Simon Karg

🎓 Assistant Prof at Political Science @AarhusUni
Interested in political hate and counter speech on social media & all things moral psych.

[Simon Karg @simanfication]

Happy to be on the 🦣! Find me @[email protected]

[Philipp Darius @philippdarius]

🇪🇺 Yesterday the draft delegated act on data access under the DSA was published! After taking some time to read the draft act I would like to share my 5 main take-aways from a researcher perspective:
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#EU #DSA #DataAccess #DigitalGovernance #Regulation #CSS #PolComm

[Prolific @Prolific]

Representative samples are free forever! 🎉

You read that right. We’ve made representative samples and political representative samples on our platform FREE for researchers indefinitely.

You can find out how it works at https://t.co/ZL3pdF6bmC 🔗

[Leon Derczynski ⚒️☁️🏔️🌲 @LeonDerczynski]

Platforms know about hate speech, and accept trusted reports of it, but frequently fail to act, breaking their agreements with governments. Where's the push back? https://t.co/KVqbldtEb1

[Communications @commejcr]

"Combatting online hate: Crowd moderation and the public goods problem" by @tmh_phd, @LasseLindekilde, @simanfication, @M_B_Petersen & Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen https://t.co/BsRZy7ysJp #OpenAccess

[Mike Burnham @ML_Burn]

New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. https://t.co/4Q0bVOgMgf

[Sanjay Kairam @skairam]

Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research?

I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering!

To learn more: https://t.co/LDqjTva4Ed

[Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay]

🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at @UZH_en. Come work with me and @fgilardi at @IPZ_ch!
This is part of an #SNF project together with Dominik Hangartner and @gloriagennaro. Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️
https://t.co/tp64JVIzPL

[Jesper Rasmussen @jrpsau]

🚨NOW OUT in @JEPS_ed🍾🥳🚨

➡️Short interventions circulated on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic by @SSTSundhed reduce intentions to share misinformation and boost people's feelings of competence

Paper: https://t.co/dS2ac9fR8O /w @LasseLindekilde @M_B_Petersen
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[Christian T. Elbaek @CElbaek]

Interested in (mis)perceptions of economic inequality?

I am looking for a postdoc (3 years) to work with me on investigating how cognitive biases might be hindering our understanding of economic inequality and hinder support for redistribution

https://t.co/8TnAxgCi7g

[Süddeutsche Zeitung @SZ]

Eine Top-Beamtin des Bundesfinanzministeriums gibt Steuertricks an Superreiche weiter: Zur ZDF-Doku #Milliardenspiel #SZPlus https://t.co/wtTSFsBq94

[Simon Karg @simanfication]

I am deeply honored to receive this year's Solomon Asch Early Career Prize for my paper examining fans' responses to a social media scandal. Thank you to @SocialPsychBull!
Of course, I'm super grateful to my collaborators on this paper, Michelle Lim, and @SimoneSchnall!! 🙌🙌

[Social Psychological Bulletin @SocialPsychBull]

Congratulations to Simon Tobias Karg for winning this year's Solomon Asch Early Career Prize 🏆 The awarded paper entitled "Followers Forever: Prior Commitment Predicts Post-Scandal Support of a Social Media Celebrity" was co-authored by Michelle Lim and @SimoneSchnall. 👏 [1/3]

[Antoine Marie PhD @A_Marie_sci]

I'm on the job market, fishing for postdocs or more, available early 2024. Please RT! 🔥

[Megan A. Brown @m_dot_brown]

Do you have a Twitter project that was canceled or changed? @transparenttech is conducting a survey to understand how research is impacted by changes to Twitter. To participate, please fill out this survey: https://t.co/8zYoPT6uwk #research #socialmedia #twitter

[Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @simonsen_kris]

Knock, knock!
-Who’s there?
Just @TobiasWidmann & I checking in to see if this place still works 4 disseminating cool, new research
-So, what have you got?
A real banger abt when parties moralize!
-Sounds cool, but also: that’s it?
Ofc not, we also have a new text tool 2 share!👇🏻

[Aarhus BSS @Aarhus_BSS]

Med støtte fra @ERC_Research skal professor i statskundskab @LasseLindekilde stå i spidsen for et projekt, der skal forbedre tonen i debatten på sociale medier. Fra AU deltager også @simanfication, @tmh_phd og @jrpsau

https://t.co/TIwwWoA0iA

#dkforsk #dkpol #ERCPoC