Markus Strohmaier

Chair for Data-Science in the Economic and Social Sciences at @MannheimBSchool (Germany), affiliated with @gesis_org and @cshvienna

[Panos Ipeirotis @ipeirotis]

My reading of the recent literature on AI writing:

People generally cannot reliably tell AI from human writing. Under blind conditions, they often actually prefer the AI writing. But tell them something was written by AI, and suddenly they prefer the “human” version.

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[Marlene Lutz @mar_lutz]

🚨New paper alert🚨

🤔 Ever wondered how the way you write a persona prompt affects how well an LLM simulates people?

In our #EMNLP2025 paper, we find that using interview-style persona prompts makes LLM social simulations less biased and more aligned with human opinions.
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[Markus Strohmaier @mstrohm]

LLMs caused drastic vocabulary shift in biomedical publications https://t.co/LNWFoPhNpq

[Manoel @manoelribeiro]

This @icwsm paper fine-tunes Temporal Adapters for Llama 3 8B on full timelines from a panel of British Twitter users, finding that the fine-tuned LLMs retrieve collective emotions! Cool extension of simulation work to the longitudinal scenario:

https://t.co/DiBmjM4X0W

[Johannes Wachs @johannes_wachs]

How much code now comes from AI? In new work with @simone_daniotti, @xiangnan_feng & @FrankNeffke we estimate that by end-2024 about 30% of Python functions pushed by US devs on GitHub are AI- generated. Adoption is rapid but diffusion lags globally. How did we do it?

[Dirk Wulff @dirkuwulff]

Agreed. The behavioral and social sciences should rely more on open LLMs: https://t.co/Z1FPrmx2Bx

[Tobias Schumacher @ts_schumacher]

Proud to present the first benchmark for representational similarity measures today at @iclr_conf!

If you also attend #ICLR, come see us this afternoon, Hall 3 #456!
Otherwise, you can check out our paper here:
https://t.co/RqQwCGQrxq

[Tobias Schumacher @ts_schumacher]

Update: our survey on functional and representational similarity measures for neural networks has just been accepted to ACM CSUR!
We present & categorize 53 measures, discuss their properties & application, but also identify key research gaps:
https://t.co/pgsPwkhTp9

[Dirk Wulff @dirkuwulff]

Excited to share the materials for our course on open LLMs for science of science research @ZakASHussain
and I offered at the recent meeting of @euroscisci
at @LMU_Muenchen.

https://t.co/7XqejupoBs

[Chris Bail @chris_bail]

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: https://t.co/trE4O9OhCc

[David Garcia @dgarcia_eu]

Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz.
Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
https://t.co/O8yxogBbGq

[Stefan Dietze @stefandietze]

Two exciting positions as postdoc / senior researcher with tenure option at KTS @gesis_org (https://t.co/nPIt0Ya3L7) on computational social science and #NLP. Details at: https://t.co/9hM6Q20Fwe and
https://t.co/bG9TRlMAbN.

[Mia Cha @nekozzang]

"The increasing reliance on AI tools for social and emotional tasks heightens the risk of #autonomy #loss. As synthetic relationships become more prevalent, companies that operate these AI systems may gain substantial influence over users’ lives. "

from Nature Human Behaviour

[Sebastian Stier @SebStier]

We’re hiring a Team Lead @gesis_org Computational Social Science department! 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data?

👉 Link: https://t.co/t0usJZvO4d
❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail

[David Bau @davidbau]

Do you need to copy art to make art?

That question is the core of the tension between generative AI and copyright.

Check out @rhfeiyang and @materzynska's new work that avoids slurping up art.

Their Art-Free Diffusion & Art-Free data let you make "imitation-free" AI art🧵

[Claudia Wagner @clauwa]

We just opened a new team leader position at the Computational Social Science department at @gesis_org please spread the news and contact me or @SebStier for questions https://t.co/dpr853QUel

[Marlene Lutz @mar_lutz]

Where does gender bias manifest in model parameters? 🤔 Excited to present our work on Local Contrastive Editing of Gender Stereotypes at @emnlpmeeting on Thursday at 10:30am! Drop by our poster to chat about new insights into bias control. #EMNLP2024

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

New preprint: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀
https://t.co/9Qc1epAsBr 1/N

[Diomidis Spinellis @CoolSWEng]

In the beginning of 2023 I expressed my fear that AI would deforest the knowledge’s ecosystem https://t.co/nW9oRtrqGx. Now a PNAS Nexus paper shows that large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms (StackOverflow) https://t.co/8TbpmUjrvP