Florian Keusch
floriankeusch.bsky.social
Florian Keusch
@floriankeusch.bsky.social

Austrian in Mannheim; Prof. of Social Data Science & Methodology at U of Mannheim; survey methodologist; (mobile) web surveys; passive mobile data collection

Sociology 26%
Political science 26%
I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today.

I'm an immigrant.

I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.
"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874

A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
Teaching data science presents unique challenges and opportunities that cannot be fully addressed by simply borrowing pedagogical strategies from its parent disciplines of statistics and computer scie...
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New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>

With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social

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Who opts into a data donation study asking for Google Search histories – and more importantly, who actually donates their data? Sina Chen and I found that Green Party and FDP voters were more likely to follow through, hinting at political skew in donated data 👇

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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🚀 KODAQS Data Quality Academy Certificate Program 2026 – Now Open for Applications!

6-month program for early-career researchers: data quality, processing & networking. Online blended learning, Mar–Sep.

Apply by 8 Feb ➡️ www.gesis.org/en/gesis-tra...
Today, we celebrate the 80th year of the @um-src.bsky.social at ISR by launching a new web panel starting Fall 2026. It is called M-Panel and will be collecting a national sample representative of the U.S.
🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.

New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...

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Last call📢📢 Don't be late😉

MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. APPLY APPLY APPLY📮⬇️

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Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social:
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
EG 13 TV-L for three years
Please apply before Feb 5th 2026
Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience
Stellenausschreibung
www.uni-due.de
Gentle reminder📢📢 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. Check out the call⬇️ and apply‼️

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We invite applications for a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Methodology Program. We are seeking candidates who are developing methods for acquiring & integrating non-traditional sources & applying AI & emerging technologies to survey methodology myumi.ch/R3AWy @umisr.bsky.social
Call for Applications for the Data Quality #Academy Certificate Program 2026

The call for applications for the #KODAQS Academy’s certificate program is open: www.gesis.org/en/ges...

The program is aimed at early-career researchers from various disciplines who work with social science data.

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We are hiring a Research Assistant Professor within the Survey Methodology Program, located in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Click on the link below for more details, and join an outstanding group of faculty!

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There was an, ehm, “interesting” presentation on this by Qualtrics at last year’s AAPOR conference.
🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys.

Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections.

🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

This…
Increasingly, the Internet/social media feels like such a horrible place. And then a video like this pops up and gives me hope that not all is lost.
Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

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Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research!

Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...
IC2S2 2026 registration is open!
Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org

✔️ Submissions open December 15th
✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February
✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April

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interesting paper on application of total survey error framework to biomedical data doi.org/10.21203/rs....
Total Survey Error in Biomeasure Data Collection
BackgroundThe integration of biomeasures into social surveys has grown rapidly, enabling new insights into biosocial processes by combining probability-based survey data with biological indicators. Ho...
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.
About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.

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🚨 Upcoming: "Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms"

👤 @dscheykopp.bsky.social (Weizenbaum Institute Berlin)

🗓️ Wed, December 3, 13:45-15:15 CET

📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you work with individual-level data from Very Large Online Platforms or Search Engines (VLOPSEs), then you probably want to read - and hopefully sign - this letter!
We've published an Open Letter urging EU policymakers to reject the Digital Omnibus' proposed Amendment to Article 12(5) GDPR, which would undermine citizens' data access rights & the researchers who depend on them for #DataDonation research.
Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.

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We've published an Open Letter urging EU policymakers to reject the Digital Omnibus' proposed Amendment to Article 12(5) GDPR, which would undermine citizens' data access rights & the researchers who depend on them for #DataDonation research.
Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.

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Heads up! If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in survey and data science (read: all things quantitative social science) at the University of Michigan, please check out these upcoming info sessions!

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🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨

Zaza Zindel talks about Social media as a tool for survey recruitment on November 25, 03:15 to 04:00 PM (CET).

🗓️ Sign up until Monday: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...