A Postdoc for Mr Biswas

Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities is the original large language model

the aronow and miller textbook is on display at second story books - big win for political methodology

Dan Hopkins has a working paper with Fox’s mentions of immigration compared to mentions of Black Americans, but the time series stops in mid-2022.

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But it's not just memes. There's also a lot of collective emotion. And overlooking this kind of content can lead researchers astray, by underestimating young people's interest in politics and by overlooking the role of emotion and imagining discourse to be more Spock-like than it really is. (5/6)

What are these overlooked Tweets? Well, it's a lot of memes. (4/6)

We how keyword approaches lead to significant false negatives (compared to good old-fashioned hand coding/content analysis) when identifying election-related Tweets, and that the false negative rates are higher for younger people. (2/6)