1/ 🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper? We built one: ✅ $1/chapter ✅ Modular & flexible ✅ Written by top scholars ✅ Full (free!) instructor resources 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!

#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social - How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in #Ukraine - cup.org/4myrgDM - @aaronerlich.bsky.social, @kevinaslett.bsky.social, Sarah Graham & @jatucker.bsky.social #FirstView

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

Fascinating work from @jatucker.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org looking at the effect of labeling images as AI on people’s beliefs about the provenance + veracity of that image. They also explore the implications of AI images not being labeled after seeing labeled images #PaCSS2025 #polnet2025

📣Out on #FirstView 📣 In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility. polisky gendersky buff.ly/vkcPI2Y

1/ Tired of overpriced political science textbooks? We were too. So we built A Political Science Experiment—a low-cost, high-quality, modular text for intro and comparative courses - edited by me and @rudalev.bsky.social 💻 All digital 📘 Just $1 per chapter 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com #HigherEd

1/ Tired of overpriced political science textbooks? We were too. So we built A Political Science Experiment—a low-cost, high-quality, modular text for intro and comparative courses - edited by me and @rudalev.bsky.social 💻 All digital 📘 Just $1 per chapter 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com #HigherEd

‪@tiagoventura.bsky.social‬ + CDS-affiliated Jonathan Nagler & @jatucker.bsky.social tested a WhatsApp deactivation during Brazil’s 2022 election—blocking auto-downloads of images & videos reduced misinformation recall by ~0.4σ, but didn't change beliefs or polarization. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

It was an honor and privilege to be part of this project. If you are teaching introductory courses in political science or any undergraduate courses, this is the textbook for you!

Congratulations to Dr. David McGrath!!

My textbook with Gwen Sharp and Patrick Sharkey is on its third edition. This fall our team is launching a Political Science book, edited by Josh Tucker and @rudalev.bsky.social Thrilled to have this out in the world! Check it out (sociologists might find some of the chapters useful for teaching)

1/ 🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper? We built one: ✅ $1/chapter ✅ Modular & flexible ✅ Written by top scholars ✅ Full (free!) instructor resources 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!

Congrats to the authors @tiagoventura.bsky.social, @rmajumdar.bsky.social, Jonathan Nagler, and @jatucker.bsky.social. The paper, which is accepted for publication at @The_JOP, can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

🔠Labeling multimodal social media data is costly. ➡H Chen, J Bisbee @jatucker.bsky.social & J Nagler propose five metrics to assess the costs/benefits of multimodal versus text only labeling, illustrated through a tweet labeling experiment www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🧵1/ 🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇 🔗 politicsexperiment.com

So excited to see this article in print! Incredibly proud of all the amazing work done on this article by my incredible co-authors, but extra special shout out to @hwaight.bsky.social & @solmg.bsky.social, co-first authors on the piece. See the 🧵 👇

I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...

“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a chemist at the University of Mississippi... "“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

Absolutely brutal.

Exactly!! Why is more not being done in this regard??

Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A provocative piece on a different type of AI threat -- what if instead of being used to develop a bioweapon, it simply was used to make people believe a biological threat existed? How might they respond, and what would the consequences be? www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/a...

Join us as a research engineer @ CSMAP. 1. Collaborate on deploying and fine-tuning LLMs/LMs - build your AI chops 2. Big compute resources and data infra already in place 3. Access to largest social data collections on earth 4. Smart & teched up co-workers who know their isht

💡 Ever wondered how social media and digital technology shapes our democracy? Join our team @CSMaP_NYU as a Research Engingeer and help us build the tools that power cutting-edge research on the digital public sphere. 🚀 Apply now! apply.interfolio.com/165833

💡 Ever wondered how social media and digital technology shapes our democracy? Join our team @CSMaP_NYU as a Research Engingeer and help us build the tools that power cutting-edge research on the digital public sphere. 🚀 Apply now! apply.interfolio.com/165833

Read a summary of the paper here:

Congrats to the authors @andreucasas.bsky.social, @oms279.bsky.social, @jpayson.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, Richard Bonneau, & Jonathan Nagler. The paper, which is accepted for publication at @thejop.bsky.social, is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Amid growing DC gridlock, state legislatures play a vital role in shaping policy. But how do state lawmakers decide which issues deserve their attention? Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper is the first large-scale multi-state analysis exploring this question www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Some real heavy hitters speaking on the #StiglerAntitrust25 panel about algorithms and AI: @juliaangwin.com, @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, and Georgetown's own @paulohm.bsky.social 👀👀 Tune in!

Thanks to @engagingnews.bsky.social for welcoming me to Austin, their feedback on our research, and for being a great audience!

Join us at the NYU Jordan Center for ""Living as a Central Asian in Urban Russia in the Aftermath of the Crocus City Hall Attacks" in person or on Zoom starting at 4:00 PM ET jordanrussiacenter.org/events/livin...

Re-upping this for obvious reasons …

Next up at #StiglerAntitrust25, we take a look “under the hood” of the algorithms that structure the digital public sphere with this panel exploring the technical mechanisms governing contemporary online discourses. Watch live now: chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/events/livestream

Participating in a timely virtual event on Monday, March 31 at 12 EDT. Hosted by @nyujordancenter.bsky.social & Harriman Institute. With Kathryn Stoner, @oonuch.bsky.social, & @emmamashford.bsky.social, hosted by @jatucker.bsky.social & Alex Cooley. harriman.columbia.edu/event/the-ge...

Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.

We have great articles by @gregoryeady.bsky.social, @jatucker.bsky.social, @devincaughey.bsky.social, @stefan-scholz.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social, @small-schulz.bsky.social, @pedro-rodriguez.bsky.social, @carlislerainey.bsky.social, and more!

The spring issue of Political Analysis is out now and everything is open access! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Amazingly exciting work from our former @csmapnyu.org post-doc -- now Asst Professor at the University of Oregon -- @hwaight.bsky.social, as well as our colleagues Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts & @bstewart.bsky.social. A must read if you are interested in identifying Chinese state propaganda 👇

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Thread below.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Standing up for science in LA

CDS is hiring a Clinical Professor of Data Science. Teach ML, programming, and specialized courses in our 60 5th Ave building. Renewable contracts with promotion opportunities. Apply by April 1, 2025. For details, see: apply.interfolio.com/155349 #MachineLearning #ML #AIjobs

🔥🔥Harvard professors of government @ryanenos.bsky.social and Steven Levitsky (experts in democracy) urge Harvard to come to defense of American democracy, highlighting how “The defense of democracy transcends partisan or policy debates.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Measles has consequences: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feve...

Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...

Personalist regime watch. Everyone begs for relief. Trump gets leverage, extracts concessions. Repeat.

1/No one should breath easier because of auto exemption in US/Mexico/Canada tariffs. The damage to US credibility is already done. And they generate huge incentive for corruption as auto companies are over a barrel to maintain these carve outs. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org