Last call! Nominate your mentor in Pol Comm by April 1!

Pol comm scholars! Who has had a big impact on your career? Why don't you thank them by nominating them for this great new award? I'm on the committee, so send it my way!

I'm chairing the brand new "Excellence in Mentoring in Political Communication" award, with @lpargyle.bsky.social, Michael Chan and Dan Myers--please nominate scholars who you believe have supported the next generation of scholars through advising and other forms of mentorship!

Looking for a tl;dr for these two excellent papers? I've got you covered: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 @lpargyle.bsky.social, @ethanbusby.bsky.social and colleagues discuss in a Perspective the challenges and opportunities related to scientific inference with LLMs in the political and social sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #PoliSci 🔓https://rdcu.be/eGwK9

Our paper! @ethanbusby.bsky.social Alex Lyman, Bryce Hepner, Josh Gubler, David Wingate

Excited to see this excellent collection of papers come out! Many thanks to @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Daniel Karell

Day 1 keynote - Continuing the LLM conversation, Lisa P. Argyle presented “Arti-fickle’ Intelligence: Using LLMs as a Tool for Inference in the Political and Social Sciences.” Which guidelines do you resonate with the most to establish the failure and success of LLMs? #ic2s2

📣 Super excited to organize the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ at COLM @colmweb.org!! Check out our website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e... Call for submissions (extended abstracts) due June 19, 11:59pm AoE #COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience

Are you a PhD student in Political Science or Sociology interested in religion & public life? Apply for a *fully funded* opportunity to join us this summer (June 16-21) as part of the inaugural Wheatley Seminar in Religion & Politics. Apply by March 31. Details here: wheatley.byu.edu/religionsemi...

Ok, thread time. Closed-ended survey responses are efficient and easy to analyze, but limit what respondents can say. Open-ended responses are useful for letting respondents answer with more depth in their own words (as opposed to yours).

Gloria in excel sheets deo

Love working with the brilliant @shugars.bsky.social!

Join us in Puerto Rico to talk AI and Political science! Deadline Friday

Computational Political Scientists: @EthanBusby and I are organizing a CWC at @spsanews on Generative Language Models. Apply by August 16; Conference in Puerto Rico Jan 8 - 11. Please apply and circulate widely! forms.gle/vJoU2ZaMp773... polisky

This is such a a cool service to provide, and a spectacular team to work with!

we just released the call for teams for the 2024 Cooperative Election Study! cces.gov.harvard.edu/news/call-te...

This is such a cool and exciting project!

Recent study by Lisa Argyle, Chris Bail et al. showing that using an LLM to suggest rephrasings in conversations about divisive topics can improve perceived conversation quality and feelings of democratic reciprocity — without any apparent manipulation of political views. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🤖 AI can improve the quality of political conversations online without manipulating policy positions 🤖 Great AI-Mediated Communication (AIMC) study from @lpargyle.bsky.social @chrisbail.bsky.social Busby, Gubler, Howe, Rytting, @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social & Wingate doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311627120

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

No better first 🟦 than a new paper! Hot off the press at PNAS: "Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale." Real-time recommendations from an LLM improve divisive conversations. Open access at: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...