Postdoc @ TU Darmstadt, currently visiting University of Birmingham | Studying multimodal data (text, video, audio), political behaviour and party competition | PhD Political Science & MSc Data Science (Uni Mannheim) | #firstgen
andreaskuepfer.github.io
Andreas Küpfer
I just presented recent research (with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social) on the benefits of integrating workflow management systems in computational social science studies at @parliview.bsky.social workshop at UCD in Dublin!
#multimodaldata #replication #researchinfrastructure #CSS
NEW -
Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj
- @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social
#FirstView
📣 Call for Papers!
Die Themengruppe Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung lädt zur Tagung am
🗓 1.–2. Oktober 2026
📍 in Greifswald (dieses Jahr bei uns vor Ort – ich freue mich sehr!)
Einreichungen bis 15. Mai 👇
Hier gehts zum Call for Papers shortlink.uk/1tdsI
1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.
Andreas Küpfer
Just gave a talk at the University of Western Ontario (work w/ @ankuepfer.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social). Key finds: object prominence in images matters; GOP more often sidelines women in ads than Democrats; #AfD populism is scripted, not spontaneous. #ImageAsData #CSS
British Journal of Political Science
shortlink.uk
The AfD's narratives have had a powerful impact on German policy debates.
New research shows the party's influence lies in the fundamentally different story it tells about what the German nation is or should be.
✍ Rachel Herring | Maximilian Tkocz blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Corinna Kroeber
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!
LSE European Politics
Brandon Stewart
What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)
Chris Arnold
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs)
@unigreifswald.bsky.social
Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data.
flexible start (earliest possible)
deadline: 31 May 2026
🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
🚨 Stellenausschreibung 🚨
Promotionsstelle zu Parteien in ländlich-peripheren Räumen (4 Jahre, 75 %)
Das Projekt verbindet qualitative Interviews, die Analyse lokaler Parteistrukturen und Inhaltsanalysen von Wahlprogrammen.
🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 31.05.2026
www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
Andreas Kupfer bringing order and replicability to computational social science pipelines with snakemake with application to 30k parliamentary speech videos in Germany
@ankuepfer.bsky.social
