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Yphtach Lelkes

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associate professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · Dec 1

15 days left to apply to present at PRL's Annual Meeting March 21-22 in NOLA! polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...

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Annual Meeting

Meetings and Events Annual Meetings The 2024 PRL Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans on March 21-22, 2024! This boutique conference brings together the best and most innovative wo…

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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · Dec 19

Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.

American local government elections database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - American local government elections database

www.nature.com

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 18

thank you, John!

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soodoku @soodoku.bsky.social · Feb 15

a @github.com actions script that consults the retraction watch database and opens a PR if it sees a retracted article in .bib

@ylelkes.bsky.social etc.

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Issues · recite/retract

Github Actions to open an issue when a retracted article is discovered in a .bib file - Issues · recite/retract

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · Nov 22

In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below).

Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Non-linear relationship between affective polarization and support for 4 antidemocratic norms

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jun 6

Can’t believe this isn’t satire

Screenshot of an email from my university saying: “Today, we write to share two important updates about Penn’s policies and procedures for when, where, and how open expression can take place.”

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · May 18

I definitely assumed the weapons the cops "took off the streets" were being destroyed, not returned to the streets for profit. I don't know WHY I assumed harm was actually being reduced, but I know better now!

Newark Police have proudly taken guns off the street for years through gun buybacks. But at the same time they have inadvertently put their own weapons back in circulation.

The Newark Police Department confirmed that they traded-in about a thousand guns in 2016 and 2017 to a firearms dealer, in exchange for discounts on new equipment. That dealer then resells the weapons.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · May 18

this dude is basically the nation’s leading expert on legal ethics, we are so cooked.

But Stephen Gillers, an expert in judicial ethics at New York University's law school, disagreed, noting that the test in the recusal statute is based on the perspective of a fair-minded person who has all the facts.
"I don't think such an objective observer would question Alito's impartiality based on this incident," Gillers said in an email. "I find it impossible to believe that Alito knew the flag was flying upside down or, if he did know, that he knew the relationship to 'Stop the Steal.' I don't believe he would have allowed this to happen otherwise."
Gillers added that while Alito's explanation for how it happened is "hard to believe, it is more credible than the view that he knowingly chose to fly the flag upside down knowing its political message."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Apr 24

Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As we approach the summer of 2024, the economy is growing, migration to the border has declined at least temporarily owing to what appears to be a new crackdown by Mexican authorities, and in many major cities, crime is returning to historic lows, leaving protests as the most suitable target for demagoguery. The Biden administration’s support for Israel divides Democrats and unites Republicans, so the longer the issue remains salient, the better it is for the GOP. More broadly, the politics of “American carnage” do not work as well in the absence of carnage. Far-right politics operate best when there is a public perception of disorder and chaos, an atmosphere in which the only solution such politicians ever offer can sound appealing to desperate voters. Social-media bubbles can suffice to maintain this sense of siege among the extremely online, but cultivating this perception among most voters demands constant reinforcement.

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Carlisle Rainey 👨‍💻📊📚 @carlislerainey.bsky.social · Apr 23

Luskin's "Robert's Rules: Suggestions for Writing" has some excellent, pithy advice for academic writers.

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PDF: github.com/soodoku/on-w...

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Apr 16

At NPR... "I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other."

Silence. slate.com/business/202...

NPR Is a Mess. But “Wokeness” Isn’t the Problem.

The real story behind the public broadcaster’s woes.

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 16

You might be in the intersection of this venn diagram (at APSA and into built to spill)

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · Apr 10

americans (reps+dems) dislike norm violations. but some (reps) still vote for norm-breakers. so we're back at vote choice. again. not public opinion abt norm-violations. vote choice. back-sliding is an elite-constraint problem; cant public opinion way out of it.

paper: tinyurl.com/normviopubop...

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thanks!

Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 3

Did not replicate in our paper watermark.silverchair.com/zmab019.pdf?...

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Mar 30

In an another piece, converse talks about one reason for the invention of pid was so that it couldn’t be benchmarked to Gallups vote choice. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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