To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky

political consultants discovered sUrVeY eXpERiMenTs📝✨

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇

James Tilley & Sara Hobolt's newest publication finds that narcissistic personalities fuel affective polarization in the UK. Narcissism predicts both loyalty to in-groups and hostility to out-groups, deepening political divides. #AffectivePolarization Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I would argue that prejudice existed at comparable levels before, but people were more willing to signal tolerance when the economy was thriving. Yet this period of economic optimism was not enough to entrench such beliefs or elevate them from pragmatic acceptance to genuine idealism.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Had a great time at my first #PolMeth conference! Grateful for the chance to visit Emory and Atlanta, meet brilliant folks, and share some work-in-progress “Using AI to Explain Classifiers: A Framework and Application to Text-Based Experimental Outcomes.”

Bsky has a thread composer now. To celebrate, here is a thread about our recent paper on antiwar attitudes and actions in Russia. In August 2022, we asked ~1000 Russians about their feelings regarding the war in Ukraine and whether they did or planned to do anything to oppose it. #polpsy #socialpsyc

Photo evidence that #EPSA2025 went more than well! Thanks to Madrid and to @epssnet.bsky.social

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Vincent Ostrom argued that both the Soviet Union & the American state masked imperialist dynamics with rhetoric of freedom. Moreover, he argued against relying on notions of state sovereignty, arguing that instead we should build relations of self-governance.

I'm revising my undergraduate module on 'Psychology of Crowd Behaviour', including a new topic on 'Crowds & Leadership'. The new reading list includes the following. Essential reading: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study by @matthewcebul.bsky.social & J. Pinckney asks “How do nonviolent alternatives affect international support for violent rebel groups?” Surveys across 30+ countries find “alternative resistance options consistently reduce support for armed rebellion…” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎉 Thrilled to be at my first EPSA in beautiful Madrid —and to be busy in the best way! I’ll be: 🔹 Chairing and presenting at the panel "PUBOPI – Personality and Emotions" 🗓️ Sat, 28 June | ⏰ 09:30–11:10 | 📍 Room 1A.13

100% yes, at least as long as Europe will not normalize having ACs

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasi...

From a political psychology perspective, what astonishes me about U.S. political culture is how deeply allergic people across the spectrum are to engaging with positions — and facts — that challenge their political imagination.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Effective non-democracies, for sure, challenge democratic legitimacy. While effective public services provision isn’t inherently a feature of democracy, democracies historically held an edge here—and that success helped people embrace and internalize democratic values.

À mes contacts francophones sur Bluesky: Quelqu’un aurait-il un moyen plus direct de contacter la rédaction du Monde (@lemonde-en.bsky.social) que l’adresse mail officielle? J’ai une question sur les données utilisées dans cette enquête, pour un projet de recherche. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

I think it’s the perfect time for European, Canadian, and Mexican universities to establish systematic programs allowing international undergraduates from the US to finish the degree. As for PhD students, I’d like to see more visiting positions with a minimal stipend sufficient for survival.

In this research note, Kit Rickard (@ethzurich.bsky.social), @critgeopolitics.bsky.social, @kristinmbakke.bsky.social and John O'Loughlin (@colorado.edu) highlight the pitfalls of wartime polling, drawing on lessons from panel surveys in Ukraine before and after Russia's 2022 invasion.

I’ve open‑sourced all content from my talk Retrieving  &  Generating Data with LLMs in Python on my Github, along with slides. 🔓 10 Jupyter notebooks that show how to turn messy text into clean, structured data, all with GPT‑4o‑mini & the OpenAI API. Details on applications below🧵

A study of 22 rural communities in Poland looks at how female friendships influence women’s decisions about how many children to have. Educated women with more emotionally supportive friends outside their kin networks have fewer children. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Nice piece on our article on affective polarisation and the dark personality of leaders, w @kgattermann.bsky.social @fredericofs.bsky.social Diego Garzia, Loes Aaldering TLDR: dark traits of in-party leaders associated with higher affective polarisation in their (closest) followers

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

Are there people here who transitioned to using Julia after working with STATA or R? If so, what has your experience been like? I understand that Julia isn’t yet a full-fledged replacement for STATA or R, but have you found specific types of tasks where Julia provides significant marginal utility?

These turbulent times make it hard to stay productive - especially while TAing, taking classes, and preparing for my qualifying exam. So much stress that I barely noticed this week I submitted two papers to journals. It’s rare to feel proud and grateful to myself. I need to remember this feeling.

We are excited to release the OpenThinker2 reasoning models and data: 1. Outperforms DeepSeekR1-32B in reasoning. 2. Fully open source, open weights and open data (1M samples). 3. Post-trained only with SFT. RL post-training will likely further improve performance. github.com/open-thought...

This slide deck from @yiqingxu.bsky.social and co-authors on issues with TWFE in Political Science based on their large re-analysis study that's conditionally accepted in APSR is really great. Key takeaways below. yiqingxu.org/papers/engli...

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc... Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible. Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social ! #rstats #tidyverse

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I just posted a new notebook: Causal Inference with the 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 📦 for #Rstats. It introduces the idea of G-Computation and tries to demystify the differences between ATE, ATT, and ATU. This is a first draft and I would looove any feedback! marginaleffects.com/chapters/gco...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

Thrilled to have contributed my small part to this amazing paper as part of such an amazing team of researchers!

Since their rollout, I have made heavy use of the custom GPT tools in ChatGPT. Here is a thread of some of the tools that I use regularly (all of them require ChatGPT 4). I think they are most useful for people doing quantitative social science, but some are more general.

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions. See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al: —PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2... —Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)

I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society. I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

However "crazy" we may find Elon Musk's recent behavior, part of what makes it dangerous is that he is *not* perceived as a "crazy far-right person". He has a reputational shield, built outside of politics, which makes him very well placed to influence voters who are not diehard extremists. 1/4

Sneak preview of upcoming package: Need N(0,1) random draws seven times faster than base #Rstats [^1] ? Exponential and uniform too? Then consider `zigg`, a fresh zero-dependency reimplementation of Ziggurat. More at github.com/eddelbuettel... [1] on my machine ...

Fascinating look at the demographic correlates of neighborhoods and their online communities on Nextdoor by Tao & @mariannealq.bsky.social doi.org/10.1145/3678...

Research suggests a committed minority can overturn an established norm with a critical mass of ~25% of the population (> the 10% other studies have argued), showing good agreement between experimental and theoretical predictions for the tipping point: https://buff.ly/47zz7Jw

Just wow! Gonna test today

Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how? Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)

In my article ”What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?”, I show that low statistical power presents an obstacle to learning about cross-national differences. A thread below: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨In Science🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/ [X->BSky repost]