Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartOscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Now out in the American Sociological Review We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/ 27226
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Struggling with creating networks for your agent-based models? Take a look at our new paper in the Journal of Open Source Software introducing pop2net: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... 1/3joss.theoj.orgPop2net: Bipartite network generation for agent-based modelingKaffai et al., (2026). Pop2net: Bipartite network generation for agent-based modeling. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(117), 7897, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07897 100
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 13/01/2026🎉🚨New Publication🚨🎉 "Dynamics of Russian anti-war discourse on X (Twitter): a computational analysis using NLP and network methods" was published by our colleague Iuliia Alieva in npj Complexity! www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comClient Challenge 000
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartBas Hofstra @bashofstra.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Thrilled to share our latest open access paper published in European Sociological Review by @mshu.bsky.social, Raphael Heiberger, and myself! You can find it here: academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...academic.oup.comProfessors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and genderAbstract. Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scient 172
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartM. Saïd H. Unger @mshu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025What gets professors into the media? 📢 New open access publication in @europeansocreview.bsky.social together with Raphael Heiberger from @s7css.bsky.social and @bashofstra.bsky.social! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...doi.orgProfessors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and genderAbstract. Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scient 296
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Yesterday we had the pleasure to welcome @benjaminrohr.bsky.social to present his new work on the Weimar Republic! 071
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartOscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 31/03/2025We thank @s7css.bsky.social for the opportunity to present our work as well as @emilienschultz.bsky.social for his support on this project. 041
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartOscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Happy to share my new paper with Cat Dang Ton and @eollion.bsky.social on how to use generative LLMs for extracting information from textual data (conditionally accepted at Sociological Methods & Research) Here's a rundown.. osf.io/preprints/so... 34817
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Today we had a joint meeting with our group and @demolabs.bsky.social to talk about current projects! We never thought about democracy on Mars - Thanks for the visit! 1106
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartJeremy Howard @howard.fm · 19/12/2024I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵 19620147
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @oms279.bsky.social to present on "Temporalities of Climate Change in U.S. Media (2000-2021)" at our departmental colloquium! 041
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartDan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 15/12/2024😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775arxiv.orgWithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction StudyRetractions play a vital role in maintaining scientific integrity, yet systematic studies of retractions in computer science and other STEM fields remain scarce. We present WithdrarXiv, the first larg... 515845
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartHendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 14/11/2024Yesterday, @s7css.bsky.social invited me to present my dissertation at the University of Stuttgart. It was a blast — thanks to the chair of Prof. Heiberger for their invitation, the audience for their amazing feedback, and the city for their hospitality! I'd love to come back one day! 171
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartCSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 09/09/2024🚨 New publication by Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger: Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention. The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X) #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS #SocialMedia #Policy www.degruyter.com/document/doi...degruyter.comPolicy Actors’ Struggle for Attention: The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X)Policy actors (PAs) like nongovernmental organizations, political parties or governmental institutions strategically communicate on social media to gain attention and thus influence the public agenda.... 011
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartCSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 26/09/2024🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Pop2net, a powerful new #Python package developed by Marius Kaffai & Lukas Erhard! 🎉 (1/3)mariuzka.github.ioWelcome to Pop2net’s documentation! — pop2net 0.1.0 documentation 154
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartCSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 01/10/2024🚨 We're excited to share the latest publication of our members @luerhard.bsky.social , Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger in Political Analysis: 'PopBERT: Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag'. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/pan.... #PoliticalScience #Populismdoi.orgPopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag | Political Analysis | Cambridge CorePopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag 2106
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @hendrik-erz.de to present on "Economic Policymaking in U.S. Congress. Discursive Dynamics, 1960–1990" at our departmental colloquium! 192
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartYY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 03/11/2024Check out our paper "Network community detection via neural embeddings" led by @skojaku.bsky.social (w Filippo Radicchi and Santo Fortunato)! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We argue that n2v can encode community structure down to the detectability limit due to its connection to spectral embedding.nature.comNetwork community detection via neural embeddings - Nature CommunicationsApproaches based on neural graph embeddings have shown their effectiveness for complex networks analysis, including link prediction and node classification. The authors uncover strengths and limi... 0145
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 01/10/2024🚨 We're excited to share the latest publication of our members @luerhard.bsky.social , Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger in Political Analysis: 'PopBERT: Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag'. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/pan.... #PoliticalScience #Populismdoi.orgPopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag | Political Analysis | Cambridge CorePopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag 2106
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 26/09/2024🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Pop2net, a powerful new #Python package developed by Marius Kaffai & Lukas Erhard! 🎉 (1/3)mariuzka.github.ioWelcome to Pop2net’s documentation! — pop2net 0.1.0 documentation 154
Reposted by CSS at University of StuttgartMark Wittek @markwittek.bsky.social · 04/09/2024Excited to start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at CEU in Vienna. I am deeply grateful to the scholars I met at University of Cologne, @unistuttgart.bsky.social, and Dan McFarland's Mimir Lab for their support, intellectual generosity and kindness. Thank you! 071
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 13/09/2024🚨New job alert from our colleagues at the University of Amsterdam! 🚨 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...workingat.vu.nlVacancy — PhD Position: Simulation & Virtual Field Experiments for Democratic CitizenshipAre you eager to push the boundaries of virtual field experiments? Interested in joining an international team exploring how (social) media impacts democracy? If you want to tackle these challenges, p... 000
CSS at University of Stuttgart @s7css.bsky.social · 09/09/2024🚨 New publication by Sara Hanke and Raphael Heiberger: Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention. The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X) #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS #SocialMedia #Policy www.degruyter.com/document/doi...degruyter.comPolicy Actors’ Struggle for Attention: The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X)Policy actors (PAs) like nongovernmental organizations, political parties or governmental institutions strategically communicate on social media to gain attention and thus influence the public agenda.... 011