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Don Moynihan
3 days ago
New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
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Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized
A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-schedule-f-rule-finalized
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Jona de Jong
7 days ago
Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.
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WIRED
5 days ago
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of paramilitary tactical units—including ICE’s two Special Response Teams (SRT), CBP’s one SRT, and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC)—whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
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The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-cbp-srt-bortac-units-immigration-operations/
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 days ago
This
@bostonreview.bsky.social
piece by
@adambonica.bsky.social
and
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.
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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/
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Digital Democracy Centre
6 days ago
This week, we are welcoming our wonderful new addition to the
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social
and
@d-ias.bsky.social
teams:
@jolukito.bsky.social
! Velkommen til Odense og SDU Jo! ❤️ We are so excited to have you join us!
@claesdevreese.bsky.social
@lenafrescamente.bsky.social
@curdknupfer.bsky.social
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Brendan Nyhan
6 days ago
The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.
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Michael Klein
7 days ago
@jasonfurman.bsky.social
argues in this
@econofact.bsky.social
podcast that “affordability” is not necessarily worse now, but there are real concerns, especially with the costs of housing, childcare, and medical care. What policies could help? Or hurt?
econofact.org/podcast/is-t...
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Is There an Affordability Crisis? | Econofact Chats
Jason Furman notes that affordability isn't necessarily worse now than a year or two, or even decades ago. But there are real concerns too.
https://econofact.org/podcast/is-there-an-affordability-crisis
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Lindsey Cormack
8 days ago
The rise of Newsmax in official congressional e-newsletters is sort of amazing.
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Jeremy Berg
9 days ago
My quote of the day We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan
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David Garcia
10 days ago
We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions!
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...
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Doctoral Position in Social Data Science
Deadline: 15.02.2026
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9965e6f4078993fca823b1a7ed0b4aef54496e790
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Brendan Nyhan
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The Media and Democracy Project
13 days ago
Very important points here from
@noupside.bsky.social
&
@markhisted.org
Attn:
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@erictopol.bsky.social
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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Justin Hendrix
14 days ago
New podcast: Residents filmed federal agents killing nurse Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis. As local officials call for video evidence, Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo considers: Can social media footage actually deliver accountability and justice in cases of state violence?
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Documenting Terror on the Streets of Minneapolis
A conversation with Inequality.org managing editor and Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo.
https://www.techpolicy.press/documenting-terror-on-the-streets-of-minneapolis/
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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
18 days ago
HCDE Professor Kate Starbird has been named an ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing. She's recognized for contributions to understanding and improving information ecosystems, including during crisis events and addressing misinformation.
www.hcde.washington.edu/news/article...
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Professor Kate Starbird named ACM Fellow for advancing research on misinformation and information ecosystems
HCDE Professor Kate Starbird has been named an ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing, for her groundbreaking research on misinformation and online information ecosystems. The honor recogn...
https://www.hcde.washington.edu/news/article/2026-01-21/professor-kate-starbird-named-acm-fellow-advancing-research-misinformation
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Jamie Cummins
18 days ago
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵
regcheck.app
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RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
https://regcheck.app
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Taha Yasseri
18 days ago
Chapter 2: Duncan Watts &
@davidlazer.bsky.social
reflect on how the field has evolved from early simulation models to today’s large-scale data and experiments, and ask how can computational social science move from producing insights to having real societal impact?
@nunetsi.bsky.social
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Niels G. Mede
21 days ago
Looking forward to visiting
@unileiden.bsky.social
and speaking in the research seminar series of
@cwtsnl.bsky.social
this Friday. Come to CWTS or join online! 👇
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Brendan Nyhan
21 days ago
There is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on. Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as
@mashagessen.bsky.social
writes, while we still can.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
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Brendan Nyhan
21 days ago
The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections
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Sociological Science
26 days ago
NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States"
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Don Moynihan
24 days ago
The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/report/ameri...
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Justin Hendrix
23 days ago
OpenAI today:
openai.com/index/our-ap...
Useful perspective from Daniel Barcay from November:
www.techpolicy.press/advertising-...
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International Conference on Computational Social Science
25 days ago
Please take a moment to fill out our survey here 4/6:
forms.gle/TMAXn63g2sgB...
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IC2S2 2026 One Day Virtual Option
Exploration of inclusive options for those who cannot travel to the US
https://forms.gle/TMAXn63g2sgBtYPe7
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International Conference on Computational Social Science
25 days ago
Conference update: IC2S2 Virtual Day. While Vermont is an incredibly kind and welcoming state, national policies and federal actions have a real impact on conference access, particularly for people from countries who cannot enter the US due to federally enacted travel bans. 1/6
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Emily M. Bender
24 days ago
So all of the info on Wikipedia is shared under a Creative Commons Share Alike license. Does this mean that MSFT, Meta and Amazon will be making their models freely available?
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Center for an Informed Public
24 days ago
No matter what your politics and/or values are at this moment,
@cip.uw.edu
co-founder
@katestarbird.bsky.social
writes in a blog post that "it’s vital to understand the online dynamics and political strategies that are shaping how we see the world."
www.cip.uw.edu/2026/01/15/f...
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Framing the killing of Renee Nicole Good
Within minutes of her death in Minneapolis, efforts began to shape how audiences interpreted the available evidence.
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2026/01/15/framing-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/
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Alondra Nelson
24 days ago
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee4900
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Laura K. Nelson
24 days ago
For social scientists interested in LLMs for text classification/coding, the process here is potentially very helpful (even if you don't use the product itself). Their core technique: Contradictory Example Training Their training method: Binocular Labeling More details in the linked post below.
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LSE Impact Blog
26 days ago
🗣️"Six papers accounted for nearly half of all research references across hundreds of articles."
#SocialMedia
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Why fear still sells research on screen time - Impact of Social Sciences
Regardless of quality research that deploys fear based framing drives public debate on screen time for children.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/12/01/why-fear-still-sells-research-on-screen-time/
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Alondra Nelson
25 days ago
“Not only is AI-driven work prone to circling the same crowded problems, but it also leads to a less interconnected scientific literature, with fewer studies engaging with and building on one another.”
www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-has-supercharged-scientists-may-have-shrunk-science
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Soziologisches Institut SUZ - Universität Zürich
26 days ago
An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Soziologie zu besetzen. The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in sociology starting on 1 August 2027.
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Professur für Soziologie – Professorship in Sociology
An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Soziologie zu besetzen. The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in sociology starting on 1 August 2027.
https://www.suz.uzh.ch/de/institut/stellen/2026-01-14-professur-soziologie-uzh-2027.html
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Dominik Schraff
25 days ago
Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods:
www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
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Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods
At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...
https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/vis-stilling/vacancyId/892696
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CS2Italy
25 days ago
1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri
@tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️
cs2italy.org
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Katie Drummond
25 days ago
Hey!
@wired.com
is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like
@timmarchman.bsky.social
@mollytaft.com
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@emilymullin.bsky.social
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Senior Editor, Science
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers/job/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY/Senior-Editor--Science_R-22648-2
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Katrin Weller
25 days ago
Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by
@snurb.info
. Full program and registration details at:
www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...
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Social Media Access Days
Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access.
https://www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell/Veranstaltungskalender/Einzel/20260317SocialMediaAccessDays_event.html
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Nir Grinberg
27 days ago
New paper out in
@pnasnexus.org
: We show how skewed social media data can still be used to reliably estimate unemployment, not just nationally but down to the city level. 📈
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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Can social media reliably estimate unemployment?
Abstract. Digital trace data hold tremendous potential for measuring policy-relevant outcomes in real-time, yet its reliability is often questioned. Here,
https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf309
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Digital Democracy Centre
about 1 month ago
PHD AND POSTDOC POSITIONS AT THE DIGITAL DEMOCRACY CENTRE Topic: AI and the News Ecosystem See thread by project PI
@claesdevreese.bsky.social
below. Please help circulate and/or apply.
#polcomm
#academia
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
This is the current front page of the Times. The Washington Post is even worse. Their headlines are privileging the accounts of the administration with a track record of lying as being as valid as eye witness accounts and videos.
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Alexander Wuttke
about 1 month ago
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
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Jake Grumbach
about 1 month ago
🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education…
dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io
Massive public goods provision from
@devincaughey.bsky.social
&
@chriswarshaw.bsky.social
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Jameel Jaffer
about 1 month ago
Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
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Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/nyregion/mamdani-revoke-israel-orders.html
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Philip Leifeld
2 months ago
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN511/l...
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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at The University of Manchester
Recruiting now: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN511/lecturer-or-senior-lecturer-in-artificial-intelligence
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Political Networks is crossing the ocean, to the UK August 4-7!! Should be great.
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Philip Leifeld
about 2 months ago
2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring.
#SNA
#polinetworks
#polnet
#polisky
#networkanalysis
#politicalnetworks
#politicalnets
#policynetworks
#complexsystems
#netsci
#polmeth
#polisci
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Jake Grumbach
about 1 month ago
A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms
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Pepper Culpepper
about 1 month ago
“A recurring feature of bubbles is how often they find new ways of democratising gambling.” Hard to time, but not hard to spot. Incisive from
@financialtimes.com
’s John Plender.
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How the bubble bursts
AI-fuelled market euphoria is a new telling of an old story that will not play out differently this time, writes John Plender — but it may have some way still to go
https://www.ft.com/content/7987310a-5c90-4976-b730-3559502006e2
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Political Science Research and Methods
about 1 month ago
✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech? ➡️
@gloriagennaro.bsky.social
et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Peter Baker
about 1 month ago
A compelling graphic look at all the ways that Trump and his family and friends have been monetizing the White House in his second term to enrich themselves more than any presidential clan has ever done before.
@lazarogamio.bsky.social
Amy Schoenfeld Walker
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Jeff Horwitz
about 1 month ago
We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
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Yoel Roth
about 1 month ago
Requested a correction from
@princetonupress.bsky.social
. Let's see what happens.
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