Adam Ramey
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Political scientist & Assoc Dean @nyuabudhabi, data scientist, cigar lover, aspiring rock star, & American politics junkie. Proud 🇱🇧🇺🇸. RT != Endorsement.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Joined October 2009
My speech last night at the @nyuniversity Distinguished Award Ceremony. In today’s polarized academic environment, I encourage you to have a listen. I think I have some lessons for all of us to learn from.
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🗳️ How does having more than one citizenship shape political participation? ➡️ S Jung , Y Lee & C Wong find US born dual citizens are more active than naturalized dual citizens. Having dual citizenship plays a relevant role in civic engagement https://t.co/j4m9PjeYNw
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CongressData v3 is now available, with 230 new variables tracking House members, their districts, & their legislative behavior over time: https://t.co/WunY9ntN7t Thanks to hard work from @benyoel_ & Caleb Lucas!
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Why do identical twins have such similar personalities? Is it because they're reared together? Is it because people treat them alike due to their visual similarity? Nope! Neither theory holds water.
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Can’t be fired if your department still exists, summer break - haha, study what interests you conditional on others/gatekeepers liking it. I love my job and my institution, but this is a job that never ends - emails all year and at all times.
Tenured academia is really not "just a job." - can't be fired. - get a 5-month summer break. - complete flexibility on schedule/wfh - study what interests you -get paid more than enough to live comfortably. It's completely rational to work insanely hard to get this!
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One of my @NYUAbuDhabi students in political psychology came up with a super similar idea for her course project pre-analysis plan!
🚨 New today in @ScienceMagazine !!🚨 We’re publishing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more… 🧵:
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🚨 New today in @ScienceMagazine !!🚨 We’re publishing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more… 🧵:
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Thanks for making me feel old @Spotify (I’m only 42!) but my tastes are really all over the place. 80s rock and pop very much dominate my listening, but it’s still hard to pigeonhole me!
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I was today years old when I discovered *both* of the top two presidential contenders in Honduras are of Arab extraction.
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Dude, the y-axis!
The share of the population living in extreme poverty is now higher in the United States than in China.
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I only use the Dr. title on my airline status.
I don't really understand why some folks violate this rule (operating in spaces where people are fooled by a few letters?), but yes, there is a .99 correlation between insisting you are called "Dr." or "Prof." and being a charlatan. On the street (and the classroom!), I'm Kevin.
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This post is getting dunked on, and for good reason. On the one hand yes, we should teach our students and help catch them up. On the other hand, the fact that they’re so woefully underprepared *at elite institutions* is really, really bad!
This is a non-story, a nothingburger UCSD admitted more students who need remedial math classes. Why is that a bad thing? Shouldn't universities help students learn?
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8/ Broken down by ideology, the sharpest differences appear among liberals: -31% of liberals under 30 agree violence can be justified, 55% disagree -1% of liberals 65+ agree, 92% disagree. Among conservatives, younger adults aren’t more likely to agree––but they are less
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Well this isn’t depressing at all
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current
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Funniest post of the day (to me).
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It’s a combination of factors. Economic success drove birth rates down. Discrimination and political instability drove many overseas. Put those together and you have massive demographic shifts.
Creation of the modern state + progress in communications is the most underrated factor. In 1900, a great share of population lived in some sort of “parallel reality” from the political elites, and their cultural standards Living in the backwoods, as if on another planet
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My wife is from the coastal part of the district. I’ve spent significant time here, too. When you go over the mountain from the coast, the politics and economy change dramatically. So much for communities of interest considerations, I guess.
With Prop 50 passing in California âś…, a district that stretches from the Nevada/Oregon border to the Golden Gate Bridge officially exists. It gave Joe Biden 63% of the vote and Kamala Harris 61% of the vote.
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Reminder that this "inequality expert" denounced Milei's program as doomed to failure while the other "inequality expert" Joe Stiglitz endorsed Hugo Chavez's program in Venezuela.
Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call. 🔗 https://t.co/R6mNpSUxMT
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This is really, really bad.
UCSD’s “Math 2” course teaches grade-school math (grades 1–8) to freshmen. From page 49 of the university’s own report: • 25% of students got 7 + 2 = ___ + 6 wrong • 61% of students, a large majority, couldn’t round 374,518 to the nearest hundred • 37% of students couldn't
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In a world consumed with an endless string of bad news, this makes me hopeful. Us Levantine Christians are (and have been) a central part of the social fabric in the region and seeing my brethren enjoying the freedom to be themselves in the new order is heartening.
The Christian community of Idlib (north west of Syria) is returning to their villages, praying together for the unity and the safety of Syria. They’ve been displaced for 13 years, they left after Assad announced a war on Idlib and bombed their village Video from Alghassania
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