Ken Benoit

"treating the texts holistically, the LLMs achieve “functional equivalence” to [...] human coders." New POAL methods brief out from Mollie Ruler and @kenbenoit.bsky.social They outline a validated workflow for applying LLMs to qualitative coding tasks. Read here: www.poal.co.uk/POAL_brief_l...

Building on Belfast & feedback from our members: a more focused programme, equal presentation time, stronger role for our 20 sections + new Politics & AI section. 👉 More information on what's new at EPSS 2027: epssnet.org/uncategorize... Looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen next year! 2/2

📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2

AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

🎉 Online first: LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience? @kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

#EPSS2026 social event 4 of 5

Friday reception time at #EPSS2026! Food by Posh Nosh Venue: Belfast City Hall @epssnet.bsky.social

A year ago I backed moving European political science from a for-profit model to a member-run non-profit. @epssnet.bsky.social's first conference in Belfast: 1,500 delegates from 44 countries, 2500+ submissions. It was the right move. 🎂 www.linkedin.com/posts/krbeno... #EPSS2026

🚨Reminder that the application for the @epssnet.bsky.social mentoring program is March 31, details below👇

Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding by Kenneth Benoit, Scott De Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma is now available in Early View. @kenbenoit.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/03/24/u...

#EPSS2026 currently at over 1,100 submissions and climbing, report the conference committee chairs. Submissions close tomorrow. Don't forget to submit! app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266... All your questions answered here: epssnet.org/conferences/... @epssnet.bsky.social

"Where's next year's 'EPSA'?" The answer: BELFAST. Under new management. Be sure to apply to the right one, and be sure not to miss the deadline! If you have any doubt, read this: epssnet.org/uncategorize...

Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting ⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions

1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support! The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join Let’s do this together.

Together with @kenbenoit.bsky.social we are offering a full-day online workshop - suitable for beginners - on AI-assisted text analysis in the programming language R, live-streamed on July 4 instats.org/seminar/usin...

The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.

Welcome BlueSky, moving this new community from x.com/kenbenoit. I'll be using this account for #politicalscience, #datascience, computational social science #CSS, my work in the #rstats developer community, and following others' opinions on news and current events.