Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

I am happy that this paper with @flynnpolsci.bsky.social is finally in print. If you need to turn text into a number for rigorous analysis, this is likely the solution you are looking for. Short story: pairwise comparisons (A vs. B) are better than naive LLM scaling (0-10 placement).

Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ@poqjournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can LLMs assist in the reliance on closed-ended questions in surveys? In POQ, DiGiuseppe et al. find that LLMs have the potential to unlock the benefits of pairwise comparisons to scale open-ended responses. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Europe's rigid labor markets are an economic death sentence

Why has Europe slowed down relative to the US?

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Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Do you think rent control improves housing quality and supply? Or that government debt works just like household debt? Economists generally think those views are wrong. And they're probably right.

📢 New lecture: 'AI Literacy for Studying, Thesis Research, and Life' by @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social 🔎 📆 Wednesday 11 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30 📍Room 3B.38, Spui Campus, The Hague ➡️More info and registration here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

AI Literacy for Studying, Thesis Research, and Life

A practical, no-hype intro to AI literacy for studying, thesis research, and careers. We’ll cover how modern AI works (and where it fails), how to use it to learn faster without losing skills, and how...

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Universities can survive if they can assure students a degree can't be attained with prompting alone.

Grumpy Philosopher@stevecooke.org · 9mo ago

If we can't assess student learning any more because of AI then we might as well abandon the idea of degree qualifications. The question is whether universities survive that. How many would pay for education without credentials? And that means AI might well also kill public research.

“Three years ago, we were impressed that a machine could write a poem about otters. Less than 1,000 days later, I am debating statistical methodology with an agent that built its own research environment. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

From chatbots to agents

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A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment - Andy Masley andymasley.substack.com/p/a-short-summ… #AI #environment #energy

Immigration is popular considering the alternatives - doi.org/10.1080/1350...

The mass politics of public debt, immigration, and austerity

Several European governments are confronting both high public debt and ageing populations. Policymakers will confront the unpopular choices of austerity, increasing immigration, or continuing to le...

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Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Another minister, who asked to be kept anonymous, told PoliticsHome it was 'pretty simple': "We either increase our birth rate, slash the state in half, or make the positive case for migration" Perhaps they could try saying this non-anonymously? Just a thought www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine. "The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... " abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

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Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

Very grateful for the invite to this conference. I learned a lot.

Markus Gastinger@markus-gastinger.eu · 11mo ago

Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

Yesterday I posted about how I used comet browser to take a Qualtrics survey almost undetected. Last night, I ran a pilot (N=400) on @joinprolific.bsky.social . I found that almost 10% of "respondents" identified as AI when directly asked.

Matt DiGiuseppe@mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I added a question in the survey to identify itself as an AI if instructed to be a human. That seemed to work. Though, I imagine I could jailbreak it eventually.

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update] - Hannah Ritchie https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-footprint-august-2025 #AI #energy

Earlier this year, over 230 Venezuelan men were sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Our @propublica.org team spent months looking into who they were to find the truth behind their stories. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ

I think we really ought to consider the dramatic rise in popularity of podcasts and video essays as conclusive disproof of the 'everyone hates lectures' idea in pedagogy. Turns out that, even when faced with many alternatives, many people just like to be told something at length.

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society

The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

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oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed

Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · last yr.

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Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification - Shreyas Meher, Patrick T. Brandt, 2025

We present ConflLlama, demonstrating how efficient fine-tuning of large language models can advance automated classification tasks in political science research...

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🤖 New Pre-Print: Ad Machina: Partisanship and Support for Delegating Government Decisions to Autonomous Algorithms osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨 @citap.bsky.social is hiring 🚨 tenure-track assistant prof w/ faculty appt @uncsils.bksy.social - looking for a scholar whose research examines the complex interconnections between AI technologies & social, organizational, and/or political systems. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

Indiana Jones and Are You Fucking Kidding Me Why Do I Have to Put Learning Outcomes on My Syllabus The Outcome I Want is For the Students to Learn What's Assigned on the Parts of the Syllabus They Can Barely Find For All the Dumb Boilerplate Nonsense I'm Supposed to Put on the Syllabus

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted. Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.