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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Jan 14

After what felt like ages, very(!) excited to finally see this work in print with @joeornstein.bsky.social & @enblasingame.bsky.social

Link: bit.ly/409THxY

How to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

How to train your stochastic parrot: large language models for political texts

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Dec 27

Adam and I usually only track word counts since occasional incorporation of appendices and images can distort page counts. Below is avg words by opinion type (footnotes omitted) between 16' and 23’ term. Only dissents have shown much in way of 'significant'(?) growth. Concurrences to a lesser extent

Average word counts by Supreme Court opinion type, 2016 to 2023 terms.

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Dec 19

scotustext(R) version 2 is updated and live — Improved functions for retrieving, cleaning, and parsing documents from the Supreme Court’s docket, oral arguments, and decisions. Enjoy!

Install from remotes::install_github(“JakeTruscott/scotustext”)

Link: jaketruscott.github.io/scotustext/

scotustext (R)Button Redirect

jaketruscott.github.io

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Dec 13

My students rock

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 28

a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom

ALT: a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 21

Scaramucci walked so Gaetz could run

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Nov 21

BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.

Reposted by Jake Truscott, PhD

Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · Nov 18

Must read by @stevevladeck.bsky.social about his encounters at Fed Soc. www.stevevladeck.com/p/109-things...

109. Things Fall Apart

Some reflections on my disheartening exchange with Judge Jones at last Thursday's Federalist Society convention—and its ominous implications for the future of legal debate

www.stevevladeck.com

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 18

That sound you hear is a printer and a fresh manila folder being retrieved.

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 17

“Yankee Transplant”?

Since when did the trolls gentrify carpetbagger?

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 16

I’m teaching a specialized (upper division & honors) course on the Supreme Court in the Spring.

Goal is to facilitate pragmatic discussions re: the Court using empirical social science, APD, and case law.

Any suggestions for particular topics would be greatly appreciated!

Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 15

Somewhere in the multiverse the folder is just @stevevladeck.bsky.social tweets about the Mets

KP @gokp.bsky.social · Nov 15

Not now sweetie, mommy’s busy watching Edith Jones of the Fifth Circuit act like she’s at a Real Housewives reunion, waiving around a MANILA FOLDER of @stevevladeck.bsky.social’s tweets that she’s collected and printed out.

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 15

The assumption that any honest discussion regarding questionable behaviors in the federal judiciary is invariably from a position of bad faith (and to stoke a legitimacy crisis) just belabors the point…

And attacking the observer’s character directly is pathetic.

Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Nov 14

Two Fifth Circuit judges—Jim Ho and, especially, Edith Jones—lashed out against @stevevladeck.bsky.social during this Fed Soc panel today. They characterized the attention Steve has called to judge-shopping in TX federal courts as nothing but personal attacks... www.youtube.com/live/-DBl0vU...

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 13

I mean.

You actually get to wake up from a nightmare.

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 13

This is the bad place, Steve.

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 13

I had a chance to meet Ted when I worked in DC - Genuinely one of the nicest people I’d ever met.

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · Nov 13

Former SG Ted Olson has died.

Theodore Olson, conservative lawyer who backed marriage equality, dies at 84

A longtime Republican who helped George W. Bush secure the presidency, he shocked many when he worked to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

www.washingtonpost.com

Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 13

We live in such deeply unserious times

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Nov 13

This does not seem anything like an actual government department
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Trump says Elon Musk will lead Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy

Trump made the announcement on social media, fulfilling a promise during the campaign to give Musk sweeping oversight of federal spending.

www.nbcnews.com

Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 11

I see we’re back

Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Dec 18

Save and reuse that boiled water from the Ramen for the shower and you're doing grad school efficiently.

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Dec 18

I just switched to Kroger-brand everything

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 23

I just had a full 2 minute debate with myself about whether that picture is a portrait of Hugh Jackman or The Boss

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Nov 7

For any folks working with SCOTUS Oral Arguments -- I've compiled transcripts of arguments between 1955 and 2023 (Up to Today) into .rdata

Feel free to use!

Jake S. Truscott, Ph.D

jaketruscott.github.io

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Oct 3

Adam Feldman and I are providing SCOTUS stats for the 2023 Term (in lieu of SCOTUSBlog providing StatPacks) - Particularly re: Arguments and Decisions, as well as other noteworthy stats and analysis.

For Raw Data: jaketruscott.github.io/scotuswatch/
For Breakdowns & Analysis: empiricalscotus.com

Jake S. Truscott, Ph.D

jaketruscott.github.io

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Jake Truscott, PhD @jaketruscott.bsky.social · Sep 5

Link to Article:

A Quarter of US Federal Courts Have Never Had a Non-White Judge

Jack Ruffin’s mother never wanted him to be a lawyer. As a Black man in South Georgia, he once told an interviewer, it would only put a bigger target on his back.

www.bloomberg.com