Can AI voter guides help voters decide while remaining accurate, nonpartisan, and trustworthy?

Very grateful to @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social for a new grant supporting our next work on this (building on work led by Joe Mernyk & Jonne Kamphorst):

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Robb Willer awarded Guggenheim Fellowship | Department of Sociology Robb Willer has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is one of five Stanford scholars awarded the fellowship.

Congratulations to Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social (@pascl-stanford.bsky.social) who was just named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation! @guggfellows.bsky.social

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Americans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. — James N. Druckman.
(@umisrcps.bsky.social)
More, via Opinion Today:
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Thank you, George!

BIG TENT

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Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to the test Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results.

Commentaries on SCORE papers from @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, Jelte Wicherts, and @robbwiller.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you, Roger!

Thank you, D'Lane!

Thanks, Jeff!

Thanks, Lauren!

Thanks, Jay!

Thanks, Kim!

Very grateful to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. I’ve been so lucky to have such incredible students, collaborators, and mentors. Above all, I feel very lucky that I get to work on topics I care so deeply about with collaborators who are also my friends.✊❤️
#guggfellows2026

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:

Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M

That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.

It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Thank you, @kwcollins.bsky.social! Very kind of you. 🙏

One of the worst things the current era has done is to make progressive people act like two wrongs make a right when a Democrat politician is caught in a scandal. “But Trump gets away with it” is not the flex you think it is.

IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study:

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(deadline 5/1)

Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature A large-scale study on the replicability of claims from social and behavioural science journals reports that about half of the results replicate in the same patterns as the original study.

Again, congratulations and gratitude to the huge teams behind these articles and to @nature.com for supporting this work. Careful scrutiny of our own work is often under-rewarded, but it’s totally critical for progress in social science. Kudos!

@cos.io

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I had the chance to write a short commentary on one of the papers, focusing on the broader lesson I took away from the SCORE project: this kind of evidence should push us toward rigor, self-improvement, and institutional reforms, not away from trust in social science

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The @nature.com papers show we need improvement, at the individual and field levels. Ofc, this is the normal business of science, but these papers suggest we need more urgency. Fortunately, I think most social scientists want to get better, to do stronger work next decade than the last.

More credit should go to features associated with replicability – detailed preregistration (that is followed), statistical power, effect size – and less to indicators that are likely negative indicators of replicability, like surprisingness and novelty.

The replicability results also suggest to me that we should rebalance our priorities for what research deserves to be in top journals.

I hope the social sciences take the results seriously and respond with institutional reform. The takeaway for me: no field got an “A”. Everyone can improve their rigor. We need better designs, transparency, data/code practices, verification, and norms for robustness, reproducibility, and replication

@nature.com has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.

A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou

A megastudy in @pnasnexus.org by Team Scientists @madalina.bsky.social, @robbwiller.bsky.social, and collaborators tested interventions to increase climate advocacy.

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

This story is terrible but represents another example of the patriarchy on Leftist movements of the 1960s.