1/ Something I’ve been working toward for a long time. Virginia just signed the first state legislation directing a formal study of Independent Verification Organizations for AI. Bipartisan votes of 84-14 in the House, unanimous 40-0 in the Senate.
Stata code to implement the MW2024 methods 👉
pauldavidboll.com/research/pub...
and a forthcoming Stata Journal article with a practitioners guide (with @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social)
Call for papers for the 2026 AI in social science conference: submit by May 1. Conference will be held October 8-9, 2026 at the University of Chicago
Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1!
The conference will be held October 8-9 in Chicago, IL, USA.
bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...
@beckerfriedman.bsky.social
@caai-booth.bsky.social
Join us next week!!
On April 21, @nvasilenok.bsky.social (Stanford) will present her work "Reading Orwell in Moscow"
@sgehlbach.bsky.social (Chicago) and @eugenian.bsky.social
(@liverpooluni.bsky.social) will discuss.
My 2 cents @goodauth.bsky.social on Orban's loss in the Hungarian elections based on survey data from last week.
goodauthority.org/news/the-end...
So happy for the people of Hungary, whom I remember from my year in Budapest in the 90s as warm and generous, and who are now victorious.
A few reflections on opposition to tyranny and the resilience of hope—apropos of a discussion earlier this week with Maria Pevchikh, chief investigator of the organization that Alexei Navalny founded.
A few reflections on opposition to tyranny and the resilience of hope—apropos of a discussion earlier this week with Maria Pevchikh, chief investigator of the organization that Alexei Navalny founded.
Wednesday we hosted Maria Pevchikh, chief investigator of the organization that Alexei Navalny founded. It was a very special event. A few thoughts.
Event yesterday with the great Maria Pevchikh, chief investigator for the organization that Alexei Navalny founded. If you have seen the Navalny documentary, you will remember her reaction when Navalny’s poisoner confesses to his role in the plot.
Torn between spending Sunday afternoon with Reinhold Niebuhr (pastor of my hometown church) or Levitsky and Way (grad-school colleagues).
Subtext made plain: Trump is threatening to do to Iran what Putin has done to Ukraine.
Нет войне
Love the colors!
“The pathologies of Seeing Like a State..are very well documented…The pathologies of Seeing Like an Idiot are worse understood, because we haven’t had to think so hard about them.”
I spent 15…30…45 minutes with this last night. Very cool. I would love to see a proper app, though it works as a web app.
Whom do dictators recruit to serve at their side? When do they decide to rule alone? My current work with @luozhaotian.bsky.social and @spantoja.bsky.social.
(Alternative formulation: What happens in a dynamic agency model when the agent can try to become the principal?)
Whom do dictators recruit to serve at their side? When do they decide to rule alone? My current work with @luozhaotian.bsky.social and @spantoja.bsky.social.
(Alternative formulation: What happens in a dynamic agency model when the agent can try to become the principal?)
Friday was my last day at Meduza. I'm still figuring out what's next, but I fully intend to keep my focus on Russia’s war against Ukraine. If you need a writer or editor for a project, don’t hesitate to reach out here or on LinkedIn! www.linkedin.com/posts/eilish...
Did you know there are dolphins in the Black Sea? What Russia is doing in Ukraine is not just genocide but ecocide. My colleague @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social documents all the ways the war has affected the environment in her urgent new book. Here, in conversation at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social.
Will be camping out overnight in front of…well, one of Hyde Park’s many bookstores.
For those in Chicago:
Check out some or all of Masha’s symposium on Soviet director Boris Barnet, perhaps the best director of the Stalin era not named Sergei Eisenstein.
Special treat: Doc Films on campus is screening two of Barnet’s very best films on 35mm next Saturday.
Best and brightest: Watch me as I reshape the world.
Worst and dumbest: Hold my beer.
For those in Chicago:
Check out some or all of Masha’s symposium on Soviet director Boris Barnet, perhaps the best director of the Stalin era not named Sergei Eisenstein.
Special treat: Doc Films on campus is screening two of Barnet’s very best films on 35mm next Saturday.
On Feb 24, 2022, my nephew (he was 7 years old at the time) wrote in his diary: "This night Russia attacked Ukraine and Kyiv too."
#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
This was good.
Deadline for proposals for this year’s Summer Workshop is February 28. Economists, historians, and political scientists, please apply!
