Bradley Wood-MacLean
@bradwoodmaclean.bsky.social
PhD student in Political Science at UofT | PEARL Research Fellow | UBC MA 2025 | Interested in: Political Behaviour, Canadian Politics, Place Politics, Communication, Quantitative Methods. 🇨🇦🎷
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Proud to have presented our coauthored paper @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social on immigration rhetoric in party manifestos. Honoured to work with Salar Asadolahi, @mjdonnelly.bsky.social , @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Marc-Antoine Rancourt. This was truly a team effort! Thanks to everyone who came.
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AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
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We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
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A detailed report on the pilot experiment is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IEG6...
The majority of our sample comes from marginalized backgrounds, where the cost of prepping, taking, and sending GRE scores would have the most impact in terms of time and cost. Here is a Likert scale result:
The majority of our sample comes from marginalized backgrounds, where the cost of prepping, taking, and sending GRE scores would have the most impact in terms of time and cost. Here is a Likert scale result:
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A detailed report on the pilot experiment is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IEG6...
The majority of our sample comes from marginalized backgrounds, where the cost of prepping, taking, and sending GRE scores would have the most impact in terms of time and cost. Here is a Likert scale result:
The majority of our sample comes from marginalized backgrounds, where the cost of prepping, taking, and sending GRE scores would have the most impact in terms of time and cost. Here is a Likert scale result:
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AI usage accounted for less than 1% of online activity and “the most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were…Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy,” i.e., dark triad personality traits. Nice. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Despite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article ...
www.liebertpub.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
AI usage accounted for less than 1% of online activity and “the most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were…Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy,” i.e., dark triad personality traits. Nice. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Just *published* our paper with @westernupolisci.bsky.social PhD student, Hunter Driggers, on LLM bias from party cues in annotation tasks. We extend a previous study showing annotation bias from human coders in the presence of party cues… LLM show similar bias 🧵:
rdcu.be/eIKCj
rdcu.be/eIKCj
LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Just *published* our paper with @westernupolisci.bsky.social PhD student, Hunter Driggers, on LLM bias from party cues in annotation tasks. We extend a previous study showing annotation bias from human coders in the presence of party cues… LLM show similar bias 🧵:
rdcu.be/eIKCj
rdcu.be/eIKCj
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The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO
September 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO
I’m very proud to share that last week I successfully defended my Master’s thesis, “The Material Origins of Place-Based Affective Polarization in Canada.” Its now available on the UBC library: open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...
August 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I’m very proud to share that last week I successfully defended my Master’s thesis, “The Material Origins of Place-Based Affective Polarization in Canada.” Its now available on the UBC library: open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...
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🚨New Publication🚨
Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships.
Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships.
Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
#polisky
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
August 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🚨New Publication🚨
Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships.
Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
#polisky
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships.
Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
#polisky
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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📺Do TV ads sway voters in presidential primaries?
➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
June 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📺Do TV ads sway voters in presidential primaries?
➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core
Evaluating the Partisan Media Echo Chamber Hypothesis in Canada
www.cambridge.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Proud to have presented our coauthored paper @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social on immigration rhetoric in party manifestos. Honoured to work with Salar Asadolahi, @mjdonnelly.bsky.social , @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Marc-Antoine Rancourt. This was truly a team effort! Thanks to everyone who came.
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Proud to have presented our coauthored paper @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social on immigration rhetoric in party manifestos. Honoured to work with Salar Asadolahi, @mjdonnelly.bsky.social , @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Marc-Antoine Rancourt. This was truly a team effort! Thanks to everyone who came.
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Bravo, young man! www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...
Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken'
Beautifully stated, young man!
www.comicsands.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Bravo, young man! www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...
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Me trying to keep up with the DiD literature.
May 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Me trying to keep up with the DiD literature.
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They are obviously slow learners
April 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
They are obviously slow learners
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🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
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Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?
Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...
www.tandfonline.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
1/n
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short thread 🧵
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One of these things is not like the other.
March 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
One of these things is not like the other.
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Can rural and urban #consciousness be measured in #Europe? New publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social from our project on the Rural-Urban Divide in Europe #RUDE
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe
A rural consciousness, encompassing a rural identity and resentments directed at urban areas and the political elite, has emerged as a key explanation…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Can rural and urban #consciousness be measured in #Europe? New publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social from our project on the Rural-Urban Divide in Europe #RUDE
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745
March 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745
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Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aaronerlich.bsky.social @jgansmorse.bsky.social
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January 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aaronerlich.bsky.social @jgansmorse.bsky.social
ajps.org/2025/01/15/c...
ajps.org/2025/01/15/c...
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Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on Tuesday in a year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary.
Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on Tuesday in a year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary.
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And there it is: Assad in Moscow.
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych
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Assad flees to Moscow as Syria rebels capture Damascus | CNN
The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus on Sunday. Follow the latest live news updates here.
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:06 PM
And there it is: Assad in Moscow.
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
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New in Electoral Studies: “Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence” by Robin E. Beast: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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December 2, 2024 at 5:08 PM
New in Electoral Studies: “Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence” by Robin E. Beast: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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