I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

10 years, a tenured prof (a women) told me that the solution to a peaceful (straight) relationship was for the 👩 to be with a younger 👨: "you will be more senior so no tension around the fact that you earn the same/more." This paper echoes this convo: econpapers.repec.org/paper/izaiza... (1/2)

For your undergraduates who might be interested in a MA in France: there are fellowships! lafayette.villa-albertine.org/participatin...

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics ▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour 🧵

Hey climate experienced and climate curious political scientists: Send your hottest (!) climate paper to this @epssnet.bsky.social section 🔥🌱🔌 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast! ‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

#polisky #poliscisky @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social @eliasdinas.bsky.social @giacomolem.bsky.social Please forward to folks who might be interested!

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Key debate:"what would be principles that would command public support" and/or lead to a decrease in the "salience" of immigration? @benansell.bsky.social opens the conversation in a very informed and insightful way. Ben, do you know of a graph that breaks the increase by visa type as follow: 1/n

📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers! @antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟 We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:

Here we go

Meloni's immigration policy looks in some ways similar to what we saw in the 60s including attempts at keeping low-skill immigration "circular." Migrants eventually settled and brought their families over. Does anyone know what Meloni has been up to re:family migration? doi.org/10.1186/s408...

Is it mostly Vance pushing on the antitrust front? The combination with pro-tech / anti-EU economic nationalism is fascinating. www.ft.com/content/bc54...

Excited to be joining the @jepsjournal.bsky.social editorial team has an associate editor. The journal accepts 5 types of submissions, including replications and pre-reg reports. Two key tenets: experimental methods/reasoning (it's in the title) and "tell it like it is." (1/2) #Polisky #behaviorsky

Want to know why EPSS was founded and why we in the EPSS Council (and many others in the European polisci community) are excited about it?! Here is the background info: See you at the EPSS conference in Belfast 2026!

And to follow up: I am trying to think through the difference between two actors: 1) one who sees fiscal stress as an exogenous constraint (i.e., "not enough money, so what's the point of taking action to support climate change mitigation, my preferred policy goal, I'll stay home") (1/2)

Any chance @anthlittle.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and other amazing formal theorists on the #polisci #polisky feed help me out with the following? (1/5)

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Listening to the Hazony interview by E.Klein: are we back to the communitarian critique of liberalism debate, with a clear nativist bend? Multiculturalism was the conceptual innovation that came out of the prior iteration, what are we going to get this time around?

Does anyone know of a blog post somewhere that lays out best practices for ChatGPT prompts having to do with classification of text (in my case, open-ended answers in a survey)? Thanks!

The call for papers is out! Look at this leadership dream team 👇. Spread the world: 2026 is the year of EPSS! Expect a human scale conference with great feedback and networking. [background info provided below]. (1/3) epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

1/Like Big Tech, US built platform infrastructures for the world. Now, it is squeezing those platforms for power. In short term, dependence is hard to break. In long term, US risks it all. New w/@himself.bsky.social in @wired.com on the enshittification of US power. www.wired.com/story/enshit...

Given the change in the status quo and possible partisan effect, these changes are not straightforward to interpret, but still, very striking!

@clarasievert.bsky.social brought this great piece of research on Ghana and Indonesia to my attention. Anybody knows of something similar for Western Europe, measuring the impact of introducing public pensions / social insurance on gendered / familial institutions of social solidarity?

Anecdotal evidence but during one of my Rochdale trips I was struck by 1) the amount of construction (money is being spent there) and 2) the amount of out-of-town workers who had to be brought in to do the work (my hotel was packed with construction / skilled workers)

Will Musk bankroll the moderate NeverTrumpers and help them solve their collective action problem?

How to interpret this kind of data/findings. Reminds me of conversations with US academics faced with funding cuts, they point to endowments and "ballooning" leadership salaries as the problem/solution. Are these types of attitudes a challenge (they have an effect) or a symptom of fiscal imbalances?

Underappreciated 2024 trend: Relative dropoff in Dem vs Rep turnout among younger reg. voters. Easy to mistake this as a swing right but it’s turnout. If young Dems matched Rep turnout rates, they’d have netted 2.5-3.5M votes—might not have flipped election but likely would’ve swung popular vote.

Who is going to Belfast next year? I am!

5. Did EPSS inherit funds from EPSAL? We’re in start-up mode with zero inherited funds from EPSAL. If you value the mission, now’s the time to support: join, become a lifetime member, donate, or all three. Especially to help with the 2026 Belfast conference. 5/

In Geneva waiting for a plane bound for the UK. You can recognize the Brits by the number of empty pints they have in front of them. Access to the plane's bathroom is going to be competitive...

Another recently published review, this time by @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social in Economic Sociology: econsoc.mpifg.de/50255/06_Boo... So great to see folks read and engage 😀, thanks Jonathan!

Google scholar alerted me to @davidattewell6.bsky.social's careful review of Fair Enough?. David gives a great overview and raises important follow-up questions. Recommended read for folks deciding whether or not reading the book is worth their time. Thanks David! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

In Seoul for my brother's wedding and hit the Airbnb jackpot!

Ever asked about your credit score on a date? This paper is for you: www.nber.org/papers/w33683 Based on Danish data: 1) don't use education to assess assortative mating, 2) high-income/-growth occupations are increasingly likely to marrying "their kind", explains a decent chunk of 📈 inequality

Let's talk about menopause & academia. If you are lucky (& have childcare) you might get a job at 30 & job security at 38-40. You might also retire late, meaning 30 research-productive relatively stress-free years ahead of you. Or is it less if you have a uterus? econpapers.repec.org/paper/cesces...

Soooo... I am tenured :-) Celebrated with @cescamat.bsky.social and the other amazing folks at IPERG in Barcelona. Thank you friends, family, tenure committee, colleagues, reviewers and letter writers. You made a Cavaillé happy. fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/ca...

With exciting book reviews of Zacarés' "Residential Capitalism" reviewed by Alejandro F. Pérez, @aspaglayan.bsky.social's "Raised to Obey" by @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, Bryant/Webber's "Climate Finance" by Giorgio Cuconato and @ccavaille.bsky.social's "Fair Enough" by @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social

Thank you @henningmeyer.bsky.social for editing! For research cited: @sarahobolt.bsky.social @trfetzer.com @simonecremaschi.bsky.social @paularettl.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social @denis-cohen.bsky.social

More partisan atttitudinal asymmetries -- since the presidential election, Democrats' national pride/trust in government has collapsed, while Republicans' values have only edged upwards. Data from @prl.bsky.social

And that's why liberals voted for proportional representation in the 1900s in Europe. In this case, the radicals were the workers' party and the liberal parties were "center-left." Liberals voted for PR to avoid being wiped out.

Nice piece on federalism and democratic backsliding by @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social & co-authors. Includes a comparison between the US, Brazil & Venezuela, likely more relevant than the usual US vs. Europe comparison (it's for you APE crowd). Will use to update my intro to American politics course.

Alan Gerber's email is so painful to read. "We are antisemitic, sorry , sorry, so sorry, can we keep our billions?"

Again: The Trump admin is showing you they have capacity constraints -- they can only do this shake-down procedure piecemeal. If these institutions want this to stop, they'll refuse to negotiate and take them to court. Hold the line, create a bottleneck.

Anybody noticed how much DJT loves the expression "the likes of which" followed by "never seen before.”

For those who were at the second teach in and heard @meganastewart.bsky.social talk about this issue, more food for thought.