A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment - Andy Masley andymasley.substack.com/p/a-short-summ… #AI #environment #energy

Immigration is popular considering the alternatives - doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine. "The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... " abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Anthropic AI tries to cheer us up a bit www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

Very grateful for the invite to this conference. I learned a lot.

Yesterday I posted about how I used comet browser to take a Qualtrics survey almost undetected. Last night, I ran a pilot (N=400) on @joinprolific.bsky.social . I found that almost 10% of "respondents" identified as AI when directly asked.

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update] - Hannah Ritchie https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-footprint-august-2025 #AI #energy

Earlier this year, over 230 Venezuelan men were sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Our @propublica.org team spent months looking into who they were to find the truth behind their stories. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ

I think we really ought to consider the dramatic rise in popularity of podcasts and video essays as conclusive disproof of the 'everyone hates lectures' idea in pedagogy. Turns out that, even when faced with many alternatives, many people just like to be told something at length.

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed

Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🤖 New Pre-Print: Ad Machina: Partisanship and Support for Delegating Government Decisions to Autonomous Algorithms osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨 @citap.bsky.social is hiring 🚨 tenure-track assistant prof w/ faculty appt @uncsils.bksy.social - looking for a scholar whose research examines the complex interconnections between AI technologies & social, organizational, and/or political systems. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

Indiana Jones and Are You Fucking Kidding Me Why Do I Have to Put Learning Outcomes on My Syllabus The Outcome I Want is For the Students to Learn What's Assigned on the Parts of the Syllabus They Can Barely Find For All the Dumb Boilerplate Nonsense I'm Supposed to Put on the Syllabus

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted. Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.

This THE way to use LLMs for scaling text data.

Europe needs to understand that the presence of AC is way more important for climate adaptation than the absence of AC is for preventing climate change.

CRS has a really good overview of US uses of force and the authorities presidents have cited from 2001 through 2017. They all tend to lean on a mixture, but it’s not unusual to cite inherent constitutional powers alone or alongside the AUMFs.

New research from Anthropic: it turns out models from all of the providers won't just blackmail or leak damaging information to the press, they can straight up murder people if you give them a contrived enough simulated scenario simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...

Run, don't walk, folks. Absolutely incredible experience & people & BERLIN.

I know a few of these folks--great people doing super interesting work.

TACO www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

How much energy are you using on AI? | Datawrapper Blog https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-energy-usage #AI #energy

1. OpenAI wants to transform college education "by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus."

📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a *2-year fixed-term faculty position* in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? [email protected] 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

This is why publishing in a general, field wide, journal is a useful signal.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

We have no choice but to adapt. Burn your syllabus and start over.

🚨 New Paper in the Journal of European Public Policy 🚨 Think anti-immigration sentiment is here to stay? 🧠 Think again. New research by Alessia Aspide (in which I play a small role) reveals a new insight: when people understand immigration as a solution to fiscal crisis, attitudes shift 1/2

This is part correct. We shouldn’t be sharing our individual work with the public. The fragile nature of our findings will undermine trust in the long run. We should share the findings of the field. But we should specialize. We don’t all have to (or should) engage the public.

Catch questions are a popular way to detect cheating on survey questions about factual knowledge --- but they can backfire, INCREASING the proportion of respondents who look up the answer! New in Public Opinion Quarterly (gift link): academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Why common persuasion efforts on immigration fail, and why improving policy messaging is not enough: issuu.com/columbiaup/d...

Sitting out AI is a risky strategy in a highly competitive academic market. The productivity gains are real. Don’t count on a tortoise and the hare scenario.

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

AI might make us honest.

Reposting for no reason.

It’s frustrating that LLMs are, by a mile, the most transformative consumer technology to emerge in living memory, and the modal opinion on this website is “fake trash, lmao, bubble’s gonna burst, fuck you for even talking about it.” Take it seriously. You’ll have to for the rest of your life.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Universitair Docent in de Politieke Wetenschap (2x) Vragen? 👉 Ik beantwoord ze graag, of vraag het @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

🚨 ACADEMIC JOB ALERT! 🚨 Leiden University's Institute of Political Science is hiring 2+ Assistant Professors in Political Science/International Relations! Details: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Stop assigning take home assignments that are a substantial portion of the final grade. Neither you or a detector can determine who is cheating. Just because you can identify the bad use of LLMs doesn’t mean you can detect all use of LLMs.

With Google's AlphaEvolve, we have mounting evidence that LLMs can discover novel & useful ideas, especially when given access to tools and systems. These results are impressive: given 50 open math problems, the AI rediscovered the leading approach 75% of the time & improved on it 20% of the time.