Postdoc in Political Science @IPZ_ch. PhD from @UniofOxford. Research areas: political behavior, affective polarization, direct democracy, and machine learning.
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined February 2017
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Florian Schaffner retweeted
I think there's maybe really something here, look at this. I got GPT to respond to the prompt from this uml.edu/docs/sample-essay_tc…. Then I got a sequence of embeddings for each word in both the human- and GPT- authored essays. You can see how the human one moves around more.
Congratulations to my friend @KWegschaider for winning the John Sullivan Award! This is a great paper with practical relevance for referendums in Switzerland and around the world!
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There's a PhD position available in our research group @IPZ_ch! This is a great opportunity for someone interested in direct democracy / representation / preferences. And there's a high chance of getting chocolate after any research group lunch!
🚀 I'm hiring a PhD researcher 👩🎓👨🎓 to join my research group
@IPZ_ch
* Research in Comparative Politics
* You can develop your own project
* Preference for research that overlaps with my group (see ipz.uzh.ch/en/forschung/lehr…)
Job ad: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:c0266824-… 1/2
Some personal news: I am delighted to be joining the @IPZ_ch as a Postdoctoral Researcher this semester. I look forward to working with @LucasLeemann and my brilliant new colleagues at the @IPZ_ch and @CIS_ETH_UZH!
Florian Schaffner retweeted
🎇Direkte Demokratie in der Schweiz: Neue Erkenntnisse aus der #Abstimmungsforschung
Der neue Sammelband ist da! Er ist beim @SeismoVerlag auch als Open Access verfügbar: seismoverlag.ch/de/daten/dir…
Florian Schaffner retweeted
Congratulations to @KWegschaider (@UniofOxford) for winning the Best Paper Award at the #neuchgradconf22 @UniNeuchatel for her brilliant article on "The Effect of Simultaneous Popular Votes: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement!"
Florian Schaffner retweeted
1/ Do you want to learn about computational social science online *for free*? Announcing the brand new video archive from the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, with more than 167 videos created by 17 top scholars, + many more to come! sicss.io/overview
Florian Schaffner retweeted
I find animations useful to teach metrics to undergrads. I believe it improves understanding to see what goes on. Here is a thread with my favorite GIFs, most of them are re-makes of stuff from #EconTwitter.
Florian Schaffner retweeted
Online first: how does direct democracy perform in terms of equality in the underresearched areas of the Global South & Oceania? The latest article by @jonathan_rinne , Brigitte Geißel, Lars Paulus and myself @IPSR_Journal
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Florian Schaffner retweeted
Citizens in Advanced Economies Want Significant Changes to Their Political Systems
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I enjoyed hosting my DPhil colleagues from @Politics_Oxford for a Formal Dinner at @BalliolOxford last night! It was great to talk about politics, IR, theory, and, more importantly, all sorts of non-political things. Great to be in a cohort with so many interesting people! :)
Florian Schaffner retweeted
So in-cre-di-bly inspired and hyped by my first two panels at the #nextgdc today! We started off with interesting presentations by @thomas_wellings @FloSchaffner and @Scott__Downham on polarization and bubbles 💭
Florian Schaffner retweeted
. @FloSchaffner shows that people with higher empathic ability are more likely to identify with the Remain side & opposition parties, more likely to hold a stronger #Brexit and partisan identity & more likely to be hostile towards the other Brexit camp & other parties #nextgdc
Florian Schaffner retweeted
NEW! w/ @RosieShorrocks The Gender Backlash in the Vote for Brexit @PolBehavior @NuffieldCollege @OfficialUoM.
Blog here: politicalbehavior.wordpress.…
Paper here: link.springer.com/article/10…
And a thread...
Florian Schaffner retweeted
Would you want to take part in a citizen assembly?
Citizen assemblies may be a potential complement to our current democratic institutions.
BUT: there are a few issues we should consider.
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#DelibPart #DemoPart #DelibDem #DelibWave #CitizensAssembly #CitizensAssemblies
An ancient Greek idea could improve how ordinary citizens engage with politics. Film supported by @Mishcon_de_Reya econ.st/3dso1xf
Florian Schaffner retweeted
VERY exciting news from @Twitter today: 1) academics can now apply for access to the full historical archive of tweets; 2) we can now collect far more tweets each month than in the past; 3) better ways of tracking conversations and filtering tweets...and many other goodies!
Academics are one of the biggest groups using the #TwitterAPI to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world (& Twitter) a better place, and now more than ever, we must enable more of it.
Introducing 🥁 the Academic Research product track!
blog.twitter.com/developer/e…
Florian Schaffner retweeted
Have you ever needed to compare two complex R objects? The new waldo package makes it much easier. Learn more at tidyverse.org/blog/2020/10/w… #rstats
ALT Screenshot of R code showing output from waldo when comparing two complex lists returned by the GitHub API package
