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New book out: "Political Correctness in Academia: A Public Choice Analysis". A sharp and timely read—highly recommended!

To all the "but what's the mechanism?" warriors.

📢 Exciting news! Our two-year project at Indiana University has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour! 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41562… In this study, we used large language models and a massive online debate dataset to map over 100,000 human beliefs into a "belief space."

The use of the word "delve" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party aka - how to observe the effects of ChatGPT on legislative staffer work.

Yet another task LLMs can do decently well... replicate V-DEM democracy ratings (with some predictable failures) arxiv.org/abs/2503.22315

New paper to understand contemporary events at Harvard in a broader perspective: "Two faces of academic freedom: External and internal threats" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

People negatively evaluate AI moderators that use emotional arguments rather than rational arguments, finds Silver et al. doi.org/10.1145/370659…

approximately 13% of Bluesky posts engage with political content. There are high levels of polarization across several salient political topics. But the most polarized topics are highly imbalanced, with 1 side consisting of only 1–2% of the users arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03443

#OpenAccess from @PolAnalysis - Fixed Effects, Lagged Dependent Variables, and Bracketing: Cautionary Remarks - cup.org/4jLPt7z - Matei Demetrescu, Manuel Frondel, Lukas Tomberg & Colin Vance #FirstView

How much code now comes from AI? In new work with Simone Daniotti, Xiangnan Feng & Frank Neffke we estimate that by end-2024 about 30% of Python functions pushed by US devs on GitHub are AI- generated. Adoption is rapid but diffusion lags globally. How did we do it?

Fascinating look at computational analysis of visual framing by Arnav Arora Srishti@CVPR’25 Maria Antoniak Serge Belongie Isabelle Augenstein doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!

This graph about faculty ideology over time is going viral. But there are some reasons for pause about some of its conclusions. Note that it comes from patching together three very different datasets with potentially very different samples, response rates, question wordings,

A study of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic finds that endorsements from leaders, experts, or celebrities were polarizing and ineffective. Sharing policies and facts is effective when messages move people from both parties. Read more: ow.ly/ouJC50W8pba

Multiple exposure to political candidates' messages are more powerful than a single exposure across three different types of online platforms, finds Dr. Robert Epstein et al. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Extensive study on censorship/moderation by various LLMs The study shows how moderation isn't neutral: models censor or downplay politically sensitive content in ways that align with the norms of their country of origin. arxiv.org/abs/2504.03803

Considering the political consequences of the use of artificial intelligence by online platforms engaged in social media content dissemination, entertainment, or electronic commerce, from Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, and James Siderius nber.org/papers/w33892

Over the past decade, cable news stations are increasingly diverging in their topical coverage and linguistic patterns, unlike broadcast news, demonstrating the polarization in the supply of media content, finds Hosseinmardi Wolken David Rothschild 🌻 Duncan Watts nature.com/articles/s4159…