@joshmccrain it means the contestants can't see each other but each has to decide who to propose marriage to anyway
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Kenneth Lowande
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Kenneth Lowande
@ProfLowande
Associate Professor @UMich || scholar of American political institutions || author of False Front: https://t.co/lKIO6obmAE
Ann Arbor, MI Katılım Temmuz 2025
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when you read the phrase "quasi-experimental" what does it mean to you?
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@seanjwestwood the discussion is so contentious because the stakes are so low
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@ProfLowande The irony is that I don’t think there will be doom. I just think we need to reconsider the format for academic papers. So, yeah, basically Stalin here.
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Faculty raging against AI: are you just openly abdicating your responsibility to prepare students for what's coming? AI is the future. Your anger doesn't change that. It just means your students learn it from someone else--or don't learn it at all. Enrollments will respond.
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@seanjwestwood I am, indeed, very mad; been stewing for days, but hope this apology helps me heal
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People are mad I said AI can write literature reviews. Fine, but literature reviews are broken. Why does elegant prose or the ability to regurgitate past work override if a finding actually matters? Today storytelling launders bad research and bad writing buries good research.
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The year is 2026, and I am told daily by a machine that it is "verifying that I am human."
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...we need to invest more resources into understanding what happens after the president says "go."
Applications due Feb 16. Please reach out to me with questions.
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Many thanks to generous support from the Hewlett Foundation for seeing a desparate research need. If we are in a new era when most policy is made by American presidents from the top-down...
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I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow!
Something that should be obvious after this past year: The American presidency and the executive branch, more broadly, are far and away the most important political institutions in American politics.
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Putting together my grad syllabus in American political institutions. Anyone have recommendations for new "must-read" books?
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@JohnHolbein1 my section's ratio is 17 to ~100, so I guess we're more service-oriented!
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Heading to APSA right after starting my first semester of teaching & this feels a bit on the nose
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@ClaytonNall I have also yet to have a link it spit out work.
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Amazing that GPT 5 is still producing tons of phantom cites when you ask for the most basic literature review. I think we're a long way from the Skynet scenario.
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@JohnHolbein1 I don't know that a course would fix it. Timeless problem also illustrated by walking around a car show. You can't buy taste.
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Dataviz should be a mandatory short course for PhD students.
So many bad figures floating around these days.
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@markovitis It's their desire to pad the income of political scientists who work as expert witnesses
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Well something has changed! Though it is not clear it is norms eroding so much as members being more willing to take on slightly more risk/disruption to help their party.
Patrick Ruffini@PatrickRuffini
On redistricting, it's cute that people think that politicians would adhere to principle. On this, there is no principle. There is only power.
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The Trump admin owns the public narrative by taking executive action, over and over. Our new study shows this strategy has detectable impacts on Google search traffic for the incumbent president. Ballpark est. similar to pop artists when they release a new album.
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@JakeMGrumbach Or just that the very thing they tried has been tried for a hundred years by wave after wave men no less smart or successful
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Seems like they understand neural networks but fail to understand neural networks. Understand viruses but not viruses. Worms but not worms. Deep learning but not deep learning
Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior
The essential theory of DOGE was that government is low IQ problems and watch how fast we fix it all with high IQ tech whizzes. And it seems that some have not been sufficiently humbled by those assumptions failing dramatically
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