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Maël Kubli
@maelkubli.bsky.social
Product Manager @Wüest Partner (Zürich) | ex-postdoc @IPZ_ch in computational social science | data, technology & society

http://maelkubli.ch
After 4½ years, I’m thrilled to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled “Framing Artificial Intelligence: Understanding How AI Is Framed in EU Political and Media Discourse Using Large Language Models.” PhDone! 🎓
June 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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✨ New LLM paper ✨

> Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks
> Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4
> Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data

w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM
🚨 New publication alert in PSRM! 🚨

Our latest paper examines gender bias in media coverage of elections and the factors influencing it.

Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

With @fgilardi.bsky.social y.social & @gessler.bsky.social
Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections
www.cambridge.org
December 2, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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suggested criteria for the responsible use of LLMs in academic work

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 29, 2024 at 4:31 PM
We are thrilled to share our new publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining! 🚀

We compare methods for creating a national random sample of Twitter/X users for digital research and social media analysis.

Explore the findings here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Comparing methods for creating a national random sample of twitter users - Social Network Analysis and Mining
Twitter data has been widely used by researchers across various social and computer science disciplines. A common aim when working with Twitter data is the construction of a random sample of users fro...
link.springer.com
August 14, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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"We find that sustained negative coverage significantly predicts changes to platforms’ user policies, highlighting the role of public pressure in shaping the governance of online platforms."

by @emmahoes.bsky.social @klueserthan.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social @malizadeh.bsky.social et al.
How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance: Evidence from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
Social media companies wield considerable power over what people can say and do online, with consequences for freedom of expression and participation in digital culture. Yet we still know little ab...
www.tandfonline.com
July 18, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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✨ Call for papers ✨

Digital Democracy Workshop
University of Zurich, 24-25 October 2024
Submission deadline: 2 June 2024

Pls share widely!

democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/news/24-25-1...
May 7, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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I'm hiring a postdoc!

> Aug 2024 - July 2027
> PhD completed or close to completion
> Interest in digital technology & politics
> Causal inference and/or computational social science
> Salary: CHF 81,400/yr

Pls help me spread the word!

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
UZH: Three-Year Post-Doctoral Research Position in the Research Group of Professor Fabrizio Gilardi
The Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich (http://www.ipz.uzh.ch) invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in the research group of Professor Fabrizio Gilardi (...
jobs.uzh.ch
February 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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I'll talk about co-authored work with @fgilardi.bsky.social and @maelkubli.bsky.social in Mannheim today on how advocacy campaigns influence gender bias in election coverage.

Looking to see some familiar faces, whether online or in person. 👋
You are welcome to join our next colloquium tomorrow at 12 noon, where @gessler.bsky.social will be presenting her work "Advocacy Campaigns and Gender Bias in Media Coverage of Elections". 🙂

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/events...

✍️ contact us for the Zoom link
October 31, 2023 at 8:08 AM
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happening next week: our 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop

if you happen to be in Zurich, please register here: digdemlab.io/forms/regist...

should be a good one :)
October 17, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
October 8, 2023 at 7:49 PM