Alona O. Dolinsky
@alonadolinsky.com
Political scientist. Marie Curie Fellow, VU Amsterdam. Co-PI CONSTRUCT project. EPSS Diversity Committee. Neurodivergent. I study parties, representation, group appeals and text-as-data.
📺 🥣 & 🐈⬛
www.alonadolinsky.com
📺 🥣 & 🐈⬛
www.alonadolinsky.com
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The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
Deadline: January 16!
CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you!
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
I love my job.
Not working is great!
Not working is great!
December 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I love my job.
Not working is great!
Not working is great!
Happy Christmas to all who celebrate, and happy all the holidays to everyone!
a man in a white robe is standing next to a bed in a dark room
ALT: a man in a white robe is standing next to a bed in a dark room
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December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Happy Christmas to all who celebrate, and happy all the holidays to everyone!
רק בשביל החולצה הקצרה שאני לובשת עכשיו ב-24 לדצמבר(!) היה שווה לבוא לביקור
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
רק בשביל החולצה הקצרה שאני לובשת עכשיו ב-24 לדצמבר(!) היה שווה לבוא לביקור
שלום!! הגעתי לקראת חגיגת הנובי גוד הנהדרת של משפחתי. אני מבקשת, בכל לשון של בקשה, להתאפק עד הטיסה שלי החוצה עם כל מיני תוכניות שעלולות בטעות לגרום שוב לסגירת השמיים. תודה מראש, זו שעוד בטראומה מיוני 2025 ובכל זאת הגיעה לביקור.
a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red
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December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
שלום!! הגעתי לקראת חגיגת הנובי גוד הנהדרת של משפחתי. אני מבקשת, בכל לשון של בקשה, להתאפק עד הטיסה שלי החוצה עם כל מיני תוכניות שעלולות בטעות לגרום שוב לסגירת השמיים. תודה מראש, זו שעוד בטראומה מיוני 2025 ובכל זאת הגיעה לביקור.
בעיירה בה אני נמצאת בסלובקיה חיים 20 יהודים. באירוע הדלקת נרות הערב נמצאים אנחנו, רב חב״ד מהעיר הקרובה, ראש המועצה, עוד כמה אורחים ישראלים פה במלון ומשהו כמו עשרה שוטרי יס״מ סלובקים חמושים. כיף להיות יהודי בעולם.
December 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
בעיירה בה אני נמצאת בסלובקיה חיים 20 יהודים. באירוע הדלקת נרות הערב נמצאים אנחנו, רב חב״ד מהעיר הקרובה, ראש המועצה, עוד כמה אורחים ישראלים פה במלון ומשהו כמו עשרה שוטרי יס״מ סלובקים חמושים. כיף להיות יהודי בעולם.
מי אתן, נשים מוזרות ליד הבריכה, שביום ראשון בו כולם סביבכן נחים בחופשה שלהם, שנדמה לכן שזה סבבה לצפות בסרטונים בטלפון שלכן בלי אוזניות?!?!?!
a woman in a black sweater is raising her arms in the air
ALT: a woman in a black sweater is raising her arms in the air
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
מי אתן, נשים מוזרות ליד הבריכה, שביום ראשון בו כולם סביבכן נחים בחופשה שלהם, שנדמה לכן שזה סבבה לצפות בסרטונים בטלפון שלכן בלי אוזניות?!?!?!
Why oh why do you “reply all” to an email that was sent to ~150 people? STOP IT!
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Why oh why do you “reply all” to an email that was sent to ~150 people? STOP IT!
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵
We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?
Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?
Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵
We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?
Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?
Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you!
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
Deadline: January 16!
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you!
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
דיילי קרקע ועובדי הביטחון בנתב״ג לא עושים את העבודה שלהם כמו שצריך ובמקום לטפל בזה, נתב״ג יפילו את זה על הנוסעים עם עוד בדיקות. 🤦🏼♀️
מעולם לא עברתי באף שדה בעולם, כולל נתב״ג, בלי שביקשו לראות כרטיס טיסה.
מעולם לא עברתי באף שדה בעולם, כולל נתב״ג, בלי שביקשו לראות כרטיס טיסה.
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
דיילי קרקע ועובדי הביטחון בנתב״ג לא עושים את העבודה שלהם כמו שצריך ובמקום לטפל בזה, נתב״ג יפילו את זה על הנוסעים עם עוד בדיקות. 🤦🏼♀️
מעולם לא עברתי באף שדה בעולם, כולל נתב״ג, בלי שביקשו לראות כרטיס טיסה.
מעולם לא עברתי באף שדה בעולם, כולל נתב״ג, בלי שביקשו לראות כרטיס טיסה.
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading.
This is one of those cases.
This is one of those cases.
The rationale I was given for AI Summaries *alongside* ordinary abstracts:
* The AI-generated summaries are intended to be more accessible to non-experts.
(1/3)
* The AI-generated summaries are intended to be more accessible to non-experts.
(1/3)
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading.
This is one of those cases.
This is one of those cases.
CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you!
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
Deadline: January 16!
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you!
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.
We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
📢 Reminder: Submit your panel & paper proposals to the DARTS network's section at the 2026 ECPR General Conference at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 8-11 September 2026 #ecprgc26
🎯 S09: “Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space”: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
🎯 S09: “Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space”: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
📢 Reminder: Submit your panel & paper proposals to the DARTS network's section at the 2026 ECPR General Conference at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 8-11 September 2026 #ecprgc26
🎯 S09: “Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space”: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
🎯 S09: “Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space”: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Got my UK visa. 🥳
To rent a flat in Birmingham I must prove my visa status. All attempts to get a digital Share Code end with an error message. All attempts to contact UKVI via all routes on the website end in dead ends & no solution.
I really just don’t understand why this has to be so difficult.
To rent a flat in Birmingham I must prove my visa status. All attempts to get a digital Share Code end with an error message. All attempts to contact UKVI via all routes on the website end in dead ends & no solution.
I really just don’t understand why this has to be so difficult.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Got my UK visa. 🥳
To rent a flat in Birmingham I must prove my visa status. All attempts to get a digital Share Code end with an error message. All attempts to contact UKVI via all routes on the website end in dead ends & no solution.
I really just don’t understand why this has to be so difficult.
To rent a flat in Birmingham I must prove my visa status. All attempts to get a digital Share Code end with an error message. All attempts to contact UKVI via all routes on the website end in dead ends & no solution.
I really just don’t understand why this has to be so difficult.
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
It feels especially like an act of defiance this year, after how the festival started on the other side of the world. But then our continued existence is itself an act of defiance. We will stay strong as a community and do our part at being the light that prevails over darkness.
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It feels especially like an act of defiance this year, after how the festival started on the other side of the world. But then our continued existence is itself an act of defiance. We will stay strong as a community and do our part at being the light that prevails over darkness.
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
Time to go.
First on a break, then on to the next adventure.
First on a break, then on to the next adventure.
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Time to go.
First on a break, then on to the next adventure.
First on a break, then on to the next adventure.
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
I posted it here before, but @favstats.eu and I wrote an entry about LLMs in the encyclopedia below 👇
Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I posted it here before, but @favstats.eu and I wrote an entry about LLMs in the encyclopedia below 👇
Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world
A very short 🧵
📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world
A very short 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world
A very short 🧵
📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world
A very short 🧵
My truly lovely Amsterdam apartment is no longer mine. I still have 2 days in the city and I miss it already.
Its been a pleasure. See you later.
Its been a pleasure. See you later.
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
My truly lovely Amsterdam apartment is no longer mine. I still have 2 days in the city and I miss it already.
Its been a pleasure. See you later.
Its been a pleasure. See you later.
So many times this
Dear hiring committees,
I miss writing anything that isn’t a custom-fit job market package. Please consider standardizing the materials so I can return to the research and writing that motivates these applications.
Signed,
A tired postdoc who just finished a 12-page package and misses her work
I miss writing anything that isn’t a custom-fit job market package. Please consider standardizing the materials so I can return to the research and writing that motivates these applications.
Signed,
A tired postdoc who just finished a 12-page package and misses her work
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
So many times this
Reposted by Alona O. Dolinsky
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world
Could we please for the love of everything explain to people that these tools are not(!!!!) live search engines.
If the model was trained BEFORE the East Wing of the White House was demolished, Claude can’t possibly know about it.
Thank you.
If the model was trained BEFORE the East Wing of the White House was demolished, Claude can’t possibly know about it.
Thank you.
The university bought Claude AI for students to use.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Could we please for the love of everything explain to people that these tools are not(!!!!) live search engines.
If the model was trained BEFORE the East Wing of the White House was demolished, Claude can’t possibly know about it.
Thank you.
If the model was trained BEFORE the East Wing of the White House was demolished, Claude can’t possibly know about it.
Thank you.
הייתי מאוד בלחץ מאיך אפנה את הדירה שלי שריהטתי לגמרי בעצמי וקומה שנייה וממש לא ידעתי מה לעשות ואז הגיע בחור לקחת את התנור ומסתבר שהוא פליט שממש בימים האחרונים סוף סוף עבר מדיור זמני לדירה ריקה אז בעלות סמלית ותמורת הובלה הוא לקח הכל מהדירה שלי. ועכשיו הדירה ריקה ומוכנה למסירה ולו יש דירה מלאה.
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
הייתי מאוד בלחץ מאיך אפנה את הדירה שלי שריהטתי לגמרי בעצמי וקומה שנייה וממש לא ידעתי מה לעשות ואז הגיע בחור לקחת את התנור ומסתבר שהוא פליט שממש בימים האחרונים סוף סוף עבר מדיור זמני לדירה ריקה אז בעלות סמלית ותמורת הובלה הוא לקח הכל מהדירה שלי. ועכשיו הדירה ריקה ומוכנה למסירה ולו יש דירה מלאה.