The NYU Social Psychology Program is looking for people passing through New York next year who want to share their research in our Speaker Series.

We welcome self-nominations and scholars from all career stages. Just add your info in this form:
forms.gle/KM2DANvvzf3KCb…

We…

Don Moynihan Sebastian Jilke 🤖 Stephan Grim and I are organizing a Pre-Conference workshop on 'Civic Tech, Administrative Burdens and Public Management' for #PMRC2024

Join us to learn more about how civic tech is reshaping government services and how public mgmt research can help!

More👇🏼

Academic twitter/X, please help!

Has anyone had experience with Lucid? Their ‘redirects’ are not working for me for some reason.. And the PM told me to pay $250 to get their help (which I don’t want to pay for!)

I created a slide deck (raw.githubusercontent.com/jaeyk/jaeyk.gi…) for my coauthored paper on training computational social science PhDs for academic and non-academic career paths: cambridge.org/core/journals/… (FYI, the target is social science Ph.D. students).

미국에 거주하는 한국인 유학생들의 정신건강 상담/심리상담에 대한 글을 썼습니다. 언제 어떻게 시작해야 하는지 막막한 분들도 따라하실 수 있도록 보험, 비용, 언어 등을 정리해보았습니다. 🇰🇷한글 버전은 아래를 보시면 됩니다.
🔗mustardseedgeneration.org/kr/blog/2024/4…

This article by Martin Williams (Oxford) on state capacity is really useful for those of us to think about state capacity with a focus on policy implementation. e.g., the U.S. is a (supposed) strong state but it doesn't get things done. Why? cambridge.org/core/journals/…

“When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?” w/ Abraham Aldama is forthcoming in Journal of Politics @[email protected]! Building on Bethany Albertson Paul Djupe Andrew Whitehead - American Idols Podcast Perry Campbell +, we examine when politicians might use *overtly* religious rhetoric instead of cloaked appeals

tinyurl.com/bdense4p

In this working paper we have been pondering for a long time how to depict interconnectedness at the *symbolic* level -- a critical missing piece in our understanding of the formation of schools of thought - not merely through *social* ties (citations, placements, etc.) (1/2)

The 4 dark laws of online engagement:

1. Negativity bias drives headline clicks
2. Extreme opinions drive in-group sharing
3. Out-group animosity drives engagement
4. 'Moral-emotional' language goes viral

I discuss our research on the dark side of virality with Derek Thompson…

jvns.ca/blog/brag-docu… brag document seems like good advice. (I should have done it earlier in my career.)

A new episode of our Recherche SciencesPo podcast features my conversation with Yamil Ricardo Velez Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia who is now visiting CEVIPOF - Sciences Po at @SciencesPo on his research on misinformation and on the use of GenAI to fight it

smartlink.ausha.co/conversations-…

I had a fantastic time discussing fact-checking, misinformation, and Generative AI with Sergei Guriev!

I just listened the amazing podcast of Casual Inference Podcast with Mark van der Laan on target learning.

For all my #EconTwitter friends, listen to it!

The discussion about estimand, causal gap, and the entire enterprise is just so clean and 💡💡🤌🤌🤌

Really great!

casualinfer.libsyn.com/targeted-learn…

A great tool for public administration scholars!

I've been having a lot of fun co-teaching a new course on the science and implications of generative AI with Dan Levy and Teddy Svoronos. We're posting all of our class materials online, including videos and exercises. Please check it out! generative-ai-course.hks.harvard.edu.