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Richard L. Kornrumpf
@rlkjr86.bsky.social
I come from a long line of what you might call “spicy academics.”

Political psychology—authoritarianism, intergroup behavior, social identity—and quantitative methodology | UC Davis PhD candidate | UofL alum | Kentucky Colonel
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some of the best science and pandemic prevention work — after tens of millions of pandemic deaths worldwide — defunded.
Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I wish there were a hell so that the monsters orchestrating this shit could someday rot in it. www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/u...
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order | CNN
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
www.cnn.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Can't spell "sucks" without UK. Go Cards!
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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after watching episode 5 of pluribus, having just caught up on the chair company, i had no choice but to make this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwQ...
The Plurb Company
YouTube video by Alex Cohen
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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you can defeat AI with a pure Bard build

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
What about the name Richard for girls?
Ending Friday with coming across another question in my absolute favorite question series from UK Gallup: In or Out?
(1989)
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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it appears that most democrats have little to no cognizance of this. if they do, they are doing a terrible job at empathizing with their constituents. either way, easy way to get fired via primary
i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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In our polling with YouGov, since the start of his second term Donald Trump's net approval has fallen 17pts among white Americans (+17 to -1), 28pts among Hispanic Americans (-9 to -37) and 38pts among black Americans (-36 to -74)
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A "frontier" RCT showing college students preferred LLM (ChatGPT-4) and peer feedback to teacher feedback, but teacher feedback most improved performance. I hope they analyze feedback for style. I wonder whether students positively responded to sycophancy in LLM. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Teacher, peer, or AI? Comparing effects of feedback sources in higher education
With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-generated feedback is gaining traction as a scalable feedback source for higher education. To q…
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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extremely dangerous: "efforts by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to politicize the armed forces and to turn them into instruments of their MAGA agenda"
The rate of boat strikes has roughly doubled since Adm Alvin Holsey’s departure as head of Southern Command was announced in mid-October. Evidently Hegseth has found more-compliant officers who will do Trump’s bidding even if, in the process, they risk a future court martial. wapo.st/4nEItvh
Opinion | Trump’s politicizing of the U.S. military is accelerating
Why are so many generals getting fired? Congress should summon them to find out.
wapo.st
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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84% of political science experts said creating such a force poses a threat to democracy, including 65% who said the threat was extraordinary or serious brightlinewatch.org/violence-red... However, it is overwhelmingly popular among Republicans brightlinewatch.org/violence-red...
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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This is a form of social prejudice that @svmiller.com and I find is empirically associated with weak support for democracy. (Will link paper below.) We’ve stalled on the book project but we document that anti-neighbor prejudice of this nature is corrosive to democratic values.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Dear #rstats,

Please find attached the alpha version of my book "An Introduction to R for Policy Analysis":
policyanalysislab.com/shared/r-for...

Unfortunately, the draft has been released too late to be considered for a Nobel prize, but I look forward to being nominated in 2026.
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an_intro_to_r_for_policy_analysis
policyanalysislab.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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century of national humiliation
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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He’s sincerely the dumbest man to ever occupy the office.
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The president's recommendations could put children in harm's way.

Even if clinical guidance does not change, pregnant people risk hurting themselves and their children when they run fevers and do not treat them.

This is a completely avoidable & self-inflicted public health crisis in the making.
At a Monday press conference, President Donald Trump issued a warning: “Don’t take Tylenol if you’re pregnant.”

Doctors say it’s safe to use acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, to reduce fever and pain during pregnancy. 🧵https://buff.ly/YY9G6hW
5 things to know about autism and Tylenol during pregnancy
During pregnancy, acetaminophen — the main ingredient in Tylenol — is generally considered a safe painkiller and fever reducer. Research hasn’t shown that it causes autism.
buff.ly
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM