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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Wilmasreview How did Wilma 🐶 learn to jump on large, felled trees? Not from a manual. She learned it one try at a time and with feedback (🦴). So she was puzzled to hear that most studies of humans working with AI never tell people whether they got it right. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has accepted that there are fences 🚧. A fence doesn't ask, it doesn't make exceptions, and it doesn't care that the neighbor's cat is getting away. So, Wilma dug a hole ... a burdensome workaround. 🕳️ 🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows the drill when entering the dog forest. She's waiting for the person one level higher in the hierarchy to give a signal. 🦮 Public employees also turn to their managers when politicians start bending the rules of democracy. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 takes treats very seriously. There are two ways to get it wrong: hand a treat to a dog who hasn't earned it, or refuse one to a dog who has. Humans lose a lot of sleep over the first mistake. Wilma is much more worried about the second. 🦴 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has food in her bowl. Pluto next to her does not. Wilma sees absolutely no problem here... 🍖 An article by Ernst Fehr and Keyu Wu argues the old question, whether people care about fairness, is settled. Here is what we need more research about: 🔬 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 gets offered a helping hand. She takes a good long look at it, still not convinced. The help is real, the worry too. 🤨 Something similar happens when governments try to make citizens' life easier. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 gets studies from everywhere. But how can she sniff out what's reliable evidence? When in doubt she trusts what comes from her own backyard, Wilma thinks 👃 Turns out many governments run on the opposite instinct when citing research. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is alarmed. The door is closed, and she can't keep an eye on the child on the other side... Child protection offices face a far heavier problem: an immense case load. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has strong feelings about the robot lawnmower. It patrols the garden without asking, it decides its own route, and no amount of barking makes it stop. 🤖 Sometimes citizens may feel something similar about AI in government. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is standing in front of a job advertisement. She would know instantly who to hire. Nobody asks her, though. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#Wilmasreview At dog parks, Wilma 🐶 knows that the gates are locked and everything is fenced in. She can't leave, so all she has left is her voice. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Wilma stared at next door’s cat, who had positioned itself into the most physically implausible sleeping position imaginable. And despite the fact that dogs and cats are basically sworn outgroups, Wilma felt for the poor creature. Turns out that’s harder to pull off than it looks… 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows the rules: Don’t pull too hard on the leash or run away. But whether she actually behaved depends less on the rule itself, and more on who’s asking… and whether how good something smells. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 tends to search a treat 🍪 under the cup that's closer to her. Is that a good idea? She had a visit from Catarina Mantas, who gave her critical feedback on her performance. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 takes her duties as Chief Playground Inspector very seriously. Her verdict? Someone keeps rearranging the equipment... And, as usual, nobody consulted the dog. 🧐 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wilma 🐶 found a new friend, sea snake Serpentina. She decided that it's a trustworthy friend. Whether that's wise is anyone's guess. 🐍 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is blown away 🤯 because HER paper just won the Beryl Radin Award for the best article in the @jpart1991.bsky.social 1/🧵

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Peer review is the backbone of academic quality, and JPART is fortunate to have an exceptional reviewer community. We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2026 JPART Outstanding Reviewer Award, recognizing outstanding reviewing work done in 2025.

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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 04/06/2026

Molly – der Dachshund – sagt auch Hallo, auch wenn Sie sich nur bedingt für Wissenschaft interessiert. Wilma – des Postdog - ist da mehr am Start! (@flokeppeler.bsky.social).

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has stationed herself under the high chair, waiting for something delicious to fall. The tricky part comes when two equally tempting things drop at once... She can't decide which to grab first, so her choice looks completely random. 1/🧵

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Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ok friends - need your help spreading the word! If you work in state or local government, please take this survey and share with your networks! bit.ly/3Rsihtn It's the first-of-its-kind national effort to elevate the voices of local public servants! (1/2)

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a visitor at work: Roos Mulder. Wilma is keeping Roos firmly in her "line of sight" at all times; you never know when a treat might appear 🦴. As it happens, "line of sight" matters far beyond snack management. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

#Wilmasreview 🐶 Wilma sniffs spring flowers with great authority, certain she can tell every scent apart. Rhododendron? 🌸 Easy. Neighbour's tulip vs. this one? No problem. Is Wilma overconfident? 😏 Turns out, at least humans are. A new study by Heck, Benjamin, Simons & Chabris 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a visitor at the university: Lorenza Micacchi. As you can see in the picture, the two of them were talking about incentives 🍬🍪 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 yanked a jacket off the coat rack to get at treats in the pocket. Her defense: the jacket fell off during an earthquake, she's a victim of seismic forces 🫨. A convenient narrative from a beagle. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 turned 8 this weekend 🥳 So instead of reviewing her own misbehavior (food steals, couch crimes, selective deafness), we turn to the misbehavior of politicians. 🐾 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma is standing in the beautiful @au.dk park and can't believe it — it's mid-April, and the trees are still bare! 🪵 Where she grew up, it would already be lush and green by now. 🌳 1/🧵

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows a thing or two about being close to power. Strategically positioned near the dinner table, she is a genius in the art of being in the right place at the right time — waiting for the baby to drop the good stuff. 🍌 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 takes guardrails very seriously – so seriously, in fact, that she sleeps with one. But what about the guardrails for AI in public services? 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has strong opinions about food. The smiley watermelon 🍉? Objectively delightful. Would she hire it over a plain onion 🧅? Absolutely. Is that bias? Would anyone even notice? According to @bxjaeger.bsky.social, @gpaolacci.bsky.social & Johannes Boegershausen — maybe not. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is on strike today... "sleep strike". But unlike real strikers, she has no union to back her up. Maybe she should look into that because her strike did not result in extra food rations. 🐾 1/🧵

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Public Administration @journalpa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"How Do Strikes and Lockouts Affect Applications to Danish Public Service Professional Education Programs? A Synthetic Control Analysis" by Christian Heide & @flokeppeler.bsky.social shows that strikes & lockouts led to fewer applications to those programs. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows a thing or two about signaling – a wagging tail means she's happy, and paws on a big pipe means business. 💪 But how do we know when a leader's signals are the real deal? 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has a lot of emotions when it comes to the dishwasher. Is it a source of leftovers? Or will it take her job? Humans may have similarly complicated feelings about AI systems — and a review by König and Mehrotra maps out a whole decade of research on that. 🤖💭 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 met a snowy friend today! ❄️ This poor bear tried to apply for social benefits to get some food in this cold weather, but could not receive support despite being eligible. A meta-analysis by @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social reviews 51 field experiments to find out what works: 1/🧵

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

#Wilmasreview For Wilma 🐶, figuring out how to recognize a good leader was always like solving a riddle of the Sphinx. A recent study by Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @farahsaid.bsky.social, Sonia Bhalotra, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming suggests... 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 had an unexpected encounter with a deer the other day – and instead of running away, they just stood there peacefully! 🦌 It got Wilma thinking: why can some "natural opposites" get along just fine, while others struggle? 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is concerned: What would happen if she were replaced by a Large Lego Model? 🧱 Who would sniff out all the treats? She checked the literature and found a new study by Feng and @yantochandra.bsky.social examining how Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping policymaking. 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has been working with her new coworker ⛄ who seems rather cold. This makes Wilma think about how important leadership is for building warm collaboration among colleagues! A study by Kjeldsen, Bjørnholt, and Lund in public schools reveals how managers can melt the ice 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 is learning to navigate on "her" new balance bike—turns out transformation takes practice, patience, and someone to show you the way! Speaking of guidance, a new @journalpa.bsky.social study by @carofischer.bsky.social and Breaugh explores how change agents ... 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 has spent most of her #postdog career at universities in the public sector. Now she is considering switching to the private sector, perhaps in the cleaning industry, specializing in cleaning under baby seats. The reason: delicious leftovers.🥕 🥙 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 turns her back on the new family member after a crash involving a Duplo train and a dog. Will citizens do the same when the government increasingly uses AI to make discriminatory decisions in the future? 1/🧵

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 nervously eyes the dishwasher — will this machine take over her beloved plate-licking duties? This existential question about automation isn’t just for dogs. A recent review examines what AI and robots mean for human workers: 1/🧵

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Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is a new open position but we have other open positions too! Please apply!

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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Mattia Caldarulo @mcaldarulo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Wrapping up #APPAM2025! Thrilled to have organized “Technology in Government: Analyzing Digital Transformation & Governance Challenges” panel with chair @cjheinrich.bsky.social and @ggvanryzin.bsky.social discussant Fantastic papers, sharp insights, and great discussion. Here’s the key takeaways

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