David Lazer
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Ethan Mollick
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Want to talk to the past? Here' an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 & 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library" Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian.
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Brendan Nyhan
about 13 hours ago
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
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Rebekah Tromble
about 16 hours ago
Lots of replies and quotes asking how this is working out for CBS. But we donât need to look far for a reminder that it often makes business sense for the wealthy to take over communication platforms and use them for more profitable political aims, even at a financial loss to that platform.
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Henry Farrell
about 17 hours ago
Does the NYT have a reporter with a specialized beat in social movements? I'm guessing not, and I'm furthermore guessing that this is part of the problem. Certain kinds of politics do not compute in standard journalism unless you have someone whose particular job is to understand and explain them.
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Cameron Blevins
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đŁ New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908:Â
cblevins.github.io/mail-time/
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How Fast Was the Mail?
Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882â1908.
https://cblevins.github.io/mail-time/
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Don Moynihan
4 days ago
They will have the troops wear slippers before the admit there are boots on the ground
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Leanne C. Powner
4 days ago
I have said it before and I'll say it again. Academia is NOT a good place to build self-esteem. Poorly described work targets, amorphous deadlines, inadequate credit for the teaching that pays the bills, lots of anonymous evaluation of your work. All of that feels like an evaluation of your
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One of my favorite, underutilized network datasets.
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Prof Dynarski
4 days ago
New data drop from IRS useful for studying labor markets & migration
www.irs.gov/statistics/s...
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SOI tax stats - Migration data | Internal Revenue Service
Migration data for the United States are based on year-to-year address changes reported on individual income tax returns filed with the IRS. They present migration patterns by State or by county for t...
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-migration-data
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Wow.
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Daniel Aldrich
7 days ago
Fire sale on my book Building Resilience which argues that
#socialcapital
- the ties that bind us - are critical for surviving and thriving during shocks
www.amazon.com/Building-Res...
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Kenny Joseph
9 days ago
I have been thinking for the last few years about ideologies and how they emerge in text. This paper, with
@davidlazer.bsky.social
and Kim Williams, reflects some of those thoughts, and how I think we can improve and expand on how we operationalize ideology in discourse.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.18945
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A conceptual framework for ideology beyond the left and right
NLP+CSS work has operationalized ideology almost exclusively on a left/right partisan axis. This approach obscures the fact that people hold interpretations of many different complex and more specific...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18945
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Kevin Yang
10 days ago
I'm organizing a Research with AI Agents Workshop Series, inviting colleagues and friends who have been actively exploring the application of AI agents to share how they're using them in their work and research. The first talk will feature Dr. Yanbo Zhang. See abstract and bio below. 1/2
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đŠ Seth Masket đŠ
10 days ago
You can't smell a flower, you can't eat a Swedish fish, you can't clip your toenails without an ID
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John Sands
10 days ago
I wrote about why
@knightfoundation.org
invested in
@bsky.app
: philanthropy can act when mission & opportunity align. We believe in
@jay.bsky.team
's vision for a better social webâ& in ideas (like
@masnick.com
's) that grow out of the research ecosystem Knight has long supported.
kf.org/kfbluesky
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Justin Hendrix
10 days ago
A new report from the Atlantic Council shows brokers and resellers facilitate global spyware deals that would be blocked under regional export rules, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos.
www.techpolicy.press/policymakers...
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Policymakers Ignore Spyware Middlemen Driving Global Proliferation
New Atlantic Council report shows the surge is driven by intermediaries, who act as key enablers in the global spyware supply chain, writes Vas Panagiotopoulos.
https://www.techpolicy.press/policymakers-ignore-spyware-middlemen-driving-global-proliferation/
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Dominique Baker
10 days ago
As my mentors have always said, every talk is a job talk
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MĂĄrton Karsai
10 days ago
đđ WE ARE HIRING!!! - Postdoc Position on Inequalities in Epidemic Processes đđ Join as a postdoc the Network Epidemics Group at the HUN-REN AlfrĂ©d RĂ©nyi Institute of Mathematics (Budapest) to work on behavior driven epidemics.
www.renyi.hu/node/4925
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Postdoctoral Position in Epidemic Modelling | HUN-REN Rényi Intézet
Inequalities in epidemic processes
https://www.renyi.hu/node/4925
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 days ago
"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.
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Lisa Oswald
11 days ago
I'm hiring a postdoc!
@goetheuni.bsky.social
Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. đ Frankfurt | âł 3 years | đ Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here:
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
(search for âpolitical behaviorâ to find it)
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Goethe-UniversitĂ€t â Zentrale Einrichtungen
Die Goethe-UniversitÀt ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europÀischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als StiftungsuniversitÀt ein einzigartiges Maà an E...
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zentrale_Einrichtungen
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V-Dem Institute
24 days ago
đą We are hiring: Combined Postdoc position at V-Dem Institute and GLD! Applications are open for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. Application:
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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#Polisky
#PoliSciSky
#PoliticalScienceJobs
#PostDoc
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Polnet is in Europe this year, super excited!!!
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Justin Hendrix
12 days ago
Recommended read from
@courtneyr.bsky.social
on the Coalition for Independent Technology Research lawsuit against the Trump administration for chilling speech and retaliating against researchers working in the public interest to study phenomena on tech platforms. (I am a member of the Coalition.)
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Dispatch from Europe: The Censorship Inversion
Writing from the land of the censors about a lawsuit against censorship by those who claim censorship by the Industrial Censorship Complex
https://courtneyradsch.substack.com/p/dispatch-from-europe-the-censorship?r=2nzssq&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Tech Policy Press
12 days ago
Deepfake financial fraud is a massive, growing problem. Justin Hendrix spoke with Alice Marwick (Data & Society) & Anya Schiffrin (Columbia SIPA) about their new report on the issue and the regulatory reforms taking shape around the world that could turn the tide.
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How to Regulate Deepfake Financial Fraud
Alice Marwick and Anya Schiffrin are the authors of a new report from Data & Society, Deepfake Financial Fraud: The Global Regulation of AI-Driven Scams.
https://buff.ly/9uRYhrx
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Alondra Nelson
12 days ago
Two TT jobs in technology and democracy at Northeasternâs Dublin Innovation Institute with the great
@davidlazer.bsky.social
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Dublin Innovation Institute
About the Opportunity Job Summary: Northeasternâs Dublin Innovation Institute invites applications for two open-rank faculty positions at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor...
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Assistant-Associate-Full-Professor--Dublin-Innovation-Institute_R138959__;!!NubF!Mi7qdHrXcvmWK9xl1KfcFeWHAWfs2nfmnojI7QCKbPE6M33vtmeDh78OzOoFbiS8bt5A5H7pk0cshbM$
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Thomas J Wood
12 days ago
This compares each market to the average post 2016 year:
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Daniel Aldrich
14 days ago
Our article with Timothy Fraser et al: Uneven paths: Soft Policy's benefits to recovery in Louisiana Parishes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita TL;DR: Top-down, state-led recovery policies are not significantly linked to recovery while bottom up ones are
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jennifer N. Victor
13 days ago
Iâm pleased to share that the academic paper that goes with the story linked here has just been accepted at Social Science Quarterly. đ„ł This is the first academic publication associated with
@scharschool.bsky.social
Learning Communities. It was a real team effort.
schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-12...
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For Young Voters, the Problem Isnât Apathy but Logistics
New research led by Schar School Associate Professor Jennifer Victor challenges the common belief that low youth voter turnout stems from apathy. Working alongside undergraduate researchers over sever...
https://schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-12/young-voters-problem-isnt-apathy-logistics
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Brendan Nyhan
15 days ago
Unprecedented corruption. Literally asking for billions of dollars.
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Brendan Nyhan
15 days ago
Extremely useful!
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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ
16 days ago
Not all news clicks teach us something. In POQ, Cardenal et al., using digital trace data, find that only article-level exposure to Ukraine storiesânot general news browsingâpredicted who learned about the Russian invasion. Read now:
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Krissy Lunz Trujillo
about 1 month ago
New paper
@jhppl.bsky.social
(w/ Michael Shepherd & Alee Lockman) where we find Americans who grew up (socialized) in rural areas are more likely to own guns, support the NRA, & hold more conservative firearm policy attitudes over the lifespan, even after moving away. 1/
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Don't Take Your Guns to Town? Rural Socialization and the Long-Term Politics of Firearms | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-12461771
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Check out CHIP50's most recent report, looking at immigration attitudes! Key takeaways: People lean towards strong disapproval, 49% to 37%, with enormous partisan divides. Independents disapprove about 2:1.
www.chip50.org/reports/amer...
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American Immigration Attitudes | The COVID States Project
Report #118
https://www.chip50.org/reports/american-immigration-attitudes
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William B. Fuckley
18 days ago
I am gonna double down on this a little: the reaction of many senior academics to fairly banal LLM takes like âtheyâre useful toolsâ is extremely unbecoming, & would, if I was your graduate student or junior colleague, actively make me feel like I had to either lie to you or de facto hobble myself
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Laura K. Nelson
18 days ago
This is exactly it. And I would emphasize one other thing: we, society, *will* figure out a better way to incorporate these tools into workflows. It's absolutely chaotic right now, with a ton of misuse. We're in a transition phase and we will figure it out. Right now is the most chaotic it will be.
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Conrad Hackett
18 days ago
We posted lots of great research about Buddhists today at
@pewresearch.org
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Julia Angwin
18 days ago
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI âExpert Reviewâ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academicsâwithout their consent.
https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-facing-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-ai-expert-review-feature/
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Sharon Lerner
18 days ago
Dismantling the fledgling harm-reduction effort, defense analysts say, is among several ways the Trump administration has reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made âlethalityâ a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties
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Jessica Hullman
19 days ago
A few people have asked for the syllabus from my grad seminar on Generative AI for social science -- just posted it here:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/10/n...
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New course on generative AI for behavioral science | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/10/new-course-on-generative-ai-for-behavioral-science/
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Don Moynihan
19 days ago
This is the way a lot of us would like to think we would respond to hostile questions in a Congressional hearing, but its rare to see a witness just turn the tables on a Senator like this.
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Stuart Soroka
19 days ago
I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with
@cbwlezien.bsky.social
in
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..."
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
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Negativity and Misinformation
There are large and growing bodies of research highlighting inaccuracies in news coverage. In this paper, we suggest that negativity biases account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccur...
https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2613647
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Jessica Hullman
20 days ago
Interesting paper. When science is cheap, multiverse analysis becomes the key abstraction for authors & journals to strategize for. These results suggest its the new unit of evidence authoring & review should accommodate. Related to some of my comments here:
substack.com/@jessicahull...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
19 days ago
In this systematic review and meta-analysis of up to 153 longitudinal studies: Social media use was associated with higher depression, behavioral problems, self-injury, and substance use, and lower self-perception and academic achievement
tinyurl.com/47z3anym
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APSA
19 days ago
APSA Centennial Center Research Grant applications are due Sunday! The
#CCRG
Spring cycle provides support for APSA
#members
who are contingent or
#communitycollege
faculty,
#faculty
in non-PhD departments, and
#gradstudents
. The new application deadline is March 15th!
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Due March 15th! APSA Spring Research Grants: Centennial Center Program | Deadline: March 15, 2026 -
The American Political Science Association (APSA) invites applications for the Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program, which provides awards of up to $2,500 to support research acrossâŠ
https://buff.ly/A3Bxsbm
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Dean Eckles
19 days ago
I'm giving the upcoming Online Causal Inference Seminar, this Tuesday 11:30am Eastern. I'll be talking about different doseâresponse functions you might want to estimate when treatment effects may spill over from one unit to another. Tune in & ask questions!
sites.google.com/view/ocis/home
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Ami Fields-Meyer
20 days ago
đ§” Some personal news: My new book, ON COURAGE â with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
@juliaangwin.com
â is available for pre-order NOW (out June 30). Itâs a deeply reported manual with sixteen lessons for how each of us can defy authoritarianism. Pre-order:
www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...
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Jameel Jaffer
19 days ago
ICYMI,
@thecoalition.bsky.social
@knightcolumbia.org
&
@protectdemocracy.org
filed a new First Amendment lawsuit earlier today challenging the Trump admin's denial of visas to tech researchers, tech workers, fact-checkers. Here's a post explaining why we're suing.
mailchi.mp/knightcolumb...
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Katrin Weller
20 days ago
Join us next week Friday, March 20, for a presentation by
@leticiabode.bsky.social
and
@pfchap.bsky.social
on "Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data". Registration required via
events.gwdg.de/event/1260/
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Better Access: A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data
Online platforms and services shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, but the ability to study these posts and content at scale has steadily diminished. Platforms restrict researcher a...
https://events.gwdg.de/event/1260/
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Patrick Chovanec
20 days ago
Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.
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Tech Policy Press
20 days ago
A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado RincĂłn, Simone Ruf and JĂŒrgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why itâs a major step for researcher data access.
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How Researchers Won a Legal Fight to Access X's Data Under the DSA
A Berlin court has delivered a consequential ruling, ordering X to grant Democracy Reporting International access to its publicly available data.
https://buff.ly/qSHSbbn
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