Winnie Xia

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

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📣We're launching the MCCRA research workshop series!

🎓The inaugural talk, 27 January at 2pm UK time, will be by Prof. Kristian Gleditsch.

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Hahaha impressive collection!

Ekspert 😉

How Trump is Using AI to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.

President Trump has posted A.I.-generated images or videos at least 62 times since late 2022, according to a New York Times analysis. The fake imagery has included blistering attacks on his political rivals, flattering depictions of himself, and misleading political campaign materials.

Congratulations!!! Great work 🎊

Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead | USAPP Hostile rhetoric from political elites is combining with the growth of political influencers and often violent associates and feeding a self-reinforcing cycle of political polarization and political v...

Why is political violence on the rise in the United States? Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social of the University of Milan look at the trend and where it might lead

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Thanks! Cool plots = cool team work. Shoutout to @muzhou-zhang.bsky.social !!!🙌

We have some interesting pilot results—stay tuned for what’s coming next!🥂

You are welcome! And congratulations🥂

Could we ask AI to do that for us 😉?

Best Practices for Text Annotation with Large Language Models Large Language Models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of text annotation, as their ease-of-use, high accuracy, and relatively low costs have meant that their use has exploded in recent months. Howeve...

Hi Elena, maybe this piece of work could be helpful: arxiv.org/abs/2402.05129

Oh my God, that’s horrible. I’m so sorry.

If you're still at #EPSA2025 today:

Catch our Panel P13-S315: Politicians & Representation

🕐 13:10–14:50
📍 Room -1.A.05

Featuring:
@jacklucas.bsky.social, @mathisbr.bsky.social, John Griffin, @mafaldapratas.bsky.social

I’m presenting our study on evidence selection by politicians👇

Never thought I’d be that person presenting three papers at one conference… and yet, here we are 😎 (pre-)EPSA 🇪🇸. Come say hi at #EPSA2025 if you’re curious any of them.

Congratulations!!!

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Ryan Bakker (@rbakker.bsky.social) and I are thrilled to announce the publication of the Israeli version of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey. We have two waves (post-21 & 22 elections) of party positions across all of your favourite CHES items plus a few Israel-specific ones.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

🚨Youth Representation DATASET & RESEARCH NOTE🚨

Our research note (w. @ettensperger.bsky.social) presenting the dataset has just been published as a online-first.

The research note (doi.org/10.1515/spp-...) as well as the dataset (doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...) are OPEN ACCESS.

PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

The call for abstracts for the 6th Conflict & Change PhD Workshop on 11-12 March, 2024 is out! We invite early career researchers working on IR, conflict, contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to welcoming you to UCL in London! 🙂
conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

🚨 New tool to classify text into discrete emotions! I have fine-tuned a mDeBERTa model based on crowd-coded data described in my Political Analysis study (see link below). Unlike the ELECTRA model discussed in the paper, this new tool is MULTILINGUAL (up to 100 languages)

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Thanks!