AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default?
Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.
The next step in digital astroturfing - old playbook but using AI to scale it up
I reviewed Anton Jäger’s new book, Hyperpolitics, which I enjoyed. Lots to chew on in a small yellow volume. newrepublic.com/article/2058...
There's a literature on "occupational activism" that touches on parts of this. This paper by Grace Augustine and Brayden King addresses what might be seen as the flip side journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Interesting question. Widely known as a strategy (e.g., 60s disruption of defense contractors at career fairs) but not many studies that get at it super directly
So wonderful, Hahrie!!
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Big thanks to @behscientist.bsky.social & its editor-in-chief Evan Nesterak for attending CASBS's two-day climate change workshop not long ago & soliciting these participant contributions on the 'backlash, burnout, and backsliding' related to climate action 🌍
behavioralscientist.org/burning-ques...
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Congratulations David!
So cool that three CASBS fellows who occupied study #38 - Jon Krosnick (1996-97 AND 2013-14), @edwardwalker.bsky.social (2021-22) & @ralmeling.bsky.social (2019-20) were here at the same time for a workshop!
As 'ghosts' of that study, they pretty much haunted current occupant Tom Lyon all day 👻👻👻
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
One way to make it more salient bsky.app/profile/imbe...
A related concern: despite the vast impact is likely to have, federal indirects seem like a textbook low-salience policy for those with less of a connection to science/higher ed
Seems very likely that NSF and other federal funders will follow suit. This single move seems very likely to upend the entire model of the U.S. research university as we know it.
This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.
Excellent piece. Modern autocrats arrive at power via elections, and then gradually erode democracy until only a facade remains.
Coups provoke mass opposition and mobilization: salami tactics don’t.
Super illuminating thread on the current situation and possible road ahead around federal grants
Oh Nuzzel, how I've missed you. Great that @sill.social is up and running
We are hiring a China-focused Environmental Law and Policy Fellow at the Emmett Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA! This is a two-year position, and the hire will work closely with me. See here for details: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10027
senior scholar leaving your talk after making his 12 minute comment
And, finally, if you're interested in what sociologists have been writing about environmental policy in states and localities, here's a recent Annual Review (with Vasi): www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I've also been interested in unusual coalitions between firms and social movements, as in this new piece in the Academy of Management Review with Maurice Murphy and Nan Jia journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5... Ungated: ucla.app.box.com/file/1703498...
In my latest on business political activity (with Yuni Wen and Lori Yue), we examine how Uber/Lyft mobilize their user bases (extending an NYT op-ed I wrote a while ago) journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5.... We find user-mobilization may backfire on sponsors. Ungated: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Another recent paper in NPJ Climate Action (with Drew Malmuth) examines how the states have quickly moved to preempt local building decarbonization efforts. We find significant similarities in the language used across these state bills www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I've had a number of studies on the anti-fracking movement and interactions with industry. A new paper in Social Problems (with Bodi Vasi) examines how trade groups for the fracking industry selectively respond to protest depending on geography and partisanship academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
As Mr. Show wisely taught us, 24 is the highest number.
