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Aina Gallego
@ainagallego.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science at Universitat de Barcelona. I am interested in AI & Politics

http://www.ainagallego.org/

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Blog Piedras de Papel @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social · Sep 26
Hoy traemos un post de rabiosa actualidad. @lluisorriols.bsky.social hace una radiografía del trasvase de un millón de votos que se estaría produciendo entre el Partido Popular y VOX.

www.eldiario.es/132_c0bdc9?u...
Un millón de votos
La política en España se desplaza de lo económico a lo cultural, y el futuro del PP dependerá de si logra dar una respuesta propia o queda subordinado a la agenda de Vox
www.eldiario.es

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Didac Queralt @didacqueralt.bsky.social · Jul 9
🚨🚨 New paper alert: Culture vs. Institutions

@ainagallego.bsky.social‬, Ana Tur-Prats and I have a new paper out in the JOP that examines the impact of historical family types on modern-day female political representation.

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Blog Piedras de Papel @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social · Jun 5
¿Cómo afectará la IA a las desigualdades de género en el trabajo?

Hoy @ainagallego.bsky.social nos muestra en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social la evidencia disponible.

www.eldiario.es/132_bc84fd?u...
Inteligencia artificial, empleo y género
Las mujeres predominan en ocupaciones altamente expuestas a la IA, pero también tienen una fuerte presencia en sectores donde la IA puede complementar su trabajo. Las políticas públicas serán determin...
www.eldiario.es

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Apr 1
Va ser un plaer parlar a la Universitat Internacional per la Pau de com la IA afectarà al treball amb Gorka Perez www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjR...
Seminari d'Hivern 2025: Com afecta la intel·ligència artificial al treball?
YouTube video by UNIPAU- Universitat Internacional de la Pau
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Carlo Knotz @carloknotz.bsky.social · Mar 27
My department is *hiring a PhD* student (3 years, fully funded) for a research project on the social and political effects of AI-related technological change. *Deadline: May 4, '25*. See here for more information & to apply: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PoliSky #Sociology #AcademicSky
PhD Fellowship in Politics & Social Sciences (266956) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Politics & Social Sciences (266956), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, May 4, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no

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Matthias Haslberger @mhaslberger.bsky.social · Mar 18
📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢

We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Feb 24
🗓️ Submission deadline: February 28 🗓️
Join us to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona 2-3 October 2025).
Submission form: forms.gle/daA2S1qcSnxc...
Call for papers: www.ibei.org/en/call-for-...

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Feb 9
“An effective strategy would combine legal, institutional, and civil resistance methods to advance the pro-democratic agenda. It would spell out a positive and optimistic vision for the country, rather than a defensive strategy.”
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 8
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025 View in browser "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Feb 6
Full call for papers:

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Feb 6
Please apply to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona, October 2-3). We seek empirical work on key actors, lobby and regulatory activities, and political conflict related to AI and Big Tech. Submission: forms.gle/o4rwT9km3iPX... by February 28.
Politics of Technology and AI Workshop -IBEI 2025
forms.gle

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 31
For more details on the approach, check our paper in open access: 5/5
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
www.cambridge.org

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 31
Positioning British party manifestos on the Economic policy dimension (left to right wing scale). The numbers next to the dots indicate the years of the manifestos (4/5)

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 31
Positioning Senators of the 117th Congress on the left-right ideological spectrum based on a random sample of 100 of their tweets (3/5)

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 31
Positioning tweets published by members of the US Congress on the left-right ideological spectrum: (2/5)

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
Please follow my brilliant coauthor @glemens.bsky.social , the soul of this project

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
Explore more: The paper is available in open access here: 7/7
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
www.cambridge.org

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
An important caveat is that the scope of application of this approach is unclear without case-by-case validation. Our findings provide an important proof of concept that positioning political texts by "asking" an LLM and "averaging" the position ratings produces accurate position estimates. 6/7

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
Ideological scaling with LLMs has significant advantages over previous approaches
• Cost-efficient ($1.50 for 900 tweets vs. >1000$ human coding)
• Speed
• Scalability to diverse text types
• Reproducibility (with open LLMs like Llama or Mistral) 5/7

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
Our results show that position estimates correlate strongly (>0.90) with benchmarks based on expert coding, crowd workers, or roll-call votes. Moreover, this direct query approach outperforms traditional supervised classifiers like BERT trained on thousands of texts, especially for tweets! 4/7

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
We validated this method with:
• A random sample of 900 US Congress tweets published in 2023
• Positions of US Senators based on their published tweet
• UK party manifestos on economic/social policies
• Multilingual EU legislative speeches on subsidy policy 3/7

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28
The approach is simple: we ask the LLM to evaluate where a short text (e.g., tweet or sentence) stands on a political scale such as a 0 to 100 left-right scale. We then average the ratings to obtain the position of longer texts (party manifestos) or political actors (US Senators). 2/7

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jan 21
📍 No Paris agreement
📍January 6 pardons
📍Slashing DEI
📍 Border emergency
📍 DOGE created
📍 Unregulated AI
📍 Territory expansions announced

Just a few. And then of course TikTok quasi save and the Gulf of America 🇺🇸

Enjoy the morning coffee Europe 🇪🇺 ☕️ 👀

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jan 21
In the executive order flurry: unregulated AI.

“Was it too much to ask AI developers for transparency regarding the safety testing of their products?” @alondra.bsky.social

thhttps://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-caps-alondra-nelson-condemns-dangerous-repeal-of-ai-executive-order/
STATEMENT: CAP’s Alondra Nelson Condemns Dangerous Repeal of AI Executive Order
www.americanprogress.org

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Romain Lachat @rlachat.bsky.social · Jan 20
📣Summer school on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy", Paris, July 1-5, 2025📣
Organized with @rdassonneville.bsky.social

Guest speakers: @ainagallego.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social @jrovny.bsky.social

More info👇
www.chairedemocratie.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Jan 17
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Dec 4
Thank you to all participants to the Workshop on AI & Politics at @cpoliticaub.bsky.social It was great to debate so much great work: aipsr.net/workshop-2-ai/

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Nov 24
"Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people" by Gábor Scheiring www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
www.politico.com

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Blog Piedras de Papel @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hoy tenemos a @lavezzolo.bsky.social analizando qué características sociodemograáficas y políticas están asociadas con el apoyo a opciones de gobiernos no democráticas. ¡Datos de encuesta para España en 2024!
www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...
Radiografía del apoyo a gobiernos no democráticos
Las actitudes favorables a los gobiernos no democráticos no son meras anomalías en el panorama político español, sino reflejos de factores sociales, económicos y políticos ciertamente enraizados
www.eldiario.es

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Dec 4
📢 Call for papers: Workshop on using LLMs and text-as-data in Political Science
Submissions: forms.office.com/e/5Y0XJErgxj

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Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Nov 29
Hey, first post here :)
Gael Le Mens and I just uploaded a paper about scaling political text using ChatGPT. This approach is fast, cost-efficient, and reliable. We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2311.16639