Sebastian Karcher

@adam42smith.bsky.social

1444 Followers 856 Following

Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account). Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods https://sebastiankarcher.com

Display of the German copy of Techno Feudalism from the DNB catalog: On the books cover (displayed), the author is listed as "Yanis Varoufakis" in big letters. In the catalog listing right next to it it's "Baruphakēs, Giannēs"
Menken wrote several shows that were not produced, including Atina, Evil Queen of the Galaxy (1980), with lyrics by Steve Brown.
Fern in English. Farn in German.
Graph showing that the percentage of people who have had gay sex is only slightly increasing, while the percentage of folks identifying as LGB has doubled between 2012 and 2020.
Contact forms for: Interviews/Speaking Requests General Inquiries Misogynistic Trolling Kind Words and Praise
Each PIT Crew will include product managers, designers, engineers, user researchers and data experts who will work alongside City agencies and New Yorkers to design, build and launch digital solutions on accelerated timelines. Instead of waiting years for new technology, agencies will be able to move from idea to implementation in a matter of months.
Phone screenshot showing the ongoing Wimbledon women's final with Muchova trailing in the 3rd set, followed by the AI summary claiming she won after a 3rd set comeback
Table from AP-NORC poll showing Shapiro with 21 unfavorable, 41 favorable, Mamdanig with 39 unfavorable, 41 favorable
Minutes before the game, Argentinian President Jorge Rafael Videla visited the Peruvian locker room accompanied by former American Secretary of State and organiser of Operation Condor, Henry Kissinger[14] and read a message to the players from the Peruvian dictator Francisco Morales Bermúdez on the Argentine-Peruvian brotherhood.[15] Argentina subsequently won the match 6–0, rising above Brazil in the Group B table on goal difference, and advancing to the final against the Netherlands.
Screenshot from Zotero forum: Available for beta testing: Undo support Available for beta testing: Batch editing Available for beta testing: Multi-collection selection Available for beta testing: More-advanced advanced search
If your message is truly urgent, please resend it with “URGENT” in the subject line. Please note that I am using “urgent” in its older, sterner sense: immediate peril, official catastrophe, or the sort of problem that causes reasonable people to say, “Oh dear,” but with genuine feeling.
Post: This is a naive take. You clearly have no idea what's going on online with kids
Aber eine Sache gibt's Da bin ich meganational: Es kam über die Jahre Und jetzt sitzt es ziemlich fest Solang's um Fußball geht Hass' ich Holland wie die Pest
A basket with a large variety of rolls, some whole wheat, some lye, some whit with poppyseed and sesame
‪Bluesky exchange: The Popehat Fits Fine‬ ‪@kenwhite.bsky.social‬ ”If you question or criticize Platner you are rooting for Collins” is the new “objectively pro-Saddam.” Jacob Alexander Tice ‪@daemonspudguy.jacobatice.com‬ What's the context on the Saddam thing?
Screenshot of title and subtitle from Bainbridge's substack with the words "major open source" highlighted by me: The Social Science Research Network Has Jumped the Shark. Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system Stephen Bainbridge
B&B grouped the 71 teams into 13 disciplinary categories without providing a theoretical justification for such fine-grained coding. This choice has significant consequences: four of these categories contain only a single team. Consequently, the dummies for these categories identify individual teams, functioning equivalently to team fixed effects. Since ideology is measured at the team level and does not vary within teams, these four teams—and their 80 reported AMEs—are effectively excluded and do not contribute to the estimation of the ideology effect.
Talarico and Menard frequently attend music concerts — including visiting Austin City Limits every year — and like to hike at Big Bend National Park annually, as well as take other trips, photos obtained by The Post show. They’re also avid Texas Longhorns college football fans and San Antonio Spurs devotees. Brianna also has Texas roots with one ancestor, Michael B. Menard, having both a West Central state county named after him. He also signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Kafkas Metamorphosis: The Musical, performed at various fringe festivals
Line chart showing smartphone penetration (left axis, blue) and estimated annual count of "bad" difference-in-differences papers (right axis, red) from 2000 to 2022. Both series rise sharply after 2007, the year of the iPhone launch. Bad DiD papers increase from near zero to approximately 4,550 by 2022. A confidence interval is shaded around the red line. Annotations note the iPhone launch, researchers' discovery of "staggered rollout," and the pre-publication status of Callaway & Sant'Anna at a key inflection point.
Chronic absenteeism percentage in Syracuse city schools. At elementary/middle school level, pre-pandemic number was 35%, went up to 53% in 2021/22, still at 41% in 24/25
One promising way forward is to develop a modular, open-access repository of consent tools that can be adapted across studies. In the biomedical sciences, templates for eConsent, key info sheets, and comprehension assessments are increasingly available. A similar effort in the social sciences could produce adaptable scripts, data sharing agreement templates, and visual aids, along with pedagogical instructions on how and when to use them. Participants at the workshop emphasized the need for practical, ready-to-use materials that lower the barrier to ethical innovation. Currently, in many instances, informed consent scripts are borrowed from prior studies, templates provided by IRBs, and other researchers, sometimes without the necessary rethinking of new research realities. This common practice can be leveraged to a better end. Rather than appealing to individual researchers to reinvent appropriate consent documents from scratch, institutions, journals, and funders could support centralized repositories of best practices addressing many different research scenarios. Such resources would be particularly valuable for early-career researchers, those operating in resource-constrained settings, or anyone navigating complex cross-cultural or interdisciplinary research. IRBs can facilitate the adoption of appropriate consent forms by pre-reviewing a larger range of forms so that researchers are not constrained to a single institutional template. Importantly, these tools should be iterative and flexible, informed by user feedback, including from research participants themselves.
Visual informed consent template with 8 information boxes, each with a heading and an icon and 2-3 bullet points
Screenshot: "Availability of underlying data. All underlying data used in preparation of the material outlined above shall be made available for inspection upon reasonable request"
8.14 Sharing Research Data for Verification (a) After research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release. This does not preclude psychologists from requiring that such individuals or groups be responsible for costs associated with the provision of such information.
Landing page of Working with Concepts book, showing a blue "Full Book PDF' button above the list of individual chapters
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!
Ridge plot showing massively higher values for all LLM models than for GSS human participants. Caption reads:" Figure 3: Global dependence by education. Bootstrap distributions of effective dependence, De = 1−|R|1/p, computed on the full polychoric correlation matrix (attitudes + persona variables) for the GSS and each LLM, shown overall and stratified by education. Right-side lollipops show the education gradient ∆ = De(high edu) − De(low edu): the point is the median and whiskers denote the 95% bootstrap interval. Lollipops are dark when the 95% interval excludes zero (light otherwise). Higher De indicates stronger global linear dependence in the belief system."
Claude.ai status for the last 90 days with a lot of yellow and red especially in the last month
A little goat with giant ears looking at you
Sample qualities along eight dimensions: Atention, Comprehension, Honesty, Engagement, COnsistency, Open-ended quality, Overall Quality. LLM survey takers outperform human average along all 8 and outperform best human samples (direct panles) on several dimensions.
Contrary, self-sabotaging Mimo, “disagreeable” by his own estimate, is a masterly creation, as is his proud, mercurial, impatient soulmate. But the novel is also rich in smaller characters, from the lazy Machiavellian Stefano to hardworking Vittorio, whose otherworldly twin brother Emmanuele is prone to speaking in tongues and dressing up in ragtag begged-and-borrowed uniforms: a clue to the note that sounds loudest in Watching Over Her. Because this is most significantly a song of love to a country of contradictions, battered, war-torn, divided, misguided and miraculous: an Italy where life is costume and the performance of art, and where circuses spring up on wasteland. The Italy that produced both Mussolini and Fellini, fascists and futurists and communists; where “beauty is always imperilled” and “genius grows like a weed”.
“...no more than Chick-fil-A’s authority-approved tagline ‘falsely implies’ that chicken dinners will always make a person happy, or that cows can speak, see Dkt. No. 20-3 at 25 (“Chikin 4 Din Makez U Grin”)," Brindisi wrote.
Screenshot of post with five rappers pictured, headline: "Mamdani chooses uber-capitalists Biggie, Nas, and Jay-Z among his five favorite rappers. Is it a pivot to center?
All processing scripts and model prompts used for data extraction, discipline classification, and LLM-based text coding are available from the author upon reasonable request.
Email from Grammarly with big "Goodbyes are hard" image. Subject is "Was it something we said?"
scatter plot showing a very strong negative correlation between tax revenues and income inequality, with the US at the top left (high inequality, low taxes), and Scandinavian countries at the bottom right.
Much of that time was devoted not to method- ological development, but to deciphering authors’ codebases, repairing path dependencies, reconstructing environments, and harmonizing heterogeneous replication materials.
The librarian presented a sample of artefacts and exhibits from the library’s archives,Footnote 13 explained how to conduct physical archival research, and provided a bonus question to students (who were attending with their individual “POL244 Special UFO Unit” badges printed for the occasion).
Weekly class schedule with 14 weeks, many of them emphasizing methods-related content like "Interview Notes", "Focus Group Notes" etc.
Four Criteria for Interview Development Assessment Rubric: 1. Complexity of questions is sufficient to discourage one- word replies; follow-up questions included 2. Organization of questions is logical 3.Tone of questions is designed to put interview subjects at ease 4. Interview questions are appropriate for the research question(s)
Image of Wittgenstein's duck rabbit ("Kaninchen und Ente") preceded by the following text: "Because of my work with the American Political Science Association’s (APSA’s) Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group (2025), I had the image of Wittgenstein’s (Reference Wittgenstein and Anscombe1973) duck–rabbit illustration on my laptop (figure 1). I pulled it up, projected it on the class screen, and asked students what they saw."
Screenshot of Zotero with a collection highlighted in the left pane and "343 Items in this view" in the right-hand panel
Simpsons "worst day of my life" meme. "Sessions is the worst AG." "The worst AG so far"
The journal welcomes replication studies that include extensions, such as testing the original study with new data and/or within a different context.
Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown.
For MTF, there is no formal consent/assent process for youth who are seniors in high school, irrespective of their age.
Scene from Simpson's Spinal Tab Episode with the guitarist (who had just said "Nobody Rocks like") looking on the back of his guitar to read off "Springfield")
Elicit search results, showing first 5 papers to the query "Are there any case studies of implanting defibrillators shortly after heart surgery"
Screenshot of text with the last sentence (starting with "the elephant kills") highlighted Americans by no means have a monopoly on the game. People play it around the world in many variations, and under many names. In Japan, where the game has existed for thousands of years, it’s known as janken. In Indonesia, it’s known as earwig-man-elephant: The elephant kills the man, the man kills the earwig and the earwig crawls up through the elephant’s trunk and eats its brain.
@mehr.nz in a quote post of himself: "Folks getting in the weeds about licensing agreements but this research study engaged me in research, by creating a bespoke dataset about me, before I agreed to participate. They already made the dataset before I was invited to participated. That's not how informed consent works"
Obtains information or biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information or biospecimens; or Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens."
A lengthy passage from an article about Elise Stefanik that has the fragments "amplifying his lies about the 2020 election" and "who she falsely claimed supported" highlighted
Poster for Rain Main
Le Fou (Gaston's sidekick) from the original Disney Beauty and the Beast
Pulp Fiction meme, reading: "(In French accent): Le Lebensraum"
Zotero menu in google docs with Document preferences marked with a red arrow
Table from Lincoln & Guba 1994 that describes four alternative inquiry paradigms ranging from positivism to constructivism.
Question 2 of 6 Based on your service experience today, rate how often you felt the following emotions: Glad, happy, joyful* Not at allNot at all HardlyHardly Some of the timeSome of the time OftenOften Most of the timeMost of the time Surprised, amazed, astonished* Not at allNot at all HardlyHardly Some of the timeSome of the time Often
Data includes responses from 1,000 Americans who moved in 2022. For this question, respondents were asked to pick their top 5 cities. Source: Clever Real Estate Moving Trends, December 2022