Deep irony about AI teaching/learning in universities: the most useful AI skills right now are essentially *people management* skills (for now!) which most academics (myself included) are pretty bad at.
1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎:
"An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang
A couple of thoughts about AI and academia (in economics at least): you can’t look at Claude Code without concluding that it’s a complete game changer in the production of research. 1/
I keep coming back to @cdsamii.bsky.social essay on the “problem-centered” over “puzzle-centered” research paradigm and I can’t help but feel like so many problems with social science methods boil down to this cyrussamii.com?p=3682
If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more?
And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways?
This new paper ran an experiment to find out.
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AI explaining the credibility revolution 😍
hahahha, not entirely sure my statement should apply to music
You guys all say the NYT doesn't do any worthwhile journalism, but well here you go, haters
1000 times this. Thanks Cyrus
I’d put it almost more sharply: not always, but too often, researchers using survey experiments seem to think they’re making causal inferences when they are measuring quantities. confusion over the inquiry is v far from the spirit of the cred revolution
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New paper out @psrm.bsky.social: using precinct-level data from Berlin, we show that proximity to refugee housing increased AfD support in the 2017 federal election - but this electoral backlash was hyper-local
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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"[Political science] studies without an explicit identification strategy...constitute nearly 40% of empirical quantitative work."
🎤 The ninth session of the PBC will host @riazsascha.bsky.social from @eui-sps.bsky.social, who will present:
"Regime Loyalty in Wartime Nazi Germany"
📍 Join us on Zoom!
Please register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
On Wednesday, @riazsascha.bsky.social will join us in Münster to present phenomenal work on regime loyalty during the Nazi regime! joint work w De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social + @juvoss.bsky.social
As always, you can join us via zoom!
organized w @danbischof.bsky.social + @mwegemann.bsky.social
Looking forward to visiting Mannheim next week (24–25 Nov). Be in touch if you’re around and want to grab a coffee.
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early January to mid-June 2026).
If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: forms.gle/wdq27WcDLC7i...
🗓 Deadline for proposals: December 15
Your daily reminder that semantic disclaimers will not ensure better research practices.
Thanks so much, very kind!
New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social
German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law
BJPolS abstract about a study on the effects of authoritarianism in the former German Democratic Republic, focusing on gender disparities in education and authoritarian values post-reunification. The text emphasizes methodological approach and historical analysis.
NEW -
The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - https://cup.org/3WCwC5v
"decades after the fall of the GDR, the attitudinal effects of authoritarian socialization persist"
- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
try Gemini / Nano Banana
Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social!
This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia.
Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it.
We only work in English, so language is not an issue.
Apply!
UC Davis Political Science is hiring an assistant professor in comparative politics. For more information, please see the description here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07299
The deadline is September 15.
That makes sense, but should not be the case anymore today; today the pro and air base models have the same chipset, and are thus basically indistinguishable for most tasks with a few exceptions like video editing
It depends on what exactly you're doing, of course, but imo the "new" m-series chips in both the Air and the Pro are way overpowered for most of us. This may be helpful: medium.com/@kellyshepha...
Fascinating paper by @haasvioleta.bsky.social and colleagues.
Using a field experiment around climate protests, they find that protests don't durable change bystander norms or attitudes, but they do change their immediate behavior.
osf.io/preprints/os...
