Simon Karg
@simonkarg.bsky.social
🎓 Assistant Prof at Political Science at Aarhus University
Interested in political hate and counter speech on social media & all things moral psych.
http://simonkarg.github.io
Interested in political hate and counter speech on social media & all things moral psych.
http://simonkarg.github.io
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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.
Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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.
Read & sign: shorturl.at/e1mr4 - your signature matters.
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Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
Why Commercial Tools Can Scrape Social Media But Researchers Can't | TechPolicy.Press
Brandon Silverman explains how researchers face barriers to social media data under the DSA, while corporations can buy full access.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
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Happy to share our new preprint “Content-based detection of misinformation expands its scope across politicians and platforms.” We analyzed misinformation at the text level in posts by German politicians on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok.
osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵1/8
osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵1/8
OSF
osf.io
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Happy to share our new preprint “Content-based detection of misinformation expands its scope across politicians and platforms.” We analyzed misinformation at the text level in posts by German politicians on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok.
osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵1/8
osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵1/8
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You can now search our database of 1.7 million Community Notes on X. The database contains every Community Note that has ever been produced, even those that are not yet publicly available. notetracker.socialmediadata.org
NoteTracker Dashboard
App for Discovering and Analyzing X Posts with Community Notes
notetracker.socialmediadata.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
You can now search our database of 1.7 million Community Notes on X. The database contains every Community Note that has ever been produced, even those that are not yet publicly available. notetracker.socialmediadata.org
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New hobby:
Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.
Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New hobby:
Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.
Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.
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#DataMethods #OpenScience
#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.
methodshub.gesis.org/
#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.
methodshub.gesis.org/
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#DataMethods #OpenScience
#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.
methodshub.gesis.org/
#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.
methodshub.gesis.org/
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🚨✨ Publication alert: How do people in 6 countries (🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 🇩🇰 🇯🇵 ) use AI 🤖 and think about it in the context of information, news, and institutions?
Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.
Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨✨ Publication alert: How do people in 6 countries (🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 🇩🇰 🇯🇵 ) use AI 🤖 and think about it in the context of information, news, and institutions?
Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.
Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.
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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 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
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Great to see this out! With @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu we analyse the DSA “Statement of Reasons” database, the EU-mandated archive of moderation decisions by online platforms. We examine what kind of platform observability the database affords & find large regional and cross-platform differences.
September 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Great to see this out! With @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu we analyse the DSA “Statement of Reasons” database, the EU-mandated archive of moderation decisions by online platforms. We examine what kind of platform observability the database affords & find large regional and cross-platform differences.
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We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Looking for help from #psychology and #survey folks who study #politics and use Prolific to collect data
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
September 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Looking for help from #psychology and #survey folks who study #politics and use Prolific to collect data
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
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Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
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We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
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📢 In a new online field experiment, we find that #counterspeech with perspective-based messages can reduce online hate speech, and its 🌟amplification🌟
with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
📢 In a new online field experiment, we find that #counterspeech with perspective-based messages can reduce online hate speech, and its 🌟amplification🌟
with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
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I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸
@epsanet.bsky.social
A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵
@epsanet.bsky.social
A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵
June 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸
@epsanet.bsky.social
A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵
@epsanet.bsky.social
A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵
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Interested in how people talk to each other online? Care about causal inference and/or NLP? Want to design and implement field experiments?
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
February 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Interested in how people talk to each other online? Care about causal inference and/or NLP? Want to design and implement field experiments?
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
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🧠 New Preprint | The concept of reflection in the work of John Dewey
So excited to share my latest preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps...) which revisits John Dewey’s foundational work on reflection through the lens of his broader philosophy of cultural naturalism. In this article, I introduce...
So excited to share my latest preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps...) which revisits John Dewey’s foundational work on reflection through the lens of his broader philosophy of cultural naturalism. In this article, I introduce...
May 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🧠 New Preprint | The concept of reflection in the work of John Dewey
So excited to share my latest preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps...) which revisits John Dewey’s foundational work on reflection through the lens of his broader philosophy of cultural naturalism. In this article, I introduce...
So excited to share my latest preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps...) which revisits John Dewey’s foundational work on reflection through the lens of his broader philosophy of cultural naturalism. In this article, I introduce...
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VEO 3
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
VEO 3
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
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EuroSpeech: Massive Multilingual Parliamentary Speech Corpus
- 78,100+ hours across 22 European languages
- 50,500+ hours of quality-filtered data (CER < 20%)
- Robust alignment algorithm for non-verbatim texts
- Dramatically expands resources for 19+ languages
huggingface.co/datasets/dis...
- 78,100+ hours across 22 European languages
- 50,500+ hours of quality-filtered data (CER < 20%)
- Robust alignment algorithm for non-verbatim texts
- Dramatically expands resources for 19+ languages
huggingface.co/datasets/dis...
disco-eth/EuroSpeech · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
May 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
EuroSpeech: Massive Multilingual Parliamentary Speech Corpus
- 78,100+ hours across 22 European languages
- 50,500+ hours of quality-filtered data (CER < 20%)
- Robust alignment algorithm for non-verbatim texts
- Dramatically expands resources for 19+ languages
huggingface.co/datasets/dis...
- 78,100+ hours across 22 European languages
- 50,500+ hours of quality-filtered data (CER < 20%)
- Robust alignment algorithm for non-verbatim texts
- Dramatically expands resources for 19+ languages
huggingface.co/datasets/dis...
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The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.
So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.
It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/
expertvoicestogether.org
So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.
It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/
expertvoicestogether.org
May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.
So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.
It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/
expertvoicestogether.org
So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.
It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/
expertvoicestogether.org
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Version 1.5 of the #r-text package is now available from #CRAN.
This version improves the application of pre-trained language assessments from the #LBAM-library (r-text.org/articles/LBA...).
#mlsky #PsychSciSky #Statistics #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #NLP
This version improves the application of pre-trained language assessments from the #LBAM-library (r-text.org/articles/LBA...).
#mlsky #PsychSciSky #Statistics #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #NLP
The Language-Based Assessment Model (L-BAM) Library
r-text.org
May 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Version 1.5 of the #r-text package is now available from #CRAN.
This version improves the application of pre-trained language assessments from the #LBAM-library (r-text.org/articles/LBA...).
#mlsky #PsychSciSky #Statistics #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #NLP
This version improves the application of pre-trained language assessments from the #LBAM-library (r-text.org/articles/LBA...).
#mlsky #PsychSciSky #Statistics #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #NLP
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💥Postdoc call 💥
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
March 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
💥Postdoc call 💥
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University
🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)
❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth
🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)
Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988