š¢ Recent News & Updates
August
- After an exhilarating sprint through the ISCA Datathon & Machine Learning Competition, Iāve finished evaluating the competing teams. To ensure a fair evaluation, Iāve developed a framework that provides a fair and transparent evaluation, rewarding teams that stick together while accounting for dropouts.
- Iām happy to announce that our long paper, Analyzing Polarization in Online Discourse on the 2023-2024 IsraelāHamas War (Daniel Miehling, Daniel Dakota and Sandra KĆ¼bler), has been accepted for the 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) as part of the Konvens conference proceedings in Hildesheim in 2025.
- Preparations for the upcoming fall semester are in full swing. I will be teaching the course āEuropean Antisemitism. From the Origins to 1933.ā, which is crosslisted in Jewish Studies and History.
July
- I joined the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism LCSCA as a research fellow.
- Our long paper, Investigating Polarization in YouTube Comments via Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis ā Daniel Miehling, Daniel Dakota and Sandra KĆ¼bler, was accepted for publication and rated as one of the top-scoring papers for the RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) Conference Proceedings 2025 in Bulgaria (acceptance rate: 14.9%).
- I created a detailed git-guide for scraping with BrightData and preprocessing with š Colab. The guide is available, as is a ā¶ YouTube tutorial for the Datathon & Machine Learning Competition (Indiana University, 2025).
June
- I was invited to give a presentaton talk at Touro University (New York City, 2025) on Analyzing State Media and Online Commentary After October 7: A LongitudinalStudy of Sentiment and Narrative.
- In collaboration with my colleague, Gunther Jikeli, I published a scientific report analyzing 76,000 Instagram posts. The report provides insights into the online activities of anti-Israel campus groups.
May
- My talk proposal Emotion in Motion: Shifting Narratives and Sentiment in State Media and Social Discourse after October 7 was accepted for the Symposium on Anntisemitism @ Brock University (Canada, 2025).
April
- Our Research Lab, āSocial Media and Hate,ā published a new machine learning dataset available on Zenodo.
March
- My talk proposal Covert and overt: online antisemitism and anti-Zionism in social media coverage by state-funded news agencies after 10/7 for the LCSA in conference in London was accepted. Check out the full conference schedule.
Febuary
- My colleague, Damir Cavar, invited me to give a talk at the NLP-Lab about āHate Spech and Social Mediaā at Luddy School ofInformatics, Computing, and Engineering.
January
- I have been awarded the inaugural Samerian Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Over the next two years, I will expand my research to develop new methodologies to investigate digital media.
š Featured Projects
Early Career Speaker Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Historical Legacies and Persistent Challenges (Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University, SeptemberāDecember 2025) - Series Organizer š Schedule & Invited Speakers Investigations on Political Polarization and Emotional Toning in Large-Scale Datasets (Collaborative Project with the Department of Linguistics, Indiana University 2025) Principal Investigator Website follows Datathon & Machine Learning Competition on Antisemitism (Indiana University, July 2025)* ā Computational Research Coordinator š¤ Github Repository. Social Media & Hate Lab (2025āPresent) ā Coordinating interdisciplinary research on hate speech online š Lab News.