#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has strong feelings about the robot lawnmower. It patrols the garden without asking, it decides its own route, and no amount of barking makes it stop. 🤖 Sometimes citizens may feel something similar about AI in government. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is standing in front of a job advertisement. She would know instantly who to hire. Nobody asks her, though. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview At dog parks, Wilma 🐶 knows that the gates are locked and everything is fenced in. She can't leave, so all she has left is her voice. 1/🧵

Wilma stared at next door’s cat, who had positioned itself into the most physically implausible sleeping position imaginable. And despite the fact that dogs and cats are basically sworn outgroups, Wilma felt for the poor creature. Turns out that’s harder to pull off than it looks… 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows the rules: Don’t pull too hard on the leash or run away. But whether she actually behaved depends less on the rule itself, and more on who’s asking… and whether how good something smells. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 tends to search a treat 🍪 under the cup that's closer to her. Is that a good idea? She had a visit from Catarina Mantas, who gave her critical feedback on her performance. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 takes her duties as Chief Playground Inspector very seriously. Her verdict? Someone keeps rearranging the equipment... And, as usual, nobody consulted the dog. 🧐 1/🧵

Wilma 🐶 found a new friend, sea snake Serpentina. She decided that it's a trustworthy friend. Whether that's wise is anyone's guess. 🐍 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is blown away 🤯 because HER paper just won the Beryl Radin Award for the best article in the @jpart1991.bsky.social 1/🧵

Peer review is the backbone of academic quality, and JPART is fortunate to have an exceptional reviewer community. We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2026 JPART Outstanding Reviewer Award, recognizing outstanding reviewing work done in 2025.

Molly – der Dachshund – sagt auch Hallo, auch wenn Sie sich nur bedingt für Wissenschaft interessiert. Wilma – des Postdog - ist da mehr am Start! (@flokeppeler.bsky.social).

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has stationed herself under the high chair, waiting for something delicious to fall. The tricky part comes when two equally tempting things drop at once... She can't decide which to grab first, so her choice looks completely random. 1/🧵

Ok friends - need your help spreading the word! If you work in state or local government, please take this survey and share with your networks! bit.ly/3Rsihtn It's the first-of-its-kind national effort to elevate the voices of local public servants! (1/2)

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a visitor at work: Roos Mulder. Wilma is keeping Roos firmly in her "line of sight" at all times; you never know when a treat might appear 🦴. As it happens, "line of sight" matters far beyond snack management. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview 🐶 Wilma sniffs spring flowers with great authority, certain she can tell every scent apart. Rhododendron? 🌸 Easy. Neighbour's tulip vs. this one? No problem. Is Wilma overconfident? 😏 Turns out, at least humans are. A new study by Heck, Benjamin, Simons & Chabris 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a visitor at the university: Lorenza Micacchi. As you can see in the picture, the two of them were talking about incentives 🍬🍪 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 yanked a jacket off the coat rack to get at treats in the pocket. Her defense: the jacket fell off during an earthquake, she's a victim of seismic forces 🫨. A convenient narrative from a beagle. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 turned 8 this weekend 🥳 So instead of reviewing her own misbehavior (food steals, couch crimes, selective deafness), we turn to the misbehavior of politicians. 🐾 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma is standing in the beautiful @au.dk park and can't believe it — it's mid-April, and the trees are still bare! 🪵 Where she grew up, it would already be lush and green by now. 🌳 1/🧵

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows a thing or two about being close to power. Strategically positioned near the dinner table, she is a genius in the art of being in the right place at the right time — waiting for the baby to drop the good stuff. 🍌 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 takes guardrails very seriously – so seriously, in fact, that she sleeps with one. But what about the guardrails for AI in public services? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has strong opinions about food. The smiley watermelon 🍉? Objectively delightful. Would she hire it over a plain onion 🧅? Absolutely. Is that bias? Would anyone even notice? According to @bxjaeger.bsky.social, @gpaolacci.bsky.social & Johannes Boegershausen — maybe not. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is on strike today... "sleep strike". But unlike real strikers, she has no union to back her up. Maybe she should look into that because her strike did not result in extra food rations. 🐾 1/🧵

"How Do Strikes and Lockouts Affect Applications to Danish Public Service Professional Education Programs? A Synthetic Control Analysis" by Christian Heide & @flokeppeler.bsky.social shows that strikes & lockouts led to fewer applications to those programs. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows a thing or two about signaling – a wagging tail means she's happy, and paws on a big pipe means business. 💪 But how do we know when a leader's signals are the real deal? 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a lot of emotions when it comes to the dishwasher. Is it a source of leftovers? Or will it take her job? Humans may have similarly complicated feelings about AI systems — and a review by König and Mehrotra maps out a whole decade of research on that. 🤖💭 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 met a snowy friend today! ❄️ This poor bear tried to apply for social benefits to get some food in this cold weather, but could not receive support despite being eligible. A meta-analysis by @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social reviews 51 field experiments to find out what works: 1/🧵

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.