Amanda Bittner

Beyond excited to announce that the newest edition of PUBLIC OPINION, written by Rosalee Clawson, Zoe Oxley, and ME(!!) is available now! This book is filled with lots of cool material geared towards undergrads, super proud! Find the book here: collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/pub...

Civil servants should be able to provide the policy analysis we need. This is ridiculous.

Next Thursday! Join us for a really fun evening where we talk about the perils and joys of running for politics. There will be snacks! Activities! Incredible panelists! Conversations! (Free) Registration at this link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-did-w...

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I don’t think you can understand the dynamics of the Epstein and Trump and how this much corruption gets suppressed in the digital age without reading Robert Entman’s book, Scandal or Silence, an exploration of the factors that really drive presidential scandal. robertmentman.com/2012/03/24/s...

"The Albanese government has ruled out granting tech companies an exemption to copyright laws that ... would have allowed them to mine their content to train artificial intelligence models for free." Excellent news for all of us whose work is being stolen by AI. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Just…wow

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

It’s on election nights especially that I really miss the old good twitter.

This is so great. I wish we had it at Memorial. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

LOL

You don't say...

This is tough to read but really important.

MAY I EXPLAIN?

A truly brilliant idea. Get your debate bingo card here. Will the leaders talk about child care? Or any other "gender" issue? I am curious! nl.childcarenow.ca/2025/10/07/n...

🦖 Steve's T-Rex mug > inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1755...

Hey folks! There is still a few spots left in the intro to audio storytelling workshop I will be teaching in October through the StoryCenter.org. Here is the link to the workshop page" www.storycenter.org/schedule/pod...

Everyone is talking about this article, and it is GOOD. Recommend!

This is the part that I find most astounding and hard to watch.

Why did Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) create a whole portfolio of work on preventing gendered violence? Because the online worlds we study are 1/ www.linkedin.com/posts/cynthi...

Gross. This is shameful.

Joined by @bittner.bsky.social and @sarahsmellie.bsky.social Sarah Smellie on The Writ Podcast to break down the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election. www.thewrit.ca/p/ep-146-wha...

Sent this to some important teens in my life. I’m sure they’re rolling their eyes but I am delighted. 🤣

THERE IS A PODCAST! Come on with this! I am so excited.

Oh the role of academic wives is one of my all time favourite topics!!! How exciting!

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

THIS!!!!!

“It’s shocking … did you consider not complying with this request?” Butler said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Are you attending #APSA2025 and (thinking of) writing a book on the topic of gender and politics?! Come meet the editors of the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Cambridge Studies in Gender & Politics! Friday at 2:30pm at the Sutton Place Hotel (Salon Cezanne). We want to talk w/ you!

Currently writing up a few paragraphs to explain the science of sampling to undergraduates and am reminded of how amazing some folks are at explaining math and probability with such seeming ease. This is no simple feat even if simple random sampling is not that complex.

Nine things I have written are in this database. I hate it.

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

Yup