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Brad LeVeck

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political scientist at UC Merced Likes: 🌄📸, 🧠🔄🧠, 📊🧪 faculty.ucmerced.edu/bleveck

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · Nov 19

If I start replying to the papers you post with 📌, this is why.

Gregory Manni @gregory-manni.bsky.social · Nov 18

This feature hasn’t been built in yet, but a user designed a feed that you can pin to home that is essentially bookmarking. Comment 📌 on any post and it’ll get saved for you in the feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 4h

It is amazing the way CA has turned me into a single issue voter on this. Pretty much the only thing I look up when voting on any sub-national office.

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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 1d

when kids are trying to understand something they use ai in smarter ways than we give them credit for

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 7h

www.nature.com/articles/sre...

An experimental investigation of evolutionary dynamics in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - An experimental investigation of evolutionary dynamics in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 7h

*Taking this way too seriously* It depends on the relative RPS payoffs (winning/losing vs tying). Sometimes you get convergence to a mixed strategy (Newsom). Sometimes you just get cycles where everyone chases each extreme, with no stable equilibrium in behavior (even though the MSNE still exists).

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to everyone in the Yimby movement who made this happen.

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あすとら @astrra.space · 1d

ok this is insanely cool

non-destructively inspecting silicon using IR

bunnie.org/iris/

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still skeptical of this “demand that your opponents fix their largest electoral liability in 2026.” But, I have to admit that, so far, it’s working way better than I thought it would.

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, and while it’s a bit hypocritical, I’m sure it was caused by this.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 4d

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 4d

I hope so, though I’m still a little uncertain about how clumsy you have to be before these contradictions become apparent to most people.

Carr threatening Kimmel showed me there is a line though, which is good.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 5d

What people cannot seem to get through their heads is that the justifications the Trump administration uses to attack higher education is a *pretext* not the actual reason. There is no reasonable permanent compromise available, because their actual goal is control.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 5d

De Cecco enjoyers across the US must unite.

Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 6d

I think the quoted tweet is so unclear about who the “majority” is or what is exactly being “rejected” that it’s basically meaningless.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 7d

👇 Midwest correspondent for The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Brad LeVeck @bradleveck.bsky.social · 7d

This is definitely making me question the “merchants constrained the king” theory I vaguely remember from political economy classes.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 8d

Lmaooooo

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 8d

I support institutional neutrality if autonomously adopted by universities.

But making it a condition for preferential access to federal funding is very problematic. It effectively requires universities to avoid criticizing the government to be prioritized for support.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 8d

UC Academic Council letter to UC Regents and President calling on them to “reject governmental demands that compromise institutional integrity and academic freedom.”

Personally, I’d say reject all demands, since the demands are being made unlawfully.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 8d

New paper with @hjghassell.bsky.social and @michaelheseltine.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social.

We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Plot showing perception of voter ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. Republicans are drifting slightly to be more conservative, Democrats are mostly staying in one place.

Plot showing messaging ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. There is increasing separation between parties over time, with Republicans becoming messaging more moderately during the Trump era and then shifting to the right during Biden.

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UC Merced Political Science @ucmpolisci.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in @ucmerced.bsky.social's Political Science Graduate Program? Connect with our Political Science faculty and learn about graduate study opportunities during one of the upcoming 1-hour webinar/Q&A sessions.
Register for a session here: polisci.ucmerced.edu/grads

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11d

If you live in California, stop what you’re doing and take 2 minutes to call Newsom’s office in support of SB79. Building more housing near transit is good.

Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 11d

Please call the Governor and ask him to sign SB 79!

(916) 445-2841

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 13d

The cinematography!

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d

WhatsApp deactivation experimental results in Brazil, India, and South Africa mirror those from prior social media studies: big changes in content exposure -> minimal changes in attitudes, decreases in political knowledge, increases in subjective wellbeing www.venturatiago.com/talk/vmtn_wh...

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Grace @gracekind.net · 13d

This is why I say patience is key when working with language models. If the output is directionally correct, or even just wrong in an interesting way, let it keep iterating and see where it goes!

scottaaronson.blog?p=9183

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14d

It’s not the worst thing about education polarization and GOP war on the abstract concept knowledge obviously, but it does suck that it makes it harder to critique or address trends within/parts of academia that like geniunely could use some reform, because it feels like helping the book burners

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