Paolo Spada

⏳ 10 days left to join the C-BEAR Intro to Experiments Summer School! It’s all about learning by doing, hands-on, practice-focused, and designed to get you experimenting fast (in an ethically responsible way) #experiments #interdisciplinary #research store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

LIVE: Lander for Mayor Press Availability YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

LIVE: I'm speaking to reporters about yesterday's events.

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Scary images multiply from the US. Brad was one of the initiators of PBNYC in 2011 when we were all there to help. Eons ago, another America.

#checkthisout #impressive
My @sotonpolitics.bsky.social collegue and friend Liz Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social gave an evidence-based talk on disability and accessibility of the parliament at the Modernisation Committee of the UK Parliament yesterday!

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Several colleagues are going to be in Madrid next week for the European Political Science Association, presenting research on party decision-making, attitudes towards minorities, populism, gender, social media, acccents and class, urban-rural divides, the politics of dating, and more! #EPSA2025

Closing the publishing gender gap in economics and political science: Does a critical mass matter? Using novel data on publications and citations by researchers in economics and political science in top 50 universities globally, we analyze the relationship between female representation and the gend...

Wow!

"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"

‪@egenpolisci.bsky.social‬
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social

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I did not record it in any way, but I have proposed to do it during the summer school of Participedia in China and I will record the next iteration. This iteration in Turin was also in Italian. My very personal take was that for this specific use AI first was better, it was an ice breaker.

YouTube video by Schwartz Reisman Institute Beth Simone Noveck | Unlocking collective intelligence: AI’s role in enhancing democracy

The AI exercise is called "AI twist" and has some groups of students using AI before ideation, and some groups after ideation and asks them to compare and reflect inspired by the research of @bethnoveck.bsky.social and video recording of her lecture youtu.be/7QghaIIo-mA?...

The flow opens with exploring demo platforms in small groups (polis, Kialo, Decidim) transitions after some frontal teaching into an interactive exercise about the pain points of translating process into tech, and lands after some more frontal, into an AI ideation exercise inspired by policy synth

Il potere diffuso | Scuola di Politica - Centro Studi Sereno Regis Il Potere Diffuso è un progetto formativo che promuove fra politici e operatori di sviluppo di comunità la democrazia partecipativa

Returning from Turin after a very nice experience with the civil servants, students and facilitators attending their school of participation. And I devised a new teaching flow for classes on delibtech and my students survived! serenoregis.org/2024/07/19/s...

They recorded it. I assume @iswe-foundation.bsky.social or @participedia.bsky.social will make it available. I do not have it sorry.

Slide Deck_Iswe x Participedia Workshop | Reema Patel Yesterday colleagues at Iswe Foundation convened, with Participedia over 100 researchers, practitioners and policymakers on the question of recruitment and sortition methodologies at a global level. I...

Details+slides of the event organized by ISWE+Participedia on organizing recruitment of the next Global CA ⬇️ The striking change is that the primacy of the ideal of using sortition to create a representative sample of "something" has finally gone. Sortition is now recommended for fairness.

An interesting and very operational reply to our article on the representativeness of minipublics sortition-agora.com/sortition/so...

Would you like to learn how to run a lab experiment? A conjoint experiment? An email experiment? But you do not know where to start? The interdisciplinary C-BEAR summer school is specifically designed for you. Join us in July. store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Inspirational collaborative event 2day hosted by @cdfuos.bsky.social on AI and Democracy with Simon Wallace #suffrago Nick Almond #Londonvoice Huge congrats esp @unisouthampton.bsky.social anniversary fellow Dr Yu Shan Tseng for organising 😍👏🙏 🎉
@r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social

Training course: C-BEAR SUMMER SCHOOL - Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments This five-day workshop introduces participants to the theory and practice of experimental methods in the Social Sciences. It provides an overview of prevalent approaches—specifically lab, field, an

Are you a qualitative researcher that always wanted to try to do an RCT? Do you know well one type of RCTs and are looking for an intro to another (survey? lab? field?). The C-BEAR summer school is designed for you and subsidized by NCRM! When? 30/06-4/7 How much? 300 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Training course: SWEETS/CBEAR: Experimental Methods for Scholarship Research This three-day workshop introduces participants to the theory and practice of experimental methods in application to scholarship research in higher education (HE). It delivers an overview of prevalen

SWEETS and C-BEAR have just launched a new training short course (9->11 June) on evaluating pedagogic innovations in the classroom using RCT and mixed methods targeted to teaching fellows and those that are curious about implementing clustered RCTs www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Recruitment for the next Citizens’ Panel on a new European budget is underway You could be one of those 150 European Citizens!

I am starting to see encouraging steps toward phasing out the narrative of the ability of minipublics to statistically represent the population. This is the second advert I saw this month with softer language. malta.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/recruit...

Level-up, just finished a complete draft of a big 19 partners' Horizon bid 6 hours before submission instead of 6 minutes. This one has even 8 RCTs disguised as engagement in collaboration with Sortition Foundation maybe it will break the RCT curse that never let's me win when I add an experiment.

Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
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Cumbria Climate Assembly - invite letters arriving soon! - Zero Carbon Cumbria - Carbon reduction action across the county. 10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly. The Assembly will bring people with diverse views, from all walks of life together to discuss clim...

zerocarboncumbria.co.uk/news/cumbria... Cumbria 10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly 2025. The Climate Assembly will bring people with diverse views together to discuss climate change and explore what can be done about it.

First day at the #IASFM20 #IASFM2025 in Yogyakarta is now wrapped up with the presentation of this amazing line up of speakers in the two panels organised by @patnabuco.bsky.social and I about critical perspectives on border externalisation

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☕️ Join us for our next interactive #TeachingCafé, all about interracial communication pedagogy within instruction and training in public participation.

📆 February 25
⏰ 11am-12pm EST
📍Virtual via Zoom

Click the 🔗 to register! 😊

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And here is the first deployment of the new game simulating Citizens Assemblies developed for CESE Morocco training. Pre/post survey+Carousel of Experts + Deliberatorium enhanced session. Simple but effective.

First Empaville of the year with the great students of the masters in Collective Intelligence at UM6P

New opportunity to join us 👇

Journal of Sortition - Imprint Academic SIGN UP HERE FOR THE JOURNAL OF SORTITION NEWSLETTER FOR A FREE PRINTED AND BOUND COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE!   Launching in Spring 2025 Call for papers Little more than a decade ago the word ‘sortition...

🚨 New Article Alert! 📰
🎯 The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies
🔎Dive into the limits of the current generation of civic lotteries and our ideas on how to fix them.
Authored in collaboration with Tiago Peixoto
👉 tinyurl.com/mt4mk4u2

Tiago C. Peixoto on LinkedIn: The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies 🎓Honored to have an article published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Sortition. "The Limits of Representativeness in Citizens' Assemblies: A…

My article with Tiago that expands on various reflections and conversations with practitioners on minipublics claims to representativeness is out in the first issue of the Journal of Sortition. You can get a free physical copy of the issue www.linkedin.com/posts/tcpeix...