Pau Grau

PhDing @EUI_SPS ⚒️
Abans RA a @IPERG_ub

[Pau Grau @pgrau7]

Very happy to spend this term at @Yale working on repression and mobilization with an incredible team of professors and grad students!

Looking forward to great conversations—please reach out if you have similar interests or just want to chat!

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

Here's proof that Claude Code can write an entire empirical polisci paper.

To validate my claim that AI agents are coming for polisci "like a freight train", today I had Claude Code fully replicate and extend an old paper of mine estimating the effect of universal vote-by-mail on turnout and election outcome...essentially in one shot.

After careful prompting, Claude Code:

(1) Downloaded the old paper's repo and replicated the past results, translating our old Stata Code into Python

(2) Crawled the web to get updated official election data and census data

(3) Ran new analyses extending the results through 2024

(4) Created new tables and figures

(5) Performed a lit review

(6) Wrote a wholly new paper

(7) Pushed the whole thing to a new github repo

The whole thing took about an hour.

This is an insane paradigm shift in how empirical work is done.

It also validates the point that several people including @BrendanNyhan made yesterday---it's going to be especially easy to scale observational research with AI.

Thanks to @alexolegimas, @arthur_spirling , and many others who gave me feedback. .

[Pau Grau @pgrau7]

Barcelona this week! Today at
@IPA_UPF I’m presenting joint work with Alejandro López Peceño and @EliasDinas on how Civil War refugees mobilized the left in postwar France. Next Thursday @IBEI #JCPOP2025: career incentives vs. ideology in Fascist Italy’s surveillance.

[Pau Grau @pgrau7]

@mguinjoan @carolgalais @PolitiquesUAB Enhorabona!!

[Sindicat de Llogateres i Llogaters @SindicatLloguer]

Avui #23N hem pulveritzat tots els registres: 170.000 persones.

La manifestació per l’habitatge més gran de l’història de Catalunya i de l’Estat espanyol!

I això només és el principi, anem cap a la vaga de lloguer.

[EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium @Behaviour_EUI]

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!!

We're looking for presenters for Jan-June 2025. Please email with a provisional paper title, preferred dates to present, and (preferably) a short abstract: [email protected]

Deadline for proposals: Dec 15

[Elias Dinas @EliasDinas]

As SPS HoD during this ranking period, I’m thrilled with this outcome—it's a testament to the hard work our department has put in to remain at the forefront of political science.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Don't miss out on this guide on how to run surveys: on creating your own identifying variation: more than 80 pages and an Appendix with examples including social desirability, vignettes, information treatments and more.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Getting a community note on a post on this platform increases the chances that the original poster will take their misleading post down.

https://t.co/IWUuSCewjl

[pablo @pablogguz_]

🧵 spain has some of europe's best neighbourhood-level income data, but it's buried in the statistical office website

i scraped and structured the data to make it accessible with one line of code

check out my new R package:
https://t.co/2FmsJ4Dxah

[Albert Lloreta Ribalta @AlbertLloreta]

El PSC avui voldrà disfressar-se de gestor neutral i proper, però el seu model és el que accelera els desastres naturals d'aquests dies: ampliació de l'aeroport, el Hard Rock, la Copa Amèrica, la F1 al Passeig de Gràcia... son boníssims fent-ho oblidar ràpid. No ho oblidem.

[Pau Grau @pgrau7]

"After Spain’s Floods, a Surge of Volunteers, and of Rage"

As the country reels from a flood that has left at least 214 people dead, thousands have flocked to devastated areas to help. Anger toward public officials is growing.
https://t.co/Qfrpq2ClZl

[Suport Mutu DANA València @SuportMutuDana]

👉 Deixem per ací algunes de les iniciatives que s'han organitzat per tal d'arreplegar aportacions econòmiques i fer caixes de resistència per ajudar a les afectades de la DANA. 🧶🫂
Accediu als seus perfils per informar-vos, moltes gràcies!

[Javier Padilla @javierpmt2]

Friends of Florence! I am going to be at the EUI from January to June and I am looking for an apartment (ideally close to the university). Please let me know if you know something or someone who can help!

[Dani Cetrà @DaniCetra]

La història no ens absoldrà. Merda de món.

[Pau Grau @pgrau7]

@reda_tamtam Is metascraping a thing already?

[Montserrat Dameson @damesonpareras]

És realment anguniós veure el pati on has jugat tota la infantesa i adolescència il·lustrant una notícia com aquesta. No puc dir res més.

[3CatInfo @3CatInfo]

“Ens paguen amb vals regal per vigilar exàmens i hem de fer peripècies per convertir-los en diners.” Gairebé la meitat d’estudiants de doctorat a Catalunya no reben una beca i s'espavilen com poden per mantenir-se. "Fem recerca, però sense finançament" https://t.co/JUaMmJO6Cb

[Cristina Sáez @saez_cristina]

“Mentre allà se'm rifaven, aquí res. Ni una oportunitat”.
Un programa espanyol de captació de talent internacional deixa als llimbs a prop de 300 científics top. https://t.co/aXUKAryG8X

[Pau Grau @pgrau7]

Poc ens passa

[elDiario.es @eldiarioes]

Tras analizar los manuales de las principales editoriales del mercado de 4º de la ESO y 2º de Bachillerato, una investigación concluye que la dictadura franquista se estudia de forma “reduccionista” y “superficial” y se "minimiza" la represión
https://t.co/7uhEeHgCVK