📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

So six academics decided to read the same book together and did not realize how long the book was. Middlemarch took us almost a year and to discuss it we used slides. Anyway, my one sentence summary of the discussion is that it's a book about self-deception.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Where willpower fails, a rolling pin-brandishing grandmother may still succeed

Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging Columbia, June 4-5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi) Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5 Details ⬇️

A prophecy from “The Makers of American Wine,” 2012.

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

April 25, 1945 marks the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy. We honor those who chose to resist and those who died fighting. The Benedicta massacre occurred between April 6 and 11, 1944, a few miles from my hometown. It’s the largest mass killing of the Italian Resistance, taking over 150 lives.

From a proud veteran of EITM 2011: do apply to this!

🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

Please spread the word: Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University. The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th). More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Let’s just hope we were right about this one…

Yes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

Early this morning I saw a pineapple liying on the sidewalk and the image has been haunting me since.

[CONFERENCE ALERT] Political, Social, and Economic Inequality Organizers: A. Alrababah and G. Invernizzi (Bocconi), S. Hirano and C. Prato (Columbia) The conference will be held at Bocconi University on June 19-20, 2024. Submit here before 12/31: shorturl.at/fDyoD

Where Ian Turner and I argue that weakening congressional oversight may actually undermine presidential attempts to influence bureaucrats

With @ginvernizzi.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and Shigeo Hirano, we're thrilled to announce the inaugural Bocconi-Columbia Conference on Political, Social, and Economic Inequality. 📅 Mark your calendars: June 19-20, 2025 at Bocconi University!

This is interesting. One can also interpret this in terms of aspirations—and maybe the connection between aspirations and expectations is cohort-specific. But still.

A counterexample: in my first election as a US voter, I supported the adoption of RCV in NYC based (among other things) on what I thought was a very compelling intuition. The math showed that the intuition was spectacularly incorrect

Also, if you are looking for a balanced, ungated, and accurate source of Italian news, I recommend ilpost.it

This headline is ambiguous

they’re called tweets, it’s generic now, like bandaid and kleenex

“The mass migration of November 2024”

It is not a coincidence that the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this year recognizes a body of research centered around the importance of well-functioning institutions. For me it’s a bit like my team won the world cup but I cannot really celebrate. Bittersweet.

New website, still rather spartan but I updated food recs. carloprato.com

One of the things I will remember about these days is the wonderful contrast between the soothing jazz music played by the Columbia radio and their really high-quality coverage of the campus events

Today is the perfect day to share that my article with Juan Masullo "The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive" is forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! A preprint is available at osf.io/ve8w4 polisky

I don’t know where this originated but it’s too good not to share.

My favorite Kate theory so far, from threads

Register for the Rebecca Morton Experiments conference at NYU on March 1 and 2: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We have a great lineup of papers and posters — schedule and more info on the conference website: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Please join!

how your email finds me:

What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7

Two-year post-doc in Russian Politics at the Harriman Institute at Columbia. Deadline Jan 8. Applications from all social sciences accepted. Come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/135397

❗Job openings in our unit ❗ We currently have two job openings:   Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline for applications: 14.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80075 Student Assistant Deadline for applications: 02.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80074 Please share widely.

I am looking for teaching work. Currently based in US Northeast. Long list of courses in my repertoire: American parties, Congress, urban politics, state politics, comparative institutions, methods, etc. Pipeline: party-in-elections, effects of electoral reform on descriptive representation. CV 👇

Useful clarity.

This probably sounds better in the original German

Polisky

Speaking of the fact that higher polarization -> weaker congressional leaders www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Short thread: in this piece we try to organize the insights of a few recent formal models of democratic backsliding and present them within a unified analytical framework (1/n)

Siehst du nicht wie die Welt zerbricht, Eitausend Mal?

Come join us at IE University in Madrid! We’re seeking to fill 3 tenure-track positions! We’re a growing community of political scientist here and IE is an amazing workplace with the best colleagues! IR: apply.interfolio.com/132073 CP: apply.interfolio.com/132210 PE: apply.interfolio.com/132207

Reupping this because there are a lot more people here now and I, unfortunately, still need a job.

Happy to share a new working paper with Yotam Margalit, "The Politics of Using AI in Public Policy: Experimental Evidence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/7