Jan Zilinsky
@janzilinsky.bsky.social
I study the role of technology and conspiracy theories in democratic politics. NYU PhD. https://www.janzilinsky.com
Somehow missed this one. Seems like a pretty relevant and well-done paper!
Thomas Zeitzoff@zeitzoff.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcited to share my new paper w/ @janzilinsky.bsky.social that's conditionally accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🎉 Is there a general "anti-technology" orientation among Americans? We built a scale and found that worries about social media, AI, and modernity do form a coherent disposition.
If you’re at MPSA and like to think about AI politics/biases, hope to see you here (📍Palmer House Lobby Level, Honore Ballroom)
We're presenting this work at the @mpsa.bsky.social conference next week. Link to the paper below 😁 preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
Inflation Conflation: Rates, Prices, and Politics in the Public Mind
Despite the political importance of price inflation in recent years, we know surprisingly little about how citizens think, and process information about, inflation. We report the results of a series...
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extremely happy to share that "Political Pundits and the Maintenance of Ideological Coalitions" is conditionally accepted at @polbehavior.bsky.social osf.io/8c3fr/files/...
Wrote a paper with Jim Bisbee on economic evaluations - www.cambridge.org/core/journal... We think it's informative to ask respondents about their personal finances; our analysis of daily Gallup data shows such Qs are relatively less contaminated by partisanship than broader Qs about the economy.
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly? | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly? - Volume 14 Issue 2
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New on my Substack: Political alienation matters. But we're looking for it in the wrong places. zeitzoff.substack.com/p/why-politi...
Why Political Alienation Matters (But Not the Kind You Think)
Sometimes I like to start my class with a provocative quote relevant to what we’ll be discussing that week.
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Fascinating paper on supply-side factors of negativity bias, misinformation and misperceptions. Also interesting measurements of accuracy of reporting and negativity bias of specific media orgs (e.g. CNN, Fox News).
Stuart Soroka@snsoroka.bsky.social · 5mo agoI am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...
My first post on my new Peace & Violence Substack: “What Makes Them Tick: Why I Study Psychology & Political Violence” zeitzoff.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What Makes Them Tick
Why I Study Psychology & Political Violence
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You can just research things. New from @jatucker.bsky.social & me at @brookings: Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex will likely accelerate research AND undermine institutional structures we built to support it.
Gallup ends presidential approval polling. There are plenty of alternatives but having one firm back the 1930s was a great continuity. Here is my last update of their series. RIP. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A lot of smart people have been in denial about AI for understandable reasons: – the people pitching it can be distasteful – there’s been a ton of snake-oil hype – it’s easier not to reckon with a major disruption
Joe Rogan helped Trump with one thing he always wants more of: male voters. @melinamuch.bsky.social expands in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction #JoeRogan #Trump #TrumpElection #USpolitics #AmericanFriction
*No Option But Sabotage* is out in 10 days. Pre-order links are pinned—thank you for all the support!
No Option But Sabotage coming 2/16: Draws on 150+ interviews & historical data and it examines: – origins of radical environmentalism – subcultures & mobilization – repression & tactical choice – shrinking space for protest Pre-order (30% off with @academic.oup.com code ASFLYQ6) ⬇️
> Even the controversial 2003 Iraq War offers a revealing case. For all the war’s many problems and deceptions, the United States abstained from seizing Iraq’s oil. Iraqi oil ultimately remained under Iraqi control, even as U.S. forces occupied the country. goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...
Trump made a clear choice: return to petro-imperialism
Trump made a clear choice: return to petro-imperialism. To understand what just happened in Venezuela, look at oil politics and U.S. foreign policy.
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Second, we need to distinguish between two kinds of nasty rhetoric: A) Rhetoric used by marginal politicians or opposition figures to grab attention when they lack agenda-setting power. B) Rhetoric used by national leaders, and amplified by supporters, to demonize opponents or minority groups.
I need everyone in the political communications world who found the moral foundations reframing approach promising (which includes me) to read this paper It doesn't replicate in new research. It just doesn't work. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Poverty of Moral Foundation Messaging
Prominent scholars have argued that reframing political positions and issues in terms of moral foundations that appeal to conservatives or liberals can attract more individual-level support for tho...
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Please share with all the awesome applicants you know!
Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI)@knightgtown.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣We’re hiring! KGI is seeking an Operations Manager to oversee and manage operations, budgets, people processes, events, and internal + external comms. This position is hybrid and must be based in Washington, D.C. Apply by Feb 28, 2026: kgi.georgetown.edu/operations-m...
Very cool to read this from @kenzonera.bsky.social and co-authors! From the abstract: "those low in conspiracy mentality not only believed less in conspiracies but also underestimated their prevalence" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Mechanisms of Europe’s “Death” since I was old enough to read newspapers: - Inability to enact “structural reforms” - Too much public debt - Excessive focus on curbing fiscal deficits (“austerity”) - Populism - Low birth rates - Absence of a European Silicon Valley - Migration - Stagnation
Gabriel Zucman@gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
Research shows people dislike and want to block speech they believe is harmful. Wrote for @goodauth.bsky.social about this a few weeks ago: goodauthority.org/news/what-we...
Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (Deadline Jan 23rd, 2026)! 💫 Reach out and apply if you're interested in working with me! I'm especially excited to work with postdocs on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs.
Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute@hopkinsdsai.bsky.social · 8mo agoJoin us in advancing data science and AI research! The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2026–2027 academic year. Apply now! Deadline: Jan 23, 2026. Details and apply: apply.interfolio.com/179059
I pay a similar amount for www.hey.com largely to avoid Gmail or Outlook
A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals
Gmail, Outlook, and Apple got complacent and took their eye off the ball. Then along came HEY.
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Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 8mo agoFree business plan: half the planet would pay $10 a month for the Google search of 2004 and the Gmail of 2010. We will pay a company real money to insulate us from AI.
Maybe the impact of chatbots on truth is actually greater than the impact of deepfakes (for now)
Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 8mo agoGrading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
Mechanisms of Europe’s “Death” since I was old enough to read newspapers: - Inability to enact “structural reforms” - Too much public debt - Excessive focus on curbing fiscal deficits (“austerity”) - Populism - Low birth rates - Absence of a European Silicon Valley - Migration - Stagnation
Gabriel Zucman@gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This excellent paper is now out - Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Code: github.com/kobihackenbu... A useful summary by @lpargyle.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
GitHub - kobihackenburg/scaling-conversational-AI
Contribute to kobihackenburg/scaling-conversational-AI development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kobi Hackenburg@kobihackenburg.bsky.social · last yr.Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 🧵:
