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Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress. Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵

this conversation will be on replay for many academics this Thanksgiving.

Democratic erosion is an iterative game. Biden just gave Trump an excuse to further abuse presidential pardons.

Jack called it

Regardless of whether TikTok will be sold to a non-Chinese owner, Zeve Sanderson, Sol Messing, and Scott Babwah Brennen argue that researchers need access to independent data to understand the platform’s democratic effects in the U.S. and abroad.

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? Hannah Waight, Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts and I are excited to share our new article in PNAS (PNASNews): doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Thread below.

Fantastic data + methods work in PNAS on “scripted propaganda,” government-authored phrases/talking points that appear in commercial newspapers. They show it’s been on the rise in recent decades & particularly during COVID — huge congrats on this incredibly heavy lift

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Partisanship of people 18-25, by gender, 1999-2025. Data from @gallup Social Series. It's remarkable how many attitudinal factors demonstrate thermostatic response.

And generated responses with more slant were perceived to be of lower quality in head-to-head matchups. Nice work, complete w benchmarks and prompt guidance to lower slant

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