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OK, here it is: a line in the sand (in nature). I am very wary about scientists---including political scientists---embracing/pushing proprietary LLMs. Let's try an open science approach. Hope this take is a useful one. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Thrilled to learn that my soon-to-be job market paper is a co-winner of the 2022 APSA Experimental Research Best Paper Award! The paper shows via an experiment in India that chatting with a Muslim person for a few days can lead to major improvements in Hindus’ attitudes about Muslims:

Smoked. 📷: Gary Hershorn

In a recent Correspondence, Lexi Palmer, Noah A. Smith and Arthur Spirling call for scientists to explicitly justify the use of proprietary models when employed in academic research. nature.com/articles/s4358…

Congratulations to Dr Lexi Palmer ! Very nice to see Gwyneth McClendon Pablo Querubin Cyrus Samii Anna Wilke and the NYU Politics Department gang

Was so happy to be a part of this very cool workshop - thanks again Humeyra Biricik for inviting me!

Excited to be participating this fall! And for anyone interested in text and llms - a great line of up speakers (me aside)

CFP: The 2025 Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science, which will be held on Friday, March 7th and Saturday, March 8th, 2025 New York University Submit paper and poster proposals here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x… by Dec 10 Anna Wilke Tara Slough NYU Politics Department

Our (Christopher Barrie Lexi Palmer) working paper on replication for LLMs is now available here, with a non-technical explainer. We've received very helpful comments so far -- please keep them coming! (1/n) github.com/ArthurSpirling…

With a fantastic kickoff from Mike Burnham, we are all excited for Lexi Palmer upcoming talk on using Masked Language Models to classify narrative structure in political texts. Enjoy the 🍁 season, and we can’t wait to see you in two weeks ⬇️

Academics said voters will turn out for selective incentives and New Hampshire listened (also homemade cookies and cider)

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and Lexi Palmer on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...