Michael Heseltine
@michaelheseltine.bsky.social
Post-Doc at University of Oxford. Congress, text-as-data, and political communications.
An annoyingly good idea and well executed!
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
An annoyingly good idea and well executed!
I recently reviewed a paper that had not 3 but 5 reviewers on it, so seems to be some inefficiencies in the market here! Maybe Europeans just say yes more?
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I recently reviewed a paper that had not 3 but 5 reviewers on it, so seems to be some inefficiencies in the market here! Maybe Europeans just say yes more?
And here's Facebook. Really does seem to be a Covid term!
August 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
And here's Facebook. Really does seem to be a Covid term!
Size matters: LLama 3.1/3.3 70b perform best, along with Qwen2/2.5 72b. Gemma2 and Phi4 stand out as strong mid-sized models. Many smaller models produce poor results. Model selection can have a huge impact on your results!
August 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Size matters: LLama 3.1/3.3 70b perform best, along with Qwen2/2.5 72b. Gemma2 and Phi4 stand out as strong mid-sized models. Many smaller models produce poor results. Model selection can have a huge impact on your results!
Just started using atrrr for search and user post collection. Firehose would be a massive plus!
August 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just started using atrrr for search and user post collection. Firehose would be a massive plus!
113th congress starts in '13 is my go-to shorthand!
July 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
113th congress starts in '13 is my go-to shorthand!
Fresh email this morning: "an account has been created for you in ScholarOne", nooooo!
June 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Fresh email this morning: "an account has been created for you in ScholarOne", nooooo!
Bit chicken and egg though, did researchers adjust to stargazer or did stargazer adjust its defaults to perceived research practices
May 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Bit chicken and egg though, did researchers adjust to stargazer or did stargazer adjust its defaults to perceived research practices
My hunch would be at least some creep after the rise of stargazer as a default tabulating method, with its default of * for 0.1.
May 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My hunch would be at least some creep after the rise of stargazer as a default tabulating method, with its default of * for 0.1.
Accept it with arms wide open, Kevin...
March 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Accept it with arms wide open, Kevin...
Worked in three reps offices. Member 1 was given weekly tally of calls, never saw emails. Member 2 given no information on either. Member 3 informal updates on calls, never saw emails.
99% is just fielded by interns. Up to the individual Member whether they care to receive any of it.
99% is just fielded by interns. Up to the individual Member whether they care to receive any of it.
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Worked in three reps offices. Member 1 was given weekly tally of calls, never saw emails. Member 2 given no information on either. Member 3 informal updates on calls, never saw emails.
99% is just fielded by interns. Up to the individual Member whether they care to receive any of it.
99% is just fielded by interns. Up to the individual Member whether they care to receive any of it.
An extra 128gb ram and any 16gb or 24gb Nvidia gpu
... Alternatively, an absolute tonne of gaudy strobe rgb fans
... Alternatively, an absolute tonne of gaudy strobe rgb fans
March 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An extra 128gb ram and any 16gb or 24gb Nvidia gpu
... Alternatively, an absolute tonne of gaudy strobe rgb fans
... Alternatively, an absolute tonne of gaudy strobe rgb fans
@sysilviakim.bsky.social
Coming to a JOP issue near you!
Coming to a JOP issue near you!
March 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@sysilviakim.bsky.social
Coming to a JOP issue near you!
Coming to a JOP issue near you!
I think @jbgruber.bsky.social is the expert on this?
February 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I think @jbgruber.bsky.social is the expert on this?
Reposted by Michael Heseltine
R&P editors' collection 2024 (2/4)
@michaelheseltine.bsky.social & B. C. von Hohenberg find that GPT-4 coding of political text is highly accurate for shorter texts, but performance drops for longer ones, suggesting consideration should be given to task complexity when using LLM-assisted coding.
@michaelheseltine.bsky.social & B. C. von Hohenberg find that GPT-4 coding of political text is highly accurate for shorter texts, but performance drops for longer ones, suggesting consideration should be given to task complexity when using LLM-assisted coding.
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January 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
R&P editors' collection 2024 (2/4)
@michaelheseltine.bsky.social & B. C. von Hohenberg find that GPT-4 coding of political text is highly accurate for shorter texts, but performance drops for longer ones, suggesting consideration should be given to task complexity when using LLM-assisted coding.
@michaelheseltine.bsky.social & B. C. von Hohenberg find that GPT-4 coding of political text is highly accurate for shorter texts, but performance drops for longer ones, suggesting consideration should be given to task complexity when using LLM-assisted coding.
Also... the social sciences have absolutely destroyed the respondent pool in convenience sample pools around the world through the over-proliferation of survey research. Not sure how to fix that, but running even more surveys not likely the answer.
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Also... the social sciences have absolutely destroyed the respondent pool in convenience sample pools around the world through the over-proliferation of survey research. Not sure how to fix that, but running even more surveys not likely the answer.
Very feasible scenario is: 1) grad student begs for some money and runs survey and writes paper. 2) reviewer or journal policy says "that's nice, now run it again so I believe you" 3) grad student goes back to begging, or pulls paper?
Massive chunk of the discipline is priced out of experiments atm.
Massive chunk of the discipline is priced out of experiments atm.
December 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Very feasible scenario is: 1) grad student begs for some money and runs survey and writes paper. 2) reviewer or journal policy says "that's nice, now run it again so I believe you" 3) grad student goes back to begging, or pulls paper?
Massive chunk of the discipline is priced out of experiments atm.
Massive chunk of the discipline is priced out of experiments atm.