Felix Lennert

IIRC, in Europe this would require explicit consent by every student who attends the class and therefore might be visible or audible in the recording. At least that was the case during the pandemic days.

Not sure what the rules are for you though of course.

“Max Weber, widely known for his outstanding grills, was also a decent social theorist” (unfortunately I can’t remember where I read this)

Studying a social science will really change how you walk the earth and see society

Me, after 11 years of studies: LOL, Coleman cooler, just like the boat/bathtub

SICSS-Paris is on!
Today, over 40 scholars from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered at @crestumr.bsky.social for 2 weeks of courses and talks about digital methods and text analysis.
And in the evening, @eunjikim.bsky.social gave the first talk on influencers and political change.

Screenshot of the SICSS Paris logo

Next week, CREST is hosting another edition of the Summer School in Computational Social Science (SICSS).

Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here:

@bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social
@austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social

One academic and one imposter (left) at an academic conference standing in front of their poster

Thank you for coming out and vibing with us and our poster at PAA. The poster session is over now. So if you haven’t stopped by, please feel guilty.

Download the preprint and all your sins shall be forgiven (doi.org/10.31235/osf...)

Sarah Williams, Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning at MIT, will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden.
🎙Urban policy and big data for public good.
Learn more: www.ic2s2-2025.org/keynotes/

Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.

Hard mode: No villains

IC2S2 2025: As many of you have seen, the submission system was temporarily down. It is running again and we extended the deadline to include Feb 26. Please excuse the inconvenience

Among other great locations, Paris will also hold a Summer Institute.

This year's focus will be on LLMs and GenAI.

Join us!

Prof. Arnout Van de Rijt of Sociology at the European University Institute will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden. 🎙The long-term effects of good and bad luck on life course achievement.
Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org. Stay tuned for more updates!

Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!

IC2S2 2025 has received 23 tutorial proposals—thank you for your excellent proposals! Our review team is at work, and we look forward to announcing the lineup soon. Stay tuned: www.ic2s2-2025.org

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Tutorials deadline is just around the corner—Jan 17, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden.
Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial
Keynote announcements are coming soon!

NEW WORKING PAPER: CREST's @felixlennert.bsky.social and @ppraeg.bsky.social conduct a machine-learning text analysis of intergenerational mobility perceptions in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I pressed some buttons on my keyboard, had a couple of meetings with Alexi Gugushvili and @ppraeg.bsky.social, and this came out: osf.io/preprints/so...

Will probably write a more extensive description of this once I have wrapped up the teaching of this semester and reorganized my life.

Doors "open" `if lubridate::today() <= date_in_question` and, hence, remain clickable. The full tibble will be shared with her once Christmas has arrived.
Code available upon request (sans tibble).

The base of it is basically a tibble containing the different days and links. These could literally lead to anything. I chose to populate it with links to cute and fun activities for when distance is not as big as the Atlantic.

Are you a nerd (like me) and want to shorten your loved one's/ones' wait until Christmas? Two unacknowledged AI helpers and I (the triumvirate of code taming) teamed up to program a little Shiny Advent calendar.

Reine E-Autos gelten ab 2 Tonnen als SUV, Quelle: www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/par...

Dear all, coming Wednesday, 17/1, at 17.15, we will welcome Alex Kindel (Sciences Po médialab) to our NLP & social sciences seminar. He will talk about his recent work on word embedding association tests. You can follow online. Find more information here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...

Interesting. No worries! Glad it’s worked :-)

And this is the full URL: bookdown.org/f_lennert/to... – it works fine for me.
The raw qmd files can be found in this Github repo: github.com/fellennert/t...

this is the setting I use:

I honestly have no idea. I set visibility to “everyone”, that’s as accessible as I can make it without hosting my own website AFAIK. However, I just use my google account for using bookdown which is probably as frictionless as it gets :-)

Content note: some examples deal with abortion, a topic some may be sensitive to (if you feel the urge now to tell me that nobody needs content notes except for snowflakes, please don't). I used it since the debate around the topic in the US is a good example for "fighting words" (Monroe et al 2008)

This script has been evolving over the last couple of years and has served in one way or another to teach Bachelor's, Master's, and Graduate students at Leipzig University and the SICSS. Feel free to use it as you want. If there are errors or flaws – which is inevitable – please tell me.

Chapter 2, “Brief R Recap" Chapter 3, “stringr and RegExes” Chapters 4 and 5, “Crawling the Web” and “Scraping the Web – Extracting Data" Chapter 6, “Text Preprocessing and Featurization" Chapter 7, “Supervised Classification" Chapter 8, "Unsupervised Classification" Chapter 9, “Word Embeddings”

Spent a day recording videos for my "Toolbox CSS" course. All this stuff is online, so if you want to be taught web scraping and text mining by a 27-year-old with a Trainspotting haircut and a weird accent who religiously adheres to the tidyverse style guide, I've got you covered: bit.ly/tool-css

ping @crestsociology.bsky.social

In case you are interested in NLP and how to use it for the social sciences: tomorrow, November 22, we will welcome Isabelle Augenstein in our biweekly seminar. She will talk about “Transparent Cross-Domain Stance Detection.” Check this link for more info: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...