Christopher Barrie @cbarrie Twitter profile

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Christopher Barrie

3 months

Very pleased (and a little speechless) to be able to announce that I'll be joining @nyuniversity at the start of academic year 24/25 I'll be in @NYUSociology and will also get to work alongside the brilliant team at @CSMaP_NYU Can't wait! 🥳

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

Today I spoke in favour the below motion at our UCU branch meeting at @ucuedinburgh . It will now be sent to branch members to vote on. I encourage other UCU members to do the same in their branches and show that the extreme views of some Delegates do not represent us.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

If anyone interested, I have uploaded working code in R to collect tweets (by list of users or by hashtag) using full-archive search for Twitter v2 Academic Research Product Track all credit goes to @schochastics for the original Gist! 🔗

GitHub - cjbarrie/academictwitteR: Repo for academictwitteR package to query the Twitter Academic...

Repo for academictwitteR package to query the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint. - cjbarrie/academictwitteR

github.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

🔈So happy I'm finally able to announce the upcoming launch of the Edinburgh Social Data Science Hub @sds_hub 🔗to our new website is here: 📧us to become an affiliate (either institutional or individual) 👀look out for future workshops and seminars

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

⚡️All my materials from the Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods on analyzing Twitter data now up on the Twitter teach and learn page⚡️ Thanks @suhemparack for all your work

Use X APIs to teach and learn

Bring the X API into your classroom to teach programming fundamentals—or learn them for yourself using X's tutorials and API documentation.

developer.twitter.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

🎓 Delighted to share our new paper, "Measuring Media Freedom," available now at . This work asks how we can use new word-embedding techniques to measure media freedom from raw text alone in a way that is fast and scalable ⚡️

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

10 months

I just received one of the angriest reviews in my life for using a method that: "No one... (and I think I'm right in saying there are very few in political science) will be able to learn how to use" That method? Word embedding. We're a very serious science so we are.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

🎉First🎉package🎉now🎉on🎉CRAN🎉

academictwitteR: Access the Twitter Academic Research Product Track V2 API Endpoint

Package to query the Twitter Academic Research Product Track, providing access to full-archive search and other v2 API endpoints. Functions are written with academic research in mind. They provide...

cran.r-project.org

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

👋Two years and 27k downloads later, it looks like the Academic API endpoint is going paid... This represents a great shame, of course, for the academic research community. Twitter *were* a model of how to enable open, transparent research...

Developers

@XDevelopers

1 year

Also on February 13, we will deprecate the Premium API. If you’re subscribed to Premium, you can apply for Enterprise to continue using these endpoints.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

6 years

On anniversary of #Tunisia 's revolution, and amid renewed protests, here is gif of how protest spread in 2010-11, using original data I compiled. Day 1=December 17, 2010.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

Page proofs are in and I'm doing a grin

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

9 months

🥳 Publication day! Really enjoyed working on this paper with @_samsrowan and @tomgfleming . We show that climate protest does get politicians talking about the climate... but only online

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@BJPolS

9 months

#OpenAccess - Does Protest Influence Political Speech? Evidence from UK Climate Protest, 2017–2019 - - @cbarrie , @tomgfleming & @_samsrowan #FirstView

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

📣Over the🌛 to announce I'll be joining @EdinburghUni @uoessps as Lecturer in Computational Sociology this Jan 📣 I'll be very sad to leave @NuffieldCollege and @SociologyOxford after an amazing four years but can't wait to get going in this new post

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

🎉First full development release for my academictwitteR package with @justin_ct_ho 🎉 ✅Full set of functions ✅Query builder tools ✅Vignettes ✅DOI Feedback welcome before CRAN submission!

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

👨‍🏫For the next three days I'll be teaching at the Oxford Spring School on "Analysing Twitter Data"🐦 For those who can't attend, I'm putting my materials up on Github here and will be updating over coming days:

GitHub - cjbarrie/oxspsch: Repo of materials for Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods:...

Repo of materials for Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods: Analysing Twitter Data - cjbarrie/oxspsch

github.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

Over the 🌙 to see this out. In the article, I use a natural experiment to answer the question: how does war affect group identity?

Sect, Nation, and Identity after the Fall of Mosul: Evidence from a Natural Experiment1 | American...

How does war affect group identity? Does common threat unite ethnic groups behind the nation? What explains subethnic heterogeneity in identity responses? To answer these questions, scholarship to...

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

🚨academictwitteR v0.3.0 now out! including: - batch compliance functions - user ID search from username - easier exact phrase searching Thanks @chainsawriot @justin_ct_ho @noeliarico_

academictwitteR: Access the Twitter Academic Research Product Track V2 API Endpoint

Package to query the Twitter Academic Research Product Track, providing access to full-archive search and other v2 API endpoints. Functions are written with academic research in mind. They provide...

cran.r-project.org

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

11 months

🦉I was finally cut off from the Twitter Academic API today... was fun while it lasted! 🦉

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

I would retire from the game immediately after this

Cricket District

@cricketdistrict

1 year

That's our Catch of the Week sorted! 🤯 Awesome grab from @Duffieldcc 's Ollie Brown 👏 via @Frogboxlive

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

🎁 Here is my Intro. Computational Sociology online course book 💻 It is a work in progress but I think it is not bad 🦚 I have themed around political consequences of social media/Internet Feel free to reuse! And h/t @JaeJaeykim2 for his materials 🤛

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

I am outraged! We systematically overestimate how outraged others are online. This makes us think communities are less healthy than they actually are Really nice paper using: 1⃣social sensing + DMs 2⃣mock social media feeds 3⃣experimental methods

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

@GoodwinMJ ... ???

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

11 months

📘 Today I got acceptance for this article in @PoPpublicsphere 🥳 It argues that dominant approaches to understanding revolution systematically neglect the way in which revolutions *actually* unfold... 🧵

The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution

Revolutionary protest rarely begins as democratic or revolutionary. Instead, it grows in a process of positive feedback, incorporating new constituencies and generating new demands. If protest is not...

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

24 days

I'm pleased to see this paper out! In it, we use some unique data from Iran where activists decided to post digital protest flyers on Instagram for certain districts. We use this data to estimate the effects of online coordination on offline protest...

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 month

🇬🇷The Greek Govt. have launched an €85m visiting researcher scheme to fund foreign researcher visits to a host Greek university Includes relocation, travel, and equipment expenses + equivalent pay Info. here:

Greek universities open their doors to international scholars and researchers - Study in Greece

Committed to enhancing the quality of instruction and research and building a vibrant, collaborative and internationally-oriented higher education environment, the Ministry of Education and Religious...

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

Some 🎉 inbox news this morning. @claudiakincaid @TVGsociologist @Walid_Magdy @bjoernross and I will be hosting the very first SICSS-Edinburgh. The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science had a massive influence on me. Can’t wait to pay some of it back

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 months

A view from my last lecture at @EdinburghUni . Here’s to sunnier climes!🥂

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

New article of mine with @ArunFrey out just now in @PLOSONE We ask: can we 'survey' protests using Twitter data alone?

Faces in the crowd: Twitter as alternative to protest surveys

Who goes to protests? To answer this question, existing research has relied either on retrospective surveys of populations or in-protest surveys of participants. Both techniques are prohibitively...

journals.plos.org

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

🥳The British Academy will be funding my pilot for using clone social media environments to measure human attention 💡This will give us tools to understand information consumption with metrics other than e.g., RTs/likes 📩me if you are a/know any potential interested postdocs!

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

Here's my course materials---which I will revising and tightening in the coming summer---for my new course "Computational Text Analysis" No it isn't published by O'Reilly. I made that cover myself because I don't have sufficient hobbies

“Computational Text Analysis” (PGSP11584) | Computational Text Analysis

Online book for ten-week course in “Computational Text Analysis” (PGSP11584)

cjbarrie.github.io

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

I and four colleagues are still waiting on payments for a summer school we jointly organized in June. I have received no apology from the university despite what @EdinburghUni are saying. This is a catastrophic failure of management

University of Edinburgh orders finance review

The university admits some firms have stopped supplying them due to problems with its finance system.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

26 days

Coffee kettle just exploded how’s your day going?

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

8 months

🎉V cool to see this out! The article is a provocation about how we understand revolutions 🪧 🗣️My argument: they often don't begin as revolutionary. The problem: we don't think about that when theorizing them 💭 I make my case with data I collected on the Tunisian Revolution

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

8 months

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere - The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution - - @cbarrie #FirstView

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

26 days

The job advert for my current position is now up (I’m moving I didn’t get fired I promise) Very happy to chat about the role to anyone interested!

Lecturer (Computational Sociology)

We are looking for a Lecturer in Computational Sociology to contribute to teaching and research on digital and computational sociology in the Sociology Subject Area.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

11 months

Has Twitter got more right-wing❓ From an initial investigation. It seems that way... How did I get here? 🧵...

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

4 years

Not wishing to cavil at difficult time, but virtual #APSA2020 was opportunity to open up to public and share research more widely. Instead we're using a proprietary closed-access platform that crashes under strain and, even when working, doesn't permit audience interaction

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

And here is my text explaining why members should vote in favour of this motion. Feel free to repurpose

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

Keep an eye out for six new solo-authored working papers from me tomorrow

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

Very honoured to win this award. Wish I could’ve been there! Well done @EdCDCS for organising another brilliant event. A real gem of an institution at Edinburgh University

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society

@EdCDCS

1 year

Winner of Best Novel Use of a Digital Method is Measuring Media Freedom with Word Embeddings from Christopher Barrie ( @cbarrie ), Neil Ketchley ( @NeilKetchley ), Alexandra Siege ( @aasiegel ) and Mossaab Bagdouri

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

7 months

📢 Our paper "Explaining Recruitment to Extremism" has been *accepted* at Political Analysis @polanalysis . A collaborative effort with co-authors @RobertoCerina (first author), @azelin , and @NeilKetchley . 📜

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 months

I see that Oxford Brookes now posting job advertisements with disclaimer that salary may not be sufficient to satisfy Skilled Worker visa reqt. Congratulations to @JamesCleverly and @GillianKeegan for their visionary reforms

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

11 days

Can’t wait to get going!

NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics

@CSMaP_NYU

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📢 CSMaP is thrilled to announce that we’ve recruited two new core faculty members — @_JenAllen and @cbarrie — to NYU to join the Center and advance our research agenda! Please join us in welcoming Jenny and Chris! 🥳👏 Our announcement:

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

That's my presentation for staff meeting written then

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

My email to HR re 50% cuts in response to marking boycott participation. I am sure this will receive a full and considered response @EdinburghUni

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

Well done us @justin_ct_ho @chainsawriot :)

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Christopher Barrie

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2 years

Morning

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

You want to vote for the Greek Communist Party, you say? The Marxist-Leninist Communists or the Communists who are Marxist-Leninist? Or indeed the filthy heterodox Communists full stop? The tyranny of choice in late capitalism.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

Update: our R package for collecting tweets with the new Academic Research Product Track has a new name!

GitHub - cjbarrie/academictwitteR: Repo for academictwitteR package to query the Twitter Academic...

Repo for academictwitteR package to query the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint. - cjbarrie/academictwitteR

github.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

🚀Did the Musk takeover boost engagement for contentious actors on Twitter❓ To answer this, I use a publicly released list of far-right and far-right-adjacent accounts that paid for blue-tick verification 🙏 @travisbrown and @CaseyHo for the original data

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

What an odd feeling

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

7 months

🎉Excited to see this out in @polanalysis . 🧵 of findings below!

Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

7 months

📢 Our paper "Explaining Recruitment to Extremism" has been *accepted* at Political Analysis @polanalysis . A collaborative effort with co-authors @RobertoCerina (first author), @azelin , and @NeilKetchley . 📜

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

“For students learning to code… “ 100$ month. @TwitterDev are you high?

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

Can confirm "Views" metrics are available on 𝚊𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚁. See demo below. They are stored as "public.metrics$impression_count"

Suhem Parack

@suhemparack

1 year

A few recent updates to the #TwitterAPI v2🧵 1. Tweet view count is available as impression_count under public_metrics 2. source field is removed from the API 3. verified_type is supported a user field to indicate account verification type (business, government, blue or none)

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

🥳20k downloads 🙏 @justin_ct_ho @chainsawriot

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

TIL that getting married in Greece requires the submitting British citizen to display their "Intent to Marry" outside the British Embassy in Athens for a period of seven whole days to allow members of the public to object. Wish me luck.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

8 months

I’m afraid that, as a UCU committee member, I cannot in good conscience support the latest strikes announced by UCU We have just seen colleagues lose half their pay for months on end. Adding five days of almost entirely symbolic strikes to this is neither fair nor effective

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@cbarrie

2 years

Proudly on display 🙏 @EdCDCS

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@cbarrie

1 year

@GoodwinMJ This didn’t seem particularly ad hominem but did seem quite grounded in evidence: It is also quite the play to accuse people of ad hominem attacks while literally attacking people for where they went to university?

Ben Ansell

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1 year

POPULISM AGAINST LIBERALISM. I swore I wouldn't. But then I figured, who wouldn't want a deep data dive into whether there's truly a 'new woke elite' with sharply different views to the British people? So I did at the 'forbidden place'. A thread. 1/n

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Christopher Barrie

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2 years

Interested in speaking to academics now working in industry in research positions. I love my job but pension cuts making things unsustainable. And I doubt things will get better. Grateful if could DM with contacts. Partic. interested in digital platforms and data journalism

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

🧑‍💻Does incidental exposure to political content affect online behaviour? ⚽️I collected 21m tweets from a sample of 52k of @MarcusRashford 's first 2m followers (i.e., users who followed him before #ENDCHILDFOODPOVERTY campaign)🪧 First look results (hopefully more to come):

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

5 years

Very very happy to announce I’ll be continuing @NuffieldCollege in the Department of @SociologyOxford as Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow!

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

📢 Come work with us/me! New post in Social Data Science joint with @uoessps and @UoE_STIS . 📧 me with any questions

Lecturer in Social Data Science/Data and Society

We are looking for two Lecturers - one in Social Data Science with experience in the application of social data science methods for sociological research to join Sociology, and one in Data and...

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

Sir David Cox was the model of generosity and kindness in academia. Such brilliance, worn so lightly, is extremely rare. I just wish I had knocked on the office nextdoor more often now.

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

This was the right decision. On a matter that has become so toxic, the view of a group of social scientists has been heeded: sex matters for demographic research and should be measured appropriately. Original letter to which I was one signatory:

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

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1/ Quantitative social scientists have been trying hard to explain to ONS that data on sex matters since 2019. I wrote a paper on this for @TheIJSRM Open access version here So how did the question end up in court?

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📰I'm excited to share this new––and significantly expanded––version of my paper on measuring media criticism with Neil Ketchley, @aasiegel , and Mossaab Bagdouri 🥳

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2 years

🗣️That's a wrap for Week 1 of #SICSS22 -Edinburgh!🥳 ✅ 24 participants ☑️ 5 Instructors ✔️5 Invited speakers 3⃣5⃣ hrs of instruction in computational social science🕠 And all our materials are freely available here (recordings otw):

GitHub - cjbarrie/sicss_22: Repository for SICSS-Edinburgh, 2022 teaching materials

Repository for SICSS-Edinburgh, 2022 teaching materials - cjbarrie/sicss_22

github.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

4 years

My new working paper "Political Sociology in a Time of Protest" looks at trends in the study of #protest during a period where protest became regular frontpage news

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

1 year

🥳Learned today that Understanding Society @usociety are using our "academictwitteR" package to produce their new linked surveys and I think that is very cool end tweet 🙏 @justin_ct_ho @chainsawriot @tmknig @noeliarico_ @thomasrdavidson

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Christopher Barrie

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3 years

🆕article of mine now out #openaccess in @CurrentSociolog 🔗 I examine recent trends in the social science of #protest A 🧵 of findings:

Political sociology in a time of protest - Christopher Barrie, 2021

We live in a time of protest. Relative to sociology, political science has traditionally paid little attention to ‘extra-institutional’ forms of political behav...

journals.sagepub.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

4 years

Genuinely interested in actual systematic evidence of "cancel culture" as mass phenomenon. Have a hard time not concluding this is so much moral panic driven by daily exposure of elites to v unrepresentative sample of v angry Twitter users... happy to be proven otherwise

Will Wilkinson

@willwilkinson

4 years

@Yascha_Mounk What evidence is there that debate has become more rather than less restrictive, or that society has become more rather than less intolerant? I very much doubt that it has. Have I overlooked the "debate restrictiveness index" time series dataset?

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academictwitteR now in 4K 👏 @justin_ct_ho @chainsawriot

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11 months

🤙We're kicking off today #SICSS -Edinburgh!🤙 I'll be posting all materials here over the coming ten days: Looking forward to welcoming @amaatouq today for our first guest speaker 👀

GitHub - cjbarrie/sicss_23: Repository of materials for SICSS-Edinburgh, 2023.

Repository of materials for SICSS-Edinburgh, 2023. - cjbarrie/sicss_23

github.com

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@cbarrie

3 years

Pleased to be able to share teaching materials for quant. methods in the MENA course here! #rstats #bookdown

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@cbarrie

3 years

Looking forward to this!

Developers

@XDevelopers

3 years

If you use R code to do research with the #TwitterAPI , you won't want to miss this. We’re hosting @cbarrie and @justin_ct_ho who built the academictwitteR package: #rstats Tune in next Thursday the 20th at 10am PT on . 👀

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In this 📜 NEW PAPER 📜with @aasiegel we investigate the extent of state-backed Information Operations (IOs) in Saudi Arabia using public-release data of 🇸🇦 IO activity on Twitter for 2019

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

It is a little tiresome that one event in one country in the world is treated as a challenge to all understandings (of coups, populism, democratization) in political science.

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Christopher Barrie

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3 years

Very happy to have won this with @justin_ct_ho . Watch this space for our efforts to provide a click button user interface for getting twitter data from the Academic Research API, which we’re calling academictwitteR Studio #RStats cc @suhemparack

Sage Methods

@Sage_Methods

3 years

Learn about the SAGE Concept Grant winners!

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

👨‍🎓Come do a PhD with us! Maybe even with me... Joint Edinburgh/Copenhagen PhD Studentship in Social Data Science. Particularly interested in candidates focusing on online activism, political communication, and mis/disinformation

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

8 months

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GitHub - cjbarrie/blueskyr

Contribute to cjbarrie/blueskyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

3 years

Come to do a PhD with us in social data science! Joint PhD position supported by Edinburgh @EdCDCS and Copenhagen @CPH_SODAS

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

11 months

This is the best approach going to using word embedding in applied social science settings. Very pleased to see it has a deserved place in @apsrjournal . Congrats. @prodriguezsosa @arthur_spirling and @b_m_stewart !

American Political Science Review

@apsrjournal

11 months

@prodriguezsosa , @arthur_spirling , & @b_m_stewart introduce the à la carte on text embedding regression model, conText in this #APSRFirstView . ConText uses a flexible approach to analyze differences between group semantics and over time.

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Christopher Barrie

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1 year

🫴Calling all social data scientists or otherwise curious scholars! Come join us for the @sds_hub launch on June 15! The event is supported by the @BritishAcademy_ and @uoessps 👈

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

I've gone and created a Twitter Community I'm a member of some great computational research ommunities in the fields of NLP, Communication, Political Science etc. But nothing dedicated to Sociology--so here we go!

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

4 years

Happy to announce I’m all done and dusted. Thank you to @SKalyvas and @MAliKadivar for being a brilliant committee!

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Christopher Barrie

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2 years

Come for the research methods; stay to wonder why he would choose that jumper

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Christopher Barrie

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3 months

🗣️A public appeal!🗣️ Lots of text data archives are available as keyword searchable portals. I want to make a list of large historical text datasets (newspapers, books, anything else) that provide access to the **raw text** Please reply with any examples you can think of 🙏

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2 years

We are hosting the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science this year for the first time at Edinburgh! Come learn with me, @claudiakincaid @Walid_Magdy @bjoernross and @TVGsociologist from June 13 to June 24 Scholarships are on offer!

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4 years

@epkaufm @unherd "Trump-supporting respondents [showed] considerable resentment towards pollsters, who were perceived as part of a media establishment out to misrepresent them" So why is your theory about PC and not (also) a President spending four years casting media as deep state conspirators?

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6 years

First post on my new website! How to make hexmaps (including troubleshooting) with an example mapping protest diffusion in the Tunisian Revolution #rstats #blogdown #GIS

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1 year

I plan to capture every last one before the deluge

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2 years

Pleased to see this out! In the paper, @NeilKetchley and @kbclarke dig into the correlates of different *types* of ethnic violence We find that the correlates of violence differ depending on what type of violence we're talking about

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

2 years

#OpenAccess from @PoPpublicsphere - Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013–2018 - - Christopher Barrie, @kbclarke & @NeilKetchley #FirstView #PoP20

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2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this but we only quite recently decided we didn't know who needed to hear this

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@cbarrie

4 years

After an initial exchange re this article and tweet, @epkaufm agreed to share some crosstabs of the original data with me. 🧵 below visualizes these data and lays out my criticisms of original article.

Eric Kaufmann

@epkaufm

4 years

4 in 10 ‘very liberal’ Americans support changing the name and flag of the United States, 7 in 10 liberals back a new anthem and constitution ⁦ @ZaidJilani ⁩ ⁦ @shadihamid ⁩ ⁦ @coldxman ⁦ @sullydish ⁩ ⁦ @docMJP ⁩ ⁦ @RpwWilliams ⁩

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Protest cycles worldwide rely on the ritual gathering of crowds on focal days. Does this limit the power of the street during a political transition? @NeilKetchley and I ask this question wrt Egypt and Tunisia in 2011. Just up @PRQjournal

Fridays of Revolution: Focal Days and Mass Protest in Egypt and Tunisia - Neil Ketchley, Christop...

Focal days of protest are increasingly common to episodes of revolutionary mobilization. This paper explores the significance of focal days in patterning sustai...

journals.sagepub.com

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Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie

2 years

**Apply** if you want to spend three days with me becoming a fully-fledged Twitter 🤓 We'll be learning: 1⃣ to access and manage Twitter data; 2⃣ replicating published work that uses Twitter data; 3⃣ analysis of linked data Then a chance to present own projects at the end!

Oxford Politics and IR

@Politics_Oxford

2 years

Are you a social scientist looking for an introduction to cutting-edge research methods? Taught by our world-leading researchers, Oxford Spring School's intensive one-week program will be a great contribution to your skillset. Apply now!

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🚨Last 𝚊𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚁 post for a while I promise🚨 🎉v0.2.0 is now out on CRAN and it is a lot better🎉 🔗 We have: 1⃣ Added storage functionality for authorization tokens with 𝚜𝚎𝚝_𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚛():

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Looking forward to speaking at the @Politics_Oxford Oxford Spring School today with @ArunFrey ! We'll be talking about using Twitter for social science research. Materials linked below:

GitHub - ArunFrey/oss_twitter: Oxford Spring School: Using Twitter for Social Science Research

Oxford Spring School: Using Twitter for Social Science Research - ArunFrey/oss_twitter

github.com

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2 years

First day teaching in-person for over two years today 🎉 I cannot wait* *students may feel otherwise

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11 months

Delighted to report this passed @ucuedinburgh 287 for; 86 against. Let's get the message across to @ucu

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@cbarrie

1 year

Today I spoke in favour the below motion at our UCU branch meeting at @ucuedinburgh . It will now be sent to branch members to vote on. I encourage other UCU members to do the same in their branches and show that the extreme views of some Delegates do not represent us.

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