Studying behavioral reactions to info, Research Methods, Associate Prof Political Science, McGill University #IstandwithUkraine
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🧵 NEW PAPER - "Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages" is live at SMR. We combine NLP w pairwise LLM evals to track ideas across media ecosystems and languages. We also figured out a way to eval unsupervised probs on widely understood supervised performance metrics.
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Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aserlich @J_GansMorse
ajps.org/2025/01/15/can-norm…
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Come and join us for the next two sessions of our webinar series "Using Social Media as a Research Tool". For details and registration: gla.ac.uk/research/az/democr…
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Anne-Marie Singh, @aserlich, @serhii_bahlai, and I share part of our survey on crime and policing in wartime Ukraine. While Ukrainians are becoming more receptive toward toward guns in civilian hands, there is no rush to mass gun ownership or vigilantism. kyivindependent.com/group-of…
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@KyivIndependent published our latest article on Ukraine's gun culture. We do not find a mass shift toward civilian gun acquisition. Post-war Ukraine is unlikely to be a country of gun-slinging outlaws.
THX @MattLightCrim, @aserlich, and Anne-Marie Singh
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ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks
ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for several annotation tasks, including relevance, stance, topics, and frames detection, w/ 20x less cost.
arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056
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Anyway, the basic story appears to be that PS degrees are declining because law school is declining as an interest. And to the extent PS major numbers can recover the route appears to be introducing more (not less) data science/quant reasoning stuff. Students want that content.
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New #SPSPblog: Critical Thinking Protects Ukrainians from the Kremlin’s Disinformation War by @aserlich & @DG_Rand ow.ly/C7JK50LlwMK
ALT Man being overwhelmed by news streaming from a large megaphone
Aaron Erlich retweeted
🚨 🚨 Announcing the 2023 Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science on March 3-4 @NYUpolitics. Please submit your paper proposals to tinyurl.com/57u9a5bt by December 12! 🚨 🚨 @GManMac
Aaron Erlich retweeted
Étudiants à l'UdeM, nous cherchons un ou une passionnée d'information internationale pour un poste de recherchiste dans l'équipe du balado @Sans_escale. C'est le fun, je te promets!
Un autre emploi à pourvoir au CÉRIUM! Notre balado @Sans_escale, animé avec brio par @LdlMontreal et @laurajulie, est à la recherche de son ou de sa recherchiste.
👉 cerium.umontreal.ca/nouvelle…
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If you want to learn about the Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan situation, read the thread and follow @ADoolotkeldieva
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Sneak preview of the next new TCT section: a staggering 2-day ridge route connecting Imereti and Racha we mapped and improved this summer. ⛰️👀
We're hard at work opening up new sections of the TCT-- but we need your help to make it happen! Join us: donorbox.org/transcaucasiant…
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“The Prime Minister will carry on governing but as a caretaker”
Robert Buckland tells #Newsnight’s @nicholaswatt that the Cabinet has asserted itself and Boris Johnson will serve as a “caretaker” prime minister
bbc.in/3Ik6UuT
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A Ukrainian version of our WaPo @monkeycage piece with @aserlich & @brik_t about Ukrainians who have Russian family members living in the Russian propaganda "information bubble" just came out, courtesy of Forbes.ua: forbes.ua/inside/rosiyani-vi…
A short 🧵 on the impact of Russia's war propaganda from the unique perspective of Ukrainians' who communicate with their Russian relatives. Based on my new piece with @brik_t & @aserlich for the Washington Post's @monkeycageblog 1/18
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
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.@LAPISLASA AWARD
Best Paper on Political Institutions from the 2021 LASA Congress
Winner
@palmer_rubin @berliner_dan, @aserlich and Benjamin E. Bagozzi
Accountability in Time: Gradual Change in Access-to-Information Institutions
lasaweb.org/en/2022-section-…
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I'm in Ukraine, a warzone. Russian attacks are constant, airstrikes hit Ukrainian cities overnight. But the first two Ukrainians I saw when I woke up today asked me about the Texas elementary school shooting where a gunman killed 19 children. "Why? How?" politico.com/news/2022/05/24…
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**Want to better understand what you can do to help Ukraine?** Tune in for Northwestern's (@BuffettInst, @WCCIAS) panel about optimizing international aid for 🇺🇦, featuring experts from leading grassroots aid efforts @Mylovanov, @don_bowser, Daniil Cherkasskiy & Natalia Mytsuta.
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Still time to apply! Post-Doc opportunity at McGill University for people interested in international migration. Work with my great team, @aserlich, and myself.
Interested in international migration and have quantitative skills? Come work with a great research group, @aserlich, and myself. Post-Doc opportunity at McGill in the great city of Montreal! For more info see ad here:
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Proud to present the @MediaEcosystem election report (mediaecosystemobservatory.co…) that documents and evaluates the role that misinfo played during the last 🇨🇦 election. Bottom line: there was tons of low impact misinformation that didn't seem to matter for the election. But... 🧵
ALT Cover page from report entitled Mis- and Disinformation During the 2021 Canadian Federal Election. The image shows the report title in the style of an emergency alert that you would receive on a mobile phone.