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Sean Hamilton Palicki

@seanhp.bsky.social
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🇺🇸➔🇩🇪 Expat | 🤖 Data Scientist | 🎓 PhD Research Associate | 📺 Political Communication | 💻 Computational Social Science | 🐾 Dogs

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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW PAPER in Social Science Computer Review on environmental costs of swapping task-specific ML models with LLMs for sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and text classification. Takeaway: Big models do not always outperform smaller ones, yet they may use up to 150,000x more energy. #Below2
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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Trump is so unlucky. Every time he’s trying to win a close election or is bombing in the polls because of his failed policies someone lets off a gun in his vicinity.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Software development in 2026 increasingly feels like giving up control. Move beyond "role-play and pray" with vibe-coding best practices.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Here's a totally harmless hammer to break ChatGPT.
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📢Publication alert 📢 LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs! Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!
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Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research
The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
To be critical of the government is the most American thing ever. Dario Amodei, PhD, the CEO of Anthropic has a spine for refusing to let our Mad King use Claude for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. I just bought a Claude Pro subscription. Fight on scholar. 🎓⚔️
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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍 Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱 Listen here ⤵️ aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
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#aBitOfCCS – What is it about CCS
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Free Audiobooks!! Good AI ❤️https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html
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The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
Thousands of free and open audiobooks powered by Microsoft AI
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Academic life hack: check which papers AI hallucinated most often and write them 🚀🚀🚀
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Speaking of Europe, I've been deGoogling on the grounds of data privacy, personal freedom, and surveillance capitalism. Yeah, it's kind of annoying but it's also pretty great. Here's what started my journey and how you can get started www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Lx...
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I'm DONE with Google
YouTube video by PewDiePie
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
📢 New Preprint: "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Performance and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis." Providing guidance for social scientists, we challenge the "bigger is better" narrative, instead encouraging social and environmental responsibility. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Hacker News Top 100 Bot (Unofficial) @hn100.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France Discussion
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
In case you missed it - last week they had the F1 drivers race giant lego cars for one lap and mayhem ensued. Some of the best racing drivers on the planet giggling like schoolboys as they race (and wreck) the cars 🤣 youtu.be/pdxiNBwxYxU?...
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F1 LEGO Race In Full | 2025 Miami Grand Prix
YouTube video by FORMULA 1
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Gossip on the internet, hang out, and let some political party decide what you’re going to do. And the next thing you know, you go, ‘Where did my health care go? Why are we fighting a war over here?’ Because you didn't pay attention. Maybe you should pay attention. www.wired.com/story/cyberp...
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A Founding Father of Cyberpunk Isn't Surprised By Its Comeback
Mike Pondsmith, who wrote the tabletop RPG that inspired 'Cyberpunk 2077,' explains why the genre feels vital in 2020.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 06/05/2025
Looks like the original artisanal pencil sharpener was David Rees, here's his short film from twelve years ago vimeo.com/60718161
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HOW TO SHARPEN PENCILS
Official Selection: 2013 Austin Film Festival 2013 SF Docfest 2013 Sidewalk Film Festival (Winner: Best Documentary Short) 2013 Indie Memphis Film Festival (Winner:…
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
May the 4th be with you! Watch Andor Season 2 ;)
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
More dumb…
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This article is a great reminder to “appreciate” that we’re living in a cyberpunk future. www.noahpinion.blog/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to The Future
This time it arrived right on schedule.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Great read about the emergence of a topic that’s becoming increasingly part of popular culture: An AI enabled “afterlife”.
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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
All praise to @seanhp.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social for producing and presenting this fantastic paper! Check out the results and the R adaptation of CodeCarbon on linktr.ee/comptext25
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@comptext25 | Linktree
S. Palicki, I. Bravo & C. Claessen (2025)
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
See you at COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna! I'll be presenting "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Accuracy and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis"
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/02/2025
Things are changing fast. ICA, the largest academic conference for communication researchers, has begun omitting paper titles from acceptance letters to smooth out issues during the travel visa application process. #AcademicFreedon #BandAidSolution
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, who said in a social media post: “Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator amid fears of irreconcilable rift
Remark follows Ukrainian leader’s claim US president living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE for months, but I was on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier. Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.
bloodinthemachine.com
The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.
Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula However, the prosecutor-general perpetuates the narrative that the armed forces had been a 'victim' of the plot, despite the obvious institutional involvement apnews.com/article/bols... #CivMilSky
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Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula
Brazil’s top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.
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Joe @twitskeptic.sirvin.com · 18/02/2025
Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/
Two highlighted contracts for $9,999,999 each.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
From a tech perspective, the Groq platform is awesome for trying open models like Deepseek-R1, Mistral and Whisper. It's cheap, easy to access and it's stupid fast. Available via API and chat "playground" from US servers. groq.com/pricing/
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Groq is Fast AI Inference
Groq offers high-performance AI models & API access for developers. Get faster inference at lower cost than competitors. Explore use cases today!
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 17/02/2025
South Korea blocks downloads of DeepSeek from local app stores
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South Korea blocks downloads of DeepSeek from local app stores
South Korean officials on Saturday temporarily restricted Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek’s app from being downloaded from app stores in the country pending an assessment of how the Chinese company handles user data. The Personal Information Protection Commission…
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The bge-m3 word embeddings work well for vector-based multilingual information retrieval. The easiest ways to implement this would be to use a vector database like Weaviate or Milvus. You can also use this to power a multilingual LLM RAG application using Ollama. huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-m3
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BAAI/bge-m3 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
“However, while television is still bound to regulations that require a modicum of truthful content, social media is a battleground of facts, lies, and deception, where governments, journalists, law enforcement, and activists are on an uneven playing field.”
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/10/2023
There is increasing evidence that the world has warmed faster over the past 15 years than it has since the 1970s. Surface records, ocean heat content, and the Earth's energy imbalance all support an acceleration of warming, as I argue in today's @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/o...
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Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
What is the best sampling approach for multilingual texts? In our new paper in Computational Communication Research, we (Sean-Kelly Palicki, Wouter van Atteveldt, Alice Beazer, & Isaac Bravo) find that experts know best www.aup-online.com/content/jour...   commsky polcomm polisky PolDataSky
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Don’t hold your breath for the Facebook Class Action Lawsuit. Looks like we can expect a whopping 30 bucks. thehill.com/homenews/nex...
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‘Largest number of claims ever filed’: 17M people validated to receive Facebook settlement payme...
The administrator in charge of vetting claims has received more than 28 million applications for a payment, said Lesley Weaver, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the case.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
youtu.be/W1QoGZeEnwg?...
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Miley Cyrus - Flowers (Acoustic Cover) by John Tucker
Flowers - by John TuckerOriginally recorded by Miley CyrusStream / Buy: https://listen.indian-moon.com/flowers Follow John TuckerInsta: @johntuckermusicYouTu...
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv... The clockwork bird can sing, but only the song with which it has been programmed. It can’t improvise. It can’t riff. It can’t surprise.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Good AI. huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
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bigscience/bloom · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
I’ve been a machine learning practitioner for over 10 years. I’ve always been motivated to automate repetitive tasks and enable new opportunities for people to do creative and meaningful work. The AI trend of scraping and training on copyrighted material to replace creative work is wrong.
techcrunch.com
Authors are losing their patience with AI, part 349235 | TechCrunch
Prosecraft creator Benji Smith took down his database of 27,000 books, which were scraped without authors' consent.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
A further peek inside the AI ‘black box’: Transformers using Attention. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8&t…
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
Peek inside the AI ‘black box’ with friendly animations: What are Neural Networks? m.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
You can now prevent OpenAI from scraping your websites using robots.txt searchengineland.com/gptbot-openais…
searchengineland.com
GPTBot: OpenAI releases new web crawler
You can now prevent OpenAI's ChatGPT from accessing your website, or parts of it, using robots.txt.
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Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
Every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person has been Black (businessinsider.com) Main Link | HN Post
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
I started reading “More than a Glitch” and became aware of the infamous racist soap dispenser. www.standard.co.uk/news/world/autom…
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Distinguished AI professor in Munich describes Large Language Models (GPT-4) as dark magic. Stocks boom as companies discover Faust.
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
5/5 stars for the Barbie movie!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2023
I find utopian science fiction (which, despite the conflicts in Star Trek I’d still say is more utopian than not) to be way more fascinating than dystopian. It can be easy to whip up stories of a bad future. It takes real imagination & effort to imagine how an advanced ethical society could succeed
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
The Scrum framework fits well for computational social science research projects. Daily 15 min stand-ups, 'product' and sprint backlogs for tasks, and a cross-functional team increases productivity and keeps morale high! www.scrum.org/resources?field_resou…
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Sean Hamilton Palicki @seanhp.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Spent two weeks at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at LMU Munich. All materials are open-source github.com/compsocialscience/summer…
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summer-institute/2023/munich/materials at master · compsocialscience/summer-institute
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. Contribute to compsocialscience/summer-institute development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
After the Meta 2020 US Elections Research Partnership, What’s Next for Social Media Research? To enable more independent research, Congress must pass the Platform Accountability & Transparency Act, says Laura Edelson:
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After the Meta 2020 US Elections Research Partnership, What’s Next for Social Media Research?
To enable more independent research, Congress must pass the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, says Laura Edelson.
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