1. A quick thread to summarize my and Cosma's new piece on LLMs as Homeric songs at the Economist. The piece has its origins in bactra.org/weblog/feral... and this fantastic article by Murray Shanahan et al, which we couldn't link as we would have liked www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do you work with historical data in Spain? Are you willing to show your municipal-data variables in a map? The new R package mapSpainHist provides shapefiles of localities, judiciary parties and electoral districts between 1900 and 2001. pauvallprat.github.io/mapSpainHist...

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Join us next week! On November 3, @ludwigschulze.bsky.social (@sciencespo.bsky.social) will present "From Peasants to Communists: How Ordinary Citizens Invest in Authoritarian Parties" followed by comments by @anjaneundorf.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk) and Milan Svolik (Yale)

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🚨Excited to share my new paper with Jessica Gottlieb and Damien Kelly! Everyone is worried about POLARIZATION. But are we all experiencing it the same way? 👉 We argue that to understand polarization, we need to bring POWER back into the conversation /1

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Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

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