw its population to these remote areas. The second paper at our #China panels at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference. #EPSS2026 000
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Esther S. was kicking off the first of our two #China panels at the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference. Get in touch with her if you want to know how the #CCP gets academics to Make #Marxism Great Again. #EPSS2026 #EPSS 000
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Kirill Melnikov finds that #centrality in the #politicalnetwork of #Russian #elites protects them from getting dismissed in his presentation at the ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. 011
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Can a #Colombian businessperson's network prevent them getting targeted by #FARC? serayyalaz.bsky.social explores the role of #corporatenetworks in #collectiveaction to deter #rebelviolence in her PhD project presented at our ECPR.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026What do #Swiss voters find when they search for information on #Swiss political actors' stance in different #initiatives? Mykola Makhortykh presents research co-authored with Maryna Sydorova, vihangjumle.bsky.social and vikavzt.bsky.social at our ECPR.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Felipe Perilla Reyes presents his #python package #text2rel at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. Check it out if you need to extract in particular familial relationships from scanned historical documents! 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Naim Bro demonstrates how you can create narratives about changing #cleavages among #politicalelites in #Chile and beyond (instead of outputs unintelligible to lay audiences) at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Our team member Ivan Fomichev is expanding #US #rollcall data back into time to construct historic #covoting networks at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. #Americanists: what are the fun things you could do with that? 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Yifei Zhu and his coauthors Songpo Yang, Jiangnan Zhu and Junyan Jiang bring AI agents to the problem of using #LLMs and extracting #politicalnetworks at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Curious about how #German #politicalelites are connected to the country's #economicelites? Check out the project of Lisa Garbe, Yuequan Guo, macartan.bsky.social, and Lennard Naumann. wzb.bsky.social 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Mert Kılıç is presenting on the influence of #Turkey's far-right parties' influence on the legislative agenda during our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLM and #politicalnetworks. 112
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Spiral staircases, elevators and escalators: Scott Michael Hamilton presents his research on types of #revolvingdoors and their impact on careers in the defence sector and government in the #EU at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social is presenting and giving a quick tutorial to the #quallmer R package at our at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Claudia Salas Gimenez shows how parties adjust their #election campaigns on #YouTube at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on #LLM and #politicalnetworks. 112
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Qian’ge Liu, our team member, is presenting her PhD project on #corruption #networks in #Nigeria for the first time in public. A big thank you to all the participants of the #LLMs and #politicalnetworks @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop for their feedback! 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026@alexpiron.bsky.social and @ccrellin.bsky.social use #LLMs on #EU aid data to construct the EU's Humanitarian Aid #Network to explain aid allocation at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 133
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Tu Ngo presents his ambitious PhD-project to extract #politicalnetworks of cabinet-level #politicalelites using #LLMs on #wikipedia and other data at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop. Will the shape of these networks constrain leaders in their decision to go to war? 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Yesterday was the second day of our @ecpr.bsky.social joint session workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks, again with a marvelous view. #ecprjs26 Here is a recap of yesterday’s highlights: 162
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Jorge Quesada Velazco collects feedback after his presentation of joint work with Tina Freyburg on the #politicalnetworks between #Chinese #economicelites connected to internet providers in #Africa and internet shutdowns. 111
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026seraphinemaerz.bsky.social presents her research on how #politicalelites' #illiberal speech and its normalization co-occurs with democratic decline at our ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop. 011
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The first of several papers on #politicalnetworks in #China at our workshop: Zheng Zhang and @pierreflandry.bsky.social dig into the historical #CCP Organizational Department data to give us more fine-grained career and position data of Chinese political elites. 021
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Clare Fenwick presents her approach to creating a database of bureaucratic-politico-business #networks to strengthen the rule of law for NET-ROL, so that you will be able to look up the ties your country's civil servants, regulators and political officeholders have. 121
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Felipe Perilla Reyes talks about how to extract family and marriage relationships from digitized historical sources at our European Consortium for Political Research #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. Keep an eye open for his #text2rel package! 121
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Kirill Solovev presented his joint entity-relation extraction pipeline for the @valpop-project.bsky.social on the networks of populist political actors and public goods distribution. Very sophisticated and flexible method to extract politically relevant network ties from newspaper sources! 141
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 13/04/2026It's a wrap! We ended our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop on using #LLMs to extract #politicalnetworks in the #Bergisel SKY restaurant on top of the iconic ski jump tower. Thank you all for attending and presenting your ideas, and all the valuable feedback and suggestions! 152
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 12/04/2026youtube.comJonas Kaufmann ✬ "Vittoria! Vittoria!"/from TOSCAYouTube video by Mecely S. ⭐ Worldoperastars & Classicalmusic 000
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026📢Exciting news: The program for our workshop at the @ECPR #JointSessions in Austria on how to use Large Language Models (LLM) to gather and analyse political elite networks is complete! 📢Check out our website: www.autpol.net/workshopautpol.netWorkshop | Autpolnet 011
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 05/12/2025⏰Reminder: the deadline for submissions is December 10th - submit now! 001
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Is there a gendergap among #China experts? This question arose as we collected our list of over 2000 China experts using a snowballing nomination process. Read our #gender breakdown to find out: www.autpol.net/ps-china-wat...autpol.netPS: China Watchers | Autpolnet 001
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Check out this @chinaobservers.eu study by @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social and Emma Belmonte on the gender gap in who participates in European panels and podcasts on China: chinaobservers.eu/where-have-a... (in our own study, we had ca. 25% women globally, 39% in Europe: doi.org/10.1017/S104...)chinaobservers.eu“Where Have All the Girls Gone?” Mapping Gender Gaps in Europe’s China Expertise – chinaobserversThe following article represents a first pilot attempt by the Women Insight on China (WiCH) initiative to audit gender representation in Europe’s China discours 020
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 24/11/2025With Ho-fung Hung and @profyangzhang.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of discussing David McCourt's latest book at the @socscihistory.bsky.social conference at the #PalmerHouse (flashback to @mpsa.bsky.social times) in #Chicago. Highly recommended for anyone interested in #Russia or #China experts!amazon.comThe End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 [McCourt, David M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 043
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 12/11/2025📢 Do you study political #networks and use #AI-tools to gather the necessary data? Join our workshop at the #ECPRJointSessions in #Innsbruck, Austria, April 7-10, 2026, and discuss your approach and findings with like-minded peers! 📢 @ecpr.bsky.social For more information: www.autpol.net/workshopautpol.networkshop | Autpolnet 012
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025In the meantime we will continue to explore how opinion diffusion and homophily (the tendency to turn to experts similar to themselves), but also pressure from different governments and other powerful actors influences the conclusions that the China expert community reaches. 011
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025And while we’re quite sure that we have managed to capture the core of this network in our article, we continue to reach out to China Watchers in the less represented professions and regions – so if you receive an e-mail from us, please fill out our very short survey! 121
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialexpertsurvey.bsky.social @expertsurvey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Who are the experts who explain China to us? We’ve spent the last five years asking China experts to nominate other China experts until we had gathered more than 2000 individuals across the world and in a variety of professions: doi.org/10.1017/S104... 122
Reposted by @fbkeller.bsky.socialPS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Check out PS's latest article by @fbkeller.bsky.social and @expertsurvey.bsky.social which highlights that while there is a diverse & global community of experts on Chinese politics, it is still dominated by US-based Academics. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky #academisky 046
fbkeller.bsky.social @fbkeller.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Curious about whether outsiders can ever know what’s going on behind closed doors among the most powerful people in China or Russia? Check out my project on the role of country experts and their networks in generating our knowledge of authoritarian regimes: www.autpol.net 000
