<div dir="ltr">FYI, postdoc position on a v interesting (and important!) problem<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Jacob N. Shapiro <<a href="mailto:jns@princeton.edu">jns@princeton.edu</a>><br>Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:46 AM<br>Subject: Postdoc opportunity at Princeton<br>To: <a href="mailto:mbarnes1@cs.cmu.edu">mbarnes1@cs.cmu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:mbarnes1@cs.cmu.edu">mbarnes1@cs.cmu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>



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<div>I hope all is well, we met a few years back on the Memex project.m Your name has come up in several conversations I have had lately as I try to recruit a postdoc for some fun work on tracking foreign influence efforts on democratic elections. </div>
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<div>The job is working with me, Nick Feamster from CS, and Brandon Stewart from sociology on measuring foreign influence efforts in US politics. Formal posting is <a href="https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=7721" target="_blank">here</a>.
 Our goal is to run a series of tests over the course of the year to figure out the feasibility of putting up a public-facing dashboard for 2020 that would track, measure, and publicize foreign influence efforts by issue area and election (e.g. presidential,
 various senate seats, etc.). We have great support from Microsoft and another foundation on this, and one MA-level person with good experience already on the team, so there’s tons of opportunity.</div>
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<div>We need someone who likes democracy, is personally offended by foreign states trying to influence it through social media and disinformation, can code, and would enjoy writing fun papers applying machine learning to large text corpora about politics. </div>
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<div>I suspect you may be fully occupied this year, but if there are other folks in your lab or personal network who would be good fits please send them my way.</div>
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Jacob N. Shapiro<br>
Professor of Politics and International Affairs<br>
Director Empirical Studies of Conflict Project<br>
Princeton University<br>
<a href="mailto:jns@princeton.edu" target="_blank">E-mail: jns@princeton.edu</a><br>
Office: <a href="tel:(609)%20258-2256" value="+16092582256" target="_blank">609-258-2256</a><br>
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