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Adam D Roberts

@adrober.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate, Political Science | University of Rochester | Studying elections, voting, and accountability in Latin America | On the 2026–2027 job market | adamdnroberts.github.io

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It turns out that the one thing Americans are not polarized on is disliking Mormons, and I think that's beautiful ❤️
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sharing this because it made me laugh out loud
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Probably just a verbal slip but kind of funny that he says "I have every doubt" at 22s
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey you! Yea you! Are you a graduate student in Boston for #APSA2026 who works on terrorism, extremism, and/or the far-right? If so, I'd love to meet you and hear what you're working on. Feel free to drop me a DM!
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you're looking for something to do Thursday 10am at #APSA2026, come see me and @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, @saengler.bsky.social, @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @rfrbrghs.bsky.social @ Marriott (Dartmouth). I'll present my job market paper on how benchmarks change voters' evaluation of incumbents 👋
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rochester is hiring a methodologist! If you want to know what it's like living in Rochester, let's talk! apply.interfolio.com/192333 #polisky
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Right. But that's because people compartmentalize them separately. Your salary and rent are seen by most people as the background noise to your finances that you work around, but your discretionary purchases are "real", when the reality is almost entirely reversed
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Sources at Imax confirmed to Varietythat many of the parts needed to build these specialized film projectors "simply no longer exist." The original design files were created roughly half a century ago, but as Gelfond alludes to, they were never properly maintained. As a result, Imax no longer has a complete manufacturing blueprint — and much like the lost tribal knowledge of the Apollo-era spacecraft, very few engineers working today fully understand the systems.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The funny thing is the budget has $12,600 dollars for leisure (vacation + entertainment), not including the weekly date night in the food budget
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My Russian geography is evidently not great www.maptap.gg July 21 98🎯 98🔥 88🎉 69😑 98🎯 Final score: 873
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Instats @instats.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Learn Survey Design (Free Seminar) at your own pace! #OnlineSurvey #PoliticalScience #Psychology #PublicPolicy #SocialSciences #Sociology #SurveyDesign #DataScience #Statistics #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats
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Survey Design (Free Seminar) - On-Demand
Strengthen the credibility of your survey-based research with this online seminar on the foundational principles of survey design, led by Adam Berinsky of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab. Designed for PhD students and professional researchers, the seminar explores how sampling, question wording, response options, survey mode, nonresponse, weighting, and cognitive response processes shape the validity of empirical claims. Participants will learn how to identify and avoid common sources of bias, improve questionnaire design, develop effective pretesting strategies, and integrate transparent survey design decisions into manuscripts, grant proposals, and reproducible workflows. With examples from historical polling errors and contemporary applied research, the seminar offers both conceptual depth and practical tools for producing stronger causal and descriptive inference across political science, psychology, sociology, public policy, and related fields. The seminar is delivered live via Zoom, with recordings, slides, materials, and an expert-monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days afterward, and participants receive an official Instats certificate of completion. #OnlineSurvey #PoliticalScience #Psychology #PublicPolicy #SocialSciences #Sociology #SurveyDesign #DataScience #Statistics #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I'm so sick of the "millionaires are fleeing new york" narrative that keeps popping up in WSJ ads www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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The Red-Blue Economic Divide
Mamdani is teaching the whole country a lesson, as his city empties of people.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha has been honored by having a newly discovered species of marine mollusk named after him by Spanish researcher Jesus Ortea. 🌊
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Cape Verde’s Vozinha honoured by newly discovered species name after World Cup performances (Gift Article)
A new species of marine mollusk discovered in the Caribbean has been named after the 40-year-old goalkeeper.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
A Brief History of Nobody Reads Anymore 🧵
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I made a University of Rochester color theme for the Gemini beamerposter theme! Use it in your posters! github.com/anishathalye...
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GitHub - anishathalye/gemini: Gemini is a modern LaTex beamerposter theme 🖼
Gemini is a modern LaTex beamerposter theme 🖼. Contribute to anishathalye/gemini development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
higher than chicago, miami, and nashville wow
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Okay, I have referenced this a few times in replies, but: some people are confused about why the SSPX would play this game of chicken and expect the Pope would blink. It's not JUST the precedent from the last time! It's also the entire recent history of the Catholic Church in China.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy snowpiercer day 🎉 🥶
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very cool paper! www.nber.org/papers/w28748
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Science as a Public Good: Public Use and Funding of Science
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Untitled, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (slightly rotated), 📸 by Justin Setterfield
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Really fascinating post about trains in today's @mexicope.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/mxpolec/...
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What’s stopping trains from becoming Mexico’s economic driver
Government and private sector wrestle for joint custody of the unfulfilled golden boy of Mexican transport.
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Ewan Sutherland @sutherla.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It is good to know that even in wartime, the Department of War has time to address theological issues 🤡🤡🤡
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Very excited about this!
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Any candidate that runs on proportional representation as a single issue will have my vote locked
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Read a paper (ape.socialcatalystlab.org/papers/apep_...) from Social Catalyst Lab's Project "automate policy evaluation" which seemed like a good grad school paper for a class (e.g., limited data, requires strong assumptions but a step in the right direction for a broader research project)
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Fellas is it feminine to be employed www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
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Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."
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stellz @piss.beauty · 14/04/2026
"experts should simply change their mind if enough people disagree" is quite the stance to become so popular among the innumerate
Mattie lubchansky who is normally delightful making a very stupid post about the economy
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If I'm not mistaken, the intuition for the price level explanation is that voters are thinking I'm pessimistic about the economy because the nominal price level is high, but I'm also able to buy more things with my income.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is what the panicked articles about moltbook sound like to me
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for
Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments
Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath
January 27, 2026
We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se-
lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of
American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality
and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com).
Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously
published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’
choosing.
The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a
meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi-
pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit
to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for
submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Come to SICSS Rochester! Applications due April 5 sicss.io/2026/rochest...
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Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Research shows that biking is very, very healthy for people 65+. Findings after reviewing 28 prior studies: "Cycling in later life links to improved mobility [and] balance." "Older cyclists often report psychosocial health, life satisfaction, and well-being improvements." doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
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Congestion Pricing Now @fundtransitnow.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Good data alert coming through! NYCEDC reports that business activity in the congestion relief zone is outpacing the rest of NYC: 4.8% foot-traffic growth in the zone vs. 1% citywide. www.eenews.net/articles/bus...
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Business may have picked up in NY tolling area, economic development report says
According to the study, despite job and business growth in the city, there are still affordability challenges facing city residents.
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Adam D Roberts @adrober.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Would anyone like a free subscription to the wonderful substack @mexicope.bsky.social that covers Mexican politics? I have three gift subscriptions! #mexico #polisky www.mxpe.org
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The Mexico Political Economist | Substack
Mexican politics, policy, and markets for the global reader. Click to read The Mexico Political Economist, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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