Patrick J. Gauding

Assistant professor of Politics, @univofthesouth. Regulatory, environmental, crim. justice, guns. CLE native.

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

@JohnHolbein1 Love to see a Burnett Loomis shoutout. RIP.

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

@AnthonyMKreis All star cast, and Tim’s the man.

[David Alan Hughes @davidhughes_phd]

If you think this mid-decade redistricting fracas we're in is hell now, just wait til state legislatures figure out they needn't ever risk losing their own majority status again, no matter how much voters might want to be rid of them. Utterly unsustainable path we're on.

[Dr. Guy McHendry @acaguy]

An earnest reply because this is a good question:
1. Large universities with enormous class sizes do not have the labor or resources for oral exams.
2. Even universities with smaller class sizes will struggle. Once you eclipse 20 students in a class, the logistics are tough. 🧵

[Danny Hidalgo @fdhidalgo]

We're hiring a Research Support Associate at MIT Political Science. Work with me, @insongkim, Rich Nielsen, and Naoki Egami on methods and political economy. Great opportunity for those considering a PhD in the social sciences. One-year position with possible extension.

[Emily S. Bremer @emilysbremer]

It is interesting how many independent agencies were preceded by politically controlled regimes deemed inadequate to the task. E.g., ICC initially reported to the Secretary of Interior, FTC was successor to Bureau of Corporations and antitrust reg through DOJ + courts.

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

Nothing is cooler about this job than when students get good news on their applications.

[Noah Dasanaike @dasanaike]

Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.

[Jon Steinsson @JonSteinsson]

I hear people say that AI replaces RAs in research. A different model is for AI to make RAs more productive. In this context, I think it is important to recognize the educational value that RAs get from the tasks we ask them to help us with.

[Alexander Kustov @akoustov]

AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years.

Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

The University of the South is hiring for a one-year VAP in comparative politics or international relations. While I'm not on this committee, I'm happy to field questions.
https://t.co/PWzocLclqh

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

We will also be hiring a one-year VAP in CP/IR. Ad to follow. I will not be on this committee, but I'm happy to answer questions.

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

The University of the South will be hiring for a one-year VAP in public policy for AY26-27. Candidates should be comfortable teaching introductory public policy, environmental policy, and research methods. Ad to follow. I am on the committee—please reach out!

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

@thegarance Not even the most famous Wambsganss in history: https://t.co/b5h1t8jEtd

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

The co-author of How Democracies Die on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:

“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists... And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

The ad for this job is now available here: https://t.co/4Ulma0A1zg

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

The University of the South will be hiring for a one-year VAP in public policy for AY26-27. Candidates should be comfortable teaching introductory public policy, environmental policy, and research methods. Ad to follow. I am on the committee—please reach out!

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

The University of the South will be hiring for a one-year VAP in public policy for AY26-27. Candidates should be comfortable teaching introductory public policy, environmental policy, and research methods. Ad to follow. I am on the committee—please reach out!

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

Unsurprisingly noncommittal to confrontation with allies.

[NRA @NRA]

“For months, radical progressive politicians like Tim Walz have incited violence against law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their jobs. Unsurprisingly, these calls to dangerously interject oneself into legitimate law-enforcement activities have ended in violence, tragically resulting in injuries and fatalities.

As there is with any officer-involved shooting, there will be a robust and comprehensive investigation that takes place to determine if the use of force was justified. As we await these facts and gain a clearer understanding, we urge the political voices to lower the temperature to ensure their constituents and law enforcement officers stay safe.”

- @NRA

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

@danepps Asking too much there, it seems.

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

I’ll be at SPSA tomorrow until Saturday—hit me up if you’d like to get a coffee or a beer!

[Patrick J. Gauding @patrickgauding]

@RikioInouye I can’t even contemplate it. Pretty sure I’d get laughed at by someone for even asking.

I’m all for the OA model, and think it should standard—but the reality for individuals at underresourced institutions is that it’s not tenable.