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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Happy to share this opportunity: if you enjoy photography and science as much as I do - you might have a chance to win a nice prize and a subscription to @nature.com ☺️📸 www.nature.com/immersive/sc...

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Had a lot of fun at @springernature.com 2026 Humanities and Social Sciences Festival, meeting colleagues, exploring cool book titles and listening to not one but TWO keynotes on AI by Professor Luciano Floridi and Prof dr. Jeroen van den Hoven

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

💡Another insightful public discussion on NATO’s evolving relationship with Ukraine and Russia organized by @clingendael.bsky.social and moderated by Niels Drost 🎙️Speakers: Elizaveta Gaufman, Han Bouwmeester, Bob Deen, and Hubert Smeets

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Insitute of Political Science Leiden @polscileiden.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

📢 ‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’ 🌍 During the Just Peace Dialogues from 16 to 22 June in The Hague, institute member Daniel Thomas will call for greater awareness – and dialogue. Read the interview here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’

Professor of International Relations Daniel Thomas is clear: anyone taking peace in Europe for granted is shutting their eyes to reality.

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

And while I have been trained not to draw broad consequential claims from studies whose external validity may be limited, applying this insight or keeping in mind the principle of compromise in policymaking and peacebuilding activism can be the answer we are looking for in a polarized world of today

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

One of the most crucial findings from over four years of my research in Leiden is that compromise is a highly valued principle among voters (at least in the domain of legislative politics)

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Our paper is published in OA in West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social! What a milestone 🥳

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨 New Paper in the Journal of European Public Policy 🚨 Think anti-immigration sentiment is here to stay? 🧠 Think again. New research by Alessia Aspide (in which I play a small role) reveals a new insight: when people understand immigration as a solution to fiscal crisis, attitudes shift 1/2

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

new books’ haul and an advertisement for our BIG SUMMER CHOIR concert with Pandora Studio on June 8th! Tickets here: lnkd.in/dvSSmMSp

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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · 29/05/2025

Just over half a year ago, the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics was published. This means that authors working at Dutch universities, can now share a copy of their chapters online for free access, according to Dutch copyright law. My own chapters are linked below 👇

Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics
Edited by Sarah de Lange, Tom Louwerse, Paul 't Hart & Carolien Van Ham

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Go buy Mateo’s book! Brilliant work published by @leidenup.bsky.social

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

this implication for political communication and polarization in social media (and beyond) is explicitly reflected in #grok's instructions, and I can only give kudos to the developers, while hoping that this situation will not change in future. And that's all from me on this thread 🤓

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

...but the main output of that #grok analysis for me was that, contrary to my expectation, this AI has not passed judgement on the involved people and institutions in a way you would expect from the technology developed by the company motivated and dressed in a particular party/ideology colors

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

now, let's go to case 2. There, I replicated the above steps but applied them to the series of controversial posts related to an 'ophef' of 2022. As that scandal is no longer relevant and has been resolved, we will not look into the details...

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

looking at these 'thoughts' I would argue that we can use AI tools in education, even if only to demonstrate to students how one can organize their interaction with resources, opinions and judgements. Of course, as with everything, the success of such approach would depend on students, but still

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

it even browsed polisci research papers to see if the hoax has been widely discussed in the discipline (I would be cautious to trust that this analysis has been exhaustive, similarly to how we should not trust ChatGPT's essays, yet it gives me a good overview and start point for my own research)

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

#grok 's extended output allows one to check what goes into its analysis process: thus, I saw the key points, as well as the summary of the whole debate, relevance of it to my own background and field, broader systemic issues related to the publishing industry and academia, its implications etc

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

...however, being able to conclude this from "[it] has blown my mind but raised many questions" is quite impressive to me.

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

but I was surprised, and, threading carefully, I would even say - positively: #grok inferred the range of the arguments I was thinking about fairly accurately. Now, of course, this is not rocket science, and I do not presume to have cutting edge opinions on the topic...

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

and here I was very curious, considering the team and the person behind #grok, I was ready for anything...

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

however, it asks itself an interesting question: "I am wondering what specific concerns Elina had". For context, see the post on the sokal squared hoax below. So, naturally, my next step was the following:

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

case 1: I did not give #grok any prompts, just pressed on the the first post of the identical two-comment thread published on BSKY and X (image below). The AI's 'thought process', available to the user, shows that #grok is unsure what exactly the user wants in this scenario, a content summary or?

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

partly, this is the case because #grok has a good set of instructions it keeps referring back to, it almost looks like human logical reasoning process. How do I know this? I used a couple of my own X posts, controversial and not, to see what kind of interpretation and analysis can this AI perform

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

first of all, good news, the AI still cannot read our minds, but it comes pretty close to asking itself 'why questions' as per Judea Pearl's and Dana Mackenzie's brilliant book (2018)

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

let me jump on the bandwagon of the continuous conversation on the generative AI, education, political polarization and the technology's role in these: now that #grok is available in Europe for some time and has advanced its functionality, I went on X to play around with it and examine some things

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

and the bigger picture is valid too, my only reluctance is applying the same rubric on everything and everyone when limited information is available, but from the perspective of the author - I solidarize

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

absolutely, I do appreciate editors doing that and know quite some people who are truly apologetic and transparent when it comes to author communication when bad/insulting etc review is involved

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

personally, I don’t have a negative position on this, but I think that depends on what’s your goal and how it’s done. FYI some of the journals’ submission systems do not allow editors to remove crappy reviews, that’s a shame but what can we do 🤷‍♀️

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

when it comes to sharing third-party reviews it would depend on what the publisher includes in the report and peer review model: for instance, plos.org/resource/ope... but generally, this might raise questions especially if the reviewer hasn’t agreed on sharing it externally (anonymously or not)

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Open Peer Review - PLOS

What is Open Peer Review, and how is it different from other review models?

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

There is a disagreement on the optics of the consequences of this action. It varies on the type of blindness and transparency of the journals’s peer review process, but, to my knowledge, publishers do not own copyright on your reviews

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

In 2018 I came across an expose of “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship” project (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievan...). This attempt “to highlight perceived poor scholarship by submitting bogus papers to academic journals” has blown my mind but raised many questions

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Grievance studies affair - Wikipedia

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

shared the last five years at @unileiden.bsky.social with these power ladies: @aspidea.bsky.social and @kjbrown.bsky.social. Could not be happier to be part of Alessia’s defense to celebrate our new Dottoressa 🎓

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This initiative came to fruition as a result of the international women’s conference “Give Peace a Chance,” based on UN Resolution 1325, which I had the pleasure of working with in October 2024. Looking forward to continuing this dialogue 🕊️

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Elia Zorina @elinazorina.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Last Friday I had the privilege of listening to a panel of wonderful speakers and participating in the international symposium on “Democracy, Stability and Peace: Is the Future Feminine?” at @unileiden.bsky.social

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