#TheWebConf2023 Congratulations to the Best Paper Award winner at the ACM Web Conference 2023 Simplistic Collection and Labeling Practices Limit the Utility of Benchmark Datasets for Twitter Bot Detection Chris Hays, Zachary Schutzman, Manish Raghavan, Erin Walk, Philipp Zimmer

Certain bot-detection algorithms may be highly error-prone when applied in real-world contexts. Manish Raghavan zach s Erin Walk mitsloan.co/43UcxcB

You know you’re in a cool program when Christopher Barrie teaches a method the same day it’s announced in American Political Science Review! (Allegedly accidental… 🤔)

So glad SDS-Hub Edinburgh could be my first stop on the summer “please give me feedback and ideas” tour. Tune in for more appearances (and hopefully more results 😅)

We had our final day of SICSS-Edinburgh today. Aybuke Atalay Christopher Barrie thank you for making this experience as informative and engaging as possible. Listening to Chris’ lectures was a delightful experience.

At INSNA #Sunbelt2023 I presented work with Andrés F. Castro T. and Vincent Larivière on "A global bibliometric perspective on the social structure of science" Erin Walk presented our work on "Scholarly migration and collaboration worldwide: A word embedding representation"

IC2S2 friends come see me and Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social present this afternoon!

Final day IC2S2! Team MPIDR is enjoying the conference and city of VisitCopenhagen. Great talks in an inspiring environment where old and new architecture form an alliance.

Kiran is a fantastic mentor, highly recommend to any grad applicants interested in these topics :)

Out in EPJ Data Science, I discuss: "What can the two sides of #ComputationalSocialScience, i.e., social science and computational science learn from each other in thinking spatially?" Motivated by Yong-Yeol Ahn's brilliant keynote IC2S2 2021 Open Access here: doi.org/10.1140/epjds/…

Looking forward to joining Polarization Research Lab! asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ne…

Erin Walk (Erin Walk) is joining the Polarization Research Lab (Polarization Research Lab) as a postdoc in July! Welcome to Annenberg, Erin! bit.ly/4eLXHLt

A PoliSci twitter consensus over the last year: raising alarms about how Trump threatens democracy is a way if not *the* way to stop his election. It's certainly plausible. Voters like democracy, and Trump has plainly done non-democratic things. But consider some recent evidence:

David Broockman Josh Kalla Second, Walk et al find admonishing Republicans about Trump's anti-democratic behavior might have a short term impact (nontrivial but not precisely estimated), but it almost certainly durably (~10 days) osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Many (campaigns, activists, media personalities) have adopted a 2024 strategy that declares "democracy is on the ballot." But does this message persuade voters? In a new paper with Erin Walk, Derek Holliday and Yphtach Lelkes we find effects are countervailing and not durable. It

Excited to see this paper out!

Living in a swing state for the first time in my life has its perks-- lots of handwritten notes. Seeing the process in action is awesome (I am probably not their target demographic)