Very happy to have my latest research with my excellent co-author and dear friend, Xuan Qin at Fudan University, into the lasting effects of China's zero-COVID policy on its grassroots governance published in the China Journal!

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess #BJPIR article! 'The enemy behind the scenes: How China’s propaganda shores up support for Russia’s war in Ukraine' by @taomanchester.bsky.social & Han-yu Hsu 🔗 buff.ly/Sm3D27X @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

New report spotlights collapse in politics researcher jobs and risk of "lost generation" for discipline. "While we knew the current situation was bad, the most surprising thing is just how bad," says @ralphscott.bsky.social, one of the authors. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

if you would like to teach your kids more about this amazing American, may I suggest FRED KOREMATSU SPEAKS UP? amzn.to/3OeHcyG

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

A nice write up from @uomsoss.bsky.social on the research project I’m doing with my colleague Jolynna Sinanan on the Manchester-based amateur football club, Konger FC. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/k...

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Cool paper: "An analysis of publicly available data of 2,200 experts on Chinese politics worldwide, compiled through a bottom-up snowballing nomination process, reveals that this China Watcher community is globally connected and diverse but also continues to be dominated by male US-based academics."

Glad to be quoted in this report about Chinese citizens fighting for Ukraine (yes, there are many Chinese sympathetic towards Ukraine, 22% by our estimate). Special thanks go to @davidstroup.bsky.social for the referral. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"I’d never been so curious about another writer’s routines, habits, and time-management skills." Hua Hsu asks the question we all have: how does Rebecca/R.F. Kuang manage to do it all?!?

Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives.

A few thoughts about today's protests: 1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures: -- total national turnout (~ 3 million) -- number of local protests (~ 1400)