Please join us this spring for this exciting series of talks!👇
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Please join us this spring for this exciting series of talks!👇
An image of the schedule with speaker images. You can find the full schedule on tada.cool.
🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨
We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.
Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!
More info & signup: tada.cool
Put simply:
Humans: weak, multi-dimensional, cross-cutting belief systems.
LLM personas: concentrated, low-dimensional, highly predictable.
Not just stronger ideology—flattened geometry.
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...
🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?
We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
Deutschlandfunk? War auch etwas irritiert von der Formulierung
🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
We usually think that social identities precede preferences
We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences
Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹
Is online discourse getting worse?
To bring actual data to bear on this question, we launched the Public Discourse Indicator, a dashboard tracking online comments submitted to several major Swiss newspapers. Our aim here is twofold:
www.public-discourse.org/en/public-di...
The finding: voters' changing preferences do not translate into voting intentions.
Instead, I suggests that voters do not experience substantial cognitive dissonance when their party's position differs from theirs, and generally tolerate mild disagreements with their party's position.
In the study, I exposed voters to news articles that shifted their views on a policy issue, then showed them their preferred party's (or another party's) position on that same issue. I measured how their attitudes and voting intentions changed.
I hypothesized that voters would either
(1) adjust their own views to match the party, or
(2) adjust their party preference to match their views.
Specifically, I expected partisans would shift their attitudes toward their party's position, while non-partisans would shift their voting intentions.
Now in print (and open access):
What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them?
I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Join us later *today* if you're interested in how to create trustworthy text measures with supervised machine learning!
Happening Tomorrow! 👇
Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."
📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)
More info: tada.cool
An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints
It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution
Join us now!
🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset".
If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.
This! 👇
It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!
Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.
Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.
What are best practices for to replicate your research involving LLMs?
Find out next week! 👇
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
Literally: This. Is. How. It. Happens.
Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
🚨 Today!! 🚨
Learn about efficient sampling strategies 👇
Join us for the first session this week! You'll learn ho to draw more efficient test sets!
Nothing says noble peace price like sending the troops to opposition governed cities
