Felix Lennert
@felixlennert.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Sociology @ CREST/Institut Polytechnique Paris by day // sleeping soundly and never disappointing my grandmother by night // teaching CSS @ Uni Leipzig during winters // he/him
https://felix-lennert.netlify.app
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Studying a social science will really change how you walk the earth and see society
Me, after 11 years of studies: LOL, Coleman cooler, just like the boat/bathtub
Me, after 11 years of studies: LOL, Coleman cooler, just like the boat/bathtub
August 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Studying a social science will really change how you walk the earth and see society
Me, after 11 years of studies: LOL, Coleman cooler, just like the boat/bathtub
Me, after 11 years of studies: LOL, Coleman cooler, just like the boat/bathtub
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SICSS-Paris is on!
Today, over 40 scholars from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered at @crestumr.bsky.social for 2 weeks of courses and talks about digital methods and text analysis.
And in the evening, @eunjikim.bsky.social gave the first talk on influencers and political change.
Today, over 40 scholars from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered at @crestumr.bsky.social for 2 weeks of courses and talks about digital methods and text analysis.
And in the evening, @eunjikim.bsky.social gave the first talk on influencers and political change.
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
SICSS-Paris is on!
Today, over 40 scholars from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered at @crestumr.bsky.social for 2 weeks of courses and talks about digital methods and text analysis.
And in the evening, @eunjikim.bsky.social gave the first talk on influencers and political change.
Today, over 40 scholars from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered at @crestumr.bsky.social for 2 weeks of courses and talks about digital methods and text analysis.
And in the evening, @eunjikim.bsky.social gave the first talk on influencers and political change.
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Next week, CREST is hosting another edition of the Summer School in Computational Social Science (SICSS).
Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here:
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social
@austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social
Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here:
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social
@austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Next week, CREST is hosting another edition of the Summer School in Computational Social Science (SICSS).
Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here:
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social
@austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social
Check out the speakers and participants here: sicss.io/2025/paris/p... and some here:
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social
@austin-van-loon.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social
Thank you for coming out and vibing with us and our poster at PAA. The poster session is over now. So if you haven’t stopped by, please feel guilty.
Download the preprint and all your sins shall be forgiven (doi.org/10.31235/osf...)
Download the preprint and all your sins shall be forgiven (doi.org/10.31235/osf...)
April 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thank you for coming out and vibing with us and our poster at PAA. The poster session is over now. So if you haven’t stopped by, please feel guilty.
Download the preprint and all your sins shall be forgiven (doi.org/10.31235/osf...)
Download the preprint and all your sins shall be forgiven (doi.org/10.31235/osf...)
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Sarah Williams, Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning at MIT, will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden.
🎙Urban policy and big data for public good.
Learn more: www.ic2s2-2025.org/keynotes/
🎙Urban policy and big data for public good.
Learn more: www.ic2s2-2025.org/keynotes/
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Sarah Williams, Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning at MIT, will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden.
🎙Urban policy and big data for public good.
Learn more: www.ic2s2-2025.org/keynotes/
🎙Urban policy and big data for public good.
Learn more: www.ic2s2-2025.org/keynotes/
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.
Hard mode: No villains
Hard mode: No villains
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.
Hard mode: No villains
Hard mode: No villains
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IC2S2 2025: As many of you have seen, the submission system was temporarily down. It is running again and we extended the deadline to include Feb 26. Please excuse the inconvenience
Our submission portal is back up and running. The new deadline for abstracts is February 26 at 23:59 (AoE). Thank you for your patience, and we look forward to receiving your submissions!
February 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
IC2S2 2025: As many of you have seen, the submission system was temporarily down. It is running again and we extended the deadline to include Feb 26. Please excuse the inconvenience
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Among other great locations, Paris will also hold a Summer Institute.
This year's focus will be on LLMs and GenAI.
Join us!
This year's focus will be on LLMs and GenAI.
Join us!
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
February 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Among other great locations, Paris will also hold a Summer Institute.
This year's focus will be on LLMs and GenAI.
Join us!
This year's focus will be on LLMs and GenAI.
Join us!
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Prof. Arnout Van de Rijt of Sociology at the European University Institute will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden. 🎙The long-term effects of good and bad luck on life course achievement.
Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org. Stay tuned for more updates!
Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org. Stay tuned for more updates!
January 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Prof. Arnout Van de Rijt of Sociology at the European University Institute will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden. 🎙The long-term effects of good and bad luck on life course achievement.
Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org. Stay tuned for more updates!
Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org. Stay tuned for more updates!
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Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!
February 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!
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IC2S2 2025 has received 23 tutorial proposals—thank you for your excellent proposals! Our review team is at work, and we look forward to announcing the lineup soon. Stay tuned: www.ic2s2-2025.org
IC2S2'25 Norrköping
www.ic2s2-2025.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
IC2S2 2025 has received 23 tutorial proposals—thank you for your excellent proposals! Our review team is at work, and we look forward to announcing the lineup soon. Stay tuned: www.ic2s2-2025.org
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🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Tutorials deadline is just around the corner—Jan 17, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden.
Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial
Keynote announcements are coming soon!
Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden.
Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial
Keynote announcements are coming soon!
December 13, 2024 at 9:17 AM
🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Tutorials deadline is just around the corner—Jan 17, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden.
Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial
Keynote announcements are coming soon!
Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden.
Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial
Keynote announcements are coming soon!
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NEW WORKING PAPER: CREST's @felixlennert.bsky.social and @ppraeg.bsky.social conduct a machine-learning text analysis of intergenerational mobility perceptions in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
January 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
NEW WORKING PAPER: CREST's @felixlennert.bsky.social and @ppraeg.bsky.social conduct a machine-learning text analysis of intergenerational mobility perceptions in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
I pressed some buttons on my keyboard, had a couple of meetings with Alexi Gugushvili and @ppraeg.bsky.social, and this came out: osf.io/preprints/so...
Will probably write a more extensive description of this once I have wrapped up the teaching of this semester and reorganized my life.
Will probably write a more extensive description of this once I have wrapped up the teaching of this semester and reorganized my life.
OSF
osf.io
January 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I pressed some buttons on my keyboard, had a couple of meetings with Alexi Gugushvili and @ppraeg.bsky.social, and this came out: osf.io/preprints/so...
Will probably write a more extensive description of this once I have wrapped up the teaching of this semester and reorganized my life.
Will probably write a more extensive description of this once I have wrapped up the teaching of this semester and reorganized my life.
Are you a nerd (like me) and want to shorten your loved one's/ones' wait until Christmas? Two unacknowledged AI helpers and I (the triumvirate of code taming) teamed up to program a little Shiny Advent calendar.
November 26, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Are you a nerd (like me) and want to shorten your loved one's/ones' wait until Christmas? Two unacknowledged AI helpers and I (the triumvirate of code taming) teamed up to program a little Shiny Advent calendar.
Dear all, coming Wednesday, 17/1, at 17.15, we will welcome Alex Kindel (Sciences Po médialab) to our NLP & social sciences seminar. He will talk about his recent work on word embedding association tests. You can follow online. Find more information here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
NLP & Social Sciences Seminar 2023 – Program – CSS @ IPP
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
www.css.cnrs.fr
January 15, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Dear all, coming Wednesday, 17/1, at 17.15, we will welcome Alex Kindel (Sciences Po médialab) to our NLP & social sciences seminar. He will talk about his recent work on word embedding association tests. You can follow online. Find more information here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
Spent a day recording videos for my "Toolbox CSS" course. All this stuff is online, so if you want to be taught web scraping and text mining by a 27-year-old with a Trainspotting haircut and a weird accent who religiously adheres to the tidyverse style guide, I've got you covered: bit.ly/tool-css
January 7, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Spent a day recording videos for my "Toolbox CSS" course. All this stuff is online, so if you want to be taught web scraping and text mining by a 27-year-old with a Trainspotting haircut and a weird accent who religiously adheres to the tidyverse style guide, I've got you covered: bit.ly/tool-css
In case you are interested in NLP and how to use it for the social sciences: tomorrow, November 22, we will welcome Isabelle Augenstein in our biweekly seminar. She will talk about “Transparent Cross-Domain Stance Detection.” Check this link for more info: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
November 21, 2023 at 12:55 PM
In case you are interested in NLP and how to use it for the social sciences: tomorrow, November 22, we will welcome Isabelle Augenstein in our biweekly seminar. She will talk about “Transparent Cross-Domain Stance Detection.” Check this link for more info: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
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The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.
Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...
The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16).
Happy to hear from you!
Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...
The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16).
Happy to hear from you!
November 20, 2023 at 12:07 PM
The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.
Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...
The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16).
Happy to hear from you!
Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...
The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16).
Happy to hear from you!
Our reading group on NLP & social sciences will welcome Yiwei Luo on Zoom tomorrow, Nov 8, 17.15 (Paris time). She's going to talk about stance detection (arxiv.org/abs/2010.15149). Our website is down right now, but please feel free to contact me if you want to attend.
Lots of love to y'all,
Felix
Lots of love to y'all,
Felix
November 7, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Our reading group on NLP & social sciences will welcome Yiwei Luo on Zoom tomorrow, Nov 8, 17.15 (Paris time). She's going to talk about stance detection (arxiv.org/abs/2010.15149). Our website is down right now, but please feel free to contact me if you want to attend.
Lots of love to y'all,
Felix
Lots of love to y'all,
Felix
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CREST Sociology is HIRING! Tenure track or associate professor level, open field! Deadline January 31, 2023! Details here: crest.science/wp-content/u...
October 31, 2023 at 1:31 PM
CREST Sociology is HIRING! Tenure track or associate professor level, open field! Deadline January 31, 2023! Details here: crest.science/wp-content/u...
Etienne Ollion (on Twitter):
Cette semaine au séminaire NLP & Sciences sociales, nous recevons Pierre-Carl Langlais (pour une présentation intitulée "De l’opérationnalisation au fine-tuning : créer des LLM pour l’analyse de corpus en sciences sociales". Détails: css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
Cette semaine au séminaire NLP & Sciences sociales, nous recevons Pierre-Carl Langlais (pour une présentation intitulée "De l’opérationnalisation au fine-tuning : créer des LLM pour l’analyse de corpus en sciences sociales". Détails: css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
October 23, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Etienne Ollion (on Twitter):
Cette semaine au séminaire NLP & Sciences sociales, nous recevons Pierre-Carl Langlais (pour une présentation intitulée "De l’opérationnalisation au fine-tuning : créer des LLM pour l’analyse de corpus en sciences sociales". Détails: css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
Cette semaine au séminaire NLP & Sciences sociales, nous recevons Pierre-Carl Langlais (pour une présentation intitulée "De l’opérationnalisation au fine-tuning : créer des LLM pour l’analyse de corpus en sciences sociales". Détails: css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s...
With Étienne Ollion I co-organize a seminar on NLP & social sciences at @crestsociology.bsky.social; we have cool talks every so often and you can find a schedule here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s... (1/2)
NLP & Social Sciences Seminar – Program – CSS @ IPP
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
www.css.cnrs.fr
October 18, 2023 at 8:35 AM
With Étienne Ollion I co-organize a seminar on NLP & social sciences at @crestsociology.bsky.social; we have cool talks every so often and you can find a schedule here: www.css.cnrs.fr/nlp-social-s... (1/2)
before starting beginning
the PhD of 3rd year
the PhD of 3rd year
October 17, 2023 at 4:14 PM
before starting beginning
the PhD of 3rd year
the PhD of 3rd year
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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
Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!