Computational social science & too many side interests | Reseach Fellow at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social and @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Nicole Schwitter
📢 Open positions!
I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻
3–4 years + strong support for training🎒
Deadline: 23 June 2026
More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
#Wikipedia relies on a small group of elected administrators for key governance and maintenance tasks. Are offline Wikipedia meetups related to who ends up in these roles? In Wikipedia's early years, the answer is yes! 📝 doi.org/10.1609/icws...
As part of the special issue Explanation and Causality in Sociology, @rubac.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and I discussed what it takes to do causal inference with text as data - whether we try to explain texts, treat them as causes, or use them as controls 💬🔍👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
contributing one reanalysis to a 500-person 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 paper
This article discusses and showcases approaches to causal inference with text as data, focusing on the challenges and opportunities that arise when sociological constructs are embedded in language. We...
Wenn die Wayback Machine zunehmend nutzlos wird, weil sie blockiert wird, geht vielleicht eines der wichtigsten Dinge im Web verloren. Wie erzählt man Netzgeschichte ohne Archiv?
Nicole Schwitter
Two new facts stand out:
1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!)
2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
We're excited that @nschwitter.bsky.social will join us for the next session of the TADA Spring Speaker Series to present work on AI-generated images as experimental treatments.
When? **Thursday**, April 30, 17:00 (Berlin time)
Sign up for our newsletter at tada.cool for the Zoom link!
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?
I've got something for you!
My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Per Engzell
maybe: annie rauwerda
Philip N Cohen
Flo Bock
Verena Kunz
Kerstin Ostermann
📄Published Today in Nature:
500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social).
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...
TLDR: 1/11
