A picture of me I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University, Sweden. I study legislative debates and political texts. I analyze mechanisms of policymaking and how political regimes change based on what issues politicians talk about and vote on. To do so, I approach large parliamentary corpora such as the Congressional Record using large-scale text analysis.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Political Sociology • Computational Social Science • Analytical Sociology • Computational Text Analysis/NLP • Legislative Debates • Policymaking • U.S. Congress • Science of Science • Ethics of AI

On October 20, 2025, I successfully defended my dissertation thesis at Linköping University. You can read more in the university's official press release.

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Currently, I am involved in studying three distinct corpora: German and Swedish parliamentary debates to study discursive polarization; a corpus on computer science Security & Privacy research to study ethical behavior; and one on Swedish folkhögskolan to study how these schools have reacted to, and shaped large social shifts throughout the longue durée.

Academic Research

I am affiliated with the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University, Sweden. My research intersects with political and economic sociology, text analysis and computational social science. Find out at which conferences I'll be this year, and see my blog for bits and pieces on everything academic.

Conferences 2026

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Most Recent Article: What a 20-year-old Video Game can Teach Us About LLMs

Published September 25th, 2026

Abstract: The concept "AI" contains two very different discourses. One that focuses on the current, existing impacts of AI on our everyday lives, and one that merely points into the future and speculates about virtual risks and rewards they may offer. Since the latter discourse is salient right now, pushed by tech CEOs and amplified by media outlets, it obscures any discussion of the current harms, impacts, or benefits that AI brings to the table. I argue that we need a wholly new term to describe the current state of AI and point to its shortcomings and the devastating impact commercial AI has on the social and natural environment; one that is detached from the narrative being peddled by a handful of Silicon Valley tech bros.

Open Source development

When I'm not analyzing policymaking and individual behavior in parliaments, I advocate for Open Source. Since at least 2006 I have been a user, supporter, and contributor to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

My main project is Zettlr. It is a "one-stop publication workbench" targeted at students and researchers in the arts and humanities. I started working on it in 2017 and have been the project lead ever since.

After the Twitter-exodus began, I started the go-to list for finding your peers, Academics on Mastodon. It lists hundreds of people from dozens of fields and Mastodon instances so that you can orient yourself in this new social media.

You can find more info on my involvement with software on my GitHub profile.