Jikkey
@jikkey.bsky.social
A Japanese political scientist migrated to Bluesky recently.
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)！
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)！
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There is very little evidence that “moderate” candidates do better in general (though there may be specific districts where it’s an advantage
bsky.app/profile/dave...
bsky.app/profile/dave...
The next section is them pounding the table, insisting that moderate candidates do better than progressive candidates.
SMH. I'm just gonna link to @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social on this one. They've done the work already.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...
SMH. I'm just gonna link to @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social on this one. They've done the work already.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...
Do Moderates Do Better?
Uncovering Bias in Split Ticket’s WAR Scores
data4democracy.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is very little evidence that “moderate” candidates do better in general (though there may be specific districts where it’s an advantage
bsky.app/profile/dave...
bsky.app/profile/dave...
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Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
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This is a fantastic and much needed contribution. Highly recommend to anyone interested in building strong designs for rigorous empirical work with networks.
Designing Empirical Social Networks Research by Jennifer M. Larson
An introduction to the study of social networks, with a focus on theory-building to guide empirical research design.
New in the Methods for Social Inquiry series #ResearchMethods
📚 cup.org/3VDut9L
An introduction to the study of social networks, with a focus on theory-building to guide empirical research design.
New in the Methods for Social Inquiry series #ResearchMethods
📚 cup.org/3VDut9L
Designing Empirical Social Networks Research
Cambridge Core - Research Methods In Politics - Designing Empirical Social Networks Research
cup.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is a fantastic and much needed contribution. Highly recommend to anyone interested in building strong designs for rigorous empirical work with networks.
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Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025
It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...
journals.sagepub.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!
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As of today it's a Real Object.
August 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
As of today it's a Real Object.
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New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour
Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
www.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Building alternative institutions outside of gov. that reduce reliance on the authoritarian regime, lessen its power and relevance over day-to-day life, and preserve sites of independent thought can be vital both in preserving science and in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"Building alternative institutions outside of gov. that reduce reliance on the authoritarian regime, lessen its power and relevance over day-to-day life, and preserve sites of independent thought can be vital both in preserving science and in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Here is Bonica and Grumbach’s from yesterday. This may seem petty to some but it’s important for the parties as they look to recruit candidates for the next few cycles. bsky.app/profile/adam...
We took a close look at Split Ticket's WAR metric, which has become influential in Democratic circles for suggesting moderates significantly outperform progressives.
Our finding: The metric contains systematic biases that overstate the advantage of moderation. A corrected model shows no advantage.🧵
Our finding: The metric contains systematic biases that overstate the advantage of moderation. A corrected model shows no advantage.🧵
Do Moderates Do Better?
Uncovering Bias in Split Ticket’s WAR Scores
data4democracy.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here is Bonica and Grumbach’s from yesterday. This may seem petty to some but it’s important for the parties as they look to recruit candidates for the next few cycles. bsky.app/profile/adam...
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OK here's the blog post.
1) Split Ticket's WAR model is biased in favor of moderates
2) We create our own WAR measure w/ stronger model; correlates w/ @gelliottmorris.com's
3) Correlation ≠ causation. Diff-in-diffs & RDDs show no moderation effects
data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...
1) Split Ticket's WAR model is biased in favor of moderates
2) We create our own WAR measure w/ stronger model; correlates w/ @gelliottmorris.com's
3) Correlation ≠ causation. Diff-in-diffs & RDDs show no moderation effects
data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...
August 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
OK here's the blog post.
1) Split Ticket's WAR model is biased in favor of moderates
2) We create our own WAR measure w/ stronger model; correlates w/ @gelliottmorris.com's
3) Correlation ≠ causation. Diff-in-diffs & RDDs show no moderation effects
data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...
1) Split Ticket's WAR model is biased in favor of moderates
2) We create our own WAR measure w/ stronger model; correlates w/ @gelliottmorris.com's
3) Correlation ≠ causation. Diff-in-diffs & RDDs show no moderation effects
data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...
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"In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme—the first of its kind!—that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First Amendment."
We are back to a medieval state-formation model, see Tilly here
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We are back to a medieval state-formation model, see Tilly here
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme—the first of its kind!—that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First Amendment."
We are back to a medieval state-formation model, see Tilly here
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We are back to a medieval state-formation model, see Tilly here
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"How Trump is reshaping government data. The Trump administration has influenced data used by researchers, economists and scientists — an effort that drew more attention after the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
How Trump is reshaping government data
The Trump administration has influenced data used by researchers, economists and scientists — an effort that drew more attention after the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
www.nbcnews.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"How Trump is reshaping government data. The Trump administration has influenced data used by researchers, economists and scientists — an effort that drew more attention after the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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“just 68% of the 7,057 researchers whose work had produced null results had shared them in some form, and just 30% had tried to publish them in a journal.”
What a joke.
#NullEffectsMatter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What a joke.
#NullEffectsMatter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them
Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.
www.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“just 68% of the 7,057 researchers whose work had produced null results had shared them in some form, and just 30% had tried to publish them in a journal.”
What a joke.
#NullEffectsMatter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What a joke.
#NullEffectsMatter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check out Consenus AI! Deep Search is its agentic search mode that runs incredible full literature reviews across 200 million papers in minutes. consensus.app
Search - Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research
Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.
consensus.app
July 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Check out Consenus AI! Deep Search is its agentic search mode that runs incredible full literature reviews across 200 million papers in minutes. consensus.app
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As platforms reduce moderation, toxic/threatening content may rise. If you're doing digital culture/discourse rsrch, come & learn more re: our Civility Analyzer, which offers researchers an accessible, data-driven approach to studying prosocial & harmful behaviours. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
socialmedialab.ca
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As platforms reduce moderation, toxic/threatening content may rise. If you're doing digital culture/discourse rsrch, come & learn more re: our Civility Analyzer, which offers researchers an accessible, data-driven approach to studying prosocial & harmful behaviours. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
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Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
socialmedialab.ca
June 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
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Don’t give anyone ideas…
@jbf1755.bsky.social I think we should bring this back.
June 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Don’t give anyone ideas…
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今さら感はあるのだけど／初めてのMyGPT作り note.com/yearman/n/n2...
初めてのMyGPT作り｜まつーらとしお
ChatGPTに課金していると自作のGPT（AIチャットボット）を作ることができる。夏に勉強しようとは思っているんだけど、他大学の授業でレポートの初期添削にこChatGPTのAPIを使っている話を聞いて、自分のクラスだけならととりあえず試作してみることにした。 今の授業で困りごととまではいかないのだけど、添削してもそこから直して提出まで数日だとちょっと難しいとか、何度も見れないとかあり、それなら...
note.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
今さら感はあるのだけど／初めてのMyGPT作り note.com/yearman/n/n2...
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In new work from #HNL in @nathumbehav.nature.com spearheaded by @ericfeltham.bsky.social and with Laura Forastiere, we performed the largest and most detailed study of cognitive social networks -- evaluating network cognition in 10,072 adults in 82 Honduras villages. rdcu.be/eq93O 4/
Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages
Nature Human Behaviour - Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
rdcu.be
June 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In new work from #HNL in @nathumbehav.nature.com spearheaded by @ericfeltham.bsky.social and with Laura Forastiere, we performed the largest and most detailed study of cognitive social networks -- evaluating network cognition in 10,072 adults in 82 Honduras villages. rdcu.be/eq93O 4/
It's hard to look at the timeline today.
It's actually like a civil war going on.
I wonder how my friends are doing.
It's actually like a civil war going on.
I wonder how my friends are doing.
June 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It's hard to look at the timeline today.
It's actually like a civil war going on.
I wonder how my friends are doing.
It's actually like a civil war going on.
I wonder how my friends are doing.
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"Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act."
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...
Trump's civil war
And our new birth of freedom
snyder.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act."
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...
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New study finds that people tend to rate scientific explanations with jargon as more satisfying, even if they don’t fully understand them. Simple prompts, like asking people to explain the idea themselves, can reduce this overconfidence & reveal gaps in understanding.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon - Nature Human Behaviour
Cruz and Lombrozo examine how laypeople make sense of scientific explanations and find that although jargon reduces understanding, for short explanations, jargon makes the explanation more satisfying.
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New study finds that people tend to rate scientific explanations with jargon as more satisfying, even if they don’t fully understand them. Simple prompts, like asking people to explain the idea themselves, can reduce this overconfidence & reveal gaps in understanding.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In this comprehensive handbook, Steven Gump offers an encouraging guide to crafting valuable reviews of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences.
Steven E. Gump's How to Review Scholarly Books publishes June 17. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Steven E. Gump's How to Review Scholarly Books publishes June 17. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
June 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In this comprehensive handbook, Steven Gump offers an encouraging guide to crafting valuable reviews of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences.
Steven E. Gump's How to Review Scholarly Books publishes June 17. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Steven E. Gump's How to Review Scholarly Books publishes June 17. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...