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Ben Fifield

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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
two votes: www.elizabethnugent.com/afterrepress... and a.co/d/7XqX4vr
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After Repression
After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition ​ Princeton Studies in Political Behavior Winner, Robert A. Dahl Award (2022) Given by the American Political Science Association...
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
wildly under-viewed interviews that rob tibshirani conducted over the past year for a reading course. really interesting discussions with Don Rubin, Jamie Robins, Jerry Friedman, Vladimir Vovk, and others www.youtube.com/@LedaLiang/v...
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Leda Liang
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Folks smarter than me will point you today to how to *listen* to Steve Albini's impact on the music Gen X grew up with. I want to encourage you to read him in his own words, with "The Problem with Music," a essay he wrote for The Baffler in 1993 warning rising bands about "music industry scum." RIP.
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The Problem with Music | Steve Albini
Steve Albini’s iconic music industry takedown explains how record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings
Despite record numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, we know little about the causal effects of intergroup contact between migrants and locals in active conflict settings. We condu...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/04/2024
Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level election results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible. NEW in Bolts:
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Election Data Is Vital to Voting Rights. So Why Is It So Hard to Track Down?
Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
"i treat my whole life like a text buffer"
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
gonna start using emacs+ess again www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL...
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
roses are red i’m facing an impediment covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
primus + zappa + bigfoot algorithmic IG feed finally paid off open.spotify.com/track/1AGOkz...
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
(Smaller set of parameters to manage and format into something nice looking, though)
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Sensemakr does a good job of this with its sensitivity_stats() function. Would be nice to have something similar for HMC samplers.
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
buying steel wool to keep mice out of the basement, aka mouse nimby
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
a proud day for princeton pol grads named fife
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
IRS is an excellent source for county-level migration data, based on tax filings. Includes both inflows and outflows. www.irs.gov/statistics/s...
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SOI Tax Stats - Migration Data | Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Population Migration Data Migration data for the United States are based on year-to-year address changes reported on individual income tax returns filed with the IRS. They present migration patte...
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
A few more: Coppock 2019, PSRM (alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2019... ) Coppock, Leeper, Mullinix 2018, PNAS (alexandercoppock.com/coppock_leep... )
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
yes my son, but if you believe hard enough none of their paths shall cross
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Peng Ding's causal inference course book draft, this looks like a killer book to complement hernan and robins, imbens and rubin, etc
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.
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Ben Fifield @benfifield.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
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