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What are your favorite recent papers on Russian propaganda/authoritarian propaganda? I'm finalizing a syllabus and trying not to miss important new work in the field

Request: anyone know PhD students working on crime, especially gangs/org crime, in Latin America? Am interested in seeing the pipeline and connecting people into an org crime research initiative.

Great to see it out. In this Nature Communications paper we show the null effects of exposure to Russian IRA campaign on Twitter on voting behaviour and attitudes in the 2016 US elections. The descriptive stats are, probably, even more interesting! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Interesting new paper on the limited effects of Russia's influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election

🚨MASSIVE NEW STUDY ON DIGITAL/FB POLITICAL AD EFFECTS 🚨 in Nature Human Behaviour from Minali Aggarwal, Jennifer Allen, @aecoppock, Dan Frankowski, Kelly Zhang, @jimmyeatcarbs, Andrew Beasly, Harry Hantman, Sylvan Zheng! nature.com/articles/s4156… Ungated: solomonmg.github.io/pdf/acronymNHB…

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!! @anthlittle and I are excited to share our new working paper “Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding.” 🔥Our hot take🔥: Contrary to the current narrative, we DON’T find evidence that we are in a period of global democratic decline 🧵1/

To what degree are news websites in autocracies resilient to online censorship? I explore this question in Egypt. A short 🧵 on this study that is now #FirstView and #OpenAccess in the British Journal of Political Science cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📊 How often do our respondents consume news content from Meduza? In Aug & Sep 2022, we asked respondents how often they get political info from various sources. While ~76% said they rarely or never read Meduza content, ~16% said they read Meduza at least several X per month. 1/

Super excited to share this paper which is over 4 (!) years in the making. A can't-miss if you use conjoint!

Important new work from Valerie on an understudied source of misinformation

BIG shoutout for this important new report just published The Brookings Institution! Follow Valerie Wirtschafter @vwirtschafter.bsky.social who’s behind this great research on #misinformation #podcasting

Russian journalists are an impressive bunch--hard to shut them up. Great piece by Roman B. journalofdemocracy.org/putins-other-f…

Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 and I need a part-time, remote graduate student (or other) to help us program behavioral lab games in zTree and/or oTree. Work is remote starting ASAP and lasting through June. Pay commiserate with experience (pay scale $30-$45 per hour). DM me or reply.

Thanks to Carnegie Corp of NY the Harriman Institute at Columbia University is giving PhD students in the social sciences working on Russia up to $12,000 for their research. Deadline is April 21. Details below. Spread the word. harriman.columbia.edu/call-for-propo…

📢 Join us for Centre for International Security - Hertie School's colloquium this week, where Ashley Blum will discuss her research on Russian news media preferences and the role of state-controlled media. Thursday | 4 May | 2:00 pm (CEST) | Register now 👇 hertie-school.org/en/events/even…

Hey survey/polisci folks. Looking for questions to measure support for Trump v. other/mainstream Republicans. Any instrumentation that's been field tested?

Americanist friends - do you have a good survey question for differentiating active Trump supporters and establishment Republicans? Or something capturing attitudes toward Trump's effect on the party?

Thanks Andrés Rodríguez-Pose for sharing my paper The Geography of Breakthrough Invention in the US over the 20th Century, now out in Research Policy! I’m delighted it’s now out!

🚨Out in PNAS!🚨 Political microtargeting has caused great concern (eg Cambridge Analytica) But does it actually WORK? To find out we quantified the persuasive advantage of political microtargeting for US issue advocacy The answer is complicated... 1/ pnas.org/eprint/AWU8WZ9…

Navalny will be remembered as a martyr, but he left a significant imprint on Russian politics and our understanding of how autocracies work (and don't work). Here's a short sampling of how Navalny's been studied in academic research: 1/