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Max Grömping

@maxgroemping.bsky.social

Political Scientist at @griffith.edu.au, Brisbane / Assoc. Editor @democratization.bsky.social/. Interest groups, authoritarian politics, disinformation, electoral integrity, trust.

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Joshua Tucker@jatucker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are you a social scientist who has been hearing about Claude Code but hasn't checked it out yet? Or are you a social scientist who has been playing with Claude Code and has been wondering what it means for the future of social science research? www.brookings.edu/articles/the... 1/

The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research | Brookings

A new era of agentic AI agents has begun. What does it mean for social scientists? Solomon Messing and Joshua Tucker discuss.

brookings.edu

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

Infographic titled “2025 Billionaire Gains vs. Grocery Spending.” On the left, a large gold square shows that the top 100 richest Americans gained $995 billion in wealth in 2025, about $7,595 per U.S. household, representing wealth gains for just 100 individuals. On the right, a slightly smaller green square shows total U.S. grocery spending of $775 billion, about $5,916 per household, covering roughly 131 million households. A callout at the bottom reads “The Scale of Inequality,” noting that billionaire wealth gains exceeded national grocery spending by $220 billion. Sources listed: Bloomberg Billionaire Index and Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef! Closing date is 1 Oct 2025 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

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David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨In PNAS🚨 The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out this great work by @griffith.edu.au colleague @ammassarisofia.bsky.social on women's party engagement on the radical right.

Sofia Ammassari@ammassarisofia.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · last yr.

Friends in Germany interested in #deliberative #democracy, this is THE event for you. "Can citizen councils strengthen representative democracy?". I wish I could make it to Berlin for this one.

Sebastian Ziaja@sziaja.bsky.social · last yr.

Können Bürgerräte die repräsentative Demokratie stärken? Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse aus vier praxisnahen Forschungsprojekten auf einem Roundtable mit @polenz.bsky.social, @kliesenberg.bsky.social, Felix Arndt, Stabstelle Bürgerräte @bundestag.de und @heikekluever.bsky.social 1/4

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Will Allen@williamlallen.bsky.social · last yr.

Re-upping this as I continue to find it helpful for normalizing rejection: I need to remember it’s the modal outcome! Plus didn’t @mirya.bsky.social have a thing about rewarding X number of rejections, as a way of marking how much you’re putting your work out there?

Jason Reifler@jasonreifler.bsky.social · last yr.

The most popular thing I did on the old site was telling people about my rejections. Failure and rejection is a big part of academic life. It happens to all of us -- well, at least everyone I know. This thread lists mine and is founded on the hope it helps other people cope better with their own.

Timothy Graham@timothyjgraham.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right. The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social www.rtbf.be/article/comm...

Comment Elon Musk utilise son réseau X pour faire monter l'extrême droite en Europe - RTBF Actus

Voici un extrait du compte X (anciennement Twitter) de Dries Van Langenhove, ex-député Vlaams Belang condamné en 2024 à...

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Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · last yr.

Two in three Australians say they have encountered misinformation in the lead up to the election. How concerned should we be? Read about the results of our recent survey w @acarson.bsky.social theconversation.com/fake-news-an...

Fake news and the election campaign - how worried should voters be?

New research reveals a growing number of Australians are encountering political misinformation and disinformation in the election campaign and are worried about it.

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Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats, @breznaunate.bsky.social @emrinke.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social and team. Taking part in this project was not only eye-opening in terms of #metascience but also great fun. Even with shared data and code, reproducibility is not a given. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions | Royal Society Open Science

This study investigates researcher variability in computational reproduction, an activity for which it is least expected. Eighty-five independent teams attempted numerical replication of results from ...

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Nate Breznau@breznaunate.bsky.social · last yr.

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · last yr.

What a fantastic opportunity to talk with Alex Fischer and Selen Ercan about the role of research for democratic practice. I learned about communicating democracy research for better impact + suggested we listen to scholars of #authoritarianism to address the current moment @deldemucan.bsky.social

Centre for Deliberative Democracy@deldemucan.bsky.social · last yr.

This week we welcomed Alex Fischer (Australian Department of Home Affairs) and @maxgroemping.bsky.social from @griffith.edu.au to our Centre for a rich and insightful discussion on the relevance of democracy research for practice, expertly moderated by Selen Ercan. Recording will be available soon!

Jakob-Moritz Eberl@jamoeberl.bsky.social · last yr.

Exhibit #1099: The most dangerous disinformation isn’t spread by anonymous accounts on the internet—it’s the disinformation crafted & amplified by elites through legacy media. When those in power distort facts, they shape public perception & influence policy on a scale no anonymous troll ever could.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."

Max Grömping@maxgroemping.bsky.social · last yr.

!! "you can’t fact check your way to a win in this kind of frame game. You have create alternative frames, support people in telling stories that resonate with those frames, and make sure those stories are heard"

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · last yr.

The right’s “waste and fraud” frame is a replay of the same participatory propaganda games they played w/ “voter fraud” in 2020, “censorship” in 2022, and any number of anti-immigration frames in 2024. Set the frame, inspire the generation of “evidence” to fit it, amplify that evidence, and repeat.