"advocates for more public-facing approaches, such as gamified learning tools and stronger collaboration between university researchers and media organisations to strengthen public comprehension of polls."
Ozan Kuru
“.. The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months, underscoring the heightened political salience of the facilities and the AI industry that they embody.”
@heatmap.news
heatmap.news/politics/ame...
At the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the front line is completely overwhelmed. Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, describes what he saw in the Ebola ward at Mongbwalu General Hospital. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...
Carl Quintanilla
Video
The New York Times
"Why are first-year writing and reading-intensive general-education courses still the most adjunctified, lowest-paid, highest-load corner of the university, at the precise moment when their work has become the most important work the institution does?"
Paul Czege
@mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social interviewed @mattmotta.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social & @klunztrujillo.bsky.social on their article "Public Risk Perceptions & Policy Attitudes Toward Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza." Check it out! on.soundcloud.com/JysieKBuo450...
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Listen to JHPPL Interview with Matt Motta, Tim Callaghan, and Kristin Lunz Trujillo by Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law #np on #SoundCloud
“I think [GenAI] will accelerate conversations around what the design of school systems will look like to best embrace more holistic learning for students, opposed to just knowledge transfer...”
I hope these companies realize they entering into conversations that have been happening for 50+ years.
This effect, however, weakens if polling uncertainty is clearly communicated to voters.
Using a survey experiment conducted in Austria, we show that visualizing party-specific margins of error significantly increases vote intentions for parties polling just below the threshold.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
Werner Krause
Jeff Greene
fass.nus.edu.sg
What if polling organizations aren’t just passive recorders of political sentiment but also shape the agendas of other policy institutions?
Qian Zhang @peterenns.bsky.social and I ask this question in @psjeditor.bsky.social (open access)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
💫 New paper!
@elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social
& I are happy to see our new paper published in open access with the @ejprjournal.bsky.social
Do group-targeted campaign pledges pay off electorally?
We test this with a preregistered survey experiment in Germany.
As companies begin to sell synthetic (AI-generated) survey responses, new research with @gelliottmorris.com and Ben Leff shows why you should be extremely skeptical of this approach:
www.verasight.io/reports/can-...
Verasight ran four experiments on AI "digital twins." Synthetic samples can match polls on Trump approval and the generic ballot, but fail systematically on almost everything else.
The head of learning initiatives for Google Deepmind says debates about use of new technologies should focus on how to embrace more holistic teaching methods.
www.insidehighered.com
Peter K. Enns
"Journalist Mary Harrington argued that “thinking is becoming a luxury good.”
The ability to read deeply and reason at length is fragmenting along class lines as ultra-processed digital media replaces text… much as ultra-processed food has replaced cooking."
LINK: archive.ph/2026.06.06-1...
Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other ...
"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow."
The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society.
www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
