Patrick J. Gauding

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Patrick J. Gauding

Patrick J. Gauding

@patrickgauding

Assistant professor of Politics, @univofthesouth. Regulatory, environmental, crim. justice, guns. CLE native.

Sewanee, TN Beigetreten Kasım 2011
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Noah Dasanaike
Noah Dasanaike@dasanaike·
Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.
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Jon Steinsson
Jon Steinsson@JonSteinsson·
I hear people say that AI replaces RAs in research. A different model is for AI to make RAs more productive. In this context, I think it is important to recognize the educational value that RAs get from the tasks we ask them to help us with.
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Alexander Kustov
Alexander Kustov@akoustov·
AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.
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Patrick J. Gauding@patrickgauding·
The University of the South is hiring for a one-year VAP in comparative politics or international relations. While I'm not on this committee, I'm happy to field questions. schooljobs.com/careers/sewane…
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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)
Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)@BrendanNyhan·
The co-author of How Democracies Die on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists... And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
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Patrick J. Gauding@patrickgauding·
The University of the South will be hiring for a one-year VAP in public policy for AY26-27. Candidates should be comfortable teaching introductory public policy, environmental policy, and research methods. Ad to follow. I am on the committee—please reach out!
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Patrick J. Gauding@patrickgauding·
Unsurprisingly noncommittal to confrontation with allies.
NRA@NRA

“For months, radical progressive politicians like Tim Walz have incited violence against law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their jobs. Unsurprisingly, these calls to dangerously interject oneself into legitimate law-enforcement activities have ended in violence, tragically resulting in injuries and fatalities. As there is with any officer-involved shooting, there will be a robust and comprehensive investigation that takes place to determine if the use of force was justified. As we await these facts and gain a clearer understanding, we urge the political voices to lower the temperature to ensure their constituents and law enforcement officers stay safe.” - @NRA

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Patrick J. Gauding@patrickgauding·
I’ll be at SPSA tomorrow until Saturday—hit me up if you’d like to get a coffee or a beer!
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Patrick J. Gauding@patrickgauding·
@RikioInouye I can’t even contemplate it. Pretty sure I’d get laughed at by someone for even asking. I’m all for the OA model, and think it should standard—but the reality for individuals at underresourced institutions is that it’s not tenable.
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Rikio Inouye@RikioInouye·
The license fees for open access are INSANE. How do people afford this??
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Joshua Gans
Joshua Gans@joshgans·
My reflections on my year of trying to increase, on paper, by paper productivity using AI.
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blue
blue@bluewmist·
just spent two hours crafting a thought, only to realize I didn’t agree with it anymore. this is one of many reasons the act of writing is so important, and should never be outsourced. thinking hones your writing. writing hones your thinking.
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Philip Bunn
Philip Bunn@PhilipDBunn·
If you want a realistic idea of what teaching is like in undergrad for most of us who don’t work at prestigious institutions, Matt’s post summarizes. There are reasons we chose academic work, but please don’t assume most of us have 90 hours of lecturing/yr and nothing else.
Matthew H. Young@matthenryyoung

This goes to show how wildly varied even "good" academic jobs are. In a typical academic year, I am: - teaching (seminar style) for ~ 300 hours, across 6 classes and 3-4 distinct course preps. - grading all of the work for ~180 total students. - advising two dozen students. - mentoring 2-5 undergraduate researchers, who I meet with weekly. - organizing and attending events for undergraduates. - spending 4-5 hours a week in office hours answering questions from students, mentoring, etc. - writing full letters of recommendation for 8-10 students, and many smaller reference forms for others. - serving on committees for, or supervising several undergraduate thesis projects. - serving on departmental, college, and University committees. - writing enough to maintain an active research agenda (impossible difficulty). Even so, I love my job and can think of almost nothing I would rather do. I do enjoy unbelievable intellectual independence and ability to manage my own life. The upsides to this job are massive. But Gandhi's job is far from the median tenure track job in academia.

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Rikio Inouye@RikioInouye·
Job market season is such a rollar coaster. Got a game-changing R&R!
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Ryan Briggs
Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs·
A student recently asked me for academic job market advice and I pulled up a slideshow from a few years ago. I don't think I've shared it, but it might be broadly useful. I think the advice almost entirely holds up. First part is about my time on the job market 1/3
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Sean Westwood
Sean Westwood@seanjwestwood·
What do we do about AI contamination in survey research? Some thoughts on going forward: 1) @YouGov and @Prolific are working to ensure high quality responses. (Disclosure: I have no personal financial relationship with either firm, but have used both to collect data.) Others like @pewresearch maintain panels that are deeply vetted. 2) Panel providers with proprietary collection tools have a major advantage. YouGov, for instance, can directly monitor response patterns in ways that firms relying on third-party platforms like Qualtrics cannot. 3) Qualtrics has become a vulnerability (in my opinion). Their bot detection is weak--it flagged me (a human) as a bot while missing my actual bot. The platform also lacks the flexibility researchers need to implement custom bot-detection protocols without jumping through complex hoops. For a premium-priced product that has barely evolved in recent years, the value proposition is increasingly questionable. 4) Opaque reseller networks undermine quality. When panels simply broker the cheapest available respondents from unknown sources, how can researchers verify data integrity? 5) Consider more secure sampling methods: Student samples, custom panels built through SMS recruitment, address-based sampling, and voter file matching offer greater respondent verification. 6) We should learn from comparativists who have long accepted that rigorous data collection often requires time-intensive, face-to-face fieldwork. 7) We cannot expect early-career scholars to build careers on simple experiments using dirt-cheap convenience samples. Our standards for dissertations, hiring, and tenure must evolve to reflect the true cost of quality data collection.
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Jeff Jenkins
Jeff Jenkins@jaj7d·
Request for proposals: HPE and the United States. Papers for a special issue of @JHPE_journal, with a conference @USCPrice in early May. Details below.
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