🚨 Post-doc position in NLP at UCD Politics and International Relations 🚨

The post-doc will apply quantitative text analysis to identify #cognitive processes from interviews and speeches.

The position is part of an IRC project on Muslim resistance movements.

Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…

Highly recommended! ⤵️

Josh Alley, our expert on Bayesian statistics at UCD Politics and International Relations is offering a free workshop next Wednesday.

You can attend in person (Newman Building, F301) or via Zoom.

Registration: ucd.ie/connected_poli…

After a long (!!) journey, our paper “Discourse Wars and ‘Mask Diplomacy’: China’s Global Image Management in Times of Crisis” (with Samuel Brazys and Alex Dukalskis) found its home at Political Research Exchange.

Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1080/247473…

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Free hybrid workshop on Introduction to Bayesian Statistics!

Joshua Alley will be running a workshop on Bayesian analysis on Wed, 17 April at 2pm GMT.
Join us if you’ve ever wondered about why, how and when to use Bayesian statistics.

Register here:
ucd.ie/connected_poli…

“Campaign Communication and Legislative Leadership” (with Naofumi Fujimura) has just been published in PSRM Journal.

Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

UCD Politics and International Relations Kobe University

Detailed summary of our findings and methods in the thread below ⤵️

We're excited to welcome ⭕⭕ Zac Greene ⭕⭕ and Maarja Lühiste to present their research in person at UCD this Wednesday. The seminar will also be live-streamed on Zoom. More details and registration: ucd.ie/connected_poli…

How did voters respond to Leo Varadkar’s resignation and the emergence of Simon Harris as the new Taoiseach?
In today’s Sunday Independent, Kevin Cunningham and I classify open-ended responses using manual annotation and AI.

📰 independent.ie/irish-news/pol…
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Thanks to Connected_Politics Lab for having me today to talk about our dissent scores paper in their spring seminar series.

It was fun to reflect on the origin of the project and hear the audience members' thoughts on potential futures. 10/10 experience.

Join us next Wednesday, on campus or via Zoom, for our Connected_Politics Lab seminar. Carlisle Rainey will present the paper 'The Dissent Score: Using Events Data to Measure Dissent'
Registration: ucd.ie/connected_poli…

Four-year fully funded PhD position in NLP at UCD Politics and International Relations

The position is part of an IRC project applying methods from quantitative text analysis to Arabic interviews.

Knowledge of Arabic is a plus but not required.

Full ad: dornschneider.net/PhD_position_U…

Connected_Politics Lab

Join us this Wednesday for a free virtual workshop on data visualization!
Details and registration: ucd.ie/connected_poli…

Join us this Wednesday, on campus or via Zoom, for our Connected_Politics Lab seminar. Ashrakat Elshehawy will present the paper 'Digital Politics and Foreign Interventions: A Natural Language Processing Approach'.
Registration: ucd.ie/connected_poli…

New paper with Naofumi Fujimura:
“Campaign Communication and Legislative Leadership” has been conditionally accepted (pending replication) at Political Science Research and Methods!

Paper (PDF): muellerstefan.net/papers/psrm_mu…
PSRM Journal

Thread below 🧵
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The NexSys team invited me for an interview, and we covered a lot of ground: research, academic careers and precarity, open science, methods, inspirations, home advantage in sports, Tipperary, Stoneybatter, and hobbies.

📰 nexsys-energy.ie/researcher-sto…

🗳️In the biggest election year in history, University College Dublin's new Centre for #Democracy Research will bring experts together to address the fundamental questions confronting democratic societies.

Read about today's launch & the fascinating projects underway: ucd.ie/research/news/…

Three weeks left to apply for our Iseult Honohan PhD Scholarship ⤵️

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We at UCD Politics and International Relations are leading the way in 🇮🇪 by increasing PhD stipends to €25,000 per year:
– PhD Politics and International Relations
– PhD Quantitative and Computational Social Science

Details on the Iseult Honohan Scholarship: ucd.ie/spire/study/pr…
Deadline: 9 Feb '24

So proud of UCD Politics and International Relations! Unilaterally increasing our PhD scholarships for next academic year to €25k annually *and* topping up both University College Dublin Ad Astra and IrishResearchCouncil PhD awards to that €25k mark. Real leadership and innovation! Committed to our PhD students.