Simón
@simonherrera.bsky.social
Political science student (& research assistant) @ Universidad de la República (Uruguay); Researcher & data scientist @ Focus Asesoramiento.
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
started working as a research assistant at my university, where I'll be developing a Shiny app to visualize the results of a recent survey about the welfare state! #rstats
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
started working as a research assistant at my university, where I'll be developing a Shiny app to visualize the results of a recent survey about the welfare state! #rstats
what happened to building great software? enshittification is killing me
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
what happened to building great software? enshittification is killing me
unsurprising
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
unsurprising
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this is a complete fiction and the sooner that foreign policy people recognize american imperial history is real the better
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this is a complete fiction and the sooner that foreign policy people recognize american imperial history is real the better
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Self-inflicted wound
October 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Self-inflicted wound
for those of us out there with a love-hate relationship with pdfs, this model is very small and very good! www.ibm.com/new/announce...
IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding
IBM released Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact, open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while fully preserving layout, tables, equations, code...
www.ibm.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
for those of us out there with a love-hate relationship with pdfs, this model is very small and very good! www.ibm.com/new/announce...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
finally, a worthy oponent for Xaringan
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
finally, a worthy oponent for Xaringan
MacOS Tahoe is so bad it made me switch back to Chrome
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
MacOS Tahoe is so bad it made me switch back to Chrome
nobody told me I'd be setting up ad campaigns in order to get people to take part in my studies when I decided to become a political scientist, yet here I am
September 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nobody told me I'd be setting up ad campaigns in order to get people to take part in my studies when I decided to become a political scientist, yet here I am
for any computational social scientists interested in qualitative research, here's a good read epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Scaling hermeneutics: a guide to qualitative coding with LLMs for reflexive content analysis - EPJ Data Science
Qualitative coding, or content analysis, is more than just labeling text: it is a reflexive interpretive practice that shapes research questions, refines theoretical insights, and illuminates subtle s...
epjdatascience.springeropen.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
for any computational social scientists interested in qualitative research, here's a good read epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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these aren’t all my thoughts but at least some of them on the state of affairs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | I Was Supposed to Debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s What I Would Have Said.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
these aren’t all my thoughts but at least some of them on the state of affairs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
I recently heard someone say that in the era of AI, good taste has become more important than ever, and I couldn't agree more
September 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I recently heard someone say that in the era of AI, good taste has become more important than ever, and I couldn't agree more
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Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.
nyti.ms
September 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
always find myself late night scheming
September 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
always find myself late night scheming