Are you a CSS researcher using LLMs for text annotation tasks? Do you integrate the results into downstream statistical analyses? Turns out, even with SOTA models you have a 31-50% chance of coming to wrong conclusions this way! Learn more about this and mitigation strategies in our new preprint 👇

TODAY Aug 28 - "Politics in 60 Seconds: Short-Form Video, TikTok, and Political Communication" at #APSA2025 - 2 PM, VCC West Ballroom B Chair: @eunjikim.bsky.social. Discussant: @mollyeroberts.bsky.social

Just made this little diagram and it's so pretty! {ggdiagram} is really neat for these types of graphics #rstats (code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

Currently in FirstView: In “Crowdsourced Adaptive Surveys,” @yamilrvelez.bsky.social introduces a methodology (CSAS) that converts open-ended text from participants into survey items and applies a multi-armed bandit algorithm to determine which questions should be prioritized in the survey.

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

Ryan speaks so well to this moment - how we the faculty have held our universities to a higher standard, how we can move them to right action by speaking loudly and together, and how universities will only continue to on the right side of history through our effort.

Excited to present our large-scale algorithm audit study where our team collaborated with 30 political parties to investigate bias in political ad delivery at the #AlgoSoc2025 conference! Come to the poster session at 17:30 today if you want to know more :) favstats.github.io/EuroAlgos/po...

🧵 Germany is heading toward a new ⚫️🔴GroKo, and Merz and SPD are pushing through a constitutional reform that will allow €1.000 billion in new debt. What happened to the CDU’s promise of budgetary rigor? Our WP with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social sheds light on this. Let’s talk coalition politics.👇

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

To universities: He pushed you to rewrite websites, he is pushing you to the next line. What are you going to do?

New WP with @vincentab.bsky.social @ryancbriggs.net. We use LLMs and RAs to track publication trends in polisci. Here’s how subfields have changed in AJPS and JOP osf.io/v7fe8

The French Parliament has just brought down Michel Barnier’s government via a vote of no confidence – a first since 1962. A 🧵 on what is happening, what to expect next - and how the far right is capitalizing on the crisis.

As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here: jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/ And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...

I didn't even notice CRAN already approved it, but our (@benguinaudeau.bsky.social & @favstats.bsky.social) #rstats package to interact with 🦋 got an update 😁

Seriously? Not a single woman instructor, presenter, or organizer for a two week workshop. Do better. www.law.northwestern.edu/research-fac...

Excited to share my latest paper out at PSRM "Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs" with Peter Loewen, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social, @sborwein.bsky.social and @blakelw.bsky.social.Open access here: bit.ly/49gEWg3

Our Bluesky #rstats package has made its way to CRAN 🥳 @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social

We had to rename our ATproto/Bluesky #rstats package as CRAN does not allow submitting packages that already existed at some point (even archived once). So here we (me + @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social)(re-)introduce {atrrr}: jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/

Genuinely opening a colleague's script to smoothly transition again into working after the X-Mas break. When suddenly... 🤌😵

Inspired by the monotony of my review queue, here are 10 open American politics research questions that DO NOT involve the attitudes of Democrats and Republicans and can be answered with public data Please, study literally anything other than the attitudes of Democrats and Republicans. Here we go!

🇫🇷📊 Si 62% des Français pensent que le RN sort renforcé de ce vote, plus d'un Français sur deux jugent que E. Macron (52%), E. Borne (50%) ou leur parti Renaissance (53%) en sortent au contraire affaiblis. Les LR sortent plutôt renforcés (37%) aux yeux des Français.

Can't wait for the chapter on the *FLYING DUTCHMAN*. If only they had known that *E=MC2 TROOPER* #AoE

A vast, covert Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.

Our lab is recruiting 3 postdocs! Feel free to reach out if you need information.

Try By @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social jbgruber.github.io/atr/index.html

Happy to share my working paper with @lenamariahuber.bsky.social on social group appeals and political representation that is now online as a pre-print and titled "Parties’ Group Appeals as Representative Claims: A New Perspective on Parties’ Efforts to Connect with Voters" 🤓 osf.io/a9sf6

CfP: Supporting Women in International Political Economy Conference When: April 12 Where: UPenn What: Mentorship, feedback, solidarity! Who: Junior women & non-binary scholars (post-PhD) Submit full drafts by December 15: forms.gle/Waj2dejPtf3d... Register to attend: forms.gle/oLddU2Jgdxnc...

TIL that a "greedy algorithm" is called a "glutton algorithm" in French. Now I can't think of anything but Wolverines 😄

{ATR} made it on the very *private* and *official* list of at-proto community projects! 🤩 *Hustler voice* Collecting data on Bluesky from #rstats has never been so easy

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

Periodic reminder for folks working on German politics and using #rstats : The #Bundestag deployed an API about a year ago. {tidybundestag} is your new friend to query all sorts of parliamentary documents and metadata. github.com/benjaminguin...

Today is international pagination day, I guess. An APSR (led by @liorsheffer.bsky.social & on legislators play ultimatum games) received pages 1429-1447. A JLS (w @benguinaudeau.bsky.social & Tinette Schnatterer on German Policy Agendas) got pages 485-497. I couldn't be happier with these numbers.👍

We just launched the (Beta) project website for our framework ValiTex on how to validate computational text-based measures www.valitex.info. 👉Scroll the page for info (🔗paper arxiv.org/abs/2307.02863) 👉Download a checklist for different use cases 👉Let us know what you think about it polisky cssky

Preparing the R-Volution with my body DALLE-3. #rstats

🚨 New package 🚨 So excited to make {atr} public! 🥳🤩 Since the new place would not be that new if the data were not easily accessible from #rstats, we got you covered! Props to my amazing partners on this quick project! 😍 👇👇👇

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back from summer break and starts again next Wednesday 🎉 More info on dates, our amazing speakers, and how to join ⬇️ polisky #cssky

I am very much looking forward to the CPPE talks put together by Christina Zuber and being a part of such a fantastic line-up! polisky

🚨 I have an opening for a PhD position (4-year) in my team in the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, starting Jan 1, 2024. Join our vibrant research environment and come to beautiful Zurich, Switzerland! Focus of the position is on studying the #digitaltransformation of politics.

Hey German #rstats & train users: I discovered yesterday that the new interface on bahn.de uses a pretty open API. So naturally, I wrote a quick R wrapper package. Introducing {zugr} 🚆 github.com/JBGruber/zugr

Tell me you moved to the US without telling me.

I don't really understand how such warnings are triggered but I really like the idea of having those warnings.

Hurrah! Oeberst, Imhoff, and the beginning of the end for those telephone books of 'psychological bias'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How to make the good place even better 👇

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.

Bluesky is delivering in terms of transparency. It is possible to query the complete stream of events happening on the platform

Since academics all seemed to have moved here, let me share this again: We are hiring a TT assistant prof in computational social science at Georgetown’ McCourt school. Amazing department & you get to live in the best city in the US. Here is the ad: apply.interfolio.com/132215

A person is waking up after 6 months in coma. Person: So everybody is hanging around on Mastodon? Everybody: Well...