Bruce Desmarais
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Bruce Desmarais
@brucedesmarais.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State
Our team just published the Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) Data: an archive of social posts by U.S. elected officials. It includes

1. Data from 28,000+ U.S. elected officials
2. Text from 5.7M tweets & 450k Facebook posts
3. 2020–2024 coverage
4. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
August 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I had the fortune to help organize, speak at, and participate in, the second Open Scholarship Bootcamp at Penn State. The sessions emphasize resources that are helpful to maintaining open scientific workflows. Materials are openly available here! penn-state-open-science.github.io/bootcamp-202...
August 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’m thrilled to share new work out in Social Networks!

In this project, randomly allocating students to teams permitted identifying causal effects of co-membership.

Thanks to Sarah Gordon, Wayne Baker, Jose Uribe, and Cassandra Chambers for bringing me on!

Ful article: 📄 lnkd.in/e9TyvnRX
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM