Betsy Sinclair
@BetsySinclair1
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Professor & chair of political science at WUSTL. Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformation. Mother of three. Loves wild spaces.
St Louis, MO
Joined November 2012
🚨Save the Date 🚨 Polmeth Summer meeting is July 16--18 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Day-long pre-conference workshop for the Visions in Methodology Initiative on July 15.
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Would you like to participate in the 4th Annual Conference on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior to be hosted at WashU May 21-22? Please check out the website for more information here: https://t.co/Th8og8iDyX and submit a proposal here: https://t.co/UWAhn23A1g.
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Giving a quantitative methods paper at #APSA2025? Have a methods project that you'd like to publish? Consider the @CUP_PoliSci Elements series that @BetsySinclair1 and I edit! DM or email if you have questions! https://t.co/TEoMUjTm3z
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Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Join us Oct 16-17 at @WashU! Submit your proposal to our Call For Papers, Posters, Panels & Participants by the AUG 15 DEADLINE! Questions? Reach out via DM or email lcssp@hss.caltech.edu. Co-Organized by @BetsySinclair1 @WashUPoliSci & @rmichaelalvarez @Caltech @CaltechLCSSP
Join us for "Protecting the Election: AI & Governance in Elections" on Oct 16-17 at @WashU, co-organized by WashU's @BetsySinclair1 and @CaltechLCSSP Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez. Our Call for Papers, Posters, Panels & Participation is due Aug 15! https://t.co/wUKHgYmuOM
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Mike Alvarez and I are hosting a small conference on AI & Elections October 16-17 at WashU. If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form by 8/15: https://t.co/5wd9OWZlLC. We have a modest amount of funding to support your travel.
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The SPM Business Meeting takes place at our summer conference (Emory) in White Hall 208 at noon on Friday July 18, 2025. Agenda: -Executive report -Political Analysis editors' report -Award announcements Thanks!
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Are you working on problems relating to AI, government, and elections? If so, I'd like to invite you to join @rmichaelalvarez and I this fall at a conference for practitioners, politicians and professors:
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New podcast episode alert! @BetsySinclair1 was recently on Election Science Office Hours and we had a great conversation about AI, elections, and governance. Give it a listen! https://t.co/uGDpirZJ3q
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Super excited to talk with the amazing @KimWyman12 on Wednesday at 11am Pacific! It's a great opportunity to learn more about elections from one of the world's experts. Join us live (link below), bring your questions! https://t.co/bpbizpUemj
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We are celebrating celebrate 100 years of the WashU Political Science PhD program! If you or a loved one graduated from WashU, please fill out the form on this page and we will update your information! https://t.co/srN1oa7K3u
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The Political Science department, in partnership with the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures and Office of the Chancellor, is pleased to present the Frontiers in Political Methodology Conference THIS FRIDAY, April 11th. Learn more at https://t.co/z5xOFNWk5q.
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I wrote an article for the Conversation:
theconversation.com
The more Americans isolate themselves from people in the other political party, the more stereotypes take over. In turn, that pushes people to isolate even more.
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Next up from the @caltech.edu LCSSP conference - “Trust and Integrity in the 2024 Election: The View from the Voters” is the keynote from @cstewartiii, Director of the @MITelectionlab. This session was moderated by @BetsySinclair1, WashU. Watch here: https://t.co/x4S2KVn2X1
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In January, @CaltechLCSSP at @Caltech held its virtual "Information & Misinformation in Elections Conference. Here, Lynn Vavreck of @UCLA presented “The Economy in 2024: Information or Misinformation?” during her keynote talk moderated by @BetsySinclair1
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#OpenAccess from the new issue of @EPSRjournal - Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data - https://t.co/VizZ3k7tEZ - @DannyCEbanks, Hao Yan, @rmichaelalvarez, Sanmay Das & @BetsySinclair1
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My mom said, "ask for the title of data witch" and my sister said, "go for something gender neutral, like data mage" but the #WashU leadership had a different idea, so I am now the Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformation at #WashU.
source.washu.edu
Washington University in St. Louis' Digital Transformation initiative provides updates on several projects that will directly benefit faculty, students and staff.
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Important Update on #CaltechElectionIntegrityConf2025, "Information and Misinformation in Elections"! We know that you are aware of the wildfires in Southern California. The Eaton Fire, in particular, has had widespread and serious effects on Pasadena, Caltech, Caltech's
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Happy to see this paper finally out in print (after such a great effort from the team on this project). We find that that tension between coordination and information aggregation helps explain when party leaders are more likely to exert influence over their caucus!
💪 Legislative communication & power @DannyCEbanks H Yan @rmichaelalvarez S Das @BetsySinclair1 analyze the Twitter accounts of 🇺🇸 House Representatives with a Joint Sentiment Topic model, generating a new understanding of House leadership power https://t.co/WNm6wXd4Yp
#OA 🔓
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#election2024 Critically important & timely new work: "Prebunking Elections Rumors: AI Assisted Interventions Increase Confidence in American Elections" from @Caltech's Mitchell Linegar, @BetsySinclair1 (Wash U) @Sander_vdLinden (@Cambridge_Uni) & @CaltechLCSSP's @rmichaelalvarez
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