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Florian Schaffner retweeted
15 Mar 2024
I think there's maybe really something here, look at this. I got GPT to respond to the prompt from this uml.edu/docs/sample-essay_tc…. Then I got a sequence of embeddings for each word in both the human- and GPT- authored essays. You can see how the human one moves around more.
I think any point in that sequence is probably not that informative but the trajectory might be highly informative. Intuitively, natural writing isn’t done by always choosing the most likely next token whereas robot writing is and you might be able to see that in the trajectory.
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6 Jun 2023
Congratulations to my friend @KWegschaider for winning the John Sullivan Award! This is a great paper with practical relevance for referendums in Switzerland and around the world!
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2 Mar 2023
There's a PhD position available in our research group @IPZ_ch! This is a great opportunity for someone interested in direct democracy / representation / preferences. And there's a high chance of getting chocolate after any research group lunch!
1 Mar 2023
🚀 I'm hiring a PhD researcher 👩🎓👨🎓 to join my research group
@IPZ_ch
* Research in Comparative Politics
* You can develop your own project
* Preference for research that overlaps with my group (see ipz.uzh.ch/en/forschung/lehr…)
Job ad: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:c0266824-… 1/2
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
3 Oct 2022
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2 Sep 2022
Some personal news: I am delighted to be joining the @IPZ_ch as a Postdoctoral Researcher this semester. I look forward to working with @LucasLeemann and my brilliant new colleagues at the @IPZ_ch and @CIS_ETH_UZH!
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
17 Aug 2022
🎇Direkte Demokratie in der Schweiz: Neue Erkenntnisse aus der #Abstimmungsforschung
Der neue Sammelband ist da! Er ist beim @SeismoVerlag auch als Open Access verfügbar: seismoverlag.ch/de/daten/dir…
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
7 Jul 2022
Congratulations to @KWegschaider (@UniofOxford) for winning the Best Paper Award at the #neuchgradconf22 @UniNeuchatel for her brilliant article on "The Effect of Simultaneous Popular Votes: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement!"
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
17 May 2022
Join us in a hybrid (in-person online) colloquium by @FloSchaffner (@UniofOxford) tomorrow at 2pm, at @NuffieldCollege. Read his presentation abstract and request the link here: cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/…
ALT Colloquium by Florian Schaffner on 18th of May 2022 at 2pm, at Nuffield College
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
22 Apr 2022
1/ Do you want to learn about computational social science online *for free*? Announcing the brand new video archive from the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, with more than 167 videos created by 17 top scholars, many more to come! sicss.io/overview
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
17 Feb 2022
I find animations useful to teach metrics to undergrads. I believe it improves understanding to see what goes on. Here is a thread with my favorite GIFs, most of them are re-makes of stuff from #EconTwitter.
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
4 Feb 2022
Online first: how does direct democracy perform in terms of equality in the underresearched areas of the Global South & Oceania? The latest article by @jonathan_rinne , Brigitte Geißel, Lars Paulus and myself @IPSR_Journal
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
10 Nov 2021
Citizens in Advanced Economies Want Significant Changes to Their Political Systems
pewrsr.ch/3o3U0Ho
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28 Oct 2021
I enjoyed hosting my DPhil colleagues from @Politics_Oxford for a Formal Dinner at @BalliolOxford last night! It was great to talk about politics, IR, theory, and, more importantly, all sorts of non-political things. Great to be in a cohort with so many interesting people! :)
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
10 Jun 2021
So in-cre-di-bly inspired and hyped by my first two panels at the #nextgdc today! We started off with interesting presentations by @thomas_wellings @FloSchaffner and @Scott__Downham on polarization and bubbles 💭
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
10 Jun 2021
. @FloSchaffner shows that people with higher empathic ability are more likely to identify with the Remain side & opposition parties, more likely to hold a stronger #Brexit and partisan identity & more likely to be hostile towards the other Brexit camp & other parties #nextgdc
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
22 Apr 2021
NEW! w/ @RosieShorrocks The Gender Backlash in the Vote for Brexit @PolBehavior @NuffieldCollege @OfficialUoM.
Blog here: politicalbehavior.wordpress.…
Paper here: link.springer.com/article/10…
And a thread...
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
21 Feb 2021
Would you want to take part in a citizen assembly?
Citizen assemblies may be a potential complement to our current democratic institutions.
BUT: there are a few issues we should consider.
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#DelibPart #DemoPart #DelibDem #DelibWave #CitizensAssembly #CitizensAssemblies
21 Feb 2021
An ancient Greek idea could improve how ordinary citizens engage with politics. Film supported by @Mishcon_de_Reya econ.st/3dso1xf
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
26 Jan 2021
VERY exciting news from @Twitter today: 1) academics can now apply for access to the full historical archive of tweets; 2) we can now collect far more tweets each month than in the past; 3) better ways of tracking conversations and filtering tweets...and many other goodies!
26 Jan 2021
Academics are one of the biggest groups using the #TwitterAPI to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world (& Twitter) a better place, and now more than ever, we must enable more of it.
Introducing 🥁 the Academic Research product track!
blog.twitter.com/developer/e…
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
16 Oct 2020
Have you ever needed to compare two complex R objects? The new waldo package makes it much easier. Learn more at tidyverse.org/blog/2020/10/w… #rstats
ALT Screenshot of R code showing output from waldo when comparing two complex lists returned by the GitHub API package
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