#AI to detect hate speech? 🤖
These authors 🧵 trained GPT-4o-mini with online hate speech labeled by various annotators to show that when asking #LLM's to perform judgement-based tasks , data quality matters more than quantity 🤬
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Edwin will share findings from a decade-long study (2010–2021), finding stable ideological splits, with slight rises in affective & factual-belief polarisation.
Don’t miss this timely deep dive into climate discourse!
👉 How to join: ecpr.eu/Events/332#H...
📢 Join our next ECR Club session: Catalin Tutuianu (SNSPA) on interpersonal communication in first-year student adaptation—examining how relationships with staff and peers shape retention and performance.
March 10, 11:00–12:00 GMT.
Details: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
🔥 TOMORROW in #ECPRSeminars on Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social
🗣️ Edwin Jans examines the development of ideological, affective & factual belief polarisation on climate change in Dutch politics & media from 2010–2021
💻10 Feb, 11:00–12:00 GMT
#EarlyCareers @marikenvelden.bsky.social
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🎓 ECPR General Conference 2026 registration opens March 18! Our Political Communication section in Krakow (8–11 Sept) features 40 papers across 10 panels on Disruptive Technologies and Democratic Backsliding.
Register by April 30: ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe...
🌍 A drizzle, not a storm: Polarisation around climate change in dutch political and media debates.
Join us at the next ECR Club session with Edwin Jans (Wageningen University). #polcom #ecpr
🗓 Tue, 10 Feb 2026
🕚 11:00–11:45 GMT
🎤 Chair: Mariken van der Velden
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
We’re starting 2026 with new research 📘
The latest issue of European Journal of Political Research is now out!
Featuring work from authors across #ComparativePolitics, #Populism, #DemocraticRights and more!
Stay tuned 📻️ to see the highlights 💡
Hosted by the PolCom Groups at @ecpr.bsky.social & @ecreaeu.bsky.social. 🤝
🧠 Piotr explores how small groups of elite conspiracy entrepreneurs disproportionately shape public discourse—especially via far-right channels.
💬 With @curdknupfer.bsky.social as discussant & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social as chair.
#PolCom #ECRClub #ECPR #ConspiracyTheories #PoliticalElites #ECREA
