R. Michael Alvarez
@rmichaelalvarez
Election science pioneer. Prof at Caltech. Co-Director, Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy.
Our new piece in @Nature discussing the implications of their new transformative transparent peer review policy with @rmichaelalvarez @CaltechLCSSP and Danny Ebanks @Harvard nature.com/articles/d4158… @Gates_Cambridge @Cambridge_Uni @Caltech
Excited to report that this paper with @Jacob_Morrier is now published in @polanalysis! Interested in LLMs? Give it a read! "Measuring the Quality of Answers in Political Q&As with Large Language Models", bit.ly/44PMwNP
This was a great conversation. @BeaMagistro is a remarkable scholar and colleague, we've really enjoyed having her as part of the @CaltechLCSSP team. In this chat we talk about her research and her plans for the next stage of her academic work as a prof!
Listen to our latest LCSSP video as Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez visits with @Caltech post-doc scholar @BeaMagistro - Research Associate in Computational Social Science - about their joint work, her research in AI and Climate Change & her new book! youtu.be/6kkSNTesvXM?fe…
A great conversation, thanks @NMSOSMaggie @NMSecOfState!
The latest episode of Election Science Office Hours, part of the @Caltech Election Integrity Project, is online. Host & @CaltechLCSSP Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez had a great discussion w/ @NMSOSMaggie, @NMSecOfState about her 3 decades in Election Admin! youtu.be/KADAwVJJpnw
I'm excited for Wednesday, when I'll be on Office Hours with @NMSecOfState Maggie Toulouse Oliver! Join us live at 11am Pacific (register below). We'll be talking about modernizing voter registration and election security in NM! @NMSOSMaggie #nmpol caltech.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
It's cool when your university writes about your research!
Caltech researchers navigate AI’s shifting landscape and complex future, charting a course for its ethical development and application. magazine.caltech.edu/post/kaleidosc…
Congrats to @GerkenHeather! Big news for #ElectionScience. Ford Foundation’s New Leader Says She’ll Work to Protect Democracy nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/… via @NYTimes
Join us on July 9 at 11am Pacific as LCSSP Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez hosts @NMSOSMaggie on the Election Science Office Hours Webinar. @Caltech @CaltechLCSSP @NMSecOfState
I think that July 1 is a great day to post a dog photo!
Happy to share this important new paper in NCC. Quite interesting results to report, and really enjoyed being part of the TISP Consortium that is producing innovative and collaborative research in climate science. nature.com/articles/s4155…
New paper!! Political ideology and views toward solar geoengineering in the United States, with @BeaMagistro, @DannyCEbanks, @PaulOWennberg and @RamitDebnath. journals.plos.org/climate/articl…
New podcast alert! Recently I had a great conversation with Kim Wyman, talking about her career in elections, election security, and dealing with election rumors. @CaltechLCSSP Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7D4ib2… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
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…
1/ 🚨 New publication alert! I’m very excited to share my recent article, now published Open Access in @Res_Pol 🎉 A very special thanks to @PeejLoewen, whose comment on my poster helped spark this project! Here’s a short 🧵: doi.org/10.1177/205316…
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…
Really excited to see this paper published! Excellent work with @Jacob_Morrier using ML to measure and study incivility in the Canadian Parliament's Q&A sessions. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
Last week, former Washington Secretary of State @KimWyman12, President of Election Security & Innovation Consulting, LLC and Senior Fellow at @BPC_Bipartisan, joined @CaltechLCSSP Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez Alvarez, for Election Science Office Hours: youtube.com/watch?v=55GgWu…
The faculty get pretty awesome seats! #Caltech2025
