New article just dropped!!! (PS it’s open access) "Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy" 1/

🚨New paper🚨 out Nature Human Behaviour today! w/ the polarizationlab Duke University What happens when strangers from opposing political parties are paired together to chat about politics online? Answer: mostly good things! nature.com/articles/s4156… ungated: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Hopping on here to share a paper that has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!! Titled “Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy.” /1

🚨 Language Model APSA Preconference🚨 Applications now open for the UPenn/Princeton LM APSA preconference (hosted by me and Nick Pangakis). Deadline is April 19. Please circulate and apply to present/discuss/attend! arthurspirling.org/LMiSS/

My new piece in Harvard Business Review describes our work using AI to perform conflict mediation on social media, and how it inspired a new intervention by NextDoor which resulted in a 15% decrease in toxic content! hbr.org/2024/03/genai-…

Science education is so vital. Check out the amazing work of "Science Journal for Kids" which recently covered our research on using AI chatbots: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-c… Lots of other amazing content created by a small but mighty team. Please share or support them!

Check out our new paper! Thanks to Sayash Kapoor for leading this amazing project.

🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Can't wait to be a part of this fantastic event!

New Article! Using text analysis and survey experiments, we show that although people talk about cancel culture in terms of democratic values, in-group vs. out-group partisan dynamics are what actually shift people's support for "canceling" different actors. Ethan Busby

If you are shocked and horrified by this attack, like me, now is the time to tell your followers that you are one of the ~97% of Americans who unequivocally condemn political violence. Don't let the 3% speak for you: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Computational Political Scientists: Ethan Busby and I are organizing a CWC at @spsanews on Generative Language Models. Apply by August 16; Conference in Puerto Rico Jan 8 - 11. Please apply and circulate widely! forms.gle/emcc2HKQnPEwmC…