Assistant Professor at Western University | Legislative politics, gender and politics, racism and politics, and NLP (and politics). http://svallejovera.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/svallejovera.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/svallejovera.bsky.social/post/3mhqatyjjds2mFrancisco was a brilliant scholar and amazing human being. It is wonderful to see a scholarship named after him. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Mar 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:nktfp22cazj4evssrjkrnpbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqatyjjds2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/svallejovera.bsky.social/post/3mf6d6bt6ws2xIf anyone is interested in different forms of racist discourse in text, do I have a paper for you!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Feb 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:nktfp22cazj4evssrjkrnpbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf6d6bt6ws2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/svallejovera.bsky.social/post/3megqe3pql226After a long journey, our paper "Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text" is out at Sociological Methods & Research. In it, we develop a theoretically driven approach to identify and classify covert and overt racism in text: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0049124125141236009 Feb 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:nktfp22cazj4evssrjkrnpbw/app.bsky.feed.post/3megqe3pql226