Jekyll2026-11-12T11:10:44-05:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/feed.xmlBruce A. DesmaraisBruce A. Desmarais is the DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science at Penn State, Director of the Center for Social Data Analytics, and co-founder of Public Square Analytics (GovFeeds). His research develops machine learning, network analysis and AI methods to study policymaking and digital communication with public officials.Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.edupalsr accepted at SoftwareX2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:002026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/11/palsr-accepted-softwarexOur paper on palsr, an R package for modeling dyadic interactions between moving actors with Projected Actor Locations, has been accepted for publication in SoftwareX. The paper is coauthored with Sangyeon Kim and Howard Liu, both alumni of the lab. The package is available on CRAN.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduQuoted in Newsweek on where Americans are moving2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:002026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/10/newsweek-migrationI was quoted in Giulia Carbonaro’s Newsweek story, “Map Reveals Where Americans Are Leaving Blue for Red States,” drawing on our research on county-to-county migration networks.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduAI agents and the research workflow2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:002026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/10/ai-agents-in-researchThoughts on how AI agents are changing the way we write and run analysis code, build figures, and draft papers.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduBringing GovFeeds to Cumberland County officials2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:002026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/10/govfeeds-cumberland-countySarah Rajtmajer and I had a GovFeeds table at a Cumberland County, Pennsylvania gathering of local officials.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduWelcome to Yue (Emily) Wang2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:002026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/09/welcome-emily-wangOur first lab meeting of the semester welcomed a new Ph.D. student, Yue (Emily) Wang.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduMigration network research featured on NPR2026-06-08T00:00:00-04:002026-06-08T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/06/npr-migration-networksResearch with Xi Liu and Clio Andris on county-to-county migration networks was featured in Scott Neuman’s NPR story, “The Red State, Blue State Divide Is Real. But It’s Driven by More Than Just Politics.”]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduKeynote at the opening of the Center for Network Science, University College Dublin2026-04-09T00:00:00-04:002026-04-09T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2026/04/ucd-keynoteI gave the keynote, “Network Effects Panel Regression,” at the opening of the Center for Network Science at University College Dublin.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduLaunching GovFeeds2025-08-25T00:00:00-04:002025-08-25T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2025/08/govfeeds-launchWe launched GovFeeds, an app that helps government communication professionals benchmark their social media messaging and learn from each other. Learn more about Public Square Analytics and GovFeeds.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.eduFirst public release of the Digitally Accountable Public Representation dataset2025-08-24T00:00:00-04:002025-08-24T00:00:00-04:00https://brucedesmarais.com/news/2025/08/dapr-dataset-releaseWe released the first public version of the Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) dataset, built through our NSF-funded project on how public officials communicate online.]]>Bruce A. Desmaraisbdesmarais@psu.edu