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New article out in Boston Magazine about my course on American Conservatism at Tufts. bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/03/1…

That's a wrap on 48 games in 4 days in fabulous Las Vegas!💥🏀🙌🥃 We're the sole survivor of March Madness at Mirage!😂 I cherish the year's greatest weekend spent with new and old friends alike more every revolution around the sun. 🌎 ❤️ We're on to Boston! Go Huskies!🐶

With Brad Jones and Ben Highton Journal of Politics @[email protected] Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences: A Hard Test of the Low-Dimensionality Hypothesis journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Ungated: journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/GC3KXNQ… Thanks to Ryan Bakker Bob Lupton for their feedback!

The Dangers of Calculating Conditional Effects: A Reevaluation of Barber and Pope (2019) osf.io/preprints/osf/… via Center for Open Science

I'll be teaching a new machine learning workshop at the Essex Summer School this August: bit.ly/4dMrZgM. We'll focus on tree-based methods like random forests and various flavors of boosting, + strategies to interpret and present results.

Excited to announce Centaur -- the first foundation model of human cognition. Centaur can predict and simulate human behavior in any experiment expressible in natural language. You can readily download the model from Hugging Face and test it yourself: huggingface.co/marcelbinz/Lla…

Forecasting Partisan Collective Accountability During the 2024 U.S. Presidential & Congressional Elections | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3NHgj3b

Did Changes to the Voting Rights Act Cause Electoral Backsliding in the States? | Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108…

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when your rivals are in town, but you're just a chill guy

R packages <anominate> and <basicspace> back on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=anomin… cran.r-project.org/package=basics…

Scholarship applications are now open for the 2025 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods! $150k in scholarships available! Apply by February 28. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarsh… #SumProg25 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies

I’ll be presenting my working paper, “A Spatial Model of Moving,” Junior Americanist Workshop Series next Wed. 2/5 from 3-4:30 ET. My paper explores how perceptions of extremist state policies affect Americans’ moving preferences via a large survey experiment. Reg here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🚨New Paper 🎻 On Bob Dylan: A Computational Perspective In this work, I use LLM (o3) to explore how Bob Dylan's ever-evolving lyrical themes break expectations and challenge convention (i.e., dishabituation). This method can be used an artist’s cultural and creative

How do extremist state policies affect Americans’ moving preferences and behavior? I explore this in my job market paper, “When Policy Gets Personal: How Extremist State Policies Drive Geographic Sorting in the Post-Dobbs Era,” now available as a preprint! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Officially ABD! Thanks to my committee and everyone who has helped me get this far UC Davis, Department of Political Science.

My new R package with Sharif Amlani is live on Github! Introducing cjointplots, beautiful AMCE and marginal mean plotting for conjoint results: github.com/ammalmbe51/cjo…

Running toward rankings: Ranked choice voting's impact on candidate entry and descriptive representation - Colner - 2025 - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

I am on the academic job market this fall! I study how Americans perceive and react to policy extremism, experimental design, & machine learning/AI. More about me, including my CV, research/teaching interests, & links to papers/code on my website: alicemalmberg.com

Can LLM-based 'silicon samples' accurately reflect human decisionmaking in conjoint tasks? The short answer is "not really" -- but there's more to the story. I'll be presenting my paper on synthetic sampling in conjoint experiments tomorrow at 10! #APSA2025