Nicolai Berk
@nicolaiberk.bsky.social
Postdoc at ETH Public Policy Group & Immigration Policy Lab. Political Communication, Public Opinion, NLP.
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Nicolai Berk
@nicolaiberk.bsky.social
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The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments
To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...
www.tandfonline.com
Now available Open Access:
📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion?
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion?
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.
📢 The EUI’s SPS Department invites applications for the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy, a prestigious position supported by the Swiss Government.
Apply by 24 Nov 2025: eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-academic-posts
#AcademicJobs #Federalism #Democracy #EUI
Apply by 24 Nov 2025: eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-academic-posts
#AcademicJobs #Federalism #Democracy #EUI
Open competitions for academic posts
eui.eu
October 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.
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Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.
Überraschend, dass das ZDF-Politbarometer diese Umfrage so verzerrt darstellt: Statt nach der Originalaussage von Merz zu fragen, die tagelang diskutiert wurde, wird in der Umfrage seine späte Rechtfertigung ergänzt. In der Grafik wird das aber gar nicht erwähnt. So geht Framing.
October 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.
What are best practices for to replicate your research involving LLMs?
Find out next week! 👇
Find out next week! 👇
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
What are best practices for to replicate your research involving LLMs?
Find out next week! 👇
Find out next week! 👇
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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Literally: This. Is. How. It. Happens.
Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.
Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.
This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Literally: This. Is. How. It. Happens.
Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.
Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.
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Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
🚨 Today!! 🚨
Learn about efficient sampling strategies 👇
Learn about efficient sampling strategies 👇
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
🚨 Today!! 🚨
Learn about efficient sampling strategies 👇
Learn about efficient sampling strategies 👇
Join us for the first session this week! You'll learn ho to draw more efficient test sets!
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Join us for the first session this week! You'll learn ho to draw more efficient test sets!
Nothing says noble peace price like sending the troops to opposition governed cities
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Nothing says noble peace price like sending the troops to opposition governed cities
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NEU: Die Wirtschaftsministerin persönlich hat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen Lobby-Tipps gegeben. Ihr Ministerium könne das Vorhaben dann "flankieren". Und ihr Staatssekretär hat die Milliardärslobby gebeten, Druck auf die SPD auszuüben.
@fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
@fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
Wirtschaftsministerium: Reiche berät Reiche
Bei Treffen mit der Stiftung Familienunternehmen gaben Ministerin Reiche und ihr Staatssekretär Tipps, wie die Superreichen-Lobby Steuersenkungen erreichen könne. Das zeigen interne Unterlagen.
fragdenstaat.de
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
NEU: Die Wirtschaftsministerin persönlich hat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen Lobby-Tipps gegeben. Ihr Ministerium könne das Vorhaben dann "flankieren". Und ihr Staatssekretär hat die Milliardärslobby gebeten, Druck auf die SPD auszuüben.
@fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
@fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
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🎓 Join us for our Autumn 2025 Webinar Series: “Using Social Media as a Research Tool”, co-organised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social!
We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇
We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇
October 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🎓 Join us for our Autumn 2025 Webinar Series: “Using Social Media as a Research Tool”, co-organised with @aykutozturk.bsky.social!
We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇
We explore how social media data can help study democracy, political communication & public engagement. 🧵👇
Now available open access in the current issue of Political Communication 👇
The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments
To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex inf...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Now available open access in the current issue of Political Communication 👇
The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Impact of Media Framing in Complex Information Environments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...
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This is so surreal
Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is so surreal
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🔊 🔊 🚨 🚨
Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series!
This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.
If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.
If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🔊 🔊 🚨 🚨
Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series!
This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.
If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.
If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series!
This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.
If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.
If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students.
We covered:
1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences
The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...
We covered:
1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences
The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...
GitHub - nicolaiberk/llm_ws: Materials for my Workshop on LLMs
Materials for my Workshop on LLMs. Contribute to nicolaiberk/llm_ws development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students.
We covered:
1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences
The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...
We covered:
1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences
The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...
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The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.
epssnet.org/belfast-2026/
@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026/
@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.
epssnet.org/belfast-2026/
@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026/
@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!
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currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
That Trump and his chronies would try everything to reshape the media landscape is unsurprising (though problematic!).
Surprising is the extra mile media corporations are willing to go to aid the destruction of liberal democracy.
#kimmel
Surprising is the extra mile media corporations are willing to go to aid the destruction of liberal democracy.
#kimmel
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
That Trump and his chronies would try everything to reshape the media landscape is unsurprising (though problematic!).
Surprising is the extra mile media corporations are willing to go to aid the destruction of liberal democracy.
#kimmel
Surprising is the extra mile media corporations are willing to go to aid the destruction of liberal democracy.
#kimmel
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
September 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
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Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/...
TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
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TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
🧵
September 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/...
TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
🧵
TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!
This suggests manual editing of results tables.
Which is not good...
🧵
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Time to re-up this to avoid confusion on EPSS and EPSA
The @epssnet.bsky.social (nonprofit!) call is here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
bsky.app/profile/epss...
The @epssnet.bsky.social (nonprofit!) call is here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
bsky.app/profile/epss...
September 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Time to re-up this to avoid confusion on EPSS and EPSA
The @epssnet.bsky.social (nonprofit!) call is here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
bsky.app/profile/epss...
The @epssnet.bsky.social (nonprofit!) call is here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
bsky.app/profile/epss...
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Yes. Scientists must defend democracy and freedom. The three are linked. We cannot do great science without the other small-l liberal values. From our mission statement at @safa-science.bsky.social : 1/2
Scientists’ role in defending democracy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Let's all support this vital need: the ability to tell the truth. 💪
"Those in the science community who are willing & able to be more visible can step up. Acting together will be more impactful than going it alone."
Let's all support this vital need: the ability to tell the truth. 💪
"Those in the science community who are willing & able to be more visible can step up. Acting together will be more impactful than going it alone."
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yes. Scientists must defend democracy and freedom. The three are linked. We cannot do great science without the other small-l liberal values. From our mission statement at @safa-science.bsky.social : 1/2