Tobias Gummer
tobgummer.bsky.social
Tobias Gummer
@tobgummer.bsky.social
Survey researcher at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Mannheim

Research interests: Survey methodology, data collection methods
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Starting on March 1st, our Department Computational Social Science at GESIS is looking for a Team Leader for the “Digital Society Observatory” (15 TV-L, 4 years with possible tenure): hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

@sebstier.bsky.social @schochastics.bsky.social @kwelle.bsky.social
December 21, 2023 at 12:52 PM
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We are hiring! The German Longitudinal Environmental Study opens several positions:

LMU: shorturl.at/ikyRZ (Survey Management)
LMU: shorturl.at/muLNZ (User Service)
LMU: shorturl.at/buV14 (Data Scientists)
LMU: shorturl.at/bdpzC (Survey Programmierer)
RPTU: shorturl.at/dnqAM (PostDoc spatial data)
December 22, 2023 at 9:59 AM
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It's announcement day 🙋‍♂️
I am very happy that I was recently appointed as a Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Mannheim 👨‍🏫
This is a joint appointment with GESIS to serve as the Co-Director of my beloved CSS department together with the brilliant Claudia Wagner!
December 11, 2023 at 8:53 PM
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Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪
December 7, 2023 at 7:56 PM
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#stats Be sure to follow JSSAM for ALL the articles!
New Article Alert! "Dependence-Robust Confidence Intervals for Capture–Recapture Surveys" by Jinghao Sun, Luk Van Baelen, Els Plettinckx, and Forrest W Crawford. Read it here! doi.org/10.1093/jssa...
November 28, 2023 at 6:48 PM
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New paper: What social science can teach AI and ML researchers about how to collect training data

arxiv.org/abs/2311.14212
forthcoming in EMNLP 2023 FIndings

(My first paper thread on Bluesky, we'll see how this goes)
November 27, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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My team at GESIS is looking for a new PhD student to work on a Horizon Europe project on delivering evidence based policy suggestions based on harmonized survey data. We are cool, and this is interesting: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...
October 16, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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There are about two weeks left to apply for the role of editor-in-chief of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. I have loved this role, including learning so many new areas in our field, but it’s time to move on. Happy to chat with anyone about it!
academic.oup.com/jssam/pages/...
October 16, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Moved over... thanks to @joross.bsky.social for providing the code :)
October 15, 2023 at 7:40 PM