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Seraphine F Maerz

@seraphinemaerz.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science at University of Melbourne || V-Dem Research Associate || Researching democracy in the age of AI || Cutting-edge methods in political science || Mother of 2 || seraphinem.github.io

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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we offer a hands-on workshop on @instats.bsky.social for qualitative researchers to use LLMs for annotating texts, images, audio, etc. without requiring deep programming skills but with the full flexibility and fun of R. instats.org/seminar/ai-p...
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AI-Powered Qualitative Analysis in R - Livestreamed Research Training | Instats
PhD-level seminar on AI-Powered Qualitative Analysis in R with Kenneth Benoit & Seraphine Maerz . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.
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Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops @komex.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ready to integrate ChatGPT and open-source LLMs into your research? Join Dr. @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social for our online course on AI-assisted Text Analysis. - Full hands-on setup - Reproducible workflows in R - Critical reflection on ethics 📅 23-25 Feb, 2026 🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/mc-ekomex...
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Reminder, my live-stream on how to fine-tune LLMs in Python and Colab starts this Friday @instats.bsky.social @quantlab.bsky.social
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
... and if you would like to learn how to fine-tune open-source LLMs, I also offer an advanced workshop on AI-assisted text analysis, live-streamed on July 11! @quantlab.bsky.social instats.org/seminar/usin...
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Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications - Live-streaming:
This Instats seminar on Using AI for Text Analysis: Advanced Applications taught by Seraphine Maerz will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!
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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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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance
Dean Schafer, Seraphine F. Maerz, Carsten Q. Schneider, Alexandra Krasnokutskaya
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Tomasz Woźniak @tomaszwozniak.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hey! If you're in Melbs next Monday, drop by to my hands-on ✨ Shut up and git! ✨ session with the @quantlab.bsky.social at the unimelb! Thanks @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and @irmamooi.bsky.social for the invitation to present! #git #GitHub #cooperation
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Last chance to register, the advanced workshop is live-streamed early next week!
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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We at @quantlab.bsky.social prepared a new, completely free and brief online tutorial on how to use open-source LLMs in R for text classification tasks - accessible for R beginners - check it out here: quantilab.github.io/blog/tutoria...
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How to use an open-source LLM in R for text analysis tasks – QuantLab
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Want to learn about how to use ChatGPT and open-source LLMs for basic and advanced text analysis tasks? Join me for my full-day online workshops in February with @quantlab.bsky.social Instats - as usual, people from University of Melbourne can sign up for free! instats.org/structuredco...
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Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications with Drs Maerz
In this structured statistics course, you will learn about Using AI for Text Analysis: Basic and Advanced Applications from world renown experts - DrsMaerz
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Fabio Angiolillo @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Apply to participate in the 3* APSG Conference in London! Deadline is *16 February* don’t miss it!
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Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This article is part of a special issue "Authoritarianism reinvented: The interplay between online and offline tactics" edited by @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social and Lisa Garbe. Stay tuned for more great articles to follow soon!
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
I did my first TV interviews yesterday, talking to rbb's 'Abendschau' and 'Brandenburg aktuell' about the current protests. It's so difficult to be short when talking research - but maybe that's a take-away for teaching as well?🤫 www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/v... www.rbb-online.de/brandenburga...
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Mehr als 150.000 Menschen demonstrieren gegen Rechtsextremismus
Zehntausende Menschen haben sich am Samstag vor dem Reichstag versammelt und gegen Rechtsextremismus demonstriert. Zu der Kundgebung hatten 1.800 Organisationen aufgerufen, darunter Gewerkschaften, Ki...
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Marianne Blum @marihatschi.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Blick vom Paul-Löbe-Haus auf den Platz vorm Reichstag heute 21.1.24 17 Uhr. Die Polizei spricht von 100k die Veranstalter von 350.000 Demonstrant:innen. Fakt ist: Bereits am Hauptbahnhof ging nix mehr weil es selbst für den größten Bahnhof Europas zu Viele waren DAS ist die Brandmauer gegen Rechts!
Menschenmassen, die vor dem Reichstag im Berlin gegen Rechts demonstrieren
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taz @taz.de · 21/01/2024
Hunderttausende Menschen gehen auf die Straßen, um gegen Rechtsextremismus zu demonstrieren. Bemerkenswert ist auch der Aufbruch in Ostdeutschland.
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Demos gegen rechts: Deutschland unteilbar
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Very interesting report on disinfo narratives pushed in the 2022 elections in Brazil: inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/u...
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Philipp Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Happy to share a new working paper together with @carlhknutsen and @JonasDraege titled "The Diverse Effects of Hard Propaganda in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes": osf.io/n4g6k/ -- What is it about? (1/7) polsky dictatorsky menasky
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Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
📢 I’m excited to share that my article on autocratic performance legitimacy and the COVID response policies in Saudi Arabia has been published in PoP (open-access)👇 doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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“The Pandemic Was a Global Exam, and Our Country Came in First”: Autocratic Performance Legitima...
“The Pandemic Was a Global Exam, and Our Country Came in First”: Autocratic Performance Legitimacy in Saudi Arabia
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Dictatorsky Personalisation of politics in #Uzbekistan entails transformation of president into untouchable figure. Similar dynamics already at play in Gulf states, where public mentions of emirs or sheikhs are limited to glorification of leadership. eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-t...
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Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
This is a great initiative, I have just donated another invite code :-) spread the word!
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Yes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Is there some place where one can “donate” invite codes?
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Please follow the WissenchaftsZentrum Berlin Transformations of Democracy research unit here (Failed in my first effort to provide link) @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
🆕PUBLICATION ALERT To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out @JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
📣@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are organizing an english-language open panel on Text as Data Approaches to measuring political competition and representation at the 2024 DVPW conference in Göttingen. Submissions open until 31/10/23 Panel n° 89: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2024/cal... polisky polcom cssky
Panel abstract (also linked)
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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Interested in transnational repression? Check out this (open access!) online first article by me, Saipira Furstenberg, Sebastian Hellmeier & Redmond Scales in Journal of Conflict Resolution “The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression” dictatorsky
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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression - Alexander Du...
The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several strategies used by authoritarian states to control and coerce their populat...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Post doc deadline coming up ⬇️ Join our new research initiative on AI and politics at the University of Amsterdam. Details below. 🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 Deadline October 18 polisky csssky commsky polcom
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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Job market candidates working on authoritarianism: if you’d like your profile to be promoted on the APSG social media, please fill out this form: tinyurl.com/488s6dpp. We will feature you in a thread and add you to the list of job market candidates: tinyurl.com/2p9ybc7c.
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Google Forms: Sign-in
Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
How to test if AI gives good answers to people’s questions about climate change? 🤖 We collaborated with Google DeepMind and the ETH Zurich to evaluate if Large Language Models (LLMs) provide adequate responses to user queries about climate. Our study is now available as a preprint (URL below) 👇🏻
Screenshot of title and abstract of our preprint “Assessing Large Language Models on Climate Information”, available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02932
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
If you are interested in joining our community at the Center for International Security @ the Hertie School, consider applying to our fellowship(s)! www.hertie-school.org/en/internati...
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International Security Fellowships
The Centre for International Security at the Hertie School offers two types of fellowship to individuals who are based in Berlin or are willing to relocate to Berlin for the duration of the fellowship...
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Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
JOB! My department has posted a Program Director position at the Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level (open field). Join me at one of the best political science departments in the country, not to mention one of the best cities in the world 🤓 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/37... polisky
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joni ⚾️ 🍉 @dschthan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
das klima bricht gerade zusammen und joa nur falls es euch juckt sorry wenn nicht
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Kevin Walz @kwalz.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Right now I am trying to organize a Closed Panel on "Democratic Backsliding and Resilience" at the DVPW Convention 2024 (for further information: www.dvpw.de/en/dvpw2024). If you are interested in contributing as a paper presenter, just contact me by the end of October ☺️
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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The PopuList 3.0 is LIVE! Explore our updated database of European populist, far-left, and far-right parties since 1989 here. It includes a thorough revision, an extension with the 2020-2022 period, and detailed country reports. A #thread. 1/9 popu-list.org
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Kristin Eichhorn @kristineichhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Hey PoliSky, i just set up a feed for sharing and finding new data! Tag @kristineichhorn.bsky.social to be added. Use PolDataSky|PoliSkyData|PolSciData|📊 for posting. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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