Drew Dimmery

So exciting to _finally_ get to talk about the US 2020 FB and IG Election Project! A few notes from my perspective as a methodological collaborator kind of on the border between the academic and the Meta teams. 🧵

Next a foray into refreshing and updating the workings of my website and a reflection on why this is Good: ddimmery.com/posts/website-…

I'm back to blogging on my own pixels. I should remember to actually share posts on the microblogs (I believe this is the main thing they're good for). First, a post laying out why I won't be blogging on Substack: ddimmery.com/posts/back-to-…

RCTs are good, but not (just) because they make the statistics easy. open.substack.com/pub/drewdimmer…

The US2020 Project was not independent (and that's good) open.substack.com/pub/drewdimmer…

RT @lennybronner: How The Washington Post’s forecast will track 2024 election results Like in previous cycles we'll be running our live el…

Welche Koalitionen könnten nach den Wahlen in Sachsen und Thüringen anstehen? Zusammengefasst: in Sachsen könnte es sehr schwer werden, eine Regierung ohne BSW zu bilden - und in Thüringen beinahe unmöglich. Auf @zeitonline mit simulierten Wahlausgängen: zeit.de/politik/deutsc…

Welcome #ICML2024 to Vienna! If you work on causality/CSS and want to chat, hit me up. I'm also happy to share recommendations based on a few years living here.

RT @lennybronner: Our polling average topline takeaway: Trump is leading in 5 of the 7 battleground states that are most likely to determin…

To assert democratic control over large online platforms we need rigorous impact assessments like the US2020 project. This is the only way we can make sure we respond to the real societal harms they may cause.

New article from the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study in @PNASNews (academic team led by @HuntAllcott & Gentzkow): Deactivation of FB/IG for 6 weeks before the 2020 election reduced online participation but otherwise had mostly null effects pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

***Academic Job*** I'm hiring a post-doc (starting this fall) as part of building out a lab model re: conflict and development at Emory. Open broadly but Asia is bulk of agenda right now. ABDs & recent grads please submit apps by June 15th apply.interfolio.com/145540

Tired: constant marginal effects Wired: maximum marginal effects at p=0.5 Inspired: add a parameter for where marginal effects are maximized Are they not teaching the kids about scobit these days? Embarrassing

@arthur_spirling Miguel Hernán has a great paper on this point: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

btw, if you read the thread, OP recants from "reduces" to "associated with" and it's classic "causal two-step" per Implication 1 of our WP: arthurspirling.org/documents/what…

4-5 cups increases your risk of thinking about the plausibility of conditional ignorability, so be careful with dosage

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RT @lennybronner: Super cool thread on racial depolarization (what I'd call it, rather than realignment) in US politics. A bit of additiona…

@laurabronner quite the opposite for me

Over 10 years in and I still read "causal" as "casual"

Great article about our research infrastructure (or lack thereof) for studying the internet #post-heading" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebulletin.org/2024/03/how-to…

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Join us in forecasting the next federal election, and in finding out what forecasts do to voters and candidates! Plus, do a PhD at the Data Science Lab in Berlin. DM me for any questions.

Really nice piece by @JustinSandefur worth reading. I particularly found the history of making the case very interesting: asteriskmag.com/issues/05/pepf…

Welcome to Hertie, @DrewDim ! 🤝 The @Hertie_DSLab Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today. "Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"