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Joshua Tucker
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Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
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So incredibly proud of my immensely talented daughter, who got a short story published!

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WANTED - SASHA TUCKER — Study: The Mole Man
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October 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?

We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources

🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com

Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social -

How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in #Ukraine - cup.org/4myrgDM

- @aaronerlich.bsky.social, @kevinaslett.bsky.social, Sarah Graham & @jatucker.bsky.social

#FirstView
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August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns.

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AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon
The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Fascinating work from @jatucker.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org looking at the effect of labeling images as AI on people’s beliefs about the provenance + veracity of that image. They also explore the implications of AI images not being labeled after seeing labeled images #PaCSS2025 #polnet2025
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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📣Out on #FirstView 📣

In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility.

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Research article "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker, Abstract begins: Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding the gender gap in online incivility. This paper aims to address this gap by comparing politicians with varying levels of prominence and public status in different institutional contexts. Using a machine learning approach for analyzing over 23 million tweets addressed to politicians in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find little consistent evidence of a gender gap in the proportion of incivility.
August 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Tired of overpriced political science textbooks?

We were too.

So we built A Political Science Experiment—a low-cost, high-quality, modular text for intro and comparative courses - edited by me and @rudalev.bsky.social

💻 All digital
📘 Just $1 per chapter
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
#HigherEd
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Tired of overpriced political science textbooks?

We were too.

So we built A Political Science Experiment—a low-cost, high-quality, modular text for intro and comparative courses - edited by me and @rudalev.bsky.social

💻 All digital
📘 Just $1 per chapter
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
#HigherEd
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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nyudatascience.bsky.social
‪@tiagoventura.bsky.social‬ + CDS-affiliated Jonathan Nagler & @jatucker.bsky.social tested a WhatsApp deactivation during Brazil’s 2022 election—blocking auto-downloads of images & videos reduced misinformation recall by ~0.4σ, but didn't change beliefs or polarization.

www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
Does Reducing Exposure to Image and Video Content on Messaging Apps Reduce the Impact of Misinformation? Yes and No
Experiments with WhatsApp users during Brazil’s 2022 presidential election shows mixed impact of political disinformation
www.nyu.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It was an honor and privilege to be part of this project. If you are teaching introductory courses in political science or any undergraduate courses, this is the textbook for you!
jatucker.bsky.social Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Jul 23
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?

We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources

🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com

Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
jatucker.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr. David McGrath!!
July 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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My textbook with Gwen Sharp and Patrick Sharkey is on its third edition. This fall our team is launching a Political Science book, edited by Josh Tucker and @rudalev.bsky.social

Thrilled to have this out in the world! Check it out (sociologists might find some of the chapters useful for teaching)
jatucker.bsky.social Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Jul 23
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?

We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources

🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com

Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?

We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources

🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com

Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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csmapnyu.org
Congrats to the authors @tiagoventura.bsky.social, @rmajumdar.bsky.social, Jonathan Nagler, and @jatucker.bsky.social.

The paper, which is accepted for publication at @The_JOP, can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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July 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🔠Labeling multimodal social media data is costly.

➡H Chen, J Bisbee @jatucker.bsky.social & J Nagler propose five metrics to assess the costs/benefits of multimodal versus text only labeling, illustrated through a tweet labeling experiment www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
July 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
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July 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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So excited to see this article in print! Incredibly proud of all the amazing work done on this article by my incredible co-authors, but extra special shout out to @hwaight.bsky.social & @solmg.bsky.social, co-first authors on the piece.

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June 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages - Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tuck...
How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups sh...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...
June 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a chemist at the University of Mississippi... "“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
June 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Absolutely brutal.
June 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
jatucker.bsky.social
Exactly!! Why is more not being done in this regard??
tomsclark.bsky.social Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · Jun 4
Again, many universities tend to have (free) access to experts in marketing. Imagine a tool that allowed Americans to see exactly what kinds of government-funded research they have benefitted from themselves. Plug in your list of medications or surgeries. Or the car you drive. Or your appliances.
jatucker.bsky.social Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · Jun 4
Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A provocative piece on a different type of AI threat -- what if instead of being used to develop a bioweapon, it simply was used to make people believe a biological threat existed? How might they respond, and what would the consequences be?

www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/a...
The AI threat to public health no one is thinking about: a fake bioterrorist attack
As a public health official, Jay K. Varma has handled putative anthrax attacks. He says an AI-simulated bioterror attack could cause real-world chaos.
www.statnews.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM