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Michael Link, PhD @MLink01

Research Consultant | Survey & AI Innovation | Public Opinion Expert |AAPOR Past President -- Views are my own.

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Apr 2
Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/c…

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Proud to share: Daily Leadership – A Field Guide is now published. This book explores how leadership really happens — in the quiet, everyday moments between the big decisions. The 30-second choices. The hallway conversations. The work that builds trust, culture, and people. A milestone — and the start of the next chapter. Link to Amazon in comments - paperback & Kindle versions available. #Leadership #DailyLeadership #LeadWell #LeadershipDevelopment #BookLaunch
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Daily Leadership: A Field Guide: Practical Wisdom for All Who Lead in a Chaotic World

Daily Leadership: A Field Guide: Practical Wisdom for All Who Lead in a Chaotic World

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Check out my latest article: When Your Industry Crumbles: A Rebound Playbook linkedin.com/pulse/when-your… via @LinkedIn

When Your Industry Crumbles: A Rebound Playbook

For many of us in survey research, federal statistics, evaluation, and public-sector data work, 2025 wasn’t a turning point—it was an earthquake. One morning, the building you’d spent years or even...

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Thrilled and honored to be Guest Editor on the special issue of AI and Survey Research w my colleagues @fraukolos & @TrentBuskirk. Have some interest research to share? Please consider submitting it to @poqjournal!
Public Opinion Quarterly@poqjournal
5 Nov 2025
Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/c…
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Michael Link, PhD retweeted
Public Opinion Quarterly@poqjournal
5 Nov 2025
Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/c…

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Seriously @MarvelStudios, how can we not have had a follow up to Shang Chi? Great story, amazing action!
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Check out my latest article: Career Reinvention: When Everything You Built Just... Stops linkedin.com/pulse/career-re… via @LinkedIn

Career Reinvention: When Everything You Built Just... Stops

I found out on a Thursday morning. The email came at 7:42 AM—short, formal, a meeting request.

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Check out my latest article: Where Has Empathy Gone? Rediscovering the Most Misunderstood Leadership Skill of Our Time linkedin.com/pulse/where-has… via @LinkedIn

Where Has Empathy Gone? Rediscovering the Most Misunderstood Leadership Skill of Our Time

Somewhere between the dashboards, deadlines, and daily stand-ups, empathy slipped quietly out of the room. We didn’t chase it away; we just got busy.

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New content drop: "You Don't Need to Be an Expert in AI - But You Can't Afford Not to Be Conversant" linkedin.com/pulse/you-dont-… via @LinkedIn

You Don't Need to Be an Expert in AI - But You Can't Afford Not to Be Conversant

Imagine this: you walk into a Monday morning meeting, coffee in hand, still shaking off weekend cobwebs. A colleague casually mentions they used AI to finish in two hours what used to take them two...

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26 Aug 2025
Have you registered for AAPOR's September webinar, 'Best Practices for Text-Message Based Surveys' with Kevin Collins? Don't miss this popular member benefit. Register here: buff.ly/SWlcmhD
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Check out my latest article: The Fourth Firefly Problem in AI linkedin.com/pulse/fourth-fi… via @LinkedIn

The Fourth Firefly Problem in AI

Why invisible AI errors may be the most dangerous of all What if AI made a change you didn’t ask for … And you’d never know it? I call this the Fourth Firefly Problem. A Children’s Story Gone Wrong...

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2 Aug 2025
AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer aapor.org/statements/aapor-a…

AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer - AAPOR

On behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), we write to express deep concern regarding the removal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika...

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Check out my latest article: The Gen Z Stare: When Silence Speaks Volumes About Leadership linkedin.com/pulse/gen-z-sta… via @LinkedIn

The Gen Z Stare: When Silence Speaks Volumes About Leadership

The other night, my Gen Z daughter walked into dinner and asked, “Dad, have you heard of the Gen Z stare?” Before I could answer, she whipped out her phone and showed me a string of TikToks: young...

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Finally, a breakfast that screams, “I gave up at 7:42am”!
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Check out my latest article: When the Toxicity Comes from the Top: How Good Leaders Protect Their Teams Anyway linkedin.com/pulse/when-toxi… via @LinkedIn

When the Toxicity Comes from the Top: How Good Leaders Protect Their Teams Anyway

Over the past year, I’ve had more and more conversations with people across industries who are quietly saying the same thing: “Something’s shifted in our culture. It feels heavier.

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“Happy Treason Day, ungrateful colonials” 🇬🇧😂 Meanwhile, over here in the States … 💥🦅🍔 #FourthOfJuly #RevolutionaryBanter
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New blog: Will AI Take Our Jobs in Survey Research? I Asked AI. What AI can do now, what AGI might do by 2030 — and why my wife prefers the AI version of my beard. linkedin.com/pulse/ai-take-s…
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