Chris Arnold
@chrisguarnold.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Government and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Birmingham. Data addict. Visualisation enthusiast. I ♥ institutions.
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Chris Arnold
@chrisguarnold.bsky.social
· Dec 20
What started as a political science project with Slava Jankin and Hannah Béchara spiraled into its own paper, exploring how language shapes how we perceive distances & construe events. Excited to share the journey! #sciencerocks
If you want to learn more about our MSc AI & Government or MSc AI & Sustainable Development, join us on Tues,27.1.26 (4-5pm UK). Together with student rep Daksh Dewgun you can ask us anything. Register: pg@contacts.bham.ac.uk #AIforgood #datascience #computationalsocialscience #sciencerocks
January 27, 2026 at 9:01 AM
If you want to learn more about our MSc AI & Government or MSc AI & Sustainable Development, join us on Tues,27.1.26 (4-5pm UK). Together with student rep Daksh Dewgun you can ask us anything. Register: pg@contacts.bham.ac.uk #AIforgood #datascience #computationalsocialscience #sciencerocks
Term has kicked off! Teaching my 2 favourite modules again: AI and Global Challenges & AI for Government and Public Policy. We bring together coding, ML & AI with domain expertise from Government.Privilege to teach such a talented&driven crowd!#ComputationalSocialScience #DataForGood #sciencerocks
January 23, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Term has kicked off! Teaching my 2 favourite modules again: AI and Global Challenges & AI for Government and Public Policy. We bring together coding, ML & AI with domain expertise from Government.Privilege to teach such a talented&driven crowd!#ComputationalSocialScience #DataForGood #sciencerocks
New homepage online: www.chrisguarnold.github.io
Everything you already new about me. Hosted on GitHub. Built with Jekyll. No cookies, no trackers, no WordPress updates at 2am. #sciencerocks
Everything you already new about me. Hosted on GitHub. Built with Jekyll. No cookies, no trackers, no WordPress updates at 2am. #sciencerocks
www.chrisguarnold.github.io
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
New homepage online: www.chrisguarnold.github.io
Everything you already new about me. Hosted on GitHub. Built with Jekyll. No cookies, no trackers, no WordPress updates at 2am. #sciencerocks
Everything you already new about me. Hosted on GitHub. Built with Jekyll. No cookies, no trackers, no WordPress updates at 2am. #sciencerocks
The weather between Cardiff and Birmingham is like somewhere close to the walls of Mordor today. Lambas almost running out. Please send hope...
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM
The weather between Cardiff and Birmingham is like somewhere close to the walls of Mordor today. Lambas almost running out. Please send hope...
How to analyse audio, text, and video data for more than 15,000h of German parliamentary speech? For our #DFG project, we spent last year building compute infrastructure. Pushing ▶️ on the server soon. First results in summer #PoliticalScience #ComputationalSocialScience #sciencerocks #watchthisspace
January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
How to analyse audio, text, and video data for more than 15,000h of German parliamentary speech? For our #DFG project, we spent last year building compute infrastructure. Pushing ▶️ on the server soon. First results in summer #PoliticalScience #ComputationalSocialScience #sciencerocks #watchthisspace
Congrats @ankuepfer.bsky.social !!! A pity I could not be there.
Huge congratulations to newly minted Dr. Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social on successfully defending his excellent PhD at the University of Mannheim (supervised with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social ). Many thanks to Thomas Gschwend and Marc Ratkovic for their thoughtful and constructive reports.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Congrats @ankuepfer.bsky.social !!! A pity I could not be there.
The submission deadline for papers and workshop proposals to #COMPTEXT2026 is this Friday, January 16th. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals. Feel free to share the news and circulate shorturl.at/gRg0p #sharingiscaring #sciencerocks See you in Brum, 23–25 April 2026!
8th Annual Conference 2026 - The COMPTEXT Association
8th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2026 Call for papers: 8th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2026 Welcome to COMPTEXT 2026 — the Eighth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The submission deadline for papers and workshop proposals to #COMPTEXT2026 is this Friday, January 16th. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals. Feel free to share the news and circulate shorturl.at/gRg0p #sharingiscaring #sciencerocks See you in Brum, 23–25 April 2026!
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🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
Really looking forward to helping build bridges between what was formerly known as 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' research. Couldn't think of a better colleague than @floriangkern.bsky.social to pull this off. Xtra happy to see this happening in the current dire times of UK HE #sciencerocks
🚨Excited to announce that @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and I learned that the ESRC has awarded funding for our project "Exploring the Re-Analysis and Recycling of Qualitative Data with Machine Learning". 🚨 In the current climate of UK higher ed, we feel particularly fortunate to be supported. 1/5
January 5, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Really looking forward to helping build bridges between what was formerly known as 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' research. Couldn't think of a better colleague than @floriangkern.bsky.social to pull this off. Xtra happy to see this happening in the current dire times of UK HE #sciencerocks
#COMPTEXT2026 is taking place in Birmingham. Go and tell your friends! #sciencerocks
The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
Deadline: January 16!
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#COMPTEXT2026 is taking place in Birmingham. Go and tell your friends! #sciencerocks
New paper with @caschulz.bsky.social: Minimal Participation Thresholds in international treaties help cooperation by overcoming uncertainty. #Freeriding matters, but less so than so far assumed. Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#TreatyDesign #ScienceRocks #CollectiveAction
#TreatyDesign #ScienceRocks #CollectiveAction
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
New paper with @caschulz.bsky.social: Minimal Participation Thresholds in international treaties help cooperation by overcoming uncertainty. #Freeriding matters, but less so than so far assumed. Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#TreatyDesign #ScienceRocks #CollectiveAction
#TreatyDesign #ScienceRocks #CollectiveAction
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SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!
I am over the moon to announce that #COMPTEXT2026 will take place at the "Institute for Data and AI" at the University of Birmingham. Look out for the imminent CfP on all channels. And go and tell your friends. Looking forward to hosting y'all in April 2026 #sciencerocks @comptext.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I am over the moon to announce that #COMPTEXT2026 will take place at the "Institute for Data and AI" at the University of Birmingham. Look out for the imminent CfP on all channels. And go and tell your friends. Looking forward to hosting y'all in April 2026 #sciencerocks @comptext.bsky.social
On my way to the LSE workshop "#ComputationalSocialScience meets Qualitative Research." Presenting @floriangkern.bsky.social and my framework on how #multimodalML & #LLMs help re-analyse & recycle qual data. Let's leave qual–quant clone wars behind us. #ScienceRocks
www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
Call for papers
Call for papers, Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research. Two-day workshop for 10 November 2025 at LSE.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
On my way to the LSE workshop "#ComputationalSocialScience meets Qualitative Research." Presenting @floriangkern.bsky.social and my framework on how #multimodalML & #LLMs help re-analyse & recycle qual data. Let's leave qual–quant clone wars behind us. #ScienceRocks
www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
Today, we welcomed the second cohort of students to the MSc in AI & Government and MSc in AI & Sustainable Development today. Excited to support them in developing their AI & ML skills over the coming year!
#AI #MachineLearning #HigherEducation #SustainableDevelopment #AIandGovernment #ScienceRocks
#AI #MachineLearning #HigherEducation #SustainableDevelopment #AIandGovernment #ScienceRocks
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today, we welcomed the second cohort of students to the MSc in AI & Government and MSc in AI & Sustainable Development today. Excited to support them in developing their AI & ML skills over the coming year!
#AI #MachineLearning #HigherEducation #SustainableDevelopment #AIandGovernment #ScienceRocks
#AI #MachineLearning #HigherEducation #SustainableDevelopment #AIandGovernment #ScienceRocks
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👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@jocmuel.bsky.social+@pluggedchris.bsky.social), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@jocmuel.bsky.social+@pluggedchris.bsky.social), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
Today @10 in Pacific Rim 2: our framework for assessing LLM output. a) separates general vs. domain-specific similarity b) handles existing classifiers c) accounts for probabilistic DGP d) model-independent & efficient
#APSA2025 @jamespcross.bsky.social Tim Henrichsen @christinesheldon.bsky.social
#APSA2025 @jamespcross.bsky.social Tim Henrichsen @christinesheldon.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today @10 in Pacific Rim 2: our framework for assessing LLM output. a) separates general vs. domain-specific similarity b) handles existing classifiers c) accounts for probabilistic DGP d) model-independent & efficient
#APSA2025 @jamespcross.bsky.social Tim Henrichsen @christinesheldon.bsky.social
#APSA2025 @jamespcross.bsky.social Tim Henrichsen @christinesheldon.bsky.social
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I'm at #APSA25! On Saturday at 2 pm (Panel "Seeing is Believing: Innovations and Applications in Image Data Analysis"), I'll present a new project with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, and @smtorres.bsky.social in which we quantitatively measure media slant based on news article images.
September 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'm at #APSA25! On Saturday at 2 pm (Panel "Seeing is Believing: Innovations and Applications in Image Data Analysis"), I'll present a new project with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, and @smtorres.bsky.social in which we quantitatively measure media slant based on news article images.
The Centre for AI in Government is at #APSA25 for the first time. Really impressive line-up and testament of a strong group of curious, committed and kind scholars. Come and find us! #sciencerocks #CAIG #computationalsocialscience #aiingovernment
@christinesheldon.bsky.social
@christinesheldon.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The Centre for AI in Government is at #APSA25 for the first time. Really impressive line-up and testament of a strong group of curious, committed and kind scholars. Come and find us! #sciencerocks #CAIG #computationalsocialscience #aiingovernment
@christinesheldon.bsky.social
@christinesheldon.bsky.social
Excited to speak at the 4th #cardiffnlpworkshop tomorrow at Cardiff NLP group. I’ll give a talk on the #Triggerpoint Project & join the panel on Interdisciplinarity and NLP. Great lineup incl. CohereForAI, BSC, DCU. www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
#sciencerocks #NLP #AIandPolitics #LLMs
#sciencerocks #NLP #AIandPolitics #LLMs
Cardiff NLP
The Cardiff NLP Group is organising an in-person workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP). It will take place on 14-15 July 2025 in Abacws, the brand-new building for the School of Computer Scien...
www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Excited to speak at the 4th #cardiffnlpworkshop tomorrow at Cardiff NLP group. I’ll give a talk on the #Triggerpoint Project & join the panel on Interdisciplinarity and NLP. Great lineup incl. CohereForAI, BSC, DCU. www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
#sciencerocks #NLP #AIandPolitics #LLMs
#sciencerocks #NLP #AIandPolitics #LLMs
On my way to Geneva for the #AIforGood conference. Looking forward to the Crisis Computing Workshop and discussing how AI can help solve and prevent wars and crises. crisiscomputing.org #AI #CrisisComputing #sciencerocks
Crisis Computing
The Crisis Computing Research Initiative brings together scientists, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how modern computing can enhance crisis response
crisiscomputing.org
July 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
On my way to Geneva for the #AIforGood conference. Looking forward to the Crisis Computing Workshop and discussing how AI can help solve and prevent wars and crises. crisiscomputing.org #AI #CrisisComputing #sciencerocks
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📣 Call for Applications 📣
3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀
Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀
Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
July 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📣 Call for Applications 📣
3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀
Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀
Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
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July 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Next week I’ll be in Geneva for the UN’s #AIforGoodSummit2025. I’m especially excited for the Crisis Computing workshop on how AI can help us anticipate, manage & recover from crises. If you’re there too, feel free to reach out!
#CrisisComputing #AI4Peace #sciencerocks
#CrisisComputing #AI4Peace #sciencerocks
July 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Next week I’ll be in Geneva for the UN’s #AIforGoodSummit2025. I’m especially excited for the Crisis Computing workshop on how AI can help us anticipate, manage & recover from crises. If you’re there too, feel free to reach out!
#CrisisComputing #AI4Peace #sciencerocks
#CrisisComputing #AI4Peace #sciencerocks
Heading home from #EPSA2025 I really enjoyed seeing so much dedication and passion to produce good science. A pure joy to be part of the community. Meetings like this are crucial for giving me sense and purpose during those endless hours in front of the computer. #sciencerocks
June 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Heading home from #EPSA2025 I really enjoyed seeing so much dedication and passion to produce good science. A pure joy to be part of the community. Meetings like this are crucial for giving me sense and purpose during those endless hours in front of the computer. #sciencerocks