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Adam L. Ozer

@ozerthinking.bsky.social

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Senior Data Scientist at Verian | Poli Sci PhD | Occasional Associate at London School of Economics | Bad puns | He/him Website: https://adamlozer.github.io/

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Jul 28

Introducing The UK MP Inbox: a public database of email newsletters written by UK Members of Parliament.

To read more about the Inbox, I wrote a blog post discussing these data and some potential use cases for social scientists and researchers:

adamlozer.github.io/blog/posts/2...

#polisky

Adam L. Ozer, Ph.D. - The UK MP Inbox

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 1d

Are the results from this clearly flawless and highly scientific poll shocking? Not at all. But the cynicism is still a bit depressing, no?

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry that the poll is posted on LinkedIn. Sadly it seems that there isn't a poll function on BlueSky yet.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 3d

If you kindly have 15 seconds to spare, I've got a quick poll I want to use for a blog post:

If you received a newsletter from your MP, would you believe the content is mainly written by the MP or by their staff?

www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-o...

Adam Ozer PhD posted on LinkedIn

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 5d

Game respects game

two men are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a room .

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 5d

You, a cultureless heathen: "No one engages with my posts, BlueSky is clearly dying!!!"

Me, an intellectual and man of culture: "No one engages with my posts because I'm deeply unfunny and not very clever. Seems like you have a skill issue, get gud like me."

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 8d

I have no idea what my hair was doing though. It clearly decided it was done for the day.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 8d

Got to present at the EEF Evaluation Conference. This is one of the more rewarding and cool projects I have worked on, using AI to help code Pupil Premium statements and help public policy practitioners better understand how funds are being used to help economically disadvantaged students.

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 10d

Lovely day for it, @dhfcw.bsky.social

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 14d

Unsolicited ADHD tip:

A few months back, I replaced my morning doom scrolling with a cat and a fantasy/sci fi book.

Did it make me healthy and energised in the morning? No, not even close, I'm still a wretch. But it did make my mornings ~10% less miserable, and that's neat.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 18d

Fisher clearly can't hang with the English cats, total lightweight.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 19d

A man of culture, I see, nice

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 22d

He has been looking for his last cat treat for 5 minutes.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 24d

Lovely day for it @dhfcw.bsky.social

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 28d

Check out this new blog post @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social and I wrote about using e-newsletters from Australian and UK Members of Parliament as data. #polisky

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying?
💻 @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social + @ozerthinking.bsky.social  examine new datasets which allow researchers to access every e-newsletter sent by MPs in Australia and the UK.
👉 bit.ly/3Vc2Ns4

Politicians’ e-newsletters to their constituents: what are they saying?

Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying? E-newsletters allow MPs to send direct, unfiltered messages to their desired audience. Daniel Casey and Adam Ozer e...

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · 28d

I feel like the word "influential" should be spelled with a c, as in "infleuncial". If finance -> financial, then influence -> influencial, no?

I understand that there is likely a legitimate linguistic/historical reason for its spelling, but surely that's less important than arbitrary *vibes*.

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Aug 31

My new piece @E_IR, exploring why ALP MPs are strategically ignoring Trump. Are they caught between being responsive to their electorate and knowing they need to maintain the US alliance?
I draw on canberrainbox.com.au to test this.

www.e-ir.info/2025/08/30/a...

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trying to figure out who is to blame when a project runs into a minor roadblock.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 24

Lovely day for it, @dhfcw.bsky.social

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 20

But does this imply the existence of an equal and opposite observational research seminar called MORE: Metropolitan Observational Research Expo?

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 16

Typical Claudia, always trying to walk it in

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh 1000% does not have to be mutual. True GOAT-level haters are not bound by time nor space nor social circles.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 14

Personally, my nemesis is you. Yes, you, the one reading this post. You know what you did, ya jerk.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hot take: every academic/researcher needs at least one rival (whom you compete with but respect fully) and a nemesis (whom you secretly or not-so-secretly have absolutely zero respect for).

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Aug 13

6% of Britons say they have a nemesis

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 14

Togepi ought to be careful, of all the Pokémon, it definitely looks the most like a baseball.

Adam L. Ozer @ozerthinking.bsky.social · Aug 8

Extremely lukewarm take:

MSG rocks and you should use it more in your cooking.