Senior Researcher @gesis.org // Data Editor @polcommjournal.bsky.social 🔎 political communication (#polsky + #commsky) with text analysis and #rstats (#opendata + #openscience) 🌏 JohannesBGruber.eu 👨‍💻 research software github.com/JBGruberhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mtsklqpijs2grollama 0.3.1 just hit CRAN! 🥳 Highlight of the new version is that it now supports batch annotation of images with structured outputs. Screenshot from the updated vignette below: [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2026 05:20 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsklqpijs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mtfys4i2y22fHad a fantastic warm welcome at @qutdmrc.bsky.social where I'll be spending the next 8 weeks working on CSS and data donation topics with @antmandan.bsky.social and meeting fantastic new people every day so far 🤗19 Aug 2026 05:29 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfys4i2y22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mrn44rjrqs2eThere is some hype in the world of AI this month and it's about open weight models 😮 Today, Kimi-K3 will be published and on paper, it's head to head with the biggest commercial models. You can't run it (unless you happen to have a supercomputer), but still exciting that you can download it! https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K327 Jul 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrn44rjrqs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mqocknpkzk2dNew preprint: my contribution for @marhai.bsky.social and @emesedomahidi.bsky.social 's The Handbook of Computational Communication Research discusses the transition of the field from bag-of-words to word embeddings to transformer based contextualized embeddings. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/86zqa_v115 Jul 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqocknpkzk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mpxixooi6s2cIf you have any questions about this job, let me know! It is a great opportunity and very important work! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jul 2026 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpxixooi6s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mp7xrnxd222vFinally back home again, sleeping between my loved ones: my wife, our dog, and our Midea Portasplit 12000 BTU 3.5kW air conditioner 💗26 Jun 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7xrnxd222vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mozpybzquc2k3 conferences in the last 3 weeks done! Was ist too much? Maybe, I'm definitely exhausted. But it was great to see so many colleagues doing new and interesting research, and I feel updated about what's happening in #commsky, data archiving, and #polsky24 Jun 2026 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozpybzquc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mozpvkv3kk2kI read an article in a German newspaper yesterday that passionately argued for age restricting social media. Just a reminder that this is a very stupid idea. https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/24 Jun 2026 10:37 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozpvkv3kk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mokf6vfzic2aPhoto evidence by @aytalina.bsky.social 😃 [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jun 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokf6vfzic2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mo73b46mks2jEinen Monat später immer noch nicht gefixt... [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jun 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo73b46mks2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3ml4af2i5xs2a@gruene.de ihr habt da irgendwas komisch eingestellt. Wenn man auf https://bsky.app/profile/gruene.de geht, kommt man zu @felixbanaszak.bsky.social . Oder soll das so?05 May 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4af2i5xs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mnrn7f4s6j2jAnnouncing #rstats {atrrr} 0.2.0 is on CRAN now! 🥳08 Jun 2026 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrn7f4s6j2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mnrmuyjouk2aPosting live from stage at #ica26 where I present our #rstats 🎁 {atrrr} which can interact with 🦋08 Jun 2026 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrmuyjouk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mnju2ohfxk2zThe dedication of some #ica26 presenters! Kunhao Yang got delayed by a day by a Taifun and used it as an example 8n in his presentation he gave after walking on stage straight from the airport 😮05 Jun 2026 09:44 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnju2ohfxk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mnjrv3vzik2zVery happy I made it to #ica26, and not just for the great breakfast view 🤓05 Jun 2026 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnjrv3vzik2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mcfav7tbd22zI will teach Web Scraping and Data Management at @essexsummerschool.bsky.social this year! Learn to: - manage research data (in tables, files, databases etc.) 📂 - Systematically get data from the internet (APIs, scraping, browser automation) 🤖 - wrangle your data in #rstats to make it useful 📈 https://essexsummerschool.com/course/ess-2026-course-list/2h/14 Jan 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfav7tbd22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3ml4af2i5xs2a@gruene.de ihr habt da irgendwas komisch eingestellt. Wenn man auf https://bsky.app/profile/gruene.de geht, kommt man zu @felixbanaszak.bsky.social . Oder soll das so?05 May 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4af2i5xs2a