Well-deserved recognition of John's incredible intellectual and professional contributions. He is a great scholar, an incredible mentor, and a wonderful person.

Recently Caltech CSSPP Co-Director R. Michael Alvarez chatted with Center postdoc Cong Cao about her work. youtu.be/cWoeN2m7KKc?si… via YouTube

techpolicy.caltech.edu/2024/04/30/con…

Excited to announce a new publication Election Law Journal! In 'Securing Elections, Securing Confidence?' I examine whether election security policies influence fraud beliefs and voter confidence in the US and any differential effects by partisanship.
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A year older, but still getting faster. A new half marathon PR for me, fastest M2B for me yet. It’s not been an easy training cycle for this one, this is a real win for me. This is a team effort, thanks to my family, Coach Sammy McClintock, and Adrienne Fildes for their help.

Ozan has been a postdoc with us at Caltech this year, check out the video to learn more about his research and teaching. I’ve learned a lot of #bioethics from Ozan this year!

Conversation with Ozan Gurcan, Postdoctoral Instructor in Bioethics youtu.be/IGQ19dzOXA8?si… via YouTube

On my fall reading list! This is a great book, I’ve had a few peeks and this is a must-read for basketball fans & students of sports analytics. Thanks for telling your story and sharing your deep insights into the game and data science.

I am thrilled to announce the release of our latest working paper, co-authored with R. Michael Alvarez , titled “Evaluating the Quality of Answers in Political Q&A Sessions with Large Language Models.” You can access the paper now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2404.08816.

🚨 New working paper with Sophie Borwein R. Michael Alvarez Bart Bonikowski Peter Loewen! We investigate the common microfoundations of public attitudes toward two paradigm-shifting phenomena: AI and globalization. Let’s unpack the findings 🧵 ssrn.com/abstract=47950…

If you are interested in the scientific and policy/regulatory issues associated with engineered microbial technologies, take a look at this Caltech CSSPP blog post.

Thanks for heading over to Caltech for Bruce's talk!

Attending Bruce Cain’s keynote today at Caltech.

Bruce Cain from Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West gave an amazing keynote address at our Caltech workshop on 'Innovations in the Science & Policy of Water Quality Measurement.' A fascinating talk about water policy and politics, providing important context the workshop! CaltechCsspp #waterquality

Thanks for having me take part! It was fun, your students are amazing and asked very thoughtful questions. Caltech R. Michael Alvarez

Thanks to the amazing Natalie Adona for spending the morning discussing election administration and technology with the Caltech students in my elections & campaigns class. We learned a lot about election administration in County of Nevada, CA and California! Students learn so much from…

Congratulation to our wonderful Caltech colleague Kirby Nielsen for promotion to full prof w/ tenure! Kirby Nielsen is a fantastic colleague who is producing remarkable and important research.

Extremely interesting work!

I encourage those at #MPSA2024 to attend! It's a really interesting paper and Danny Ebanks is a great speaker!