Did not expect to see a Nate Silver impression on SNL

Dehumanization is more than just disagreement or incivility — it is the express denial of humanity, write @ErinCassese, Nathan Kalmoe, @LilyMasonPhD and Alex Theodoridis. And it's on the rise across America: nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…

Like 15 years ago I saw Tony Hawk at a laser tag place in AZ and my dad was like “that’s not him don’t bother this random man” and then after he left I heard an employee say, “I can’t believe we just met Tony Hawk” and I don’t think I spoke to my dad for a week afterwards.

My team is hiring! YouGov is a fantastic place to work, and i'm happy to answer any questions about what we do. linkedin.com/jobs/view/2443…

This is going to be hugely useful to many, many people. Pew Research Center doing amazing work as always.

The official documentation for the 2020 CPS Voting and Registration Supplement uses... Comic Sans???

Looking for numbers on Jan 6? Our latest UMass Poll has a ton of great data! There is now seemingly no limit to the ability of partisans to see the world through thick, nearly opaque, red and blue colored lenses. polsci.umass.edu/toplines-and-c…

RE: misinformation and tech platforms. My new book emphasizes the role of identity in fueling the DEMAND for misinformation, while also arguing that platform logics, media logics, and political incentives recursively cultivate and reinforce those same identities.

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MC is hiring! My DMs are open if you have any questions about these positions. lnkd.in/d9zpdH65

slice_head() is my new favorite #rstats function name, unseating skrrrahh()

I had a blast being involved in the Strengthening Democracy Challenge. Kudos to Robb Willer and team for a really well-run study!

It’s officially online! Our paper, “Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples” is published Political Analysis. This paper is for anyone who is trying to figure out what ChatGPT and other recent Artificial Intelligence advances mean for social science research

👀 Collecting data online is easy -- making sure you're collecting _good_ data online requires a lot of work. Check out a review of our #aapor presentation here:

We were in the field yesterday after Biden's announcement so Eli Yokley and I have tons of fresh data to run through. Join us tomorrow.

Finally, we perform a validating exercise by comparing UMich to Morning Consult (MC), which asks similar Q’s, but has not had a change in methodology over this period. By recasting MC so its mean+SD match UMich pre-shift, we find it lines up with our adjusted series /10