Before Facebook, there was BlackPlanet—a website that may well have laid the foundation for the social web, Hannah Giorgis writes. Revisiting it can help us envision a different future for the internet: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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).

Thanks MPSA for a great #MPSA2024 . Next up, the 26th Annual UC Berkeley Travers Conference, where I'll discuss a changing Latino electorate.

One point I'll make: less than half of (potential) Latino voters today were eligible to vote before 2008, versus 2/3 of non-Latinos.

Super thrilled to share my thoughts on Good Authority (from the team that published TMC) the new OMB changes regarding Hispanic/Latino and MENA identity!

TLDR: although I’m thrilled with MENA label, new changes continue to erase Afro-Latino and Afro-MENA identity, and why it matters.

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As spring break draws to a close... theonion.com/plan-to-straig…

Bernie Moreno, nominated for Senate by the Ohio GOP yesterday, is a car dealer.

When Jens Hainmueller, Teppei Yamamoto and I asked about professions of potential political candidates, car dealers underperformed the other professions we included.

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Does anyone have any good approaches/resources for teaching undergraduates how to do a literature review? I can't seem to adequately convey that a literature review is not a series of mini book reports

Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

We just secured a huge grant to help fund our new study on the impact of social media around the globe!

We now have funds to subsidize data collection in nations that have been understudied in the past.

To learn more or join our international team: globalsocialmediastudy.com

Lots of people are making jokes, but this is not funny. Therapy, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy, might be remembered as among the greatest inventions of the 20th century. There are few more effective, widely applicable, general purpose techniques for improving…

Fryer (2019) is back. Fryer (2020) claimed he didn’t estimate discrimination. In 2024 Fryer says he was shunned for not finding “any bias.” Confused? This is why it is critical to clearly define the estimand. We do so here: jmummolo.scholar.princeton.edu/document/162 Dean Knox Will Lowe

This thread from August held up

Making it work: Springfield woman connects meaningful jobs with eager seekers masslive.com/business/2024/…

📢 #APSA2024 panel opportunity! If you're seeking a last-minute panel, we have a spot open on our panel titled 'Distrustful & Unsatisfied Citizens: Political Trust & Satisfaction with Democracy.'!
Here are the details 🔍:
docs.google.com/document/d/1pq…

From Brian Vastag:
Nearly 1,000 people watched yesterday's memorial service for #BethMazur in-person & online. It was wonderful & meaningful in so many ways. Thank you to everyone who showed up. Video will be available for about a week. #MEcfs #Disability
youtube.com/live/NqDQuGnla…

Teaching intro stats or intro quant methods?

Some of my course materials are here: bit.ly/teaching_dss

Since my post below, I have added new material and corrected a few errors and typos!

I hope they are helpful!

How do violent extremists persuade otherwise decent citizens to join their causes? We tried to answer this question, and I’m very excited that the paper reporting our findings is finally out in the wild! A 🧵: academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar…

With some help from Omar Wasow | @[email protected], I've figured out how to use Sky Follower Bridge to find the people I follow on Twitter over on B l u e S k y. It's pretty easy. I've updated the tips I send folks when they get their code with info on how to do it, and I thought I'd share here too.