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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🪧 The University of Toronto (St. George) is hiring in American Politics, with a focus on democracy in the United States. Please spread the word! I'm on the committee and am more than happy to answer questions. Full ad & details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Linda A. White @lindawhite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My dear friend and colleague has left this world. A towering intellectual giant of constitutional politics, Ran’s body of scholarship runs deep and wide. His passing leaves a giant hole in the academic community, in our dept, and in the lives of all who knew him. May his memory be a blessing. 💔

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Bradley Wood-MacLean @bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Proud to have presented this co-authored piece with @semrasevi.bsky.social "Are Young Canadians Shifting to the Right? Evidence from the Canadian Election Study, 2015–2025" at @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social in Ottawa today! Thank you to my great co-author and all who came to engage with our work!

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Jennifer Oser @jenny-oser.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📢 Webinar invitation: May 20 on "AI & Politics" with Semra Sevi (University of Toronto) @semrasevi.bsky.social and Don Green (Columbia University)! Start time: 9:30 ET, 14:30 London, 15:30 CET, 16:30 Israel. For zoom link & additional info: www.prd-erc.eu/events

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Patrick Liu @patrickpliu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes? In a new WP with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and @scottclifford.bsky.social, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people’s attitudes are not what researchers expect.

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Science communication has never been more important. In this animation, @yamilrvelez.bsky.social, Donald Green and I break down our research exploring whether AI chatbots can increase political engagement among young, politically unaligned voters. Link to animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCuX...

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Can AI Chatbots Increase Political Engagement of Young Unaligned Voters?

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨New WP: Can an AI voter guide (grounded in information from a nonpartisan, fact-checked source) help voters’ decision making? 🚨 We built and evaluated an LLM-based chatbot that provided voting info in CA & TX (N=2,474) right before the 2024 election. 🧵👇

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for
Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments
Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath
January 27, 2026
We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se-
lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of
American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality
and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com).
Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously
published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’
choosing.
The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a
meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi-
pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit
to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for
submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This paper was a blast to work on. The challenge: present party positions across many issues, in real time, using language voters actually use. 🧵 on why we went with a more involved retrieval-based approach and where I think these tools are headed.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

An AI Voter bot improves knowledge about politics But, the AI bot has weak effects on downstream outcomes like vote preferences and party evaluations among respondents whose primary issue position aligns closely with one of the parties. Partisan action is hard to change. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🚨Excited to share our new paper published in PNAS (joint with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and Don Green)! AI can enhance political knowledge and provide balanced information about politics with proper guardrails and vetted sources (e.g., party platforms). www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Quite a 24 hours in Canadian Politics, two Conservatives out (one to the Liberals, one gone altogether), a new Budget on the table, and my debut on Power & Politics! Nothing beats watching your research come to life. Full interview here: gem.cbc.ca/power-politics #cdnpoli

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

@utoronto.ca, do better! The Uni is excluding recent hires from cost-of-living adjustments that an arbitrator decided ALL faculty/librarians deserve. This harms junior colleagues struggling w/ inflation: we’ve organized a petition demanding @utoronto.ca change course. Spread the word! www.utfa.org

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The University of Toronto Faculty Association exists to protect and advance the well being of the faculty, librarians and research associates of the University of Toronto, the University of St. Michae...

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Inessa De Angelis @inessadeangelis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Which Canadian MPs are on Bluesky and what do they post? My new paper w/ @rohanalexander.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social unpacks these questions, finding MPs use it like Twitter to discuss policy, the Ottawa bubble & constituency Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #polsky #commsky #cdnpoli

What are Canadian Members of Parliament Doing on Bluesky? research note abstract

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🪃Do legislators trade proposals? ➡️Leveraging a lottery in the Canadian Parliament, @semrasevi.bsky.social & D.P. Green find little evidence MPs second motions to gain favor. Support seems driven by shared interests, not quid pro quo www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🚨NEW PAPER: Do legislators trade favours? My latest with Donald Green uses a natural lottery in the Canadian Parliament to test whether MPs return favours when others support their proposals. Our findings may surprise you.👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🚨NEW PAPER: Do incumbents really have an edge in elections? Research says yes. But what happens when party labels are added to the ballot? A natural experiment from Canadian elections tells an interesting story👇🧵

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University of Toronto @utoronto.ca · 09/05/2025

From classroom to control room: #UofT students join Global News on election night 🗳️ uoft.me/bzJ

Sevi and her students worked behind the scenes in the busy newsroom

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U of T Faculty of Arts & Science @artsci.utoronto.ca · 01/05/2025

#UofTArtSci students joined @globalnews.ca on election night, working behind the scenes in the newsroom to help call live results — an unforgettable hands-on experience. Read more: bit.ly/3YpJPQL

Professor Semra Sevi and her students standing behind a global news desk.

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U of T Faculty of Arts & Science @artsci.utoronto.ca · 01/05/2025

Just days after Canadians elected Liberal leader Mark Carney as Prime Minister, the mix of victories, upsets and expected outcomes reflects deeper trends that #UofTArtSci elections expert Semra Sevi has spent years analyzing. Read more: bit.ly/4lVQ7ld

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Can AI reduce prejudice? 🇺🇸 In our new preprint, GPT-4o moved the needle on trans rights in a national U.S. study using morally tailored messages. The shift was real and short-lived. For more, read 👇 Comments and feedback are welcome.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Prejudice is common in modern societies. Reducing prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective & scalable manner. Can AI help reduce prejudice? My new working paper w @semrasevi.bsky.social, @mbosley.bsky.social & Crabtree examines this question! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 with Charles Crabtree & André Blais "Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

🚨Are feminine traits a liability in elections? My latest with André Blais at Acta Politica is now online!

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Ever wonder whether snap elections backfire? In my latest with Marco M. Aviña & @rdassonneville.bsky.social we study this question in the Canadian context. Now out at the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Really excited to share my latest with André Blais now out at Electoral Studies on "Are women election averse?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @uoft.bsky.social

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 07/11/2023

New paper now conditionally accepted at @thejop.bsky.social With @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social - one of the best (& nicest) people in polisky - we ran a meta analysis looking at effects of educational group-based biases in candidate choice experiments. 👉https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hrufe

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Friends, please encourage your students to consider a pre-doctoral fellowship with me working on meta-analyses of political science experiments. I promise a good trade of money and skills in exchange for effort and time! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Position description: The goal of this project is to produce generalizable answers to social scientific questions through ``meta-reanalysis,'' a design in which original study datasets are re-analyzed using standardized tools and the resulting re-analyses are formally synthesized through meta-analysis. Building on the Coppock's previous meta-analytic work on persuasion, candidate choice, and discrimination, this project seeks to establish the external validity of research findings in select literatures, including for a start, the experimental record on the effects of group cues and perspective taking.

The key contribution of this project is the approach to the generalizability problem, the concern that the results of any particular study might not travel to other contexts and times. The lab's design- based approach is grounded in the principles of commensurability, transparency, and collaboration.

REQUISITE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

The main tasks will fall into three categories:

1. Data cleaning and preparation. All-data related tasks will be done in R, in the "tidyverse" style, so familiarity with R and tidyverse coding is preferred.

2. Design-aware literature review. We only include primary studies that adhere to particular designs, so exposure to and familiarity with experimental designs in political science is preferred.

3. Data collection via communication with primary study authors. We need to ask primary study authors to share their data with us, which requires a polite and prompt emailing style.

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