Certainly comports w/ my personal experience

Biased as I am, this is a great paper on the limits of current generative AI models for learning about fundamentally subjective assessments (in this case, evaluating features of neighborhoods from photographs).

#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social - Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception - https://cup.org/3Kw6VkD - Paige Bollen, @joehigton.bsky.social & @msands.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

New working paper! - zikai.li and I look at the problem of assessing pre-trends using one of the "new" DiD methods - fixed effects regression imputation. tl;dr - don't use the same regression you used to impute post-treatment to also impute pre-treatment. osf.io/preprints/so... (1/14)

Best consumed in it’s entirety in one sitting… like their 1998 album

Excited to share this new project, coauthored w/ @brycejdietrich.bsky.social , a VR extension of our field experiment on racial avoidance on NYC sidewalks.

PSA: stay👏🏼 home👏🏼when👏🏼you’re👏🏼sick If you can’t stay home, wear a mask. Lots of sickness, including covid, going around. Chances are you have a vulnerable friend, colleague, etc and may not even know it. Do it for them, if not for everyone around who doesn’t want your germs.

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

In the modern era, even “riots” generate support, not backlash www.cambridge.org/core/service...

A close friend of mine sits on the board of Bophelo Daycare in Johannesburg, a place for children with severe disabilities. They're extremely well run & high impact, but have financial difficulties due to low enrolment. We've just sponsored a child from 6 months. If you want to match, please DM.

…Except for the UK, where Labour wants to discourage international students from coming here www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...

📢FUND DON’T FREEZE!📢 Join researchers and academics in DC on February 19th at 12 PM to stand up for research, education, and jobs! Federal attacks on science and academia put all of our futures at risk - let’s show them we won’t back down! RSVP Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

These are great roles -- postdoctoral positions with reasonable teaching load and an excellent research community (seminars every day, pretty much). In general, people in these positions tend to go on to secure good permanent roles afterward.

Well, it may be our last Super Bowl under the Philadelphia-founded constitutional order, so let’s do this #FlyEaglesFly 🦅

This year, 10 U.S. billionaires gained $787B in wealth. That's nearly 4X more than the $214B earned annually by all 3.2M U.S. public school teachers combined. In fact, more wealth went to a *single person* than to all teachers combined. Is that fair? This is what extreme wealth costs society.

Celebrate the holiday by roasting this bird (delete your Twitter account; it feels good 🎉):

Here’s a starter pack of people doing amazing experimental work on political issues —- please send on names of people here to add go.bsky.app/VgKGKz2

🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

going to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it

If you need some help on writing your job market materials, check out this resource below!

APSA is next week. Political scientists, go get your flu shot and COVID booster BEFORE traveling to Philly. Pack some N95 masks and hand sanitizer. Let's be responsible together!

An analysis by University of Michigan researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequential grading biases and the default order of students' submissions in Canvas. #AcademicSky #EduSky #Bias

We're hiring for a post-doctoral fellow in political science. A core part of the role is teaching on a core comparative politics course with amazing folk like @msands.bsky.social @pavisuri.bsky.social (and me!). tinyurl.com/5n743sma #psjobs

Need your help: I’m putting together a lecture on the use of generative AI in politics research. Please share your suggestions, especially where genAI is used in the actual research (ie, not just as a productivity tool), and working papers!

EuroWEPS VIII is here! We'll meet in Munich on Dec 15 to discuss designs/papers with a focus on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Oct 10.

Hello world, hello sky. Hope to see Elon’s ego die. Looking for fellow social scientists, data-wranglers, academic mamas*, live music lovers, and covid-avoiders to follow, especially if you have a sense of humo(u)r.