Aidan Milliff
417 posts
@amilliff
Political scientist at @FSUPoliSci. Happy alum of @MITPoliSci / @MIT_SSP. https://t.co/LNOqe9meai
Spending some time this Election Day at one of the most diverse, egalitarian and deeply American places I know: Somerville Market Basket.
Just published on APSR First View: "Regularized Regression Can Reintroduce Backdoor Confounding: The Case of Mass Polarization" by Jonathan Mellon (@jon_mellon) and Christopher Prosser (@caprosser). cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Okay now will you believe me when I tell you scientists are faddish
UChicago alum John Jumper, SM’12, PhD’17, shared the @NobelPrize in Chemistry for developing the AI model AlphaFold, which predicts the structure of proteins. He is the 100th member of the UChicago community to earn a Nobel Prize. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6014mxiuy
In the latest episode of the 2024 job market series of @IdeasofIndia I speak with @sukrit_puri, a PhD candidate in political science @MIT about the entanglement between business and politics in India. We talked about how family firms versus management run businesses give political contributions, the mandate for retroactive transparency in the electoral bond scheme, and much more. @mercatus mercatus.org/ideasofindia/s…
Our team is growing! Come join us if you like working on important and tricky econ questions for impact!
Academic job market candidates: PLEASE add a line to the front page of your website that says something like "I am on the 2024-25 academic job market." This might sound silly but it makes it much easier to tell who is looking for a job now.
