Julian Gierenz
juliangie.bsky.social
Julian Gierenz
@juliangie.bsky.social
Political Science PhD Candidate | Researching LLMs & NLP in Politics: Applications for Deliberation | @bagss-bamberg.bsky.social
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I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky.

I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast.

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March 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/bli...), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892
Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus
Podcasts provide highly diverse content to a massive listener base through a unique on-demand modality. However, limited data has prevented large-scale computational analysis of the podcast ecosystem....
arxiv.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.
December 5, 2024 at 4:39 PM