🚨JOB ALERT🚨 2 x E13💯%, 50% own research! We are hiring 2 social scientists (f/m/d) for our Data and Methods Unit, 1 specialising in Computational Social Science, 1 specialising in Surveys. Potential permanent employment! 📆Deadline is 5 and 26 March. 👉mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/job…

New article with Kristina Jessen Hansen & Lene Holm Pedersen: People really hate pay raises for politicians. However, the argument that pay raises can attract more competent politicians might make them more accepting of such raises, right? Nope, not at all! (1/3) academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/…

New paper out in Personality and Individual Differences. With the amazing Aaron Weinschenk, stighebbelstrup and twitter-incognitos Chris Dawes and Kaare Christensen sciencedirect.com/science/articl….

Don’t tell people to "trust science:” that makes them fall for pseudoscience Instead, teach how science works. As people learn that (like how theories are built & tested) they accept valid findings like climate change, evolution & vaccines, regardless of their ideological views!

Disagreeing with others over hot-button issues - COVID-19 policy, gun control - can provoke dislike and distrust, but in new work out today @ JEP:Gen, I show that common tactics people use to *avoid* taking a stand can be just as costly. A 🧵 on the costs of moral neutrality...

Jeg ser frem til at modtager dit svar af mail sendt 18 maj. Er det rimeligt at et psykisk sårbart barn skal vente 3 måneder på et ikke-relevant dagtilbud? Karina Vestergård Madsen #HandlingNu

Extremely happy to share our new publication Behavioural Public Policy journal! With @FloKeppeler (@Ledelsescenter) & @SebJilke (McCourt School) doi.org/10.1017/bpp.20… Result: Psychological ownership interventions can increase #Covid19 vaccination intentions (1/8)

Har talt med Kristeligt Dagblad om min forskning i ulighed. Hovedpointe: ja, uligheden er steget, men middelklassens interesser er blevet godt varetaget politisk, og har derfor oplevet markant økonomisk fremgang i de seneste 40 år. kristeligt-dagblad.dk/debat/nyt-stud… #dkpol #dkmedier KU Samfundsvidenskab

Tax the rich? Maybe when they're greedy. Kristina Jessen Hansen finds perceptions of prosociality affect support for redistribution. #APSR #APSRFirstView #PoliSciResearch ow.ly/fbjE50JXpLf

New article out in American Political Science Review. We analyze trends in inequality and redistribution in 17 countries since 1980 and show that rising inequality has not increased the power of the rich over taxation and redistribution. The US is a major outlier, however. cambridge.org/core/journals/… 1/n

Hjemmesiden Politologi.dk har indtil i går samlet overblik over meningsmålinger, men det blokerer Megafon nu for. #dkmedier journalisten.dk/forskere-boyko…

Computational Social Science & Humanities at work! Today, we took an important first step in forming a strong interdisciplinary community of practice. Key take aways: Cross facilitation, SSH designated tools and analytics, a subfield in its own right. #dkforsk #AAUSSH

I am on twitter for the science. But if all I would ever get out of this platform is to help spread the word about this absolute master piece then I would be okay with that.

Sometimes you read an article that makes a lot of things make sense. Hansen recent article is one of them. Let's do a small recap on the litterature about redistributive preferences, and let me explain why this article is so interesting. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

An important step for the PA community. Only when both researchers and journals are incentivized and equally committed to publish null-findings will problems with selective reporting be a thing of the past. Incentivised seems like a long shot, so let us start with commitment!

Er du eller kender du nogen der er interesseret i en PhD omhandlende ekspertise og AI? Så overvej nedenstående stilling, hvor du får mulighed for at samarbejde med blandt andet mig og Ruthanne Huising #AI #Expertise #ethnography stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stillinger…

My dear colleague Erkan Güneş led this great project on using LLMs to code policy documents. Check it out! In short: LLMs can be a useful tool, but substantial human interaction is still needed to get us there.

With a fantastic group of students, Camilla Bøgeskov and I have trained a Transkribus model that reads the millions of digitised newspaper pages from the 18th and 19th c. in the Royal Library with an error rate of about 0.5%. The existing OCR errs about 50% of the time. Try it out!

Come lead a Methods Center in Lund lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Interested in how GPT and Gemini might fare in text classification? Erkan Güneş and I have just published a paper on that very subject using political texts!