📌Job alert 📌

4-year PhD position, party of my SNF project UN-POPULAR: Citizens’ Opposition to Peace Missions Universität St.Gallen (HSG).

- Peacebuilding and social media
- Causal inference and computational social science
- Starting 1 Sep (or later)

Apply here: tinyurl.com/5udpmr89

Some colleagues (and sometimes myself) have wondered what I have been doing behind my computer for the last two years. Enough suspense!
Thijs Bol and I are happy to share the pre-print of our (affectionally called) 'bundles of skills paper'.
osf.io/preprints/osf/… ⬇️1/5

Die Gruppe 'Muslim interaktiv', eine islamistische Organisation, hat es erneut geschafft, Hunderte von Menschen in #Hamburg auf die Straße zu bringen. Sie fordern die Errichtung eines islamistischen Kalifats und die Abschaffung der Demokratie. Dabei sprechen sie von einem…

Read a summary of last week's conference on AI and Government: bit.ly/49WYO7z
Shir Raviv
Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Hélène Landemore
Baobao Zhang @[email protected]
Kaylyn Jackson Schiff
Daniel Schiff
Seulki Lee-Geiller, PhD
Matthias Haslberger
Melody Huang
Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also on sky and mount)
Kirk Bansak
Dasha Pruss
Eddie Yang
Virginia Eubanks

Great initiative by my former boat club Linacre Boat Club to raise awareness of the often appalling levels of pollution in the Thames! Linacre College Nuffield College

bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Very happy to see 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 out in the wild in Democratization co-authored with Laure Bokobza. We explore and try to explain why dictatorships have multiparty governments. Short 🧵

Read it here doi.org/10.1080/135103…

I learned so much at this terrific conference hosted by Yale ISPS and Shir Raviv!

Matthias Haslberger presented work with Mads Andreas Elkjær and Ben Ansell on housing wealth and wealth tax preferences in Europe. Thanks to the organisers for an excellent conference and to the audience for the helpful feedback!

GOVPET researchers were well represented at the Politics of Inequality conference. Patrick Emmenegger presented a paper with Matthias Haslberger and niccolo durazzi on how dual VET moderates the relationship between technological change and social policy preferences.

Great to see this strong representation of (current and former) Oxford DSPI scholars at the Politics of Inequality conference in Konstanz. Looking forward to three days of cutting-edge inequality research!

Come join for what promises to be a fascinating, interdisciplinary discussion on generative AI and the world of work!

How might AI transform the way we interact with government? What can we do to promote democracy? Join us 4/19: bit.ly/4ayMzii

Shir Raviv Kirk Bansak Virginia Eubanks Kaylyn Jackson Schiff Melody Huang Dasha Pruss Daniel Schiff Matthias Haslberger Hélène Landemore Eliza Oak 🌳 Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Very much looking forward to this exciting conference Shir has put together!

Are international human rights bodies remedies for elites? My new study International Studies Quarterly shows that socio-economic elites are more likely to file complaints to UN human rights bodies, while marginalized groups from low-income countries are underrepresented (1/7)
academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

Time to stock up on my favourite chocolates (and rue the missed investment opportunity)!

Imo this should receive more attention from scholars of skill formation. Short-term productivity boost through AI vs. long-term productivity growth thanks to a workforce trained to use it effectively. Lots of interesting scenarios to explore...

Training is going to be a key problem in organizations. Triple whammy:
1) Tasks that were given to interns to learn are being done by AI now
2) Less in-person time
3) Pandemic retirements & learning loss
People like Matt Beane are thinking about this, but it is a growing issue.

The surplus value created by generative AI goes to workers a surprising amount at this point. I talk to people all the time who have automated parts of their job and aren’t telling management.

Eventually companies will catch up but a lot of people are secretly benefiting now.

Academics telling me about worsening administrative bloat- a cycle of administrators making new rules and procedures with more administrators needed to implement and enforce these new systems. One friend characterized it as a university wide autoimmune disease- administrators are…

Thank you to the participants for an enriching GOVPET PhD workshop on the politics, policies and discourses around skill shortages Universität St.Gallen (HSG) SBFI SEFRI SERI. Special thanks to our keynote speakers Lukas Graf EHB and Wiebke Schulz SOCIUM Bremen* for wonderful insights!