#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has stationed herself under the high chair, waiting for something delicious to fall. The tricky part comes when two equally tempting things drop at once... She can't decide which to grab first, so her choice looks completely random. 1/🧵

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#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a visitor at work: Roos Mulder. Wilma is keeping Roos firmly in her "line of sight" at all times; you never know when a treat might appear 🦴. As it happens, "line of sight" matters far beyond snack management. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview 🐶 Wilma sniffs spring flowers with great authority, certain she can tell every scent apart. Rhododendron? 🌸 Easy. Neighbour's tulip vs. this one? No problem. Is Wilma overconfident? 😏 Turns out, at least humans are. A new study by Heck, Benjamin, Simons & Chabris 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a visitor at the university: Lorenza Micacchi. As you can see in the picture, the two of them were talking about incentives 🍬🍪 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 yanked a jacket off the coat rack to get at treats in the pocket. Her defense: the jacket fell off during an earthquake, she's a victim of seismic forces 🫨. A convenient narrative from a beagle. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 turned 8 this weekend 🥳 So instead of reviewing her own misbehavior (food steals, couch crimes, selective deafness), we turn to the misbehavior of politicians. 🐾 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma is standing in the beautiful @au.dk park and can't believe it — it's mid-April, and the trees are still bare! 🪵 Where she grew up, it would already be lush and green by now. 🌳 1/🧵

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows a thing or two about being close to power. Strategically positioned near the dinner table, she is a genius in the art of being in the right place at the right time — waiting for the baby to drop the good stuff. 🍌 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 takes guardrails very seriously – so seriously, in fact, that she sleeps with one. But what about the guardrails for AI in public services? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has strong opinions about food. The smiley watermelon 🍉? Objectively delightful. Would she hire it over a plain onion 🧅? Absolutely. Is that bias? Would anyone even notice? According to @bxjaeger.bsky.social, @gpaolacci.bsky.social & Johannes Boegershausen — maybe not. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is on strike today... "sleep strike". But unlike real strikers, she has no union to back her up. Maybe she should look into that because her strike did not result in extra food rations. 🐾 1/🧵

"How Do Strikes and Lockouts Affect Applications to Danish Public Service Professional Education Programs? A Synthetic Control Analysis" by Christian Heide & @flokeppeler.bsky.social shows that strikes & lockouts led to fewer applications to those programs. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows a thing or two about signaling – a wagging tail means she's happy, and paws on a big pipe means business. 💪 But how do we know when a leader's signals are the real deal? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a lot of emotions when it comes to the dishwasher. Is it a source of leftovers? Or will it take her job? Humans may have similarly complicated feelings about AI systems — and a review by König and Mehrotra maps out a whole decade of research on that. 🤖💭 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 met a snowy friend today! ❄️ This poor bear tried to apply for social benefits to get some food in this cold weather, but could not receive support despite being eligible. A meta-analysis by @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social reviews 51 field experiments to find out what works: 1/🧵

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

#Wilmasreview For Wilma 🐶, figuring out how to recognize a good leader was always like solving a riddle of the Sphinx. A recent study by Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @farahsaid.bsky.social, Sonia Bhalotra, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming suggests... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 had an unexpected encounter with a deer the other day – and instead of running away, they just stood there peacefully! 🦌 It got Wilma thinking: why can some "natural opposites" get along just fine, while others struggle? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is concerned: What would happen if she were replaced by a Large Lego Model? 🧱 Who would sniff out all the treats? She checked the literature and found a new study by Feng and @yantochandra.bsky.social examining how Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping policymaking. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has been working with her new coworker ⛄ who seems rather cold. This makes Wilma think about how important leadership is for building warm collaboration among colleagues! A study by Kjeldsen, Bjørnholt, and Lund in public schools reveals how managers can melt the ice 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is learning to navigate on "her" new balance bike—turns out transformation takes practice, patience, and someone to show you the way! Speaking of guidance, a new @journalpa.bsky.social study by @carofischer.bsky.social and Breaugh explores how change agents ... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has spent most of her #postdog career at universities in the public sector. Now she is considering switching to the private sector, perhaps in the cleaning industry, specializing in cleaning under baby seats. The reason: delicious leftovers.🥕 🥙 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 turns her back on the new family member after a crash involving a Duplo train and a dog. Will citizens do the same when the government increasingly uses AI to make discriminatory decisions in the future? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 nervously eyes the dishwasher — will this machine take over her beloved plate-licking duties? This existential question about automation isn’t just for dogs. A recent review examines what AI and robots mean for human workers: 1/🧵

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new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Wrapping up #APPAM2025! Thrilled to have organized “Technology in Government: Analyzing Digital Transformation & Governance Challenges” panel with chair @cjheinrich.bsky.social and @ggvanryzin.bsky.social discussant Fantastic papers, sharp insights, and great discussion. Here’s the key takeaways

Join @flokeppeler.bsky.social at 3:30–5:00pm PST for “Precision Public Administration,” a look at how AI can help the public sector deliver personalized, preventive, and evidence-based services while strengthening state capacity.

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Join The People Lab! We’re hiring a Research Associate Fellow to run RCTs, design survey experiments, & study evidence use in gov’t. 2+ yrs of post-grad experience in applied behavioral science or public management research required. 👉 Apply: peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu/careers/

Super interesting interview on the use of AI in the classroom by the expert on AI and pedagogy at HKS @tedsvo.bsky.social - he's right, this is the big AI question we need to talk about more. www.wbur.org/upnext/2025/...

#WilmasVejledning i veludført vovsning: "Hvad sker der, hvis en uimodståelig kraft møder et urokkeligt objekt?" Beagler er berømte for opdragelsesresistens, men Wilma er opdraget af en tysker ( @flokeppeler.bsky.social ). Tysk er et godt sprog til kommandoer! youtube.com/shorts/rbG1O...

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 may be hesitant about making the next step, like people who people who want to take their next career step, maybe into the public sector. New research by Sciepura, Wall and @elizabethlinos.bsky.social shows that... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has been thinking about adding AI-teammates to her pack. Would that help her find more delicious treats? Well, this might work for making complicated decisions, like medical diagnoses. A study by Zöller et al. shows: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Flashback: Wilma 7 years ago as a puppy 🐶 It takes a lot of effort to raise a puppy, but a human baby takes extra effort! 👶 A new study by Pieter Vanhuysse, Márton Medgyesi and Róbert Iván Gál shows: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 tried in vain to get through this hole. She probably analyzed it wrong. Perhaps it would have been better if this had been done under AI assessment. Why? A study by Goergen, de Bellis, and Klesse shows that... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 sits proudly next to a child's beautiful drawing of her, and while she put zero effort into posing, she certainly considers this masterpiece quite an achievement worth an extra treat! 🤩 Speaking of effort versus achievement, a study by Cusimano, Kim, and Wong reveals... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview As a senior dog, Wilma 🐶 sometimes has a critical view on young people - especially if they interrupt her sleep! Does this relate to the workplace? A study by Daldrop, Homan, and Buengeler reveals: Young adults face barriers to leadership roles, not because they lack ability... 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 strikes a pose on the agility course - she thinks she is looking absolutely fabulous! 🤩 But should her good looks help her become pack leader? A meta-analysis by Courtright, Thurgood, Liao, Morgan, and Wang shows key findings about the role of beauty in leadership 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview While Wilma's 🐶 wooden friends behind her might look pretty convincing, they definitely can't fetch balls or review scientific papers like she can. Speaking of artificial companions, Wilma has been sniffing around some research about how AI is really affecting jobs. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 enjoys a walk with her basset hound friend from abroad. This made her think about movement across boarders-international labor migration. Researchers reviewed evidence whether skilled people leaving their home countries creates "brain drain" or "brain gain". The results: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 recently got a little assistance with her grooming because she recently read a study showing that a little (text) brush-up can lead to more success when applying for a job. In their study, @emmawiles.bsky.social, Zanele Munyikwa, and @johnjhorton.bsky.social test... 1/🧵

#WilmasReview On her walk, Wilma 🐶 spotted two cats. How could one beagle chase two cats? So she considered using the help of AI. But she was afraid of what the other dogs would think of her: Using AI could come at a cost in how others see you. A study examined the social evaluations of AI use: 1/🧵

#WilmasReview Wilma's sunday walk 🐶 took her past Aarhus Universitetshospital today. When Wilma sniffs around the hospital, she naturally thinks about doctors and patients, and a fascinating new study in Nature that tests an AI tool for diagnostic dialog in medicine. Some key findings: 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is very convinced of her leadership skills! For example, last fall she planted an apple tree that she received as a gift. Every day she "worked" with the tree, and now it is blooming beautifully. 🌳💮 Wilma wonders: Is there another way to test leadership skills? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is celebrating her 7th birthday 🎂 with a publication alert 🚨 Wilma consulted AI 💻 to generate ideas about presents for dog birthdays. While the AI 💻 suggests an enormous treat 🍬, Wilma's humans chose enjoying a sunny day outside with some healthy carrot snacks 🥕. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview A new little human 🚼 has moved in with Wilma 🐶. Naturally, she takes her responsibility as a "big sister" very seriously. So in preparation for family time, she read through a study by Hirani, Sievertsen and Wüst. The study shows: 1/🧵