Betsy Sinclair

The SPM Business Meeting takes place at our summer conference (Emory) in White Hall 208 at noon on Friday July 18, 2025. Agenda: -Executive report -Political Analysis editors' report -Award announcements Thanks!

Are you working on problems relating to AI, government, and elections? If so, I'd like to invite you to join @rmichaelalvarez and I this fall at a conference for practitioners, politicians and professors: polisci.wustl.edu/protecting-ele…

New podcast episode alert! @BetsySinclair1 was recently on Election Science Office Hours and we had a great conversation about AI, elections, and governance. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2xoSGJ…

Super excited to talk with the amazing @KimWyman12 on Wednesday at 11am Pacific! It's a great opportunity to learn more about elections from one of the world's experts. Join us live (link below), bring your questions! protectingtheelection.us/blog-3-1/secur…

We are celebrating celebrate 100 years of the WashU Political Science PhD program! If you or a loved one graduated from WashU, please fill out the form on this page and we will update your information! polisci.wustl.edu/100-years-poli…

The Political Science department, in partnership with the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures and Office of the Chancellor, is pleased to present the Frontiers in Political Methodology Conference THIS FRIDAY, April 11th. Learn more at buff.ly/wa8WvWc.

I wrote an article for the Conversation: theconversation.com/avoiding-your-…

Next up from the @caltech.edu LCSSP conference - “Trust and Integrity in the 2024 Election: The View from the Voters” is the keynote from @cstewartiii, Director of the @MITelectionlab. This session was moderated by @BetsySinclair1, WashU. Watch here: youtu.be/fjM4tYTDZDc?fe…

In January, @CaltechLCSSP at @Caltech held its virtual "Information & Misinformation in Elections Conference. Here, Lynn Vavreck of @UCLA presented “The Economy in 2024: Information or Misinformation?” during her keynote talk moderated by @BetsySinclair1 youtu.be/pFUjyIOm4_k?fe…

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @EPSRjournal - Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data - cup.org/4hD5ewI - @DannyCEbanks, Hao Yan, @rmichaelalvarez, Sanmay Das & @BetsySinclair1

My mom said, "ask for the title of data witch" and my sister said, "go for something gender neutral, like data mage" but the #WashU leadership had a different idea, so I am now the Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformation at #WashU. source.washu.edu/2024/10/digita…

Calling all academics! protectingtheelection.us/conference

Important Update on #CaltechElectionIntegrityConf2025, "Information and Misinformation in Elections"! We know that you are aware of the wildfires in Southern California. The Eaton Fire, in particular, has had widespread and serious effects on Pasadena, Caltech, Caltech's…

Happy to see this paper finally out in print (after such a great effort from the team on this project). We find that that tension between coordination and information aggregation helps explain when party leaders are more likely to exert influence over their caucus!

#election2024 Critically important & timely new work: "Prebunking Elections Rumors: AI Assisted Interventions Increase Confidence in American Elections" from @Caltech's Mitchell Linegar, @BetsySinclair1 (Wash U) @Sander_vdLinden (@Cambridge_Uni) & @CaltechLCSSP's @rmichaelalvarez

💪 Legislative communication & power @DannyCEbanks H Yan @rmichaelalvarez S Das @BetsySinclair1 analyze the Twitter accounts of 🇺🇸 House Representatives with a Joint Sentiment Topic model, generating a new understanding of House leadership power bit.ly/3A8jBt4 #OA 🔓

I am really excited about the "Translations by Design" conference that is happening on October 17th here at WashU. If you're free, please come join me! happenings.wustl.edu/event/di2-acce…

We're thrilled to announce the courtesy appointment in political science of Nickerson Dean and Professor of WashU Law, Stefanie Lindquist. We're so happy to have her lend her knowledge and experience to WashU Political Science. Read more here: buff.ly/3YbzXu7

Betsy Sinclair (@BetsySinclair1), Chair of Political Science, has been awarded the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professorship in Public Affairs and Political Science! Congratulations to the chair! Read more at the link and drop your own congrats below!: buff.ly/3Y7msvn

Excited to share new work w/ @colinrcase We produce issue-specific estimates for the left-right policy positions of congressional candidates Parts of this project are now under contract w/ CUP's Elements in Quant Methods 🥳 --- feedback welcome!! osf.io/preprints/osf/…