Allison Koh

I had the best time getting ✨multilingual✨ in R and Python at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🤗

Couldn’t ask for a more supportive group; very important when several hours of live-coding is involved 🙈

Our #EPSA2025 roundtable will be happening soon in the auditorium, see you there 🤩

So many things to love about this NYC result, from the policy possibilities it creates and generational change it delivers to the rebuttal of the naked and cynical Islamophobia Mamdani's opponents tried to stir up and the schadenfruede over dirtbag Cuomo's big sad. Today, I❤️NY!!

As a little sneak peek into what you can expect tomorrow, check out this note by @williamlallen.bsky.social!

We look forward to this very important conversation, and to seeing you there! 🎉

We convened a panel of participants who bring diverse perspectives on this topic across career stages and institutional experience: @kenbenoit.bsky.social (Singapore Management University), @shubhakprasad.bsky.social (Hertie), @henryhenryhenry.com (UZH), and
@williamlallen.bsky.social (Southampton).

In this roundtable, we'll discuss the application process, the institutional dynamics that come with this career transition, and professional development beyond landing the first job. We designed this discussion with both early career researchers and the faculty who support them in mind.

If you are attending #EPSA2025 and interested in uncovering the black box that is the postdoctoral job market, you're in luck! Marta Antonetti (LSE) and I will be hosting a roundtable on Thursday at 13:10 dedicated to the topic. 🧵👇

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉
summerschoolwpm.org

Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social

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Kicking off the 2025 conference season in Chicago for #ISA2025 🎉

I’ll be around for the next week; my DMs are open for ☕️ or 🍻

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs

We show:

1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.

Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

heyyy there's a Connections: Strike Edition from the @nytguildtech.bsky.social (along with a bunch of others: nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-b...)

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It is a beautiful day in Taiwan for an election!

台灣加油!
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Germany's Departure from Reason: Global Scholars' Letter Condemning Germany's Role in Silencing and ... We, as academics from various global regions, wish to voice our concerns: The recent censorship, persecution, and threats faced by both German and non-German academics in Germany due to their critiqu...

German academia, alongside the government and media outlets, is misusing legacies of the Holocaust "to silence dissent while fostering xenophobia and Islamophobia."

You can still sign this open letter here:

Re-Release: `traktok` | Johannes B. Gruber I’m happy to announce that traktok, my package to get content from TikTok, has returned from the dead. That’s slightly exaggerated, because it actually always worked in some shape or form, but up ...

Are you researching TikTok? Or do you want to? Major update to #rstats `traktok`: search and download videos with just a regular account or use the full Research API: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2023-12...

It is not normal to absorb this much info about extreme violence. It is not normal to constantly think that only by pure chance, you could have been subjected to the same. I feel like something is eroding in our humanity, because we numb our feelings to deal with the terrible reality we live in

Deterrence or backlash: How online censorship affects offline protest Lisa Garbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), presents her research on the consequences of sudden restrictions on internet access for mobilization.

📢 Interested in how online censorship influences offline protests? Join us for Dr. Lisa Garbe's talk at @hertiesecurity.bsky.social. Dive into the dynamics of digital policy and its real-world impact.

📆 Thursday, 30.11 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (CET)

Register 👇

www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

Just updated my #QuartoPub extension for generating accurate word counts (i.e. *including* references!) so that it can now count appendix content separately! #rstats github.com/andrewheiss/...

The utter stress of living in Germany these days I swear. On the bright side (other foreign) friends who were previously less outspoken on Palestine are becoming radicalized.

Open Letter | Oyoun must stay! 10. Nov., 2023 Um sich den mehr als 9000+ Unterzeichner*innen dieses offenen Briefes anzuschließen, tragt euch bitte unten ein. Die vollständige Unterzeichner*innenliste ist hier zu sehen. To...

If you’re in Berlin or even just Germany can you sign this open letter supporting Oyoun which is having their funding pulled because they hosted a vigil led by a Jewish group docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

i am less convinced that AI is going to replace jobs than i am that companies are going to cut jobs on the premise of AI replacing them and then hire those people back as contractors for less money and fewer protections, because that’s what’s happened a *lot* in the last 20 years.

Text: “The world’s solution to safety and security, for Jews and for others, continues to be inextricably linked to the nation-state and its sovereignty — to militarized borders and an obsession with demography. As modern history has shown, such an idea always has the potential for exclusionary politics and mass violence. Perhaps most damaging of all is how such a solution propagates a diminished understanding of safety: It is the state that needs defending, not people. It is the state that holds sovereignty, not people. This logically leads to policies that label certain elements of society acceptable losses in times of conflict — sacrifices in the name of the state. And it facilitates an essentialist view of the world that cannot include the history of human migration and leaves no room for the fluidity of identity.”

Text: “A reconsideration of the nation-state as the sole source of safety, as well as the notion of a state-based sovereignty, is essential. It is people who have sovereignty: People have the right to a dignified life, to self-determination, to control of their environment and a say in their future. And people can only be safe collectively by ensuring those around them are also safe. States are the way we organize our world, and they can provide forms of safety, but often narrowly, fleetingly and by denying safety to others. A state that continues to deny sovereignty cannot sustain safety. In the name of sovereignty and safety, it will continue to cause violence. And a garrison can only protect for so long.”

Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned of the 10/7 attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. She reflects:

“A reconsideration of the nation-state as the sole source of safety, as well as the notion of a state-based sovereignty, is essential.”

newlinesmag.com/first-person...

#AcWriMo November writing goal: Submit PhD dissertation 🫣

Text: "He continued: 'It seems hard to get institutions and politicians in Germany to recognise that Palestinians are human beings.'"

I've had a lot of convos w/ folks confused about the crackdown in Germany against the most basic support for Palestinians. This is deeply tied to Germany's Holocaust remembrance culture, which happens to be something I study. Here's a thread of resources in English for those who want to learn. 1/

(S+) Olaf Scholz: Neue Härte in der Flüchtlingspolitik: »Wir müssen endlich im großen Stil absc... Die neue Härte des Kanzlers: Olaf Scholz macht die irreguläre Migration zur Chefsache und erklärt, wie er die Zahl der Flüchtlinge reduzieren will. Außerdem hat er eine Botschaft an die Jüdinnen...

Horrific xenophobic language from the leader of a purportedly center-left party, mirroring the Tories in the UK and Trumpists in the US, and a reminder that racism and white supremacy benefit white liberals & leftists as much as the right.

This sort of language legitimizes the racist policing of brown/queer bodies in Berlin that has escalated over the last few days. It’s always been complicated to be Jewish and racially ambiguous in this city. Things are getting worse.

Internet Archive Scholar? YES PLEASE! scholar.archive.org