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Annie Waldherr

@anniewald.bsky.social

@ipk-univie.bsky.social is wrapping up #ica25 in Denver!

From awards to withdrawn presentations, we‘ve had it all this year. Sending warm greetings & thoughts to all colleagues who could not participate 🫶✨

June 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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Sophie Lecheler

@solecheler.bsky.social

@polcomvienna.bsky.social at the #ica25, come see our presentations!

June 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Tobias Dienlin

@tobiasdienlin.com

Tomorrow at #ica25, I’ll present the paper „A simple future for media effects“.

@yesuncomm.bsky.social, @lennertcoenen.bsky.social, & I argue that complexity has become a dogma.

Instead, let’s value parsimony & regularities.

📌: Fr 6/13, 9am, Mt Blue Sky, Hyatt
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

June 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM

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Kristian Frederiksen

@kristianvsf.bsky.social

🛎️New WP with @morganlcj.bsky.social @timallinger.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social

Against the surge of conjoints and other hypothetical experiments in relation to democratic backsliding, we study the consequences of using hypotheticals versus real-world scenarios.

osf.io/preprints/os...

May 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM

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Fabienne Lind

@fabiennelind.bsky.social

6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽‍♀️ (Social Programme preview)

The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Jan 6

Submission for #COMPTEXT2025 is still open until January 15! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers, panels, and data presentations! We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! See you at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April!

January 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Alex Coppock

@aecoppock.bsky.social

Our meta-analysis of 2018-20 ad experiments is now out at APSR!

paper (open-access): doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001387

Tagging bluesky coauthors @dbroockman.bsky.social, @benmtappin.bsky.social and @jslez.bsky.social

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Abstract:

Political campaigns increasingly conduct experiments to learn how to persuade voters. Little research has considered the implications of this trend for elections or democracy. To probe these implications, we analyze a unique archive of 146 advertising experiments conducted by US campaigns in 2018 and 2020 using the platform Swayable. This archive includes 617 advertisements produced by 51 campaigns and tested with over 500,000 respondents. Importantly, we analyze the complete archive, avoiding publication bias. We find small but meaningful variation in the persuasive effects of advertisements. In addition, we find that common theories about what makes advertising persuasive have limited and context-dependent power to predict persuasiveness. These findings indicate that experiments can compound money’s influence in elections: it is difficult to predict ex ante which ads persuade, experiments help campaigns do so, but the gains from these findings principally accrue to campai

February 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM

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David Rand

@dgrand.bsky.social

🚨New WP🚨
Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!
Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/ps...

February 7, 2024 at 4:30 PM

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Fabienne Lind

@fabiennelind.bsky.social

Join us in Vienna! 3-year PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods. Exciting collaboration awaits in the H2020project CIDAPE! Apply until: January 9, 2024 Job starts: March 1, 2024 Questions welcome via email! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/75-PhD-p...

75% PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods

jobs.univie.ac.at

December 21, 2023 at 12:34 PM

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David Rand

@dgrand.bsky.social

🚨New WP🚨
How can more Republicans be convinced re climate change?

We show that tweets from Elon Musk (a fav of the right, but still pro-climate) sig increase climate concern/action among Reps - with no effect on his reputation

Musk can be a powerful climate messenger!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

October 31, 2023 at 3:18 PM

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Alex Coppock

@aecoppock.bsky.social

Friends, please encourage your students to consider a pre-doctoral fellowship with me working on meta-analyses of political science experiments.

I promise a good trade of money and skills in exchange for effort and time!

tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Position description: The goal of this project is to produce generalizable answers to social scientific questions through ``meta-reanalysis,'' a design in which original study datasets are re-analyzed using standardized tools and the resulting re-analyses are formally synthesized through meta-analysis. Building on the Coppock's previous meta-analytic work on persuasion, candidate choice, and discrimination, this project seeks to establish the external validity of research findings in select literatures, including for a start, the experimental record on the effects of group cues and perspective taking.

The key contribution of this project is the approach to the generalizability problem, the concern that the results of any particular study might not travel to other contexts and times. The lab's design- based approach is grounded in the principles of commensurability, transparency, and collaboration.

REQUISITE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

The main tasks will fall into three categories:

1. Data cleaning and preparation. All-data related tasks will be done in R, in the "tidyverse" style, so familiarity with R and tidyverse coding is preferred.

2. Design-aware literature review. We only include primary studies that adhere to particular designs, so exposure to and familiarity with experimental designs in political science is preferred.

3. Data collection via communication with primary study authors. We need to ask primary study authors to share their data with us, which requires a polite and prompt emailing style.

October 31, 2023 at 1:28 PM

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

@aedwardslevy.bsky.social

oh no

that spirit costume meme and it just says "survey nonrespondent"

October 31, 2023 at 9:19 PM

George Georgarakis

@gngeorgarakis.bsky.social

Since 2018 and ri/ri2, @aecoppock.bsky.social has been in open war with the battery life of my laptop. DeclareDesign is totally worth it though, thanks!

October 22, 2023 at 7:37 PM

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Polcom Vienna

@polcomvienna.bsky.social

Hello #CommSky #PolComm #PoliSky people - we are also here now 🙂 we will slowly but surely shut down our Twitter account 😌 let’s connect here from now on 🤝

October 19, 2023 at 8:44 AM

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Omer Faruk Metin

@omermetin.bsky.social

🚨Check out our latest working paper ("Partisan Cues and Public Support for Democratic Norm Violations"), co-authored with brilliant @gngeorgarakis.bsky.social, available for download on OSF: osf.io/tyru4/. It is a pre-registered survey experiment with publicly available data!