Join us on Thursday, 18 Sept, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social 🔹Tackling harmful online comments on news platforms: three field experiments 🔹More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

📢 In a new online field experiment, we find that #counterspeech with perspective-based messages can reduce online hate speech, and its 🌟amplification🌟 with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wow, thank you for helping to keep this alive. I get so many notes from people using this in their coursework.

The end of 538 is a huge shame - both for the incredible people who worked there, and for political and data journalism as a whole. I was lucky enough to work beside them for a few years and want to say a bit about what I think was so valuable that I hope doesn't vanish from the media landscape: 🧵

Out now open access at @ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in how people talk to each other online? Care about causal inference and/or NLP? Want to design and implement field experiments? Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Interested in how people talk to each other online? Care about causal inference and/or NLP? Want to design and implement field experiments? Come do a PhD with Dominik Hangartner, me, and a bunch of awesome people at IPL in Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

The US2020 project was not independent (and that's good) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimm...

I really like this development. But it's interesting how much effort is expended on post-publication review, rather than proper pre-publication code review like I used to do at 538. Maybe checking data munging & analysis should be an integral part of peer review, done by paid journal employees -

I've often wondered why we don't invite original authors on replications, especially ones that demonstrate issues with the original papers. It would increase code-sharing, transparency, and lessen the shame of retraction, which would be good for science.

New paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social with @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland

There but for the grace of god

Really interesting -- and I especially appreciate how easy to understand the charts are:

Professional software developers routinely release code that contains bugs. Expecting researchers to always do better than this is unrealistic and leads to defensive behavior

⬇️❗This is so crucial, we can all learn a lot from this exmple. I am glad I had @laurabronner.bsky.social reviewing my analysis code for this paper several times, and I think that's a huge asset of collaborative research.

We created a new dashboard for @zeit.de showing the current state of election polls in Germany ahead of the upcoming election in February. Also shows probabilities for govt. coalitions based on the polls. The full article version also features my favorite sparklines. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

A thread about being wrong: 5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong. This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

Offizieller Wahlkampfauftakt auf @zeit.de: Wir haben unseren Wahltrend neu gestartet. Bis 23. Februar zeigen wir nun tagesaktuell, wo die Parteien in den Umfragen stehen und welche Koalitionen laut unserer Simulation der künftigen Sitzverteilung möglich wären. zeit.de/wahltrend

This election is uncertain not just because the polls are close, but also because a decisive victory for either candidate is within a normal-sized polling error - and since the polls seem to be herding, a polling error may be likelier than usual. Great piece by @lennybronner.com :

😍 the use of baselines when reporting numbers

Made a chart

Underrated achievement: first load of laundry in a new apartment

One thing I'll miss about working from home with @ddimmery.com is hearing a giggle and knowing I will get a tweet in the next few seconds

sometimes brits are european

Wrote some thoughts on microblogging (derogatory)

Any technical job

Doing my part for gender equality by visiting Roman ruins