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/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/3ml4af2i5xs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mkzxbefmzs2sPSA: I nearly got ❗scammed ❗today. There is a surprising amount of correct details in this message, including the dates of my post #ica26 stay in Cape Town, my name and phone number and even the correct booking code. I still checked via the booking com chat - they never texted me!04 May 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzxbefmzs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mkn4edxeec2sI updated to R 4.6 this morning. Time to run my good old script again that install all my old packages from the previous R version again 😀 https://gist.github.com/JBGruber/28c79af6d5f9015370feef31da2cb1da29 Apr 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn4edxeec2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mkck52jolk2mI had to either present or be discussant during all 3 panel slots yesterday at #COMPTEXT2026, so I didn't understand how difficult it is to choose between 6 parallel sessions that all look great! Can I please see them all 😭25 Apr 2026 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkck52jolk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mjr4wjxp6c2iI love the open source community! I wondered if you can run Windows in a Docker container on Linux, and yes you can and yes, that includes older versions of Windows 😀18 Apr 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjr4wjxp6c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3miartfquqk2rEight years ago, like 84% of voters in the EU, I voted to abolish daylight saving time in 🇪🇺. Twice a year, the continued existence of this nonsense feeds my growing disillusionment with politics. As my night ends at 5 am CET, today is one of these days.30 Mar 2026 04:04 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3miartfquqk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mhvy4e2ugs2aMy and @max-web.bsky.social 's #rstats 📦 {rollama} just got an update with some bug fixes and several cool new features! Now using open weight models for text and image annotation in R is even easier!25 Mar 2026 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvy4e2ugs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mhn7xd6wrc22Not sure when the little resource monitor was added to Interpreter sessions in Positron, but I love it! #rstats22 Mar 2026 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhn7xd6wrc22https://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mhaj3i6fwk2hVery excited for this event organized by our own (@gesis.org) Johannes Kiesel and @christinaviehmann.bsky.social. Let's see what a Datasprint is!17 Mar 2026 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhaj3i6fwk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mgr4npiph22uGo work with Christina. She is awesome! And this is a fantastic opportunity (with a 100% contract). [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 05:10 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgr4npiph22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mgpqqi4guc2rI made two Claude Code discoveries this week: 1. you can run a (fully?) local setup, in this case with Ollama and the qwen3-coder-next model 2. you can spawn random MCP servers on your machine to give the model access to specific tools, like an #rstats session to read package documentation10 Mar 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpqqi4guc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mg5u4uxdbc2eThe sun is out, so 'enjoyed' a bit less internet on the weekend. How is it going in the world?! 😀 Ah, right... [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5u4uxdbc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3mfm26ycwh22j📢Publication alert 📢 LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs! Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2026.261848624 Feb 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfm26ycwh22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3menkjivppc2kOne of my favourite events of the year! Learn about new tools/methods/people and hack on some dataset/tool/project 😍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Feb 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:ntd53albt5ffa4rgervvgibd/app.bsky.feed.post/3menkjivppc2k