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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I am happy that this paper with @flynnpolsci.bsky.social is finally in print. If you need to turn text into a number for rigorous analysis, this is likely the solution you are looking for. Short story: pairwise comparisons (A vs. B) are better than naive LLM scaling (0-10 placement).

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Thomas Sattler @sattlersthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Academia's Class Problem: First-Generation Scholars in Political Science

Political scientists devote a massive amount of attention to socioeconomic background of political actors and descriptive representation in political institutio

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Do you think rent control improves housing quality and supply? Or that government debt works just like household debt? Economists generally think those views are wrong. And they're probably right.

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Insitute of Political Science Leiden @polscileiden.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📢 New lecture: 'AI Literacy for Studying, Thesis Research, and Life' by @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social 🔎 📆 Wednesday 11 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30 📍Room 3B.38, Spui Campus, The Hague ➡️More info and registration here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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AI Literacy for Studying, Thesis Research, and Life

A practical, no-hype intro to AI literacy for studying, thesis research, and careers. We’ll cover how modern AI works (and where it fails), how to use it to learn faster without losing skills, and how...

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Universities can survive if they can assure students a degree can't be attained with prompting alone.

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

“Three years ago, we were impressed that a machine could write a poem about otters. Less than 1,000 days later, I am debating statistical methodology with an agent that built its own research environment. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

From chatbots to agents

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment - Andy Masley andymasley.substack.com/p/a-short-summ… #AI #environment #energy

In the past few months I've spoken to a lot of people facing objections to using chatbots, including a surprising number of people who want to buy chatbot access for their large organizations and have been shot down because of worry over the impact of individual prompts. I think it's crazy that this is still happening and want a much shorter post readers can send to people who are still misinformed about this. Here it is!

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11/10/2025

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine. "The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... " abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Very grateful for the invite to this conference. I learned a lot.

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Yesterday I posted about how I used comet browser to take a Qualtrics survey almost undetected. Last night, I ran a pilot (N=400) on @joinprolific.bsky.social . I found that almost 10% of "respondents" identified as AI when directly asked.

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update] - Hannah Ritchie www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/a… #AI #energy

• My main conclusion is no different from my initial post: individual usage of ChatGPT and other LLMs for most people is a small part of their carbon and energy footprint.
• The energy use "per query" is possibly 10 times lower than estimated in the
previous article. Google estimates that its median text query uses around 33-times less energy than 12 months ago. So, this kind of stacks up.
• Google says that its median text query uses around 0.24 Wh of electricity. That's a tiny amount: equivalent to microwaving for one second, or running a fridge for 6 seconds.

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 11/08/2025

Earlier this year, over 230 Venezuelan men were sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Our @propublica.org team spent months looking into who they were to find the truth behind their stories. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Efe Tokdemir @efetokdemir.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Do sanction threats work? We find that threats—even if credibly backed—do not increase support for concessions in the target public (Turkiye case). Plus, positive inducements provoke backlash in some groups, highlighting coercive diplomacy’s limits Check out our research note: shrturl.app/3l4wWJ

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I think we really ought to consider the dramatic rise in popularity of podcasts and video essays as conclusive disproof of the 'everyone hates lectures' idea in pedagogy. Turns out that, even when faced with many alternatives, many people just like to be told something at length.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society

The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2025

oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Shreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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ConflLlama: Domain-specific adaptation of large language models for conflict event classification - Shreyas Meher, Patrick T. Brandt, 2025

We present ConflLlama, demonstrating how efficient fine-tuning of large language models can advance automated classification tasks in political science research...

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🤖 New Pre-Print: Ad Machina: Partisanship and Support for Delegating Government Decisions to Autonomous Algorithms osf.io/preprints/so...

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨 @citap.bsky.social is hiring 🚨 tenure-track assistant prof w/ faculty appt @uncsils.bksy.social - looking for a scholar whose research examines the complex interconnections between AI technologies & social, organizational, and/or political systems. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

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Assistant Professor

The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invite applications for a tenure...

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Indiana Jones and Are You Fucking Kidding Me Why Do I Have to Put Learning Outcomes on My Syllabus The Outcome I Want is For the Students to Learn What's Assigned on the Parts of the Syllabus They Can Barely Find For All the Dumb Boilerplate Nonsense I'm Supposed to Put on the Syllabus

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted. Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This THE way to use LLMs for scaling text data.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Europe needs to understand that the presence of AC is way more important for climate adaptation than the absence of AC is for preventing climate change.

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Michael Flynn @flynnpolsci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

CRS has a really good overview of US uses of force and the authorities presidents have cited from 2001 through 2017. They all tend to lean on a mixture, but it’s not unusual to cite inherent constitutional powers alone or alongside the AUMFs.

Plot showing incidents of US presidents taking military action and the legal authorities they cite.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 20/06/2025

New research from Anthropic: it turns out models from all of the providers won't just blackmail or leak damaging information to the press, they can straight up murder people if you give them a contrived enough simulated scenario simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...

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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken …

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I know a few of these folks--great people doing super interesting work.

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

How much energy are you using on AI? | Datawrapper Blog www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-energy-u… #AI #energy

Chart displaying estimated annual CO2 savings from various lifestyle changes. Top contributors include living car-free (2.4 tons) and switching to green heating (2 tons). Lesser contributors are reusing a plastic bag (0.01 tons) and switching to LED lights (0.03 tons). The chart also humorously includes “Avoid 50,000 ChatGPT prompts” saving 0.07 tons.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2025

1. OpenAI wants to transform college education "by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus."

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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez @pablofernandezv.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a *2-year fixed-term faculty position* in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? socialsciences.department@uc3m.es 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...

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Visiting Professor in the area of Political Science | UC3M

Contenido compartido desde el sitio web oficial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - www.uc3m.es

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is why publishing in a general, field wide, journal is a useful signal.

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Prof. Kai Gehring @kaigehring.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

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

We have no choice but to adapt. Burn your syllabus and start over.

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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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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This is part correct. We shouldn’t be sharing our individual work with the public. The fragile nature of our findings will undermine trust in the long run. We should share the findings of the field. But we should specialize. We don’t all have to (or should) engage the public.

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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Catch questions are a popular way to detect cheating on survey questions about factual knowledge --- but they can backfire, INCREASING the proportion of respondents who look up the answer! New in Public Opinion Quarterly (gift link): academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Sitting out AI is a risky strategy in a highly competitive academic market. The productivity gains are real. Don’t count on a tortoise and the hare scenario.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

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