Adam Berinsky

🗓️ 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬? On 12/3, I'm hosting a free, 1 hr. online seminar called, "Doing Better Survey Experiments" from 1pm - 2pm (ET). Please help spread the word if you can! 🙏 instats.org/seminar/doin...

We’re launching the LLM Election Observatory: llmelectionobservatory.org, a research project with @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Charles Stewart, Nicolas Emmenegger, Young-Kyung Kim, and Alessandro Morosini on how LLMs respond to election-related questions. @nytimes.com wrote a story about it. 1/n 1/n

This is like Cookie Monster renouncing dessert

I'm excited to share this article about a project I've been working on with fantastic collaborators. Check out the dashboard for yourself here: llmelectionobservatory.org www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...

New school year. New rubber stamp. I’ll be using this one sparingly.

Dying with measles is not the same thing as dying of measles.

Definitely check it out!

🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍

I have spent far more time thinking and talking about AI policy than I thought I would when I became co-editor at AJPS a year ago. Here is the latest iteration of our policy.

Bill Eppridge photographed by Burton Berinsky who, in addition to being a photographer, was also a hat designer.

Genuinely looks as though the Spain team have brought along a satirical cardboard cutout for a laugh.

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

Get your Bingo cards ready is right! Cards are live and shareable now: bingo.cip.uw.edu

Any PolMeth folks heading from DTW to east Lansing at 6pm-ish tomorrow?

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

FIFA referee to be investigated for mortgage fraud.

Boy this was a long road, but glad it's finally out! @dgrand.bsky.social @robbwiller.bsky.social @arechar.bsky.social (along with Michael N. Stagnaro, James N. Druckman, not tagable)

Next week, I'll be teaching my Advanced Survey Design class. Sign-up details below. instats.org/seminar/adva...

🚨 Combatting misinformation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Things associated with "discerning truth from falsehood": - valuing democracy - more analytic cognitive style - prompting people to think about accuracy 👈 NOT associated: - "endorsement of individual responsibility over government"

Congrats to an amazing team for award for THIS paper☝️ See news.cornell.edu/stories/2026... Thx for your much terrific & needed work, @arechar.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social @ziv-e.bsky.social @kvg.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social et al 🙏

last chance to sign up for the intro course next week

In a couple weeks, I'll be teaching my Introduction to Survey Design class. Sign-up details below. instats.org/seminar/intr...

In a couple weeks, I'll be teaching my Introduction to Survey Design class. Sign-up details below. instats.org/seminar/intr...

I thought tonight couldn’t get any better and then I saw this

AJPS Editors Blog Post: Pre-Analysis Plans (PAP) Policy Change. We recently clarified our policy regarding the execution of pre-analysis plans and the reporting of supplemental materials. These changes are in line with increasing transparency in reporting ajps.org/2026/05/13/p...

Join us Wednesday at 1:30 PM (ET)! Navigating the non-academic #jobmarket as a political science graduate student or PhD can require a different approach than #academia. "Pursuing Non-Academic Careers with a Political Science PhD" Register here to join us!

Political Rumors on sale for 50% off. Get your copy! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Don't forget to sign up for our final Seminar Series of the year, with Professor @adamberinsky.bsky.social 💡 Rethinking Misinformation Interventions: Beyond the Search for a Magic Bullet 🗓️ Friday 8 May ⏰️ 4.30pm - 5.30pm Join here👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

Next week, join us for a virtual event to learn about the current challenge of public health mis- and disinformation + what researchers can do to help counter these trends. @lizhamel.bsky.social (@kff.org) & @adamberinsky.bsky.social (@mit.edu). 🔗 scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...

Intro next monday/tuesday

I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word! Free one hour seminar. April 13 tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85 Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro: April 20-21 tinyurl.com/2mas96tf -Advanced: April 27-28 tinyurl.com/5467prx6

I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word! Free one hour seminar. April 13 tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85 Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro: April 20-21 tinyurl.com/2mas96tf -Advanced: April 27-28 tinyurl.com/5467prx6

Updated AJPS AI Disclosure Policy for Authors Last year, we introduced a set of policies concerning the use of AI at AJPS for both authors and reviewers. We have recently updated these guidelines. The current guidelines are presented in this Editor's Blog: ajps.org/2026/04/10/u...

Is there actually a way to stop misinformation? At our latest Food for Thought session, @adamberinsky.bsky.social explored this question and the answer isn’t as simple as we might hope.

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...

Come work with @devincaughey.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social Charles Stewart and me. Details below!

📰 Do the effects of partisan media fade quickly or accumulate over time? ➡️ Using multiwave experiments, M Baum et al. show a single exposure can have effects lasting up to a week, while cumulative effects are hard to detect www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Political scientist @adamberinsky.bsky.social found that while Americans’ support for wars was affected by major attacks on the U.S., it mostly followed the domestic “ebb and flow of partisan and group-based political conflict.” (@chashomans.bsky.social, NYT-unlocked) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...

Come work with @devincaughey.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social Charles Stewart and me. Details below!

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Dynamic persuasion: decay and accumulation of partisan media persuasion - https://cup.org/47EZO23 - Matthew Baum, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, @jdbk.bsky.social, Joohye Jeong, Zachary Markovich & Teppei Yamamoto #FirstView