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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The computational psych preconference is back @spspnews.bsky.social for a full day! This year's lineup: 👉theory-driven modeling: Hyowon Gweon 👉data-driven discovery: @clemensstachl.bsky.social 👉application: me 👉 panel: @steveread.bsky.social Sandra Matz, @markthornton.bsky.social Wil Cunningham

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

And that’s a wrap on the day! Our workshop keeps growing, and so do our social events. Huge thanks to all the authors, speakers, attendees, and of course, our amazing organisers 👏 The drinks were a blast! #ACL2025NLP

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Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @woahworkshop.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The 9th edition of the Workshop for Online Abuse and Harms is kicking off in Room 2.17 at #ACL2025NLP! We have a full program today, including 3 invited speakers, a panel discussion and a poster session. This year's workshop theme is Harms Beyond Hate Speech.

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Our paper on #ChildObjectification on TikTok is finally out! Check out my poster presentation tomorrow at the #Workshop on #Online #Abuse and #Harms @ #ACL. ⬇️ Read more about our findings in the post below! aclanthology.org/2025.woah-1....

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Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

What an inspiring first day at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology here in Bremen yesterday! We were honored to be welcomed by the president of @unibremen.bsky.social‬, Prof. Jutta Günther, (1)

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The #SocialMedia track is starting at #IC2S2 with a talk on data donations, followed by presentations on polarization, engagement patterns, and community rules! 🌐

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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Join our Centre for Sociology of Humans & Machines (SOHAM) at Trinity College Dublin as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, exploring how AI can enhance collective intelligence. We're looking for someone with strong computational skills & a passion for human-machine systems my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 22/07/2025

I’ve never seen so many people at my institute‘s favorite bar — #ic2s2 is going strong day and night. Amazing people, amazing vibes!

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Join my talk on #ChildObjectification on TikTok at #IC2S2 today at 2:30 PM (📍 Social Good & Ethics). I built classification models to detect objectifying language and found: 10% of comments refer to appearance, 3% are objectifying. Models struggle with this task, with #RoBERTa outperforming GPT-4.

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Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de · 22/07/2025

If you're @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and are looking for a faculty position, get in touch. @uni-saarland.de is hiring. Right now, there's an open call in Computer Science @saarland-informatics-campus.de: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... Soon, there'll be open calls in the Social Sciences.

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We just kicked off our tutorial at #IC2S2 in beautiful Norrköping. @dustinbwright.com is currently presenting our hands-on part on automated fact checking - 📍stop by at Vingen 3-4!

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I had a great time at GSO's #LeadershipAcademy in Berlin! Leading other people is not always straightforward, especially in academia. My takeaway: merging #values around who I want to be as a mentor with a strategy for a lab in #ComputationalViolenceResearch I hope to build.

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thanks for inviting me and for the mug! ☕️

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Being a good researcher goes beyond academic publishing; to me, it also means fostering a research environment grounded in integrity and continuous learning. That’s why I’m excited to be part of this year’s GSO #Leadership Academy. Looking forward to meeting this year’s cohort! #ResponsibleResearch

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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort! w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Join us online for my #TaDa talk on child exposure on TikTok next week on Wednesday! 🤓

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 25/02/2025

Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Great to be part of this spring's #TaDa Speaker Series - looking forward to the talks this season!

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📕 My dissertation on #NLP for #Violence Studies has been published: mediatum.ub.tum.de?id=1751256 I've been looking at #abusive behavior online, as well as sharing of personal experiences with violence, incl. psychological #trauma. Excited to push this research forward and connect with others 🌐

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mediaTUM - Medien- und Publikationsserver

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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

JOIN 2025 MethodsNET Summer School with Central European University (CEU) 📍 Central European University, Vienna 🗓️ 30 June to 18 July 2025 The full course list is online!! More details: bit.ly/4gLbv9V Early Bird Registration: Early February, 2025 #research #researchmethods #methodology #methods

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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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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

We are hosting the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science in Sweden 🚀The IC2S2'25 website is LIVE, and submissions are OPEN! 📍Norrköping | July 21-24, 2025 Call for Abstracts (until Feb 24) Call for Tutorials (until Jan 17) 🔗Explore details & submit: ic2s2-2025.org

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Applications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host

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Host a Partner Location

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Few #MetaSci #STS and Science of Science Starter Packs here 👇 🧵 (1) Science of Science Starter Pack 1 by @shahanmemon.bsky.social

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Heading to #EMNLP in Miami! ✈️🏝️ Excited to connect and grab coffee with anyone interested in #NLP for #ViolenceDetection and #MentalHealth. Let’s chat! #CSS

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Go work with Jürgen and his amazing team!

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Miriam Schirmer @miriamschirmer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Excited to kick off my Postdoc at Northwestern University! 🎉 Can't wait to work with Ágnes Horvát and the amazing team at LINK Lab – and hopefully enjoy plenty more days with this stunning view of the lake! If you're in the area, let’s connect!

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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Congratulations to @miriamschirmer.bsky.social for successfully defending her Ph.D. „Natural Language Processing for Violence Studies: Investigating Trauma and Online Aggression“ - thanks to the committee Fred Morstatter and Sarah Diefenbach.

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