it is incredible to see folks complain that good people don't run for office, that lawmaking is a hobby for the rich, that our state legislators are run by car dealership freaks, and then insist that we shouldn't pay lawmakers any more than we do.

Really confused why this is an issue for most classes. Provide in person assessments. Done.

how are folks revamping their quant classes to use & teach agentic AI? it's certainly a tool we should teach rather than ignore, but i find it hard to think through how to incorporate into existing syllabi in a straightforward way.

there are actually some pretty useful prompts embedded here

All of this

i mean yeah this is right, i always joke it's a good thing our state legislators haven't found out about bluesky

still hearing that people are using LLM checking tools on assignments, insane

Thrilled to announce my paper with @dianamejordan.bsky.social & sky-less Trent Ollerenshaw is now published open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. In a (very) large replication & extension, we show that design effects of repeated measure experiments are nonzero but typically small. Thread:

hell yeah @eunjikim.bsky.social congrats! an absolute legend

absolutely, but also this can be really time consuming

Wild to hear from undergrads that take home exams are still being widely used

man the psychotic replies to this, as everyone decides it’s a chance to rip someone apart for not pretending to live in abject poverty

Uhhhh

absolutely

I am excited to announce the beta release of @verasight.io’s Free AI Survey Programming Tool: Doc2Survey, that automatically converts any survey drafted in a Word or Google Doc to a programmed Qualtrics survey (.qsf file). We are making Doc2Survey available for free! www.verasight.io/doc2survey

You can just block anyone who didn't vote for Harris and move on with your life. What is it you think you gain from listening to stupid people?

Uh oh this'll be a real conundrum for some folks on here

The research exaggeration pipeline. -Unpublished paper -One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C") -No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?

the resistance expressed on (solely) this website to the use of AI in research production continues to be wild

not great, not great

neither does Criminology or *any associated journals* including Journal of Experimental Criminology (of course, no pre-regs either)

Good point by Spirling here. Maybe we can finally get rid of Stata 🤞

This country would be far better off if, once a month, we all clocked out a little early, headed down to the local brewery, ordered some carne asada fries and just kicked it while a cover band played biker rock jams.

ngl the updated branding for @bsky.app is bold

It's basically impossible to have any sort of nuanced discussion on this site about AI without it devolving into a shouting match about it. People are genuinely angry about it for a lot of valid reasons and are channeling that anger into completely destructive and toxic ways online.

good stuff from Paul here

this is a bit right

Agreed. “Let’s one shot a mediocre paper in 15 minutes” is a fun parlor trick but the more exciting thing is the ability to produce higher quality research faster by treating AI like a hyper efficient (if not particularly creative and sometimes mistake-prone) collaborator.

increasingly coming around to the notion that this is a view from a sort of aristocracy that sneers at anyone who is actually trying to, and possibly must, accomplish a goal by completing work

i have never learned so much so quickly than when i started using claude code to teach me things with demonstrations and proofs. just an absolutely incredible tool for learning complex material (but requires prior expertise)

the mind boggles

what's the venn diagram look like between academics who put 500 words on each of their slides and academics who are AI skeptics

so uhh how is everyones' university IT dealing with Claude Code?

Yes yes

why can't we bash both

an important and underdiscussed point on the rise of agentic AI

when you read the phrase "quasi-experimental" what does it mean to you?

if, like me, you were not aware of this: Ghost Criminology is a thing (but it's also not real science):

sean is right about this, but it's not clear what things will look like which is why it's hard to talk about concretely

i mean, if you're using canvas for assignments these days and this is a shock to you i don't know whta to tell you

I have not seen this mentioned here, but this is a great example of how the research world has dramatically changed underneath of us and if you're not keeping up you're going to be left behind quickly: yiqingxu.org/papers/2026_...

@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @joshmccrain.bsky.social, and I are putting together a panel at PolMeth in July on using CongressData, CSPP, and SenateData. We are aiming to have up to 5 people (preference to junior faculty using the data or interested in doing so). Please reach out to me if interested!

Hard to convince my daughter not to draw on herself when we both have a bunch of tattoos

So little discussion of Claude code on here. We are experiencing an unprecedented shock to how empirical research is done and it's going to primarily affect grad students

this is extremely interesting

new pre-print just dropped! the nationalization of politics at the local level -- specifically within school districts -- affects turnover of school board members and superintendents. osf.io/preprints/so...

continues to blow my mind people use R for data wrangling and don't use the tidyverse tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Excellent incapsulation of bluesky brain

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

So much of classic political science research is woefully underpowered. I'm glad we're slowly coming to our senses.