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Adam J. Berinsky

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Adam J. Berinsky is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author… more

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I can’t believe how depressing it is to watch Trump crush norms, and institutions and to wonder if people are noticing.
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by Adam J. Berinsky — Reposted by: Lisa W. Fazio

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Anytime I give a talk I always tell my audience “you are weird because you came to hear me talk about politics.” Most of the people, most of the time, don’t pay attention to politics.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 12d
I feel like I occasionally need to remind people who post frequently about politics on here that the NYT focus group people probably have more individually idiosyncratic ideologies than you do, but in terms of political attention/engagement, it is very much you and not them who's the weird one.
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Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Lisa W. Fazio, Will Jennings , and 2 more

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I feel like I occasionally need to remind people who post frequently about politics on here that the NYT focus group people probably have more individually idiosyncratic ideologies than you do, but in terms of political attention/engagement, it is very much you and not them who's the weird one.
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by Adam J. Berinsky — Reposted by: Scott L. Greer

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Thanks to @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social for bringing up this paper. Politicians gain power by reputation. Sometimes undeserved reputation
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28d
Incredible parallels in this Berinsky &
@gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism

gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...
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Charlie Kirk’s killing has proved that Bari Weiss was right all along.

by Bari Weiss
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by Seth Masket — Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 3 more

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Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
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Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer , and 3 more

jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Incredible parallels in this Berinsky &
@gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism

gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...
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I'm extremely excited to participate in this (virtual) conversation about my book, with fellow Umich polisci alum Yanna Krupnikov!

Belief, Misinformation, and Democracy url:https://www.92ny.org/event/belief-misinformation-and-democracy
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Low hanging fruit
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Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller

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I don't know why I keep reaching in my mind for this analogy but American political culture feels to me right now like what Moses found when he returned from Mt Sinai and everyone had said "screw it" and started worshipping the golden calf.
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True. But we hit new lows every day.
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Astonishing? I’d say it’s completely predictable.
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Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Rosemary A. Joyce, Virginia Sapiro

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Trump‘s sluggish performance at today’s summit raises new questions about Joe Biden’s energy level
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by David G. Rand — Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Lisa W. Fazio, Gordon Pennycook , and 1 more

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Apply for funding to work with me and Gord at Cornell!
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · Aug 15
Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla...

It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year

Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
Klarman Fellowships
The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...
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by Adam J. Berinsky

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We've made a change to the @ajpseditor.bsky.social COI policy. Read more here:

Changes to AJPS Conflict of Interest Policy ajps.org/2025/08/08/c... via @ajps_editor
Changes to AJPS Conflict of Interest Policy
From: Dan Reiter and Adam Berinsky, editors-in-chief This post describes a policy change for Conflict of Interest (COI) policies pertaining to potential reviewers of manuscripts submitted to AJPS. …
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Information about an exciting conference coming this December at MIT!
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Aug 5
Excited to announce the program of our December 5-6, 2025 workshop at MIT on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ Eugen Dimant @ylelkes.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social @katikish.bsky.social)!

Info: sites.google.com/view/polariz...

To attend: buy.stripe.com/dRmdRa7Du1fw...
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by David G. Rand — Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky

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Excited to announce the program of our December 5-6, 2025 workshop at MIT on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ Eugen Dimant @ylelkes.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social @katikish.bsky.social)!

Info: sites.google.com/view/polariz...

To attend: buy.stripe.com/dRmdRa7Du1fw...
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Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Brendan Nyhan, Justin De Benedictis-Kessner , and 1 more

Reposted by: Adam J. Berinsky, Jonathan Marks

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Explicit antisemitic attitudes are now much more common among young voters - 18 year old registered voters are now ~5x more likely to say that they have an unfavorable view of the Jewish people than 65 year olds.
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Our paper is out today in @pnas.org! 🎉 In a large-scale experiment on a YouTube-like platform, we find that giving people politically “slanted” video recs doesn’t shift beliefs or viewing behaviors.

In other words, online filter bubbles may not be as polarizing as we think…
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CSSLab at Penn @csspenn.bsky.social · Feb 19
📣New Paper 📝 in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube | PNAS
An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating “filter bubbles” and “rabbit holes.” ...
www.pnas.org
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csspenn.bsky.social
📣New Paper 📝 in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube | PNAS
An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating “filter bubbles” and “rabbit holes.” ...
www.pnas.org
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