been inactive on bsky b/c i've been busy ruining things

#FirstView from @iojournal.bsky.social - How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment - https://cup.org/4n84OB6 - Nikhar Gaikwad, @kolbyhanson.bsky.social & @aliz-toth.bsky.social#FirstView

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

I know there are many crises at the moment but I would like us to discuss another one: bros talking crypto at cafes. It's inescapable and insufferable and someone do something.

NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

At a time when we're witnessing so much cruelty, it's crucial to recognize and credit good people doing thankless, benevolent, and sometimes therefore dangerous work.

🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities! Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

My two year old has started following me around and constantly asking "Mumma doing? Mumma doing?" and it's easily my favorite part of each day

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #polisky

Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Excited to be working from Madrid this year at @uc3m.es in the Fall and IE in the Spring!

Please share: Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for open science, design, aggregation, transfer..? Call open now with @egap.bsky.social egap.org/our-work/res... @awilke.bsky.social Deadline 31 October

Do you need a helping hand? Here’s where to find all kinds of help in D.C., from legal aid to housing assistance. 51st.news/a-guide-to-g...

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies,” writes Mohammed Mansour with the International Rescue Committee in Gaza. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’ These are questions we can’t always answer.”

🚨 Paper now as "just accepted" at @The_JOP. We ran the first WhatsApp deactivation experiment focused on multimedia content ahead of the 2022 election in Brazil. We find a reduction in users' recall of false rumors -- and, to a smaller degree, of true news. Null effects on attitudes. Full thread ⬇️

For those interested in what has been recently published on gender and politics in the global south, here's a roundup of some articles since Jan 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo... #GenderSky #PoliSky

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL). I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome! seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

The Trump administration made Jim Ryan's resignation one of the conditions of the DOJ's case against UVA's alleged DEI. The executive branch just taking over every institution in US society--quite authoritarian.

Dems will actually put money behind a guy with corruption or harassment charges rather than a progressive, eh? Cool cool

My book was just sent to press! It'll be available in print end of July. Focusing mostly on the topic of bureaucracy in Southeast Asia during the 20th c, the book develops an argument about how state-building can present headwinds for nation-building.

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

R2 thinks I should convert my paper into a letter b/c of poor evidence - meanwhile I've been trying to write a book instead, oops.

Wow, what a cool new research on #deliberation #climatechange #representation #gender @ajpseditor.bsky.social "Women's presence also shifts the content of deliberations toward prospective solutions for which women have socially recognized expertise..." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mango lassi, one of the best inventions used to explain rank choice voting, also an excellent invention. You go get those desi votes, Zohran.

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The intentional starvation of any number of people, but especially children, is undescribably cruel and yet our leaders choose to overlook it. It is becoming increasingly difficult to process this world.

Very psyched about this paper: PR systems tend to have more women in politics but “hidden majoritarianism” in the sub-national pipeline produces an over-representation of men.

My heart has been so heavy, thinking of all those on the borders, affected by this latest escalation. It has been taking me back to Kargil conflict, when we blacked out the windows every night after dark, turning off lights and putting up black paper on the windows. Hoping this ends soon.

🚨 pub day! we have a new paper out at the APSR on misinformation and vigilantism we show that debunking misinfo not only changes misinformed beliefs, but also reduces support for extra-judicial violence in both india & pakistan (joint work w @simonchauchard.bsky.social and Niloufer Siddiqui)

What can people doing field experiments learn from a new guide to lab experiments? @berkozler12.bsky.social discusses in today's blog and doesn't find that much blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Appalling and indiscriminate retaliation on Muslims currently happening in India as the state takes punitive actions against those who had nothing to do with the horrible Kashmir attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

Pope Francis spoke to the church in Gaza every single day since the war until his death

Dem leaders and operatives saying “focus on pocketbook issues,” completely miss that due process *is* a pocketbook issue. Tourists, students, investors, citizens all depend on rule of law. Just because lawlessness is state-sponsored, doesn’t mean it ain’t crime, and crime is bad for the economy.

The last functional hospital in Gaza city has been bombed and patients are strewn on the streets.

Foreign students are crucial to American innovation, and thus our prosperity. They are watching this mass purge of people who *have committed no crimes*, only arbitrarily-defined thoughtcrime. They are revising their plans accordingly.

Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here: mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...

So yeah, this:

Sitting here for nearly 6 months on a journal response after a submission because they can't find a reviewer. Please, good people, review. This is after spending 1.5 years at another journal waiting for a response + R&R feedback. System feels broken.

Classes will now include examples of patronage and clientelism from the US, streaming live

Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.