Yesterday, we had the kick-off of our Leipzig Lab project "Climate Discourse": a cool team😉, with a timely topic for the current political "climate".! 🌍💬 @eisioriginal.bsky.social @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social

Last week to apply to our 3-year postdoc position on climate discourses 🌍🔍

We use #NLP to explore how public discourse, extreme events & political action interact. uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...

Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @eisioriginal.bsky.social

We offer a 3-year postdoc to join our LeipzigLab on climate discourses 🌍🔍

We bridge #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. t1p.de/wfzrv Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social

Panel on the use of LLMs in digital humanities at #DHd2025. It’s becoming increasingly clear that we cannot do without the university data centers and we must actively engage in planning and infrastructure as a community. Otherwise, our increasingly specific requirements will go unnoticed.

@manuelburghardt.bsky.social insights on integrating humanities with other sciences via computer science are inspiring! We soon start a LeipzigLab project with earth sciences @mdebrito.bsky.social, sociology @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, and computer science.
#DHd2025
#Interdisciplinary #LeipzigLab

🚨 We’ll soon be hiring a 3-year postdoc to join our Leipzig lab on climate discourses 🌍🔍

Our Working group bridges #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. Stay tuned! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social

Our team at the Leibniz-Institut has two 100% vacancies! Deadline is 23.03.2025!

@dgpuk-meth.bsky.social

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Two positions in the Media Research Methods Lab:
PostDoc Computational Social Science in “Social Media Observatory”: lnkd.in/dtvMnmFg (English: lnkd.in/d5HTWbHg)
PhD student in Computer Science/Computational Social Science in research group “Communicative AI”: lnkd.in/d7FUscM8: lnkd.in/dy-etJUD)

R on Mac M1 showing strange behavior when sampling binary data!

Tried to demonstrate the distribution of means from repeated 10-trial samples of an equally distributed binary variable. Expected a normal distribution around 0.5, but got right-skewed results instead. 🤨 #RStats