Aaron Erlich

🧵 NEW PAPER - "Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages" is live at SMR. We combine NLP w pairwise LLM evals to track ideas across media ecosystems and languages. We also figured out a way to eval unsupervised probs on widely understood supervised performance metrics.

Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aserlich @J_GansMorse ajps.org/2025/01/15/can…

Understanding when and why people give bribes mcgill.ca/channels/chann… via @mcgillu

I know #AcademicTwitter is much diminished, but let's say you get the following email from your media relations office. Is this an appropriate email for them to send or not? (I am having a bad reaction, but trying to get input if my bad reaction is appropriate)

Some long weekend commentary on pro-Kremlin disinformation awareness campaigns :). cbc.ca/news/politics/…

@dandekadt Chatgpt is excellent for this type of task

@CliffvdLinden Congratulations! Scenic routes are better.

As of today, I am tenured and promoted to associate professor. I’ve taken the scenic route and arrived at this marker later than most, but the path was made smoother thanks to all those who supported me in ways both big and small. I will do my level best to pay it forward.

@VincentAB @ryancbriggs Cool. Will bookmark that. Always seemed to hard to make transition. But maybe worth it.

@VincentAB @ryancbriggs @VincentAB do you use data.table?

Not sure if it’s me or some recent update but the number of new tidyverse warnings I’m seeing lately is almost enough to make me give data.table a serious shot

@raulpacheco Québécois/es would contest that term :)

Dear university presses (especially Canadian ones): at #CongreSSH I had to correct many of you on what North America is: Mexico, US and Canada. If you ship for free in North America this should include Mexico. If you don’t, then you’re referring to ANGLO North America.

@ryancbriggs I know. How does he do it?

@JamesBisbee @xuyiqing Me three!

@xuyiqing Vandys DSI has been great about this, getting professors from across departments together to discuss learning objectives. Happy to talk in more detail via DM, but the basic plan is to accept that ChatGPT is the new stackexchange and pivot pretty dramatically in what we grade.

Teaching "Data Science for Politics" in the fall, traditionally a mix of R programming and basic stats, designed for beginners. Now I’m considering an overhaul b/c of ChatGPT & I don't see banning as an option. Any thoughts? Key challenge is to maximize learning for most.

@VincentAB Would love to!

@aserlich Yesssss! This is excellent news! You'll have to bring the family over soon to toast in Sari's garden.

Apparently, I can now associate with professors and not assist them 🍾🥳🪅🎉

Come and join us for the next two sessions of our webinar series "Using Social Media as a Research Tool". For details and registration: gla.ac.uk/research/az/de…

Anne-Marie Singh, @aserlich, @serhii_bahlai, and I share part of our survey on crime and policing in wartime Ukraine. While Ukrainians are becoming more receptive toward toward guns in civilian hands, there is no rush to mass gun ownership or vigilantism. kyivindependent.com/group-of-autho…

@KyivIndependent published our latest article on Ukraine's gun culture. We do not find a mass shift toward civilian gun acquisition. Post-war Ukraine is unlikely to be a country of gun-slinging outlaws. THX @MattLightCrim, @aserlich, and Anne-Marie Singh cutt.ly/Q7mA7v8

@VincentAB Def gonna try to use this moving forward

The {softbib} 📦#RStats scans a project folder, detects the software used, and magically creates software bibliographies: Word, PDF, Rmd and BibTeX. Complements our new free article which argues that researchers should acknowledge the contributions of software devs to science

ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for several annotation tasks, including relevance, stance, topics, and frames detection, w/ 20x less cost. arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

I like it when journals make all other reviewers' comments available by default. I learn from those reviewers, and it makes the experience much better!