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James M. Zumel Dumlao

@jamesmzd.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information :: Knowledge/Cultural Production, Science of Science :: he/him/his jamesmzd.github.io

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I see this one making the rounds so I am sharing a bit of a warning. This is a non-peer-reviewed, poorly detailed report from an advocacy organization. Some key information is missing, and what is reported ("The steepest judgment gap.. comes from male Gen Z") smells like p-hacking.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just a quick update: It was the biggest comeback in NBA finals history.
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Knicks fan for life
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This Day in Labor History: May 23, 1861. Three slaves named Shepard Mallory, James Baker, and Frank Townsend fled to Fort Monroe, Virginia, to escape their master. Benjamin Butler, the politician turned Union officer, refused to return them. Let's talk the slave self-emancipation of the Civil War!
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Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 Volunteer position alert 📣 At PYMS, we are looking for a new Board Member! Are you an ECR with a passion for meta-science? Do you want to help organize events for fellow meta-scientists and help grow PYMS over the coming years? Check out the open position of Board Member!
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Join the Board of the Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS)
Platform for Young Meta-Scientists
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Whoever thought of letting shops post short-form video on DoorDash. You are a genius of temptation…
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I enjoyed this recent @mattpolprof.bsky.social piece on Habermas, which makes the sympathetic observation that Habermas *wanted* philosophy to be dull and difficult, if by that you mean modest and respectful of the arguments of others www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
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Also a Review of Habermas
Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
Here's @davekarpf lucid on AI and research. AI kills the paper and good riddance davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-repl…
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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
No. No it can't. Come on, now.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/02/2026
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 06/02/2026
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is one of the more interesting localized struggles right now - at the intersection of data centers, rising electricity costs, and nuclear weapons www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...
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Los Alamos confirms UMich data center to be used for nuclear weapons research
A representative of Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed nuclear weapons research will be a priority for its portion of the data center it intends to construct in collaboration with the University...
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 03/02/2026
If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp
IMAGE: a stylized cell phone with flames coming out of it. TEXT: Delete the Starbucks app off your phone.
Seriously.
Starbucks is the biggest violator of labor law in modern history.
We have the power to tell them union-busting is bad for business.
Don't shop at Starbucks until they do better by their baristas!
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Important letter from the University of Michigan AAUP chapter and @aaup.org national challenging the expansion of surveillance practices at our university: umaaup.org/2026/01/23/a...
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AAUP Sends Letter of Concern Regarding Expanding Surveillance at the University of Michigan
January 23, 2026Via email and physical mailDomenico Grasso, President, University of Michigan3190 Ruthven Building1109 Geddes Ave.Ann Arbor, MI 48109grasso@umich.eduDear President Grasso,The AAUP (…
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 29/12/2025
[Trying this again with the right pictures!] Really pleased with this paper -- posting a new version with a better discussion of the previous literature, some new results on calendar-time portfolios, and some fixed errors! paulgp.com/papers/finan...
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Thanks El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll for holding a powerful vigil yesterday for Donna Revecho, who was killed while crossing San Pablo Ave. It was inspiring to join dozens to stand up for safe streets. We need to hold Caltrans accountable to make San Pablo safer & prevent more tragedies!
Crowd of people standing on corner of Waldo and San Pablo Avenues in El Cerrito holding signs calling for slower speeds and safer crosswalks. Cars driving by in the background.

My sign says "Slow Down, Save Lives".
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Getting journal rejections like
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 14/11/2025
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike.
A duck wearing an SBWU pin and a lil bandana that says "Tater Tot"
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
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Jesse Anttila-Hughes @jessexjesse.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 01/10/2025
slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Analysing submissions to 60 Institute of Physics journals, @jamesmzd.bsky.social & Misha Teplitskiy find that #PeerReviewers tend to favour submissions from their own countries, meaning authors from countries with few reviewers face a major structural barrier. @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research - Impact of Social Sciences
An analysis of peer review data for 204,718 submissions to 60 Institute of Physics journals finds that reviewers tend to favour submissions from their own countries.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🗃️ From the archive: "When implemented without democratic oversight, global performance metrics risk becoming tools of centralisation" #Bibliometrics #ResearchAssessment
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How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control - Impact of Social Sciences
Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Austerity measures all over the place but the university has $50 million for… whatever this is
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U-M announces investment in institute for civil discourse | The University Record
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
💥New: Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research ✍️ @jamesmzd.bsky.social & Misha Teplitskiy #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW25 #AcademicSky
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Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research - Impact of Social Sciences
An analysis of peer review data for 204,718 submissions to 60 Institute of Physics journals finds that reviewers tend to favour submissions from their own countries.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
After the lunch break, the next session will be 'Open Science and Data Sharing' The first of three talks will be by Vincent Yuan, with 'Researcher Adherence to Journal Data Sharing Policies: A Meta-Research Study' VY: Science runs on trust - but we need evidence. #PRC10
Speaker and opening slide with red background
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Proud of my union coworkers ( @geo3550.bsky.social ) for pushing to bring graduate research back under contractual protections. All grad workers were in unit when we started 50 years ago, it’s time we get back to that. www.michigandaily.com/news/adminis...
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Graduate student researchers launch campaign for unionization
Graduate student research assistants at the University of Michigan have relaunched their push for unionization.
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Reflexive Reflexivity “We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.” ‪By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Qualitative researchers are increasingly utilising reflexive practices to ensure transparency and assure quality. Current researcher reflexivity, we show, often hinges upon a set of assumptions about reflexivity itself. Through a critical literature review combined with reflexive vignettes, we offer an epistemological critique of reflexivity. We advocate for robust reflexivity, a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself. We thus encourage qualitative researchers to critique their reflexive practices in four ways: (1) we challenge the idea that reflexivity leads to revelation, and show the ways this idea reintroduces positivist notions of Truth under a constructionist guise; (2) we challenge simple binaries within many positionality statements, nuancing ideas of insider and outsider status, affinity and difference, and the dynamism of identity over time; (3) we show how reflexivity is a socially and culturally embedded practice, rather than a neutral and universal cognitive practice; and (4) we foreground the power dynamics of reflexivity, cautioning against the co-option of reflexivity in ways that perpetuate social inequities and mask hierarchies within research. To support robust reflexive practices, we offer a toolkit of questions that can act as prompts for critical engagements with reflexivity, and argue for the creation of more robustly reflexive methodological resources.
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
The future of AI superintelligence is already here, it is just not evenly distributed yet #genAI #LLMs #cogsci #chess tomstafford.substack.com/p/superhum…
Text: superhuman intelligence already exists, and how it has affected the game of chess tells us something
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Jesse Anttila-Hughes @jessexjesse.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Congratulations @jamesmzd.bsky.social , USF MS-IDEC class of 2020!! Excellent and timely research on the structural forces working against international researchers with science of science superstar @innovation.bsky.social . #econsky #polisky #socsky
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Now published at PNAS ‼️ w/ @innovation.bsky.social How does peer reviewer diversity affect fairness in peer review and the direction of published science? We find a "geographical representation bias" in 60 STEM journals published by @ioppublishing.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Title and author info of PNAS paper linked
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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This paper explores academic peer review as a source of knowledge transfer and learning for the reviewers themselves. spkl.io/63328A1crC @innovation.bsky.social @jamesmzd.bsky.social
Stack of papers and books
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Had a great time presenting these findings at #metascience2025 and looking forward to getting even more eyes on it at the #NBERSummerInstitute2025 session on Science of Science Funding (July 17-18)! Catch in online July 17, 3:30pm at www.youtube.com/nbervideos
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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues. It disseminates res...
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
🏮NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT🏮 Scientists collectively spend tens of millions of hours peer reviewing each year, mostly for no $$. Why?? In new work w/ Charles Ayoubi and @innovation.bsky.social, we observe a private benefit for participating in evaluation: 💡💡Learning💡💡
Title page of "Learning by Evaluating"Probability of citing manuscript within 3 years, by review status. Reviewers are more than twice as likely to cite reviewed paper in future work compared to invited reviewers who declined due to unavailability.
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Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @charles @jamesmzd.bsky.social
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Learning by Evaluating: Evidence from Academic Peer Review
The evaluation of innovative projects is an essential task for scientific and business organizations alike. While prior work has focused on the quality of evalu
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Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Why do we peer review? In a new paper, we establish a self-interested reason: learning. With a quasi-experimental design applied to admin data from 55 journals, we show reviewing a paper doubles chances of citing it in future work!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/03/2025
1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
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NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/03/2025
In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."
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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am A Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦
Screenshot of top half of first page of paper. The paper is titled: "When People are Floods: Analyzing Dehumanizing Metaphors in Immigration Discourse with Large Language Models". The authors are Julia Mendelsohn (University of Chicago) and Ceren Budak (University of Michigan). The top right corner contains a visual showing the sentence "They want immigrants to pour into and infest this country". The caption says: Figure 1: Dehumanizing sentence likening immigrants to the source domain concepts of Water and Vermin via the words "pour" and "infest". 

The abstract text on the left reads: Metaphor, discussing one concept in terms of another, is abundant in politics and can shape how people understand important issues. We develop a computational approach to measure metaphorical language, focusing on immigration discourse on social media. Grounded in qualitative social science research, we identify seven concepts evoked in immigration discourse (e.g. "water" or "vermin"). We propose and evaluate a novel technique that leverages both word-level and document-level signals to measure metaphor with respect to these concepts. We then study the relationship between metaphor, political ideology, and user engagement in 400K US tweets about immigration. While conservatives tend to use dehumanizing metaphors more than liberals, this effect varies widely across concepts. Moreover, creature-related metaphor is associated with more retweets, especially for liberal authors. Our work highlights the potential for computational methods to complement qualitative approaches in understanding subtle and implicit language in political discourse.
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
On the last flight on a Sunday night LAX to DTL got me like open.spotify.com/track/1qiJlt...
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Lions Won Again
Gmac Cash · Song · 2021
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
I’m officially an STSer!! Very excited to continue engaging w the work here at #4SHonolulu and creating/bridging convos w/in #ScienceofScience
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Brandon nails it: Karikó's story and the Nobel Prize for her incredible science highlight the flawed foundation of academia's claim to meritocracy. It's an ideal that we can and should aspire to! But we have a lot of hard introspection and institutional work to do to get there...
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
HELMET CATCH #GOBLUE
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Academic productivity is so mysterious to me. Everything I do is angled to get a few high quality working hours each day (or even each week). Hitting that flow state feels unpredictable (could be 9am or 9pm). But once it hits, just 2-4 hours can make the whole day worth it
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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
Wifi was down on campus for 4 days and I was ready to embrace tradition, return to monke, etc. No need! Modernity is back 🤠
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