Max Pickartz 📊

Interested in spatial clustering of crime or other ‘rare’ events? Make your life easier. Whatever @mattashby.com does is always solid work. Worth checking out! 👇👇

📍Gastbeitrag im Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: „Viele Veedel, drei Wahlmuster“🗞️

Ich zeige, wie sich Köln politisch in 3 Wahlmuster aufteilt – mit einer Trennlinie 4,5 Kilometer rund ums Rathaus.

Köln steht dabei stellvertretend für westdeutsche Großstädte.

Mehr gibt's in meinem Buch „Wo wir wie wählen"!

🕊️ How do social ties shape one of the world’s most secretive elections?

New paper by our PhD candidate Leonardo Rizzo et al. reveals hidden influence in the papal conclave through network analysis.

📘 Social Networks
🔗 bit.ly/450YDJn

#NetworkScience

If someone asks a question about "AGI", the only reality-based response is to demand a definition of "AGI" before replying. #acl2025

IC2S2'25 Norrköping - YouTube This playlist contains all keynotes from IC2S2'25 in Norrköping, Sweden.

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For those who are going to spend another night in Norrköping, please join us there👇

Sarah Williams capped our keynote series with a powerful call: make data a force for empowerment and public good. What insight resonated most with you? #ic2s2

Absolutely mind blowing results on the impact of genAI on science by @yianyin.bsky.social

If you're interested in the causal effect of the George Floyd killing on sentiment toward the police on YouTube, join my #ic2s2 talk tomorrow in the session Media and Online Discourse I (Vingen 1+2)

For the next conference they need the extent the place a bit ;)

Screenshot of my slides

If you're interested in where the U.S. parties might be headed, come to my #ic2s2 talk in the session Political Narratives II (Vingen 1+2) at 2:30pm! I'm at position 2.

I'll be sharing how the influence of the two parties has evolved over 130 years, and how it might go in the future!

opening slides #ic2s2

Dean Eckles starting off the keynotes #ic2s2

Next stop @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping #css

Next stop Malmö central

On my way to the @ic2s2.bsky.social

A laptop with an IC2S2 wallpaper

Program? Check!
Registration? Check!
Beautiful merch? Check!

Getting some real conference vibes over here in Norrköping. We’ve spent the day getting ready for Monday — I‘m really excited to see you all over here for @ic2s2.bsky.social!

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites?

There's an R package for that!

paperboy

"paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

Hendrik Erz PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++

I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).

If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!

More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

Happy release @hudde.bsky.social

Congrats, Ansgar! :)

It is impossible to drink “too much” coffee. You have failed the coffee in your weakness. The coffee is not to blame

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

@hendrik-erz.de

Thank you for participating in the Measuring Culture workshop funded by the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg @hadw-bw.bsky.social. It was an incredible experience for me due to all the brilliant people attending. Special thanks to keynote speakers @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

Visiting Max Weber's grave after the measuring culture workshop in Heidelberg

I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.

Den Zwischenbericht jetzt als neuen #ECONtributePolicyBrief lesen: www.econtribute.de/RePEc/ajk/aj... (2/2)

Die Hinweise auf einen Anstieg der Jugenddelinquenz in der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik bestätigen sich auch in einer großen Dunkelfeldstudie. Deren erste Ergebnisse hat Cluster-Mitglied @clemenskroneberg.bsky.social heute im Innenausschuss des NRW-Landtags vorgestellt. (1/2)