@thhaase.bsky.social
I study Computational Social Science at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) 🇸🇪. Research Assistant @ SynoSys (CIDS) Website - https://thhaase.github.io/ Mastodon - https://social.tchncs.de/@thhaase Github - https://github.com/thhaase
Claude would probably post better takes than this aswell
We should view Social Media as a systemic issue instead of a symptomatic one and tackle its root:
Overcoming the commercial and exploitative logic we applied to digitalization so far.
Making social media better and safer for eyeryone will be more sustainable for young people AND for democracy.
If this trend proves viable, my first large scale research project of I ever get a professorship will be on 21st century fascism using the U.S. as an example.
But it is a nice bug! Why remove it again?
Telescope Types
xkcd.com/3182/
Happy Holidays! Enjoy the free time :)
Wenn ich X öffne, kommt in der Regel als erstes immer so etwas.
Genau deshalb haben Elon Musk und der Bruder von Joana Cotar (Ex-AfD, jetzt anti-sozialstaatliches Team Freiheit mit Frauke Petry (Ex-AfD) und Thomas Kemmerich (Ex-FDP)) Twitter gekauft.
Nationalistischer, rassistischer Schund.
Blog time! 📯
We feel that we understand things when certain patterns of explanations are in place. If reality doesn't follow those patterns, our understanding suffers. On to the third such eureka fallacy I've blogged about: explanation by optimization.
petterhol.me/2025/12/10/t...
Norrköping ab jetzt auch am SynoSys Kühlschrank vertreten 😼
Just in general . . I think humans absolutely adore symmetry and instinctively ignore asymmetric theories/observations to the point that if you see someone presenting something asymmetric, you can assume they actually have some evidence.
petterhol.me/2025/05/07/s...
Here it is, the most damning academic figure in the history of all figures: Russian IRA accounts deeply embedded in both sides of the 2016 Twitter BLM "discussion" (by @katestarbird.bsky.social & team, 2018).
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
I can understand that sentiment a lot. But I also know the other side, and I know how insanely frustrating and difficult to prevent such things can be. I’m not trying to sugarcoat the insane data breach, just acknowledge that they must’ve had a bad morning asking why they didn’t see it earlier.
Die Dimensionen in Wordembeddings könnten ja als Unterscheidungen im Luhmannschen Sinne interpretiert werden oder? Also man erlaube einem Text x viele Unterscheidungen aufzumachen... die häufig angestellte Projektion auf eine Achse wäre dann ja quasi das einnehmen eines Subsystems?Wo ist der Fehler
Me when interpreting a topic model
sometimes its python, sometimes its stan, sometimes its rcpp... sometimes I think of R as Frankenstein :)
Hate to say it, aber der Dunning Kruger Effekt ist ein statistisches Artefakt welches aufgrund von nicht-unenndlicher Skalen bei der Selbstbewertung entsteht. Psychologische faktoren braucht man nicht um den Effekt zu generieren.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Oh oh und das als analytical sociologist? :D
tbf ist denke ich auch abhängig con fakultät und forschungsprogramm...
Ein soz-theorie prof hat im Bachelor mal Weber, Durkheim und Simmel "0815 Soziologie" im Seminar genannt und seitdem denke ich jedesmal daran wenn einer derjenigen erwähnt wird 😄
"When all hope is gone, there is no reason for pessimism."
Aki Kaurismäki
I’m in the news!
My university has produced an excellent write up of my thesis!
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Congratulations!! 🥳
also: What a fantastic picture! :)
Here's your periodic reminder that much of what appears in mainstream econ journals has large overlaps with other social science fields. E.g., at least 6/15 papers in this top tier journal could probably be published in sociology journals too: academic.oup.com/qje/issue/?n...
... to me analytical sociology is an attempt of making sociology more rigor by connecting it to the natural sciences. The origin of the confusion around what AS is comes from the realization that there might be reasons why sociology is no natural science and one ends up doing "just sociology" :)
Looks amazing, congratulations!
Law is inherently normative. By both placing far-right candidates in (U.S.) or preventing left-of-center candidates from joining (Germany) constitutional courts, a country's constitution is moving to the right.
A crucial pillar of a democratic government is a politically balanced court.
Der heute wegen Korruption verurteilte Ex-CSU-Abgeordnete Lintner ist sich keiner Straftat bewusst (gemeint sind Bestechungsgelder). "Ich habe das Ganze für die Art von Lobbyismus gehalten, die bis heute praktisch allgegenwärtig ist." 🤷♂️
I hope you’re all well on your way back from #ic2s2! I have a personal request to you. As you may know, I built the interactive agenda, and we all saw its benefits and shortcomings.
Please take some time and raise any issues you experienced for the next IC2S2 here:
github.com/nathanlesage...
All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Our team "Computational Social Science" at SynoSys is growing! Welcome @baottruong.bsky.social and Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez!
At the moment, they are all @ic2s2.bsky.social, say hi get to know their research.
And check out our website: css-synosys.github.io