Reminder to join the Metrics of Regulation webinar today! Zhoudan (Zoey) Xie will discuss sentiment & uncertainty about regulation.

מה מסביר את התמיכה בהפיכה המשטרית? השאלה הזו איתנו כשנתיים ורלוונטית היום במיוחד. והתשובה: בראש ובראשונה חיבור רגשי לנתניהו ורגשות שליליים כלפי האופוזיציה. מאמר שלנו (עם יותם מרגלית, Lior Sheffer ו-Itamar Yakir) על כך התפרסם אתמול:

📢 Webinar Update We are sorry to inform you that today’s webinar with Roman Senninger has been cancelled. We appreciate your understanding and will announce a new date soon.

Looking forward to #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna this weekend! I’ll be presenting a paper on a new NLP+LLM-based approach to measuring rule design—who is regulated, how, and on what terms—applied to EU environmental directives and transposition delays. comptextconference.org/7th-annual-com…

1/5 How does factual knowledge affect political attitudes? With the brilliant Nick Stagnaro, we find that learning facts reduces attitude polarization on contentious issues – challenging the view that facts either don't matter or make people more polarized. New in Nature Communications!

My lab at Weizmann Institute was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing was left to save. We study heart regeneration and regenerative medicine. As such, we will regenerate, regrow and rebuild. The one thing that wasn't gone is

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Career #Civil #Servants’ Socially Embedded Responses to #Democratic #Backsliding By Saar Alon-Barkat, Sharon Gilad🟣, Nir Kosti & Dr. Ilana Shpaizman doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

🚨New publication in Perspectives on Politics! /w Sharon Gilad🟣 Nir Kosti Dr. Ilana Shpaizman How do career civil servants respond to democratic backsliding, and what shapes their reactions? In our new article, we examine how Israeli bureaucrats responded to the 2023 legal overhaul.

A blog post on our research in Perspectives on Politics on civil servants and their response to democratic backsliding Saar Alon-Barkat Sharon Gilad🟣 Nir Kosti Will civil servants guard against illiberal power grabs? open.substack.com/pub/donmoyniha…