For those interested in collective computation + emergence, I am in the process of of updating my website. c4.santafe.edu

We are recruiting two postdocs for an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project in collective behavior. Joint project with Seth Frey(UC Davis), Dalton Conley (Princeton University), Ofer Tchernichovski(The City University of New York) and Nori Jacoby (Cornell University). Please forward this thread to relevant people! 1/n

The number of shocks and disasters is increasing. What can we do to build #resilience? In my FEMA talk I argue that social capital - the ties that bind us together - are critical and can be deliberately built youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0…

The political economy group at the Stanford GSB is hiring this year: gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty-r… We recruit on both the poli sci and econ markets, and encourage folks with training in either discipline to apply.

🚨Have you ever worried about respondents in your online panels who take many other online surveys and tasks daily? I will present a paper at #APSA2024 measuring the prevalence of these professionals and investigating their effects on the quality of online panels. Quick 🧵

ICYMI, the paper is now out in Communications Psychology 😎 We show that to be most effective, media literacy tips should aim both to foster skepticism towards false news and to promote trust in true news 📰 🔓nature.com/articles/s4427…

Very little polisci work using LLMs is "replicable" in the usual sense of that term. If this sounds like a problem, come see ppr w Christopher Barrie and Lexi Palmer Thurs @ APSA 12-130pm, PCC112A. We give some theory + empirics on where things stand and where we should be trying to go

Are language models racist? Though their overt answers may not be, a @nature paper shows that multiple LLMs are prejudiced against African American English speakers, and that this bias can't easily be removed. Congrats Valentin Hofmann ria / pratyusha ria kalluri Dan Jurafsky nature.com/articles/s4158…

Exciting to launch trueviews.org today w/ its brilliant engineers Chris Warshaw Nicholas Stephanopoulos Ruth Greenwood. Check it out!

OK, well I guess it's as good a time as any to announce I'm looking for a postdoc at Princeton -- areas are politics, machine learning and statistics. Please share widely! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

Come say hi if you are interested in online segregation/polarization. I’ll be presenting our work with 🇺🇦 [email protected] Friday 2 pm at talk about our work on Twitter segregation: We are not only divided by partisan lines but also by age and gender. #APSA2024 APSA

Congrats to our Information Technology and Politics section award winners! Definitely one of the best parts of our business meeting 🥂 APSA ITP

Now out in MCS🎯 In two experiments (N = 2735), we show that exposure to false news erodes trust in the news and fuels overconfidence in one’s ability to discern true from false news – without affecting news discernment 📰 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🔓

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

🚨JOB ALERT! If you are working in #NLProc/compSocSci, consider this postdoc call by my colleague Kai Zhu: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=664 Cool project in a great city (and a chance to work with the folks at MilaNLP). Deadline is Sep 22nd!

Thanks so much to Curtis Chang Redeeming Babel for such a terrific conversation on their podcast about the role that local churches can play in healing social division. Grateful to have a chance to talk about my new book! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669326/u… redeemingbabel.org/podcasts/can-t…

INAS Annual Conference -- Columbia University -- June 5-6, 2025!

In a new correspondence in nature, I argue that regulations should mandate data access for social media researchers: nature.com/articles/d4158…

THIS. Plus, statistical models (for those that use a modeling approach) have model error, and we don't know how that maps to poll MOE.

I am on the job market! I am a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University. I focus on American political behavior, including political socialization, urban-rural politics, and partisanship/polarization in American democracy. lin-jennifer.github.io