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Will Schulz
@small-schulz.bsky.social
Postdoc studying algorithms and online speech with the Stanford Social Media Lab
Very proud of this new paper on (the difficulty of...) encouraging more equal participation in online political discourse – an evergreen problem that's only becoming more important as users self-select into new platforms ;)
It's out!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My article, Labor vs. Big Business, is out! it's about efforts of companies like Uber to reform gig worker laws and voter cue-taking from unions and business. TLDR; progressive voters trust union cues to substitute for policy information link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-025-10010-0
April 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Such a pleasure to join with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social on this project! Preprint out now!
1/ Excited to share our new preprint “A Collective Field Experiment Disentangling Participation in Online Political Discussions” – osf.io/preprints/so...
April 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Currently in FirstView: In “What Would You Say? Estimating Causal Effects of Social Context on Political Expression,” @small-schulz.bsky.social develops a method for estimating social influence over political expression. He uses an experiment to estimate respondents’ lexical ideology.
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
1/ My first sole-authored paper just out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 🎉
I develop & validate a survey method for estimating political self-censorship and preference falsification in the mass public… 🧵
bit.ly/4j2BPNY
What Would You Say? Estimating Causal Effects of Social Context on Political Expression | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
What Would You Say? Estimating Causal Effects of Social Context on Political Expression
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January 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Excited to share my new #JEPS paper with @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social introducing ReChat, a research tool for live-text interaction studies! Makes it easy to embed live chats in surveys, opening new possibilities for research on social interaction. Check it out! 🧵👇
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December 18, 2024 at 6:39 PM