Lukas Isermann
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Lukas Isermann
@lukasisermann.com
PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Mannheim
Interested in Issue Competition, Climate Change, Political Behavior/Attitudes, Applied Quantitative Methods and Quantitative Text Analysis
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Can we use (DeepL) machine translation in party research? 🤖

Extremely happy to share my research note „Advantages and pitfalls of machine translation for party research“ in which I investigate this question! Open access and out now with Frontiers in Political Science 🔥🤩

@hhu.bsky.social
November 23, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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We proudly introduce manifestoberta, a multilingual xlm-roberta-large model fine-tuned on ~1,6 m. annotated statements of the Manifesto Corpus (2023a). Find it here: manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/... and also on huggingface.co/manifesto-pr.... A thread 🧵:
Manifesto Project Database
https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/information/documents/manifestoberta…
November 20, 2023 at 2:10 PM
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New #rstats package incoming! 🚀

With the fantastic @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social, I introduce: {atr}

A package to get and post things here on BlueSky!

jbgruber.github.io/atr/index.html
Wrapper for the AT Protocol behind Bluesky
atr wraps the AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) behind Bluesky <https://blueskyweb.xyz>. Functions can be used for, among others, retrieving posts and followers from the network ...
jbgruber.github.io
October 11, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted.
But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now.
And that worries me.
October 5, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Very interesting findings! This is probably also something of interest for everybody on youthpolrep
For an unpublished manuscript, Claudia Landwehr and I surveyed German MPs to find out which groups they felt deserved to be represented. The differences between the parties are quite stark. From left to right, MPs become less supportive. 1/2
September 26, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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How common is opposition to wind energy and what predicts where it occurs? My new open-access research in @PNASNews looks at wind energy opposition across North America between 2000 to 2016. We find opposition is common and growing over time. THREAD🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
September 26, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Hey @profmusgrave.bsky.social , could you add me to the #polisky list? :) Thanks a lot for setting this up!
September 21, 2023 at 6:53 AM