Less than a week until the PolMeth application deadline! I'm on the program committee, and look forward to reviewing submissions. If you're developing new methods or applying sophisticated approaches to substantive political questions, submit your work. Funds are available to support some attendees.

An essay in Science asks whether AI might replace grad students. I sympathize, but in my career, the pattern isn't students just catching up to me, they leapfrog me with newer methods. When the state of the art moves fast, that matters even more. So I won't be replacing grad students with AI.

For most of my career, research feedback was scarce. Now with AI-based review I can run a paper through a well-configured Claude project and get helpful substantive review at near-zero cost. The new problem isn't getting feedback, it's knowing when to stop seeking it. How are others managing this?

Adopting Inferential Network Analysis for my network analysis class next semester. Checked Amazon and discovered we've been critiqued for incompatibility with Bayes' theorem. How many Amazon reviews in history have invoked Bayes? We might be in rare company. 📊😂 Would love to hear more.

Not a bad way to kick off spring break. Yesterday we got word that "The Structure and Accelerators of International Treaty Cascades" was accepted at International Studies Quarterly. Olga Chyzh led this one, and we started it eight years ago. Eight!

Our team just published the Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) Data: an archive of social posts by U.S. elected officials. It includes 1. Data from 28,000+ U.S. elected officials 2. Text from 5.7M tweets & 450k Facebook posts 3. 2020–2024 coverage 4. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

We are very excited to have this out!

I had the fortune to help organize, speak at, and participate in, the second Open Scholarship Bootcamp at Penn State. The sessions emphasize resources that are helpful to maintaining open scientific workflows. Materials are openly available here! penn-state-open-science.github.io/bootcamp-202...

1/ 📢 New in Journal of Information Technology & Politics (OA): What if the biggest barrier to political participation isn’t apathy or ideology— but poor website design? We used eye-tracking to study how parties’ websites widen the digital divide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m thrilled to share new work out in Social Networks! In this project, randomly allocating students to teams permitted identifying causal effects of co-membership. Thanks to Sarah Gordon, Wayne Baker, Jose Uribe, and Cassandra Chambers for bringing me on! Ful article: 📄 lnkd.in/e9TyvnRX