Alice Malmberg
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Alice Malmberg
@alicemalmberg.bsky.social
UC Davis Political Science Ph.D. Candidate. Affil. @ UC Center Sacramento. Usually in a coffee shop; sometimes on a plane.

U.S. State Policy + Attitudes/Behavior + Survey Methods/ML.

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Can LLM-based 'silicon samples' accurately reflect human decisionmaking in conjoint tasks? The short answer is "not really" -- but there's more to the story.

I'll be presenting my paper on synthetic sampling in conjoint experiments tomorrow at 10! #APSA2025
September 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I am on the academic job market this fall! I study how Americans perceive and react to policy extremism, experimental design, & machine learning/AI.

More about me, including my CV, research/teaching interests, & links to papers/code on my website:
alicemalmberg.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is everything
January 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It looks like I’ve gained some followers on here, so a quick reintroduction: I’m a political science Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis. I study how Americans perceive and respond to extremist state policies, as well as AI integration in survey methods.
November 19, 2024 at 1:03 AM
A great day presenting and learning at the first ever Bay Area Polarization Workshop with colleagues from Davis, Berkeley, and Stanford. Thank you to @marcjacob.bsky.social for organizing!
May 26, 2024 at 5:07 AM
I’ve really resonated with the Mary Oliver poem “The Journey” throughout grad school. When I advanced to candidacy last week my amazing friend @dantecade.bsky.social had the opening line engraved on a letter opener.

“One day you finally knew what you had to do and began.”
April 18, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out for the first ever MPSA backsliding happy hour tonight! We had a good turnout and some wonderful conversations.
April 6, 2024 at 12:51 AM
A few days late, but I had an amazing time sharing my work at the NYU-CESS Conference on Experimental Political Science last weekend. Super great event!
March 5, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Loving how random my MPSA placement is. After 4 papers seemingly about electoral institutions in the states — strap in, folks, for an experiment on mass attitudes toward geographic sorting! 😜
February 18, 2024 at 11:50 PM
This baby political scientist got her very first R&R today!!
February 2, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Yesterday I finished my final comp. Today I’m starting my new TA/GSR job at UC Center Sacramento. Excited for what lies ahead with the next phase of my training and career.
September 22, 2023 at 4:43 PM
It’s here!! Now to just get through comps so I can actually have time to read it…

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
August 16, 2023 at 1:30 AM
A much needed kayaking escape to the wilderness this weekend before comps studying consumes me for the next 6 weeks.
July 31, 2023 at 2:58 AM