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Amanda Bittner

@bittner.bsky.social
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I like data, dogs, and my dog named Data. Have I mentioned I like data? I study & teach political science. I live to traipse around the wilds of Newfoundland. www.amandabittner.com

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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Beyond excited to announce that the newest edition of PUBLIC OPINION, written by Rosalee Clawson, Zoe Oxley, and ME(!!) is available now! This book is filled with lots of cool material geared towards undergrads, super proud! Find the book here: collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/pub...
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Civil servants should be able to provide the policy analysis we need. This is ridiculous.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Next Thursday! Join us for a really fun evening where we talk about the perils and joys of running for politics. There will be snacks! Activities! Incredible panelists! Conversations! (Free) Registration at this link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-did-w...
Poster with details about "What did we learn" political panel, to take place on Thursday October 27, 2025 at the Well Room on Duckworth Street in St John's.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I don’t think you can understand the dynamics of the Epstein and Trump and how this much corruption gets suppressed in the digital age without reading Robert Entman’s book, Scandal or Silence, an exploration of the factors that really drive presidential scandal. robertmentman.com/2012/03/24/s...
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Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct
Scandal and Silence challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption.…
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"The Albanese government has ruled out granting tech companies an exemption to copyright laws that ... would have allowed them to mine their content to train artificial intelligence models for free." Excellent news for all of us whose work is being stolen by AI. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
‘Very clear’: Labor rules out exemption for AI giants to take content for free
The Albanese government has shot down a proposal from the Productivity Commission, which had tech company backing, that would exempt them from copyright laws.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Just…wow
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Angelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It’s on election nights especially that I really miss the old good twitter.
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a cartoon cat playing a trombone with the words sad trombone above it
ALT: a cartoon cat playing a trombone with the words sad trombone above it
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is so great. I wish we had it at Memorial. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
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The Therapist Next Door
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
LOL
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I needed to take 3 trips to city hall this year in order to vote - I was not on the voters list despite living in the same house for 18 years. The average person would not take these extra steps. Voter turnout is partially a function of electoral management. Let us assess our processes, St John's.
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ALT: a woman with her eyes closed and the words that seems like quite a lot of work below her
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
You don't say...
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is tough to read but really important.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
MAY I EXPLAIN?
DEAR ANN LANDERS: It is obvious from reading your column that large numbers of husbands and boyfriends are going bisexual or totally gay. I'll bet few women have figured out why this is happening to them. May I explain?

--North County Times, 15 Aug 1982
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A truly brilliant idea. Get your debate bingo card here. Will the leaders talk about child care? Or any other "gender" issue? I am curious! nl.childcarenow.ca/2025/10/07/n...
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Newfoundland and Labrador Leaders' Debate Bingo - Newfoundland and Labrador Child Care Now
Hey Newfoundland & Labrador party leaders — help us get a BINGO. Wednesday night’s Leaders’ Debate is a chance to show you care about #EarlyLearning and #ChildCare. We’ll be listening for: 🏫 Child car...
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🦖 Steve's T-Rex mug > inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1755...
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Bojan Fürst @bojanfurst.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hey folks! There is still a few spots left in the intro to audio storytelling workshop I will be teaching in October through the StoryCenter.org. Here is the link to the workshop page" www.storycenter.org/schedule/pod...
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Everyone is talking about this article, and it is GOOD. Recommend!
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
nepc.colorado.edu
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This is the part that I find most astounding and hard to watch.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Why did Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) create a whole portfolio of work on preventing gendered violence? Because the online worlds we study are 1/ www.linkedin.com/posts/cynthi...
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#manup #manup #manup #manup | Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Why did Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) create a whole portfolio of work on preventing gendered violence? Because the online worlds we study are rife with anti-feminist cons...
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Gross. This is shameful.
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Éric Grenier @ericgrenier.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Joined by @bittner.bsky.social and @sarahsmellie.bsky.social Sarah Smellie on The Writ Podcast to break down the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election. www.thewrit.ca/p/ep-146-wha...
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What's at stake in Newfoundland and Labrador's election
Amanda Bittner and Sarah Smellie discuss the ongoing election campaign in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Sent this to some important teens in my life. I’m sure they’re rolling their eyes but I am delighted. 🤣
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
THERE IS A PODCAST! Come on with this! I am so excited.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Oh the role of academic wives is one of my all time favourite topics!!! How exciting!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
THIS!!!!!
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“It’s shocking … did you consider not complying with this request?” Butler said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Are you attending #APSA2025 and (thinking of) writing a book on the topic of gender and politics?! Come meet the editors of the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Cambridge Studies in Gender & Politics! Friday at 2:30pm at the Sutton Place Hotel (Salon Cezanne). We want to talk w/ you!
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Currently writing up a few paragraphs to explain the science of sampling to undergraduates and am reminded of how amazing some folks are at explaining math and probability with such seeming ease. This is no simple feat even if simple random sampling is not that complex.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Nine things I have written are in this database. I hate it.
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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Monday Giggle!
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Easiest way to teach someone how difficult data prep is would be to record me using a new to me dataset. The final syntax file does not begin to cover all the things I tried and didn't work until I eventually found a way to discover the 130 observations out of 22k that need to be fixed.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Yup
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/09/2025
I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”
Graham Greene, Canadian Actor Who Portrayed Indigenous Characters, Dies at
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The First Nations actor, who appeared in
"Dances With Wolves" and other Hollywood blockbusters, remained active in Canadian film, theater and television.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Introducing Geordi! Our new Golden Doodle puppy, who at 10 weeks old is adorable and frisky and destined to be best friends with her older brother Data, the grumpy 5 year old Scottish Terrier. Her humans are in love.
a white golden doodle puppy with red ears and eye patches sits nicely and looks at the camera.A black scottish terrier with his tongue hanging out stands in the pond and poses for the camera.
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
#MorningReads Sex is often used as a proxy for gender (in political surveys here), but this study shows it misses nuance—about a quarter of people don’t fit neatly. A finer measure of gender improves analysis and highlights the need for better survey design. #SOGIData
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Sex isn’t Gender: Reforming Concepts and Measurements in the Study of Public Opinion - Political Behavior
The importance of sex and gender to political behavior is reflected in the volume of work examining gender gaps in public opinion and partisan choice. Despite their centrality, sex and gender are poor...
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Universities need to stop partnering with AI. It is confusing our students and making them think that they *should* use AI instead of training their brains. We are ensuring a future of shriveled, useless brains. The future is bleak.
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Dr. Noa Balf נועה באלף نوعة بالف @noabalf.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
86% among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the UN Convention for the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Encountering more and more GenAI/LLM produced work. It is like sewage, but without a sanitation infrastructure, no pipes, no workers, no regulations. Like shit it flows everywhere, it makes everything worse, dangerous and smelly, and no one is fixing it or taking any responsibility.
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Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Defund education, then insert for-profit pure garbage to fill the void. The future is bleak.
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