JUST OUT — September was a wild month for scholars of modern covert influence operations. No longer do we have to rely on a campaign's digital footprints alone. My first analysis of ~3K leaked internal files and fresh FBI evidence on "Doppelganger." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/lies-...
The country’s propagandists target the West—but mislead the kremlin, too.
'The Game Theory of War' -- great to see that our work with @olivia_macs and @mircomusolesi on agent-based modeling of civil wars receiving attention so soon after publication. Epsiloon article (gated): www.epsiloon.com/tous-les-num...journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Hear from GSQ Editors-in-Chief, Brent J. Steele and Jelena Subotić about why the journal is a great fit for your research and what they enjoy about being editors. Watch now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4m...
YouTube video by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
🚨New Special Forum🚨 Introducing our new special forum "Objects of Expertise" is "Objects of Expertise: The Socio-Material Politics of Expert Knowledge in Global Governance" by Alejandro Esguerra Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Abstract. Global governance institutions emerge around problems ranging from climate change to cybersecurity. Expert knowledge is instrumental in defining
There's been a lot of talk about why politicians use violent rhetoric, and whether it's effective.* Here's a thread with some insights from my book, "Nasty Politics." *Rhetoric can still be effective—1) get attention, 2) coordinate coalitions—but still not be persuasive to the average voter.
R - API configurations and pulling data from Twitter, - Cleaning/formatting event datasets for longitudinal analysis, - OSINT Geolocation/Geotagging with ArcGis, - Web Scraping with rvest, - Intro to Computational Linguistics, - Basic GIS and digital mapping of conflict data
Excel: - CSV parsing/formatting, - Data wrangling and manipulation with UN and SIPRI data, - Basics of data visualization, descriptive statistics and correlation, - Merging multiple UN, NATO, OECD, IMF, COMTRADE datasets and fixing cell shift errors with Pivot Tables
Since COVID, I recorded a ton of introductory lectures on data science, and data cleaning/visualization on Excel and R on Youtube. Finally managed to curate the most useful ones for beginners/newcomers and put them up on my website: akinunver.org/teaching
she’s not on here but my poli sci colleague Dr Jane Sumner here at Minnesota — one of the best methods instructors I have ever known — has a terrific intro R text coming out soon. A must, in the words of Michael Stipe.
New paper finds people prefer ethical guidance generated by GPT-40 over the NYT's "the Ethicist" column. Interestingly, people can discern LLM advice from humans, but this does not diminish their preference (contrary to several recent studies with similar designs): osf.io/preprints/ps...