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Mogens Jin Pedersen

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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen | #publicadm #behavior #cognitivebiases #methodology

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · Apr 27

#Wilmasreview

Wilma 🐶 is celebrating her 7th birthday 🎂 with a publication alert 🚨

Wilma consulted AI 💻 to generate ideas about presents for dog birthdays. While the AI 💻 suggests an enormous treat 🍬, Wilma's humans chose enjoying a sunny day outside with some healthy carrot snacks 🥕.

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · Apr 24

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

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Wiebke Marie Junk @wmjunk.bsky.social · Mar 31

🥁The LOBBYMETRY project is hiring:
1 PostDoc & 1 fully-funded PhD 🥳
Come to beautiful Copenhagen to research lobbying, informational quality and public policy formulation!

PostDoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Please spread the word & and do not hesitate to reach out with questions!

Postdoctoral Researcher Position (3 years) in Political Science as part of the ERC-funded Lobbying (A)symmetry Project

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Mar 28

Trump admin doesn't support replications to improve science ofc but wants to use them to bring long discredited ideas, flawed research questions and methods back into circulation. We should have collectively resisted the weaponization of replications as some magical demarcation criterion.

The Trump administration wants more studies replicated. That won't be easy

A key question is which studies get repeated and, with limited resources, at what expense.

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Sophia Pink @sophiapink.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨New paper alert!🚨

Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior.

📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.

Screenshot of title + abstract of the paper.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Mar 27

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social · Mar 7

This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall.

This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.

Survey for CDC grants that include "no DEI" "no environmental justice" or climate related work, the biologically bullshit argument that "protecting women against gender ideology"

more MAGA propaganda (with receipts since it links an executive order under most questions). "Do you counter malign influence, including Chinga?", "What impact does this project have on preventing illegal immigration"?

What impact does this project have on protecting religious minorities, promoting religious freedom, and combatting Christian persecution? Establishment of the White House Faith Office and Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
What impact does this project have in increasing American influence, trust and reputation within foreign governments?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Mar 4

ahhhhhhhhhh

A tweet from Trump that reads “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · Feb 25

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Feb 20

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences has issued a statement in response to developments in 🇺🇸

"Censorship and political suppression of language, research topics, and methodologies— fundamentally compromise the integrity of scientific and scholarly endeavours"

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Feb 20

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Feb 5

New, from me:
So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. It is important not to look away, or get discouraged. Try to discern the what is a big and real threat. Here is my best effort to do so. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditation...

Meditations in an Emergency

It's good to be shocked, but don't be awed

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 30

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

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Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social · Jan 6

Welcome to 2025 and to Volume 27! Here is Issue 1, featuring @juliealanger.bsky.social @mkfeeney.bsky.social
@mjinpedersen.bsky.social @nathanfavero.com @ehernandez.bsky.social @xcornellian.bsky.social @andrewasullivan.bsky.social @milagasco.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpxm20/2...

Public Management Review

Volume 27, Issue 1 of Public Management Review

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Rasmus Stenderup @rstenderup.bsky.social · Dec 20

Super excited that this paper, co-authored with @mjinpedersen.bsky.social, is now out in early view in @pareview.bsky.social! (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Dec 18

Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning.

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Dec 17

From our new issue: "Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party" by Christopher Karpowitz, J. Quin Monson, Jessica Preece, and Alejandra Aldridge. #ASPRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · Dec 15

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out:

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(cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!)

A short 🧵 on what's new...

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Mogens Jin Pedersen @mjinpedersen.bsky.social · Dec 6

Just migrated—excited to explore this blue sky!😀

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Public Management & Governance @pubgovman.bsky.social · Dec 3

Public servants often need to prioritize clients in public services, because of the limited resources they have for dealing with an almost infinite demand of public and social needs.

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In response to workloads and service demands, frontline workers often prioritize among their clients when delivering public services. This article examines the implications of such bureaucratic prior...

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Merlin Schaeffer @mschaeffer.bsky.social · Dec 2

(1/7) 📢 New research alert!

Even when people are shown clear evidence of #discrimination, it doesn‘t change their support for anti-discrimination policies.

Read @kkrakows.bsky.social, @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, and my article in @ajpseditor.bsky.social to find out why: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native-majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informin...

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