Marvin Stecker

I've never felt such accomplishments as my Docker scripts running on another persons machine using only my horrible readme file to guide them.

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.

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#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐

👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

This is the only score I shall ever share because it was easy and I suck at this game
and my Fantasy-F1 predictions were absolutely rubbish and don’t we all deserve a tiny bit of happiness sometimes
maybe God or fate acts through puzzle apps

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dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.

📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:

Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.

Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Does anyone like data wrangling?

Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀
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@bseisl.bsky.social
@mkaltenegger.bsky.social
@alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social
@marvins.bsky.social
@elenaheinz.bsky.social
@mascakir.bsky.social
@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social

If you’re stressed with planning conferences, we’ve basically got a paper for every slot ;)
#EPSA2025

🥳 Huge congrats to our @veronikaebner.bsky.social, @ruzza13.bsky.social, and @moritzsedlatschek.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD project proposals today! ✨
Great studies ahead 👀
#CSS #polcom

Ich fürchte, das ist ein you Problem, zumindest nicht Uni Wien? Glückwunsch zur Publication!

Screenshot of the abstract of the article.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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From text-as-data to sleep data collection, this year‘s #hackica25 in Boulder, CO, was a blast and we‘re proud to say that we‘ve (again) successfully hacked communication science. Thanks to all participants and see y‘all at #ica25 ✨

Today I was lucky enough to present my master‘s thesis on climate solutions journalism in the same panel at #ica25 as Kathryn Thier, who I cited so much in my thesis 😁
Great to see so many interesting presentations on environmental journalism 🌱
📸 @hdnrch.bsky.social

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

Of course they existed, and of course they were my abominable creations. Now to wake and find whether it survived through the night.

Defense celebration with my wonderful committee members, fantastic advisors & co-authors, and dear colleagues from all over Europe

It still feels surreal, but on June 3, I defended my dissertation! 🎓

SO grateful to my reviewers @solecheler.bsky.social & Silke Adam, committee chair @hajoboo.bsky.social, advisors @anniewald.bsky.social & @nicolarighetti.bsky.social, co-authors Paul Balluff & Nanda Wijermans, & Team! 🙏✨

#PhDone

I only needed to go to one NVIA forum thread. Sadly, now I own all the upcoming coding mistakes again.

If you are interested in extracting moral values from text corpora, check out our latest resource, the extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD). Led by the brilliant @musamalik.bsky.social, we show that eMACD surpasses the (predictive) validity of previous moral foundations dictionaries 📕

Also definitely concur with that!

Chega mais forte em concelhos com mais crimes, IL e Livre nos concelhos mais ricos, AD mais feliz onde há mais casamentos católicos <p>O que dizem os votos? Uma análise cruzada dos concelhos onde cada partido teve mais votos permite tirar pistas sobre os eleitores tipo de cada um. Curiosidade: IL e Livre têm muitas coincidências, ...

For what it's worth, there's at least municipality level data already: expresso.pt/politica/ele...

Abstract Social group appeals are a crucial but often overlooked aspect of party competition. Challenger parties differ from dominant parties not only in their issue entrepreneurship and anti-establishment rhetoric, but also in how they approach social groups. Whereas dominant parties can and must use their policy record when appealing to groups rhetorically, challenger parties compensate for their lack of policy influence and long-lasting group ties by using more symbolic groupbased appeals, creating affective affiliations with voters while avoiding accountability or dividing their potential base. Similarly, they are more inclined to use negative group-based appeals. Using a most-similar-systems design and a new dataset of 15,460 tweets from German subnational parties, our main finding is that dominant parties, particularly those having held the prime minister’s office, favour policy-based group appeals, while challengers rely more on symbolic appeals. However, differences in appeal strategies diminish during campaign times. Our findings underline the importance of groupbased appeals for mainstream-challenger competition.

Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals.

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doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Happy to see that in print now, congrats!

This is both symbolically and substantially fantastic. Congrats!!

Are you interested in social science methods training?

Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...

I am for now ignoring the part where we need to discuss GPU access and drivers. Should be cake, right?

Oh, now it is two images, a base one and one on top. At least I feel fancy.

Building a Dockerfile for replication, I am not yet sure if I am solving more issues than I am creating for myself; but I will stagger on, dockeredly.

We're getting pizza and I'm obsessed with this slightly broken mural that used to be about eating with your hands but now it reads like Saruman's manifesto

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!