The journalist was asking the president about Epstein survivors when he lashed out.

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Part 3 of “Naming the Democratic Breakdown,” a series introducing Micah Allred's original academic political science terms to define the modern democratic decline.

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Apply large language models and AI tools to qualitative research in this intensive one-day workshop led by Kenneth Benoit (Professor of Computational Social Science, SMU) and Seraphine Maerz (Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne). Through guided demonstrations and hands-on exercises you’ll learn an accessible, rigorous R-based approach using packages like quallmer and ellmer to annotate text, images, audio, video, PDFs and tabular data; connect to proprietary (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) and open-source (e.g., Ollama) models; design reliable prompts; assess ethics and data-security trade-offs; validate AI outputs against human coding; and build reproducible, publication-ready pipelines — all with no prior R experience required. Sessions are livestreamed via Zoom, include annotated code and prepared datasets, and all materials, recordings and a monitored Q&A forum are available for 30 days after the seminar; a certificate of completion is provided (ECTS equivalents noted for European students). Bring a laptop with R and RStudio installed if you want to follow along, or attend asynchronously — register to secure your place. disciplines #HealthSciences #PoliticalScience #SocialSciences #Education #ComputerScience #DataScience #SocialTheory #InformationScience #Ethics #Sociology #R #RStudio #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

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Back by popular demand after last year's 2,000+ participants, Professor Peter Gruber returns with the 2026 edition of his free 90-minute "best AI tools for research" seminar — a fast-paced, practical overview of the AI tools that actually help researchers get more done. In one compact session he’ll cover ideation, literature review, numeric and text analysis, coding, writing, automation, privacy, and where AI is taking academia next, and he’ll even unveil his personal setup and recommend what’s worth paying for. Designed for professors, researchers, PhD students and university staff who don’t have time to test dozens of tools, this session delivers a curated starting point, installation details and links to further resources so you can immediately integrate AI into your workflow. Free and exclusive at Instats — join Peter to discover the tools and workflows that let you finish that paper, update your courses, and focus on what matters; register now to save your spot. #Psychology #Sociology #Economics #PoliticalScience #Education #Management #Finance #Engineering #Statistics #DataScience #Physics,Astronomy #Philosophy #Strategy #Interdisciplinary #Writing #OpenScience #ResearchMethods #Journalism #HigherEducation #InformationScience #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyofScience #CognitiveScience #ChatGPT #GithubCopilot #Gemini #Claude #GoogleColab #LaTeX #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

The Trump administration issued licenses allowing a handful of Western oil companies to operate in Venezuela, the latest step in a campaign to revive the country’s oil-dependent economy.

Johns Hopkins research examining generational divides in democratic institutions finds younger respondents have the least amount of trust in political parties and elected officials to reflect their vi...