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Nicole Wu
@nicolewu.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Previously @ Michigan & Princeton. Political economy of job automation/technology & globalization.

http://nicolewu.com
The Department of Politics & Public Admin at the University of Hong Kong is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.

HKU PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters. Details:
April 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!
📢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)
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
🔓 @nicolewu.bsky.social and Zhongwei Sun's research uses qualitative and quantitative data to explore workers' responses and exit options in the face of increasing automation in manufacturing, finding greater anxiety amongst local workers than migrants. #机器换人.
doi.org/10.1017/S030...
Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
@adambonica.bsky.social showed ideology predicts which agencies experience DOGE layoffs. But what other factors could be driving this?

Using a generative LLM-derived measure, I find agencies perceived as knowledge institutions are more likely to experience layoffs, even controlling for ideology. 🧵
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Apply to present at Virtual IPES! We ask accepted authors to name their discussant “dream team” and we’ll try to make that happen, with the support of the wonderful IPE community (thank you). We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students and early-career scholars.

ipesky
February 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Apply to present at the International Political Economy Society's (IPES) Virtual IPES! This is an excellent opportunity to receive feedback from colleagues who work on your topic of interest.

Application: forms.gle/hciLuthkhY1D...
VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes
September 14, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Virtual IPES submission deadline is tomorrow!

polisky ipesky
International Political Economy Society (IPES)’s Virtual IPES is calling for paper submissions for its Winter/Spring 2024 round of workshops

VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes
Application link: forms.gle/BBGVJdJKnH2b...
February 22, 2024 at 11:16 PM
International Political Economy Society (IPES)’s Virtual IPES is calling for paper submissions for its Winter/Spring 2024 round of workshops

VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes
Application link: forms.gle/BBGVJdJKnH2b...
February 9, 2024 at 5:56 PM
In my seminar today, one of my students said, “Well, I don’t know how the Internet was like in 2001.” And the rest of them shrugged as they also don’t know.

How much do I tell them. 🤣
January 31, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
Super interesting new experimental findings on support for AI regulations from @cmwitko.bsky.social just posted @3streamsblog.bsky.social cc @justinhendrix.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/peo...
People With More Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prefer Stronger Regulation of the…
New experimental evidence suggests as more people learn about AI, support will grow for new regulations
medium.com
January 24, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I’m not so sure, folks.

polisky
December 30, 2023 at 5:25 AM
I saw a menacing “Bye Bye World” booth at a robot exhibition.
December 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM
I prefer a human making my bubble tea, does that make me a Luddite? 🧋(It was bad and also had zero reviews on Google maps.)
October 26, 2023 at 2:44 PM
My phone showed me this aggressive(?)/perceptive(?) ad from the School of Information at the University of Michigan 4 years ago.
October 24, 2023 at 4:09 PM
The TimeOut Magazine named a neighborhood near the University of Toronto as one of the “coolest in the world.”

One of the reasons cited were the existence of these “pubs where professors, students […] grab a pint.”

Yep, right, I’m sure we are very cool …🤣
October 20, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
Did you know that Democrats are more permissive (pet) parents? See @tesler.bsky.social's latest piece on the political science behind the Bidens’ biting dogs.

BONUS: this post has pictures of very, very good 🐶s.
The political science behind the Bidens’ biting dogs
The Bidens’ two-year-old German Shepherd, Commander, left the White House last week. CNN reports that the dog has bitten even more individuals than the 11
goodauthority.org
October 11, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Some important work by Claudia Goldin

scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages...
Pika the Golden Retriever
Fall 2023
scholar.harvard.edu
October 9, 2023 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
I have a new article out in Review of International Political Economy co-authored with Rie Kijima. “Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education” (1)
 
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
October 2, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Honestly it is very strange to read PR stuff from Penn when this was how they treated Katalin Kariko:
October 2, 2023 at 8:49 PM
We put a guest bed in my home office and the unintended consequence is that my dog is always in my Zoom calls, posing in the background
September 28, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Virtual IPES is a series of online workshops that aims to facilitate in-depth discussions of working papers in IPE. VIPES discussants have been reliably insightful & amazing.

Oct 1 deadline: forms.gle/bmk9uyhNrroJ...
VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes

ipesky polisky
Virtual IPES | IPES
www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org
September 26, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Nicole Wu
Still testing if it works but there’s now an IPE/CPE feed for folks who are in polisky already! It’s ipesky or cpesky or cipesky. First time I do any of this so I’m very open to suggestions (starting from the feed’s avatar!). Please help advertising it!
September 24, 2023 at 7:21 PM
@profmusgrave.bsky.social Paul, would you please add me to your rapidly growing list of political scientists? (May this be our last attempt at mass migration!)
September 24, 2023 at 7:28 PM