📣 Call for Papers (SeLAB 2026) 📣
Submit paper & poster proposals for the 4th annual Southeast Latin American Behavior (SeLAB) mini-conference, Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at University of Maryland, College Park.
Submit: forms.gle/GMB62rfo9BNuRY…
Hope to see you in Maryland this fall!
“Receiving the Luciano Tomassini Award is truly one of the greatest honours of my career. I accept it with deep humility and gratitude." — @llschenoni.bsky.social
Find out more about Dr Luis L. Schenoni' book and award: tinyurl.com/LASASchenoni
@ucl.ac.uk #Books #InternationalRelations #LASA
If anyone is interested in different forms of racist discourse in text, do I have a paper for you!!!
19.02.2026 00:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📣📣📣And, just this morning I learned that @yesolakweon.bsky.social & @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social is available for free download too!! Be sure to get your cooy in the next 2 weeks 🎉📚🦉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
11.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
“Focusing on the cost of enslavement to the enslaved shows that slavery was a market failure in addition to a moral failure.”
via @rickhornbeck.bsky.social & @trevondlogan.bsky.social in 2023
www.chicagobooth.edu/review/emanc... #econsky
1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎:
"An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang
It’s official → Registration to #CPSA_ACSP26 is open!
See you there? 👉🏽👉🏽 conta.cc/4tqlVCt
@jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com @queenspols.bsky.social @westernupolisci.bsky.social
@jlisayoung.bsky.social @matthewlebo.bsky.social @kaelkropp.bsky.social @joannaeveritt.bsky.social
After a long journey, our paper "Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text" is out at Sociological Methods & Research. In it, we develop a theoretically driven approach to identify and classify covert and overt racism in text:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We are very happy with the results. If you would like to replicate them, or apply the method, here is the link to the repository:
github.com/svallejovera...
We propose a method in which we explicitly integrate contextual knowledge of racist content into the machine-learning approach, taking advantage of LLMs. We show, step-by-step, how this is achieved and the performance gains by looking at the Indígena protests in Ecuador in 2019.
09.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
After a long journey, our paper "Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text" is out at Sociological Methods & Research. In it, we develop a theoretically driven approach to identify and classify covert and overt racism in text:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Logo of Political Science Research and Methods featuring the initials "PSRM" in a stylized grey font on a black background.
#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -
Beyond the mean: how thinking about the distribution of public opinions reduces politicians’ perceptual errors - https://cup.org/4kltoyE
- Nicholas Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social & @liorsheffer.bsky.social
#FirstView
Congrats to Auriane Egal, physics & astronomy adjunct professor and astrophysicist, on being named Radio-Canada's #Scientist of the Year for her work completing the first-ever comprehensive study of an #asteroid tracked from space through to its impact on Earth! @rci.bsky.social ☄️
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Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺
1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment
on repdata.com
3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study
details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1
please repost!
Meet Professor Laura Stephenson in this week’s Wisdom Wednesdays: Humans of Social Science. From election research to critical citizenship, her story explores how understanding motivation helps us make sense of political life. 🔗 ssc.uwo.ca/humans_ssc/m...
21.01.2026 14:01 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Matt Lebo, on Carney standing up to the bully:
“If everybody takes a step forward then you’ve done something successfully and banded the kids together to be a united front against the bullying,” he said. “And if all the kids take one step back, then you’re screwed.”
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
⏳ Deadline approaching! We’re hiring 2 fully funded postdocs in #NLP.
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD)
🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
New paper with Justin Robinson @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Our starting point is the observation that there is much variation in affective polarization across the UK.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Body Politics Lab/Political Science Speaker Dr. Tobias Rohrbach (Assistant Prof, Dept of Communication & Media Research, Fribourg U, Switzerland) Wed., Jan 14 @ 2:30pm. This workshop is designed to be an overview of the different steps of conceptualizing, conducting, & reporting a meta-analysis.
12.01.2026 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I know you all have your THOUGHTS on LLMs and their application in the social sciences... and I agree with all of them, but here is an extension of a method that uses in-context learning (ICL) to improve annotation of text using LLMs:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The cool thing is that it does not require researchers to include (ground truth) labels for the method to work. What we are able to do through ICL (we think) is allow the model to understand the task (faster). Anywho, if you are using LLMs to annotate text, give it a try and let us know.
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In this article, we show that performance exhibits decreasing marginal returns, with rapid increases at first followed by a plateau. We implement a two-run method where we keep 100 highly informative examples from the first run in the memory at the start of a second run. We provide pretty figures:
10.01.2026 01:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In a previous paper, we show that maintaining the annotated text and the labels produced by the LLM in the prompt increases performance over traditional approaches (e.g., zero-shot and few-shot with CoT):
arxiv.org/html/2503.04...
I know you all have your THOUGHTS on LLMs and their application in the social sciences... and I agree with all of them, but here is an extension of a method that uses in-context learning (ICL) to improve annotation of text using LLMs:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
¡Atención! 🚨 Se viene un nuevo Café ALACIP: "América Latina bajo presión: La encrucijada geopolítica".
Contaremos con: ✅ A. Pérez-Liñán ✅ A. Aguiar ✅ O. Amorim Neto ✅ V. Mijares 🎤 Modera: Gisela Sin
📅 13 de enero ⏰ 9:30 MX / 10:30 COL-PER / 12:30 Cono Sur 📺 En vivo por YouTube (@alacip2216)
¡Atención! 🚨 Se viene un nuevo Café ALACIP: "América Latina bajo presión: La encrucijada geopolítica".
Contaremos con: ✅ A. Pérez-Liñán ✅ A. Aguiar ✅ O. Amorim Neto ✅ V. Mijares 🎤 Modera: Gisela Sin
📅 13 de enero ⏰ 9:30 MX / 10:30 COL-PER / 12:30 Cono Sur 📺 En vivo por YouTube (@alacip2216)
Western is searching for Canada Impact+ Chairs in 8 themes including "democratic and community resilience." The program is meant for senior researchers not at Canadian unis.
Moving to Canada is a thing that profs really can do. Spread the word & get in touch.
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Photo of the book City Politics in Canada.
Picture of the chapter by Luc Turgeon on Ottawa in the book.
Santa came early this year and I just received my copy of City Politics in Canada, edited by Martin Horak, @jacklucas.bsky.social and @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social. I wrote the chapter on Ottawa (dedicated to the late Caroline Andrew).
18.12.2025 20:35 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Calling those looking to get feedback on their quant work📢: Join us at @TexasAM for TexMeth2026 this Feb. Great opportunity to connect with the regional community and showcase your research. The sun will still be strong for those coming from the north!🤝📊☀️
Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Currently in FirstView: In “Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data,” Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Tiago Ventura, @jonathannagler.bsky.social, @ericka.bric.digital, & Magdalena Wojcieszak provide evidence on survey professionalism across three samples.
04.12.2025 18:05 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
