Max Weber Fellow @EUI_EU | PhD in Sociology @UniUtrecht /ICS | exploring inequalities, representation, cooperation, social norms using computational methods
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
13 Nov 2024
Join us for a workshop on Immigration, Public Opinion, and Crime in the Digital Age with a focus on combining online and offline data @ISS_UniCologne April 28/29 2025 with two great keynotes by Christian Czymara and Isabelle van der Vegt @Isabellevdv, call is below, pls share.
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
1 Nov 2024
📣 Applications are open for the EUI PhD programme!
🎢Start your academic journey in September 2025 and embark on the intellectual adventure of a lifetime at the EUI in Florence⚜️
🔗 loom.ly/Qag4xdc
⏳ Deadline: 31/01/2025 (14:00 CET)
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8 Oct 2024
Abstract submissions for this @isa_sociology session on generative AI are open for another week, until the 15th of October. Consider sending in your abstract if you haven’t already! 📄
8 Sep 2024
Are you using generative AI to study social processes? 📃 If so, consider submitting an abstract to this session I'm organizing at the at the upcoming 2025 @isa_sociology Forum! Send your abstract in before October 15th here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/f…
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
2 Oct 2024
We are hiring a postdoc (2years 2years) @labss @ISTC-CNR in Rome to work on an experimental project on #social norms and #cooperation in collective action problems under risk. Deadline extended until October 10 to apply: istc.cnr.it/it/content/asseg…
Contact @giulia_ndr for details
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Are you using generative AI to study social processes? 📃 If so, consider submitting an abstract to this session I'm organizing at the at the upcoming 2025 @isa_sociology Forum! Send your abstract in before October 15th here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/f…
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
17 Jun 2024
"It's just a quick R plot. How long could it possibly ta--"
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
4 May 2024
At @COMPTEXTCONF, @JohannesBGruber showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up.
I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Can LLMs replace human subjects in social science? A thread on our latest paper.
TL;DR: to date, they cannot really, because they exhibit an unnoticed pattern we call “machine bias”. osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/r2… 1/n
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11 Apr 2024
Ever tried identifying emotions, values, or hate speech in a large number of texts from social media? Should you use a dictionary?📕 A fine-tuned LLM? 🔨ChatGPT? 💻 We discuss this in our paper just out in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10… 🧵A thread: [1/9]
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11 Apr 2024
Extensively validated dictionaries (e.g., the Moral Foundations Dictionary) work well, but still worse than LLMs.📚 We also build custom dictionaries, and these outperform off-the-shelf ones, primarily as they allow us to include words specific to social media.🗨️[8/9]
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Should you remove stop words or lemmatize your texts?🧾How many epochs should you fine-tune your transformer models for? And how much does GPT improve if you provide it with more detailed instructions?💻Read the paper for more results here: rdcu.be/dErm1! [9/9]
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Ana Macanovic retweeted
22 Mar 2024
📢 Deadline extended to March 28! One week to go for submitting your abstract for the Day of Sociology on June 17, in Dutch or English! Looking forward to see you @Radboud_Uni in Nijmegen!🌿 Details, keynote speakers and more: dvds2024.nl/index_en
12 Feb 2024
The @NSV_Sociologie Dag van de Sociologie 2024 (Dutch Sociology Day) is in Nijmegen! See details: dvds2024.nl/. Consider submitting an abstract to one of the many cool sessions!
Jochem Tolsma, @RenseC, and myself are hosting a computational sociology session.
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13 Mar 2024
Even though I attended a SICSS summer school online during COVID, it was such an amazing experience! Would definitely recommend applying if you are interested in computational social science 👀
12 Mar 2024
Are you interested in learning about computational social science *for free* and identifying new opportunities for interdisciplinary research? The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science will run in >20 places around the world: sicss.io/locations #SICSS
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