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Yphtach Lelkes
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associate professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · Dec 1
15 days left to apply to present at PRL's Annual Meeting March 21-22 in NOLA! polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...

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Meetings and Events   Annual Meetings The 2024 PRL Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans on March 21-22, 2024!  This boutique conference brings together the best and most innovative wo…
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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · Dec 19
Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.
American local government elections database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - American local government elections database
www.nature.com

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Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social · Apr 18
thank you, John!

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soodoku @soodoku.bsky.social · Feb 15
a @github.com actions script that consults the retraction watch database and opens a PR if it sees a retracted article in .bib

@ylelkes.bsky.social etc.

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Issues · recite/retract
Github Actions to open an issue when a retracted article is discovered in a .bib file - Issues · recite/retract
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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · Nov 22
In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below).

Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating

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Non-linear relationship between affective polarization and support for 4 antidemocratic norms

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jun 6
Can’t believe this isn’t satire
Screenshot of an email from my university saying: “Today, we write to share two important updates about Penn’s policies and procedures for when, where, and how open expression can take place.”

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · May 18
I definitely assumed the weapons the cops "took off the streets" were being destroyed, not returned to the streets for profit. I don't know WHY I assumed harm was actually being reduced, but I know better now!
Newark Police have proudly taken guns off the street for years through gun buybacks. But at the same time they have inadvertently put their own weapons back in circulation. The Newark Police Department confirmed that they traded-in about a thousand guns in 2016 and 2017 to a firearms dealer, in exchange for discounts on new equipment. That dealer then resells the weapons.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · May 18
this dude is basically the nation’s leading expert on legal ethics, we are so cooked.
But Stephen Gillers, an expert in judicial ethics at New York University's law school, disagreed, noting that the test in the recusal statute is based on the perspective of a fair-minded person who has all the facts. "I don't think such an objective observer would question Alito's impartiality based on this incident," Gillers said in an email. "I find it impossible to believe that Alito knew the flag was flying upside down or, if he did know, that he knew the relationship to 'Stop the Steal.' I don't believe he would have allowed this to happen otherwise." Gillers added that while Alito's explanation for how it happened is "hard to believe, it is more credible than the view that he knowingly chose to fly the flag upside down knowing its political message."