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Ken Benoit

@kenbenoit.bsky.social
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Professor of Computational Science and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. Political Scientist and co-founder of the European Political Science Association. #datascience #rstats, Party politics, #LLMs, political methodology.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Building on Belfast & feedback from our members: a more focused programme, equal presentation time, stronger role for our 20 sections + new Politics & AI section. 👉 More information on what's new at EPSS 2027: epssnet.org/uncategorize... Looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen next year! 2/2
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EPSS 2027: A More Focused Conference Format - EPSS
What is changing in Copenhagen, and how feedback from our members has informed the 2027 programme   Following our first annual conference and our members’ survey, for EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen, we are i...
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 18h
quallmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN: the R package Seraphine Maerz and I are building for LLM-assisted qualitative coding. This release adds robustness, more models, and multimodal input. 🧵 quallmer.github.io/quallmer/ #rstats
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Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models
Tools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding using large language models (LLMs) via the ellmer package, supporting providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, and local models via Ollama. P...
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Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL) @poalab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🎉 Online first: LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience? @kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
First page of the article "Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs" by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver, published online first in West European Politics. Shows the title, authors, and abstract.Box plots showing the distribution of 'budgeted' issue salience scores across six policy dimensions (economic, social, environment, EU, decentralization, immigration), comparing expert surveys, Manifesto Project codings, and LLM-based estimates.
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#EPSS2026 social event 4 of 5
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Friday reception time at #EPSS2026! Food by Posh Nosh Venue: Belfast City Hall @epssnet.bsky.social
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A year ago I backed moving European political science from a for-profit model to a member-run non-profit. @epssnet.bsky.social's first conference in Belfast: 1,500 delegates from 44 countries, 2500+ submissions. It was the right move. 🎂 www.linkedin.com/posts/krbeno... #EPSS2026
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Support for the European Political Science Society | Kenneth Benoit
🎂 Happy first birthday, EPSS! 🥳 One year ago, at the European Political Science Association council meeting, I backed a proposal some saw as a gamble: to move our community from a privately owned, fo...
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨Reminder that the application for the @epssnet.bsky.social mentoring program is March 31, details below👇
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American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding by Kenneth Benoit, Scott De Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma is now available in Early View. @kenbenoit.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/03/24/u...
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#EPSS2026 currently at over 1,100 submissions and climbing, report the conference committee chairs. Submissions close tomorrow. Don't forget to submit! app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266... All your questions answered here: epssnet.org/conferences/... @epssnet.bsky.social
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"Where's next year's 'EPSA'?" The answer: BELFAST. Under new management. Be sure to apply to the right one, and be sure not to miss the deadline! If you have any doubt, read this: epssnet.org/uncategorize...
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Difference Between EPSS and EPSA: What to Know for 2026
Confused about the difference between EPSS and EPSA? Learn how they differ in governance, structure, and their 2026 conferences.
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting ⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...
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EPSS 2026 submissions FAQ - EPSS
Submissions are coming in fast for Belfast 2026 and so are your questions about submissions. Here are answers to the most common questions: Where do I go to submit? For panel submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/75765/symposia/create For paper submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266/submissions/new? How many papers can I submit? We put a constraint of max one presentation per person. This does …
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Katjana Gattermann @kgattermann.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support! The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join Let’s do this together.
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we are offering a full-day online workshop - suitable for beginners - on AI-assisted text analysis in the programming language R, live-streamed on July 4 instats.org/seminar/usin...
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Using AI for Text Analysis: An Introduction - Live-streaming:
This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: An Introduction taught by Seraphine Maerz & Kenneth Benoit will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 23/11/2024
The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.
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Ken Benoit @kenbenoit.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Welcome BlueSky, moving this new community from x.com/kenbenoit. I'll be using this account for #politicalscience, #datascience, computational social science #CSS, my work in the #rstats developer community, and following others' opinions on news and current events.
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