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Adam Berinsky
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Political Scientist and social media addict

Adam J. Berinsky is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the 2004 book Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America and the 2009 book In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq. .. more

Political science 37%
Sociology 21%
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

I can see...

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Time for everyone to dig up their best take on Bari Weiss. Here’s mine:

so true.
the occasional reminder that if you are watching and live-posting about a presidential address, the way you engage with politics is notably atypical from that of, say, the average persuadable or low-propensity voter

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the occasional reminder that if you are watching and live-posting about a presidential address, the way you engage with politics is notably atypical from that of, say, the average persuadable or low-propensity voter

Not in the least bit surprising
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

Shocking. A bunch of anti semites use antisemitism as a bad faith cover for doing bad things.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

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So excited that our paper is out!
🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

Excited that our paper is out!

Reposted by Adam J. Berinsky

Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez

Anyone planning on filing for the Anthropic lawsuit? I saw one of my books in the database list and not sure what to do.

Serious question: would scholars be willing to pay a submission fee to fund payment to reviewers? I'm genuinely curious what people think.
68 review requests and counting in 2025. Journals need to pay reviewers.
I think we need to pay reviewers.

Serious question: would you be willing to pay a submission fee to fund payment to reviewers? I'm genuinely curious what people think.

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68 review requests and counting in 2025. Journals need to pay reviewers.
I think we need to pay reviewers.
25 no response out of 30 requests to review!

Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media