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1. IPCC presser.
@LeonSimons8 is right—climate-aerosol dynamics are explained incorrectly.
@RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger are right—natural scientists do stunning work, but are unfit for social science/#polsci or scicomm.
@LeonSimons8 is right—climate-aerosol dynamics are explained incorrectly.
@RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger are right—natural scientists do stunning work, but are unfit for social science/#polsci or scicomm.
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger Julia blocked me for some reason; it's rare for a thread of hers to appear in my timeline. Well worth reading.
[Thread on 'the other 98%' project of @ERCEXPO, 1/1/] What does #PolComm and #polsci often study? Exposure to news, esp to partisan news. BUT across 43mln visits in our trace data from 2 US studies, < 2% were visits to news domains, half of which to partisan news domains! 👇👇👇 
[2/2] BERT classifier for political content titles (here github.com/ercexpo/politi…) shows that <50% of what people consumed on news domains is nonpolitical (puzzles, recipes, travel)
[3/3] An average participant read only one political news article for every 400 sites they visited. Granted, we do not have mobile and social media data, huge limitation (common in similar work) given that Americans increasingly use mobile for news.
Who is a political prisoner? I tackle this question in my forthcoming article at @Journal_of_GSS. Scholars define political prisoners either through a) prisoner's political motivations or b) state's political motivations. I suggest the latter approach is better. Why? 1/10 #PolSci
If we define political prisoners via prisoner's motivations, each politically motivated action ranging from right-wing extremism to jihadism would qualify a prisoner as political. Hence, we should focus on political biases of states. But how can we identify state biases? 2/10
We need to define explicit criteria for politically biased incarcerations. Only if we agree on a common benchmark for illegitimate deprivations of liberty, it is possible to make frequencies of political imprisonment comparable on a global scale. 3/10
How can I read academic literature quick(er)?
Happy to share an academic #LifeHack
I talked to my students about this, today, I thought others might find it interesting, too.
I'll illustrate using a a paper by @benwansell
#AcademicTwitter #politicalscience #polsci
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Happy to share an academic #LifeHack
I talked to my students about this, today, I thought others might find it interesting, too.
I'll illustrate using a a paper by @benwansell
#AcademicTwitter #politicalscience #polsci
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Ok, let's see you open an article and you are like:
"Wait, whaaaaaaat 43 pages???"
"And it even contains maths!???!?11!"
So you can either
- switch to panic-mode
- you can drop the course & study program (please don't!)
- or you can read quicker
But how?
(2/n)
"Wait, whaaaaaaat 43 pages???"
"And it even contains maths!???!?11!"
So you can either
- switch to panic-mode
- you can drop the course & study program (please don't!)
- or you can read quicker
But how?
(2/n)
In my view, it is most important to know where the most important information is. You want that information.
You want the core info. But where is?
(3/n)
You want the core info. But where is?
(3/n)
