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Adam Berinsky

@adamberinsky.bsky.social

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Political Scientist and social media addict

Adam J. Berinsky is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the 2004 book Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America and the 2009 book In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq. .. more

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t believe how depressing it is to watch Trump crush norms, and institutions and to wonder if people are noticing.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 14d

Anytime I give a talk I always tell my audience “you are weird because you came to hear me talk about politics.” Most of the people, most of the time, don’t pay attention to politics.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 14d

I feel like I occasionally need to remind people who post frequently about politics on here that the NYT focus group people probably have more individually idiosyncratic ideologies than you do, but in terms of political attention/engagement, it is very much you and not them who's the weird one.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social for bringing up this paper. Politicians gain power by reputation. Sometimes undeserved reputation

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 9

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky &
@gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism

gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25d

Charlie Kirk’s killing has proved that Bari Weiss was right all along.

by Bari Weiss

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 27d

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm extremely excited to participate in this (virtual) conversation about my book, with fellow Umich polisci alum Yanna Krupnikov!

Belief, Misinformation, and Democracy url:https://www.92ny.org/event/belief-misinformation-and-democracy

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Sep 5

Low hanging fruit

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Sep 4

I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 16

True. But we hit new lows every day.

Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 16

Astonishing? I’d say it’s completely predictable.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 16

Trump‘s sluggish performance at today’s summit raises new questions about Joe Biden’s energy level

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 15

Apply for funding to work with me and Gord at Cornell!

Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla...

It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year

Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline

Klarman Fellowships

The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...

as.cornell.edu

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 8

We've made a change to the @ajpseditor.bsky.social COI policy. Read more here:

Changes to AJPS Conflict of Interest Policy ajps.org/2025/08/08/c... via @ajps_editor

Changes to AJPS Conflict of Interest Policy

From: Dan Reiter and Adam Berinsky, editors-in-chief This post describes a policy change for Conflict of Interest (COI) policies pertaining to potential reviewers of manuscripts submitted to AJPS. …

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 6

Information about an exciting conference coming this December at MIT!

David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 5

Excited to announce the program of our December 5-6, 2025 workshop at MIT on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ Eugen Dimant @ylelkes.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social @katikish.bsky.social)!

Info: sites.google.com/view/polariz...

To attend: buy.stripe.com/dRmdRa7Du1fw...

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

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David Shor @davidshor.bsky.social · Feb 8

Explicit antisemitic attitudes are now much more common among young voters - 18 year old registered voters are now ~5x more likely to say that they have an unfavorable view of the Jewish people than 65 year olds.

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Emily Hu @xehu.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our paper is out today in @pnas.org! 🎉 In a large-scale experiment on a YouTube-like platform, we find that giving people politically “slanted” video recs doesn’t shift beliefs or viewing behaviors.

In other words, online filter bubbles may not be as polarizing as we think…

CSSLab at Penn @csspenn.bsky.social · Feb 19

📣New Paper 📝 in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube | PNAS

An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating “filter bubbles” and “rabbit holes.” ...

www.pnas.org

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CSSLab at Penn @csspenn.bsky.social · Feb 19

📣New Paper 📝 in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube | PNAS

An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating “filter bubbles” and “rabbit holes.” ...

www.pnas.org

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