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R. Michael Alvarez

@rmichaelalvarez

Prof at Caltech. Founding co-director, Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy. Information, sustainability, and computational social science.

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One thing that's not gotten a lot of discussion on #AcademicTwitter is the supposed cyberattack that hit some of the major academic publishers earlier this summer. It's delayed publication and open access payments for some of our papers. This of course hits hard for those who

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My thoughts after reading the court filings and the decision in the Tina Peters case. protectingtheelection.us/blog-3-1/elect…

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Primary in Alaska today, the 2nd using the state's new top-4/ranked-choice voting system. We did some research in 2022 on Alaska voters first time using the system and generally most though not all voters like it. x.com/christiangrose…

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Congratulations to my friend and colleague Jonathan N. Katz for receiving the 2024 Political Methodology Career Achievement Award! Well deserved recognition for your intellectual contributions, service to the profession, and of course, mentorship of many @caltech students!

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Susanne Hall of Caltech has an interesting and important essay noting that faculty need to consider the climate impact of the use of #GenAI in our teaching. insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

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Please join me this Wednesday, August 28, 2024 for the first installment of Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project. In this inaugural episode, I'll chat with retired Orange County, California Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley on his

Please join me this Wednesday, August 28, 2024 for the first installment of Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project.  In this inaugural episode, I'll chat with retired Orange County, California Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley on his
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This is important research from my Caltech colleague Dean Mobbs, if you are interested in why we see so much toxicity in social media conversations, read this article and take a closer look at Dean's work.

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This is an important moment for Caltech, wonderful to see the progress that has been made during the time I've been on the faculty. Caltech's latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women latimes.com/california/sto…

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Still time to register for my conversation with Neal Kelley later today, we'll be focusing on election security and the 2024 presidential election. protectingtheelection.us/blog-3-1/inaug…

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🥳🥳🥳🚨🚨🚨🥳🥳🥳 Announcing an article authored avec an always amazing Anita Gohdes ! "Civilian behavior on social media during civil war" AJPS shows that civilians use social media strategically during civil war. Link: doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

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Since we are all updating our CVs with our first jobs, mine was working the night shift at a gas station off the interstate in suburban Minneapolis. Exciting stuff, shoveling snow, dealing with gas and oil spills, cleaning bathrooms, stocking shelves, and sometimes helping

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What steps can voters take to make sure they get their election materials in a timely manner. How can they be sure that if they return their ballot in the mail it will be tabulated? My blog post has six easy steps for voters to use this fall. Why the concern? Read the recent

What steps can voters take to make sure they get their election materials in a timely manner.  How can they be sure that if they return their ballot in the mail it will be tabulated? My blog post has six easy steps for voters to use this fall.  Why the concern?  Read the recent
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This is an important conversation for the social sciences, where LLMs are seeing more and more use. Thanks Arthur Spirling and colleagues for laying out the issues of replication in the context of LLMs, I encourage quantitative social scientists to read this paper!

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If you will be at #APSA2025 and are interested in what people think of #AI and its risks, you should go to this panel. Beatrice Magistro will give a great talk this Friday.

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Join me Friday, September 6, 2024 at 11am Pacific for the second installment of Office Hours! This week I'll talk with Nevada County, California Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters Natalie Adona her preparations for #Election2024 - straight from the frontlines. Help us develop a

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In case you missed my Office Hours conversation with Neal Kelley last week, it's now on the Caltech LCSSP YouTube channel. We had a wide-ranging conversation about lessons that election officials learned from 2020 and issues that might arise in 2024. youtu.be/pajnAruZoYA?si…

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Still time to register for this online conversation with Natalie Adona! We plan to discuss misconceptions about #Election2024 and what can be done to counter them, threats to election administration, and of course, we will have Q&A. Join us for Office Hours Friday at 11am Pacific.

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Don't miss Yimeng Li's presentation at #APSA2024. Did shifting more localized races from the bottom of the ballot to the top lead to less ballot rolloff for the localized races? It's an important problem and the paper has implications for ballot design!

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If your department is hiring in methods or American politics, Yimeng Li should be on your interview list. He starts with important substantive questions, finds innovative data, then uses the cutting-edge methods. Take a few minutes to meet with him at #APSA2024.