I had the best time getting ✨multilingual✨ in R and Python at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🤗 Couldn’t ask for a more supportive group; very important when several hours of live-coding is involved 🙈

Our #EPSA2025 roundtable will be happening soon in the auditorium, see you there 🤩

So many things to love about this NYC result, from the policy possibilities it creates and generational change it delivers to the rebuttal of the naked and cynical Islamophobia Mamdani's opponents tried to stir up and the schadenfruede over dirtbag Cuomo's big sad. Today, I❤️NY!!

If you are attending #EPSA2025 and interested in uncovering the black box that is the postdoctoral job market, you're in luck! Marta Antonetti (LSE) and I will be hosting a roundtable on Thursday at 13:10 dedicated to the topic. 🧵👇

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

Kicking off the 2025 conference season in Chicago for #ISA2025 🎉 I’ll be around for the next week; my DMs are open for ☕️ or 🍻

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

heyyy there's a Connections: Strike Edition from the @nytguildtech.bsky.social (along with a bunch of others: nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-b...) 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

It is a beautiful day in Taiwan for an election! 台灣加油! 🗳️🗳️🗳️

German academia, alongside the government and media outlets, is misusing legacies of the Holocaust "to silence dissent while fostering xenophobia and Islamophobia." You can still sign this open letter here:

Are you researching TikTok? Or do you want to? Major update to #rstats `traktok`: search and download videos with just a regular account or use the full Research API: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2023-12...

It is not normal to absorb this much info about extreme violence. It is not normal to constantly think that only by pure chance, you could have been subjected to the same. I feel like something is eroding in our humanity, because we numb our feelings to deal with the terrible reality we live in

📢 Interested in how online censorship influences offline protests? Join us for Dr. Lisa Garbe's talk at @hertiesecurity.bsky.social. Dive into the dynamics of digital policy and its real-world impact. 📆 Thursday, 30.11 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (CET) Register 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

Just updated my #QuartoPub extension for generating accurate word counts (i.e. *including* references!) so that it can now count appendix content separately! #rstats github.com/andrewheiss/...

The utter stress of living in Germany these days I swear. On the bright side (other foreign) friends who were previously less outspoken on Palestine are becoming radicalized.

If you’re in Berlin or even just Germany can you sign this open letter supporting Oyoun which is having their funding pulled because they hosted a vigil led by a Jewish group docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

i am less convinced that AI is going to replace jobs than i am that companies are going to cut jobs on the premise of AI replacing them and then hire those people back as contractors for less money and fewer protections, because that’s what’s happened a *lot* in the last 20 years.

Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned of the 10/7 attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. She reflects: “A reconsideration of the nation-state as the sole source of safety, as well as the notion of a state-based sovereignty, is essential.” newlinesmag.com/first-person...

#AcWriMo November writing goal: Submit PhD dissertation 🫣

I've had a lot of convos w/ folks confused about the crackdown in Germany against the most basic support for Palestinians. This is deeply tied to Germany's Holocaust remembrance culture, which happens to be something I study. Here's a thread of resources in English for those who want to learn. 1/

Horrific xenophobic language from the leader of a purportedly center-left party, mirroring the Tories in the UK and Trumpists in the US, and a reminder that racism and white supremacy benefit white liberals & leftists as much as the right.

This sort of language legitimizes the racist policing of brown/queer bodies in Berlin that has escalated over the last few days. It’s always been complicated to be Jewish and racially ambiguous in this city. Things are getting worse.

Internet Archive Scholar? YES PLEASE! scholar.archive.org

More and more reports of violent spillovers from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are coming in. My research together with Jakob Enlund shows that the conflict violence does indeed increase hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the US. WP: lovechristensen.com/files/christ...

NEW: The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has faced criticism from advocates who say Republican politicians could weaponize it to target LGBTQ+ content. But the ACLU, EFF, and Fight for the Future said state AGs could also use it to censor info about abortion. 22 Democratic Senators cosponsor the bill

This looks fun: Massive fast fuzzy joins with {zoomerjoin}, a Rust/R package from Beniamino Green. statsky polisky

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

Check out this helpful article with best practices for academics on how to talk to journalists. Thank you @alicetiara.bsky.social for this great resource! citap.pubpub.org/pub/2ie80mi4... #academicsky #sociology

Surviving the breakup 🐦👋🏼 “as a platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away.” Polcom commsky polisky niemanreports.org/articles/npr...

TikTok is a digital news desert 📰 New algorithmic audit by Hagar & @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social finds that TikTok does little to recommend news to users and only slightly responds to users' news interest, not leading to increased exposure to credible news journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I don’t think @thierrybreton.bsky.social timestamped his letter yesterday to Musk. But the 24 hr deadline to respond will run out in a couple of hours, late in the day October 11 ⏰ Genuinely interested to see how X will address the responsibilities its has under DSA 🇪🇺 Commsky polcom eusky

New #rstats package incoming! 🚀 With the fantastic @benguinaudeau.bsky.social and @favstats.bsky.social, I introduce: {atr} A package to get and post things here on BlueSky! jbgruber.github.io/atr/index.html

Thanks to @bellingcat.com for putting out these investigations: www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10...

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

For those unfamiliar with the diaspora experience of living through major geopolitical events: Check-ins from outside of the community can be overwhelming for some of us. Consider whether your support is driven by a genuine sense of shared humanity, not racial/religious differences.

Those who are not Palestinians or Israelis, and those who do not study Palestine or Israel - I'm here to let you know that there is also the option of staying quiet. Perhaps even learning from others? Idk just a thought For real I cant understand the confidence yall have

Check out the program of the 2023 Digital Democracy Workshop, Oct 26-27, University of Zurich Keynote by Atoosa Kasirzadeh: "Can we reconcile the governmental use of online targeting with democracy?" Free attendance, registration required polisky commsky cssky

👍 Across tasks and languages, we test the viablility of LLMs like GPT-4 to replace human coders for machine learning training data, with mostly strong results! Negligable downstream effects on trained transformer models. We also offer a suggested pipeline for researchers. Polisky osf.io/cx752

The EU's DSA database is live! In theory it should include every Statement or Reasons sent by platforms explaining content moderation decisions. I've groused about it, but it's an amazingly ambitious effort and already pretty interesting. 1/ transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/statement-se...

Also note that asking openly gay researchers about the “culture wars” can place us in unnecessarily vulnerable positions, coercing us to either lie or talk about our personal lives in ways that non-queer researchers aren’t expected to.

I am begging y'all to stop calling violent rhetoric about whether queer and trans people should be allowed to exist the "culture wars."

Read our latest in the MERIP “Transnational Repression Against Exiled Women Activists” merip.org/2023/09/exil...

If you just joined, know that you'll have invite codes appear in your profile soon. 🙋🏼‍♀️ May I humbly suggest you directly offer them to folks who are currently underrepresented here. As long as this place relies on gatekeepers it's going to lean heavily towards some groups and that's... not great.

Security agencies will respond to the most extreme fringe behaviors (& sometimes not even then), but not to the overall ideology—because they don't view the ideology as the problem. My fave piece of historical scholarship explaining this is here:

I get why, but it still bums me out that I keep seeing pieces centered on the idea that the current wave of anti-trans and anti-queer activism has roots in white supremacy. That link is real, but the implication always feels like "oh NOW we know it's bad," like it wasn't awful enough on its own.