Hi all -



Please send your most talented students our way! We're looking for a graduating senior or recent grad who would consider a full-time research position before starting a Ph.D. program or has equivalent skills and wants to do research before going into data science as a career.



Bright Line Watch/Online Misinformation Research Fellow (one year starting Sept. 2021 - exact date negotiable)

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Description

We are recruiting a research fellow to work with Bright Line Watch, an organization that researches the state of democracy in the United States, and with Professor Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College who studies misinformation.



The fellow’s responsibilities include:

• Supporting the development and fielding of surveys by BLW or Nyhan, including survey design, pre-testing, data collection, archiving, and analysis.

• Collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data measuring online (mis)information exposure and dissemination from Twitter and online panels.

• Conducting research to support public reports and scholarly articles by BLW or Nyhan, including literature reviews, writing/editing, creating graphs, and estimating models.

• Assisting in the planning and organization of BLW conferences and events in conjunction with partner scholars and institutions.

• Providing administrative support for BLW and Nyhan and conducting outreach to external audiences, including maintenance of the BLW website.

• Other projects to be determined.



The fellowship requires a one-year commitment, from September 2021 to August 2022. The exact start and end dates are flexible to accommodate the schedule of the fellow and the needs of BLW and Nyhan.



The research fellow will be in residence at Dartmouth College and will be provided with institutional affiliation (including library and computing resources), access to shared work space, the opportunity to attend academic events at the host institution, and will be eligible to enroll in or audit one class per academic term without paying tuition fees.



The fellowship requires a commitment to work 40 hours per week on research under the supervision of Nyhan and the other BLW principals. Salary is: $45,000.



Qualifications

The research fellowship is designed for a scholar who:

• Has completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in political science or a related field;

• Intends to pursue graduate studies in political science or a related field or to work in data science;

• Has developed strong skills in data management, analysis, and visualization, including extensive experience with R, Stata, and/or Python;

• Has strong substantive interests in research on democratic erosion and misinformation.

• Wants additional experience in research design, data analysis, and project management.



Application Instructions

Applicants should submit the following materials. BLW will begin reviewing applications as of March 26, 2021 and will continue to consider applications until the position is filled



• A personal statement/cover letter that includes the following:

• A brief description of your educational and career goals and how the position would advance them.

• A brief description of your data management and analysis skills, including programming languages and/or software and levels of proficiency

• A brief description of your experience in conducting or assisting original social science research. If you worked as a research assistant, include the name and contact information for the faculty

member or your direct supervisor.

• A résumé or CV that includes the following:

• Name

• Email and phone/text contact

• Current position, or academic affiliation

• Date of (expected) academic degree(s)

• Academic concentration(s)

• A list of all academic classes (and final grades) focusing primarily on statistics, computer science, data visualization, applied mathematics, or other quantitative methods

• Provide a brief (maximum 200 words) proposal for either:

• A novel analysis of existing data from Bright Line Watch or Nyhan’s research

• A survey question, battery of questions, or survey experiment that is consistent with BLW or Nyhan’s research agenda that could be included in a future study

• If you have produced original social science research yourself or in collaboration with another author, you may submit it as a writing sample (optional but encouraged).



Best-

Brendan



Brendan Nyhan

Professor of Government

Dartmouth College

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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/



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