Even odds between complaining about unclear gender signage on latrines versus surrendering NATO command to Russia

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments. My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

Please please please let all the university presidents see Disney and learn how easy it is

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

what are the most widely read digital newspapers by web traffic across the US and EU? do you know of any current repositories?

I swear If I ever find out who's telling my students they need to test models with ViFs...

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Skills & tools that nobody teaches you but that pay for themselves many times over in social sciences: 1. regex 2. Linux 3. Selenium & beautifulsoup 4. Git 5. SQL

Learn to love regex. Don't let ChatGPT steal the joy that could be yours

There needs to be a public forum for rebutting and shaming bad reviews in political science. Just got rejected on measuring ideology of LLMs bc reviewer "sincerely hopes we're never in a world where LLMs make policy so [doesn't] know why [they] should be interested" I've got bad news, buddy...

Mario Rabbids best series ever

regex is my favorite (and most useful) skill that nobody ever teaches

Uh oh #polisky Microsoft thinks we're more AI-replaceable than basically everyone arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935

41. Computational social science is a bizarre concept, creating by non-social scientists. You don't call all the people who do math in chem, bio, and physics "numbers scientists."

Get on my level

🔥 take: Nine and California are Blink-182's best albums

Statistics is 🔥

Thank you for inviting me to collaborate on the ideas and writing of the brief wit your great students! For anyone curious about the arguments but short on time, their Harvard Cyber clinic blog post condensed our contributions to the Massachusetts court.

Meet `azllm` by our team – an easier way to run multiple LLMs: - Many prompts on one model (batch) - One prompt on many models (parallel) - Custom settings per run - Supports propietary + local models (@ollama) - Parses responses (structured outputs) pypi.org/project/azllm/

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I don't think we have to concede the premise: there ARE conservative professors. They just also believe in science, which means modern MAGA conservatives don't consider them pure

If there's one thing voters just don't have any real world sensitivity to, it's prices

I see a lot of confusion about what it means for Republicans to "own" immigration. Does this mean increasing immigration salience helps Rs on average? Yes. But does that mean anything Rs do on immigration is popular? Absolutely not. Folks should remember: issue ownership can be lost.

This story is utterly nuts, and gets more so with each paragraph. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Even college students, much less regular folk, don't understand that professors are _the_ scientists. They think these are two different professions with different populations. We've got to communicate the research part of our jobs better

two months in and the US has already decisively lost the trade war

Competition is fierce these days but Bill Ackman is my front runner for Dumbest Fuck on the Planet right now

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

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Oopsies. "The formula for the tariffs ...does not make economic sense. ... But even if one were to take the Trump Administration’s tariff formula seriously, it makes an error that inflates the tariffs assumed to be levied by foreign countries four-fold." www.aei.org/economics/pr...

"basic approach" yeah no shit

Just want to point out that the math is bad and literally says we should decrease tariffs to countries with which we have a trade defecit

They forgot to render the subscripts in the text of their document. This is some undergrad on ChatGPT bullshit

I'm super ready for the post-AI economy where companies take pride in 100% human creative labor

Schrodinger's Texts: they're simultaneously classified and unclassified until the Atlantic publishes them and the waveform (hopefully) collapses

It’s finally here—just got my first author's copies of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular"! Excited for more folks to check it out. And hey, even if my evidence and arguments don’t win you over, at least the cover will look great in any room.