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Jørgen Bølstad
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Professor of Political Science at Uni. Oslo. Into causal inference and statistical modeling. Posting data science projects at Estimite.com.
❗️We are hiring tenured associate professors of political science. The department is looking for competence in political behavior, data science, and a few other subfields. Come join us!
January 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Jørgen Bølstad
Bluesky: the go-to place for news?

Boston Globe is reporting that traffic to its site from @bsky.app is 3x that of Threads. Guardian reporting it is 2x that of Threads.

Tellingly, Guardian also says that traffic from Bluesky is higher than the weekly traffic achieved from X at any point in 2024.
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads

In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
November 27, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Jørgen Bølstad
Ideological self-placement and perceived location of parties and candidates. Partisans place selves very close to their party, see other party far away. Inds in middle not close to either party.
November 26, 2024 at 10:15 PM
I think I might delete the X app from my phone soon. Very happy about Bluesky growing!
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 12
hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!
November 12, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Here's hoping this app will not share the fate of Google+ and Clubhouse!
September 20, 2023 at 8:58 AM