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Rohan Alexander

@rohanalexander.bsky.social

I spend too much money on books. And too much time writing them. 🇦🇺🇨🇦. https://rohanalexander.com http://tellingstorieswithdata.com

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Australian Journal of Political Science@ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New in AusJPS: Lindsay Katz, Inessa De Angelis & Rohan Alexander analyse 535,961 statements in Australian parliamentary debates to examine gender, party and interruptions in the House of Representatives.

Do women politicians face more interruptions? An analysis of interjections in the Australian parliamentary debates (1998-2025)

Interruptions are a routine component of parliamentary debate, but also reveal underlying power dynamics and behavioural norms within political institutions. Using digitised Australian Hansard tran...

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Rohan Alexander@rohanalexander.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All welcome at the workshop in 10 days. rohanalexander.com/tdw.html Also, if you read Ryan's piece and thought "hey, I have thoughts on AI and quant social science as well", please do get in touch.

Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs.net · 4mo ago

I'll be at a workshop organized by @rohanalexander.bsky.social next week on how AI will change quantitative social science. This is my short paper, and this is the key argument. ryancbriggs.net/blog/as-ai-l...

Information manipulation is going to get cheaper much faster than interacting with the world will. I expect that this will lead to the bottleneck in research shifting from production to consumption. We should be preparing for this shift now by building infrastructure that allows us to adjudicate claims and filter work in a world where production is cheap. The current journal system is not well positioned to do this, and so we should be experimenting with new institutions that can.
Rohan Alexander@rohanalexander.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was really surprised at how different the silicon sample results were between GPT-5.2 and 5.4. Light red is 5.2 and dark red is 5.4 and it's an Australian-setting so we're seeing big differences for right-wing parties.

Screenshot showing silicon sample responses to a question about increased gun laws in Australia. There are three question variants, and four parties - the main result is that 5.2 tends to have higher levels of support for restrictions than 5.4, especially for right wing parties.
Christopher Barrie@cbarrie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

Kris Inwood@kris-inwood.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Big congratulations to Rohan Alexander & Tim Hatton for their article ‘The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?' which has won the 2025 Sir Timothy Coghlan award for best paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!

The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?

Between 1898 and 1900, six British colonies held referendums on whether or not to join together as states in a federal Australia. We focus on New South Wales, which was pivotal to the affirmative res...

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Kris Inwood@kris-inwood.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The spatial pattern of votes from 1500 individual New South Wales polling booths do not support conventional thinking that manufacturing interests favoured the 1901 Aus political union with its promise of tariff protection, according to Alexander and Hatton in ‘Who voted for Australian federation?’