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Yphtach Lelkes
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associate professor, University of Pennsylvania
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soodoku.bsky.social
a @github.com actions script that consults the retraction watch database and opens a PR if it sees a retracted article in .bib

@ylelkes.bsky.social etc.

github.com/recite/retra...
Issues · recite/retract
Github Actions to open an issue when a retracted article is discovered in a .bib file - Issues · recite/retract
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February 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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derekholliday.com
In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below).

Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Non-linear relationship between affective polarization and support for 4 antidemocratic norms
November 22, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Can’t believe this isn’t satire
Screenshot of an email from my university saying: “Today, we write to share two important updates about Penn’s policies and procedures for when, where, and how open expression can take place.”
June 6, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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mollieoreilly.bsky.social
I definitely assumed the weapons the cops "took off the streets" were being destroyed, not returned to the streets for profit. I don't know WHY I assumed harm was actually being reduced, but I know better now!
Newark Police have proudly taken guns off the street for years through gun buybacks. But at the same time they have inadvertently put their own weapons back in circulation. The Newark Police Department confirmed that they traded-in about a thousand guns in 2016 and 2017 to a firearms dealer, in exchange for discounts on new equipment. That dealer then resells the weapons.
May 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
this dude is basically the nation’s leading expert on legal ethics, we are so cooked.
But Stephen Gillers, an expert in judicial ethics at New York University's law school, disagreed, noting that the test in the recusal statute is based on the perspective of a fair-minded person who has all the facts. "I don't think such an objective observer would question Alito's impartiality based on this incident," Gillers said in an email. "I find it impossible to believe that Alito knew the flag was flying upside down or, if he did know, that he knew the relationship to 'Stop the Steal.' I don't believe he would have allowed this to happen otherwise." Gillers added that while Alito's explanation for how it happened is "hard to believe, it is more credible than the view that he knowingly chose to fly the flag upside down knowing its political message."
May 18, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
This concern is not *why* I adopted quizzes this year, but I can report: I said explicitly that lectures were meant to help students do and understand the reading, not to substitute for it, and that quizzes would be be about the reading, not about the lectures.

On the first quiz of the term...
April 28, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
As we approach the summer of 2024, the economy is growing, migration to the border has declined at least temporarily owing to what appears to be a new crackdown by Mexican authorities, and in many major cities, crime is returning to historic lows, leaving protests as the most suitable target for demagoguery. The Biden administration’s support for Israel divides Democrats and unites Republicans, so the longer the issue remains salient, the better it is for the GOP. More broadly, the politics of “American carnage” do not work as well in the absence of carnage. Far-right politics operate best when there is a public perception of disorder and chaos, an atmosphere in which the only solution such politicians ever offer can sound appealing to desperate voters. Social-media bubbles can suffice to maintain this sense of siege among the extremely online, but cultivating this perception among most voters demands constant reinforcement.
April 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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carlislerainey.bsky.social
Luskin's "Robert's Rules: Suggestions for Writing" has some excellent, pithy advice for academic writers.

#polisky

PDF: github.com/soodoku/on-w...
April 23, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
At NPR... "I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other."

Silence. slate.com/business/202...
NPR Is a Mess. But “Wokeness” Isn’t the Problem.
The real story behind the public broadcaster’s woes.
slate.com
April 16, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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ntd.bsky.social
americans (reps+dems) dislike norm violations. but some (reps) still vote for norm-breakers. so we're back at vote choice. again. not public opinion abt norm-violations. vote choice. back-sliding is an elite-constraint problem; cant public opinion way out of it.

paper: tinyurl.com/normviopubop...
April 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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amengel.bsky.social
Learned about this history of the ANES W. Miller wrote from @ylelkes.bsky.social yesterday. So many fascinating bits in here, including the ANES existing in part b/c it got the 1948 margin ~right, and due to chance inclusion of a vote choice item.

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March 30, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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derekholliday.com
So happy to see this now published at PNAS! This paper, coauthored with Shanto Iyengar, @ylelkes.bsky.social, and Sean Westwood, was my first project for @prl.bsky.social, and there will be many more coming soon! 🥳

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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March 18, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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tboeggild.bsky.social
We're looking for candidates who hold or are close to getting a PhD in political science, psychology, communication, cognitive science or similar

Please get in touch if interested!
 
Team @leneaaroe.bsky.social @boralexander.bsky.social @mattlevendusky.bsky.social @ylelkes.bsky.social Vin Arceneaux
March 12, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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tboeggild.bsky.social
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 I'm hiring two postdocs (2-3 years) for a research project on political polarization hosted at @aarhusuni.bsky.social

Application deadline August 15, starting date October 1 or later.

Please help share widely!

polisky #AcademicSky #PhDChat

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Two postdoctoral positions in research project on political polarization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
March 12, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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amengel.bsky.social
Cheers to Vin, @bnbakker.bsky.social, Neil, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for this. Much needed.

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March 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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dhopkins1776.bsky.social
Why have the @nytimes.com & others covered the tumult at Harvard & Penn so much?

@ylelkes.bsky.social, Sam Wolken & I provide an answer in a new @ajpseditor.bsky.social "The Rise of and Demand for Identity-Oriented Media Coverage":

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/u...
The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?
Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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bjpols.bsky.social
#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Ancestral Kinship and the Origins of Ideology - cup.org/3vctG5k

- Neil Fasching & @ylelkes.bsky.social
British Journal of Political Science Fasching & Yelkes abstract graphic
January 16, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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toddntucker.com
Solow "rarely used email. He offered this “economist’s explanation” of his distaste for electronic correspondence in the 2014 interview for this obituary: “If you make communications costless, you will get messages of zero value.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Robert Solow, Nobel-winning economist who studied tech, dies at 99
Robert M. Solow’s economic research made him a respected voice on public policy, particularly on matters of employment.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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chriswarshaw.bsky.social
Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.
American local government elections database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - American local government elections database
www.nature.com
December 19, 2023 at 3:32 PM
ylelkes.bsky.social
last day to apply for the PRL meeting in NOLA. We welcome work in the areas of partisan animosity and democratic attitudes, broadly defined, and from any discipline. We cover flight and accomodations for accepted papers.
December 15, 2023 at 3:08 PM