Today I wrote down slice_sample(n=76) and really had to hold myself back from switching the numbers.
The consequences of consuming memes.
@vivifabrien.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at FU Berlin π Computational Methods π», Political Representation, Disability & Politicsπ£ π³οΈβπ They/Them Berlin/Amsterdam https://vivifabrien.github.io/
Today I wrote down slice_sample(n=76) and really had to hold myself back from switching the numbers.
The consequences of consuming memes.
#rstats teachers:
How do you teach reading in data to students?
What is your go to way?
I try to introduce projects as early as possible but a lot of students seem to struggle with the concept of folders and paths.
With the deadline extension you still have a few days left to send us your abstracts for the #ECPG26 Methods Section!
We are looking forward to reading your work :)
@ecpr.bsky.social @ecprgender.bsky.social
@nclpolitics.bsky.social
#polsci, #PoliticalScience, #Methodology, #Researchmethods
Crazy exit poll in the Netherlands. D66 almost certainly the biggest party. PVV the big loser but other far right wins bit back (FvD & JA21).
Terrible night for the Dutch left and particularly GL/PvdA and Frans Timmermans.
Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll:
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
...
+/- vs. Last election result
β€ europeelects.eu/netherlands
Upcoming AMCIS Seminar: On 12 Nov. @tevoelker.bsky.social talks about "Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates" - just 2 weeks after the Dutch elections!
Info & Registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...
@aissr.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
The Facebook page behind these images was the most active spreader of political AI content, posting multiple times a day and becoming the most engaged-with pages on Facebook among all those we track. Even surpassing Geert Wilders in total engagement during October. The page has now been deleted.
27.10.2025 07:32 β π 35 π 24 π¬ 2 π 7Thereβs a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: Β«Hey AI, who should I vote for.Β» Whatβs typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge
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A picture of the streets of Amster with a cobblestone street in the middle and buildings left and right. There are scenic lights in the background emitting a warm light. A person is walking through these streets, turning around when the picture was taken.
I have to admit that I have missed the streets of Amsterdam a little bit. π₯°
25.10.2025 14:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βWir haben mal 1 KI gefragtβ, heiΓt es dieser Tage beilΓ€ufig in allen mΓΆglichen Kontexten, hΓ€ufig ohne jeden erkennbaren Mehrwert, einfach, weil manβs kann. Das ist Normalisierung der Nutzung von Fake-Schleudern, die Kreativen die Jobs streitig machen & das Internet mit Slop zumΓΌllen. Was soll das?
24.10.2025 06:52 β π 600 π 135 π¬ 28 π 9I thought with the rise of generative AI less social science students would be interested to actually learn programming but it feels like the complete opposite.
It does give me some hope.
β¨ Delighted to begin my visiting research stay at the @socfub.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Deeply grateful to Prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social for hosting me.
Looking forward to advancing,and hopefully completing my thesis here. Also for discussions and collaborations.
ππ We welcome our new BA & MA students in their first semester! π Join us for our Introduction Event on π 7 October! Find the π program here: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...
26.09.2025 11:46 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If any early bird is interested the panel moved to the Law Building, on floor 3, room 319!
27.08.2025 18:16 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Today starts #ecpr25! β¨
On Thursday, you can hear me talk about how MPs' experiences influence and shape the representation of disabled people in German politics.
The "I am your supervisor and need your assistance" scammers always give me a little jump scare before I see their silly Gmail email address.
26.08.2025 09:05 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I should remember to only run models in winter so I can get better use out of this space heater.
20.08.2025 17:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Zwei wichtige Einrichtungen der Disability Studies in DE sind akut in ihrer Existenz bedroht. ZeDiSplus (Hamburg) und iDiS an der unicologne.bsky.social. Forschende aus den DS fordern in einer Petition, beide Einrichtungen zu erhalten. SchlieΓt euch an! weact.campact.de/petitions/di...
08.08.2025 12:18 β π 21 π 17 π¬ 1 π 1We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods π§π»π
So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible π€
π’ Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published π
π Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! π
Link below for the e-book π
I'm adding to the Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts collection:
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Had a great time presenting today at final day of #IPSA2025. Thanks for everyone attending and the great questions!
(and thank you @vivifabrien.bsky.social for snapping pictures)
Had a blast presenting yesterday!
I received very insightful comments.
Thank you to everyone who was attending. βΊοΈ
(and to @favstats.eu for taking pictures where I gesture wildly)
For all the early birds at #IPSA2025 π₯
@bcastanho.bsky.social will present our joint work on age-based representation tomorrow!
Here is my (a little bit belated) mandatory #IPSA2025 post!
I will present tomorrow on disability representation and emotion!
See you there β¨
Found my way to Seoul at #IPSA2025 this year π°π·
I'm presenting research on (1) ad delivery algorithms in a large scale cooperative audit study and (2) targeting strategies used by political campaigns all over the world (50 countries!) in super election year 2024. Be there or be square! β¬οΈ
π£ Postdoc (75β―%, 3β―yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social β start autumnβ―2025 on perhaps Germanyβs most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? β¬οΈ #PolSci #Postdoc
14.07.2025 07:16 β π 93 π 68 π¬ 5 π 7Very happy to see this paper by my PhD student Leonard HΓ€fner published in @repjournal.bsky.social
Using data from legislator surveys we conducted in Germany and the US, he shows how legislators' conceptions of democracy affect their representation styles.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pretty strong but also bleak message today by Former General Secretary of the UN Ban Ki-moon at #IPSA2025, says he has "no hope" for current world leaders, calling out nationalism, Trumpism, says we need a new young generation to carry things forward as global citizen.
13.07.2025 05:41 β π 19 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0YouTube ads from the Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry about "the Iranian missile threat to Europe" that don't show up in the Google ad library π€
19.06.2025 06:50 β π 26 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0