It's bad when your German friends say this all seems so familiar

We believe there’s room for multiple poli sci conferences in Europe, just like in the US & other regions. 🔝 But if you’re looking to support a Europe-based not-for-profit member-led organization, submit your work to 1️⃣ EPSS conference: 📍 Belfast 📅 18–20 June 2026 📝 epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ 4/

Europeans: Kafkaesque Americans: McCarthyesque

Here's 90 minutes with @adamprz.bsky.social, Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and @dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...

It wasn't even remotely Jimmy's most biting monologue that night

Emboldened by the Trump 2.0 administration, Orban-funded "researchers" are laying the ground for questioning some of the key tenets of European integration.

Very bad news for any political scientist wanting to replace human annotators with AI -- as expected, you can basically generate *any* statistical result you want.

A little warning about the CUP "coffee break" in Exhibit Hall A: they only had organic decaf when I went there #apsa2025 #apsa25

PSA: All APSA panels will be distributed along the various beaches of Vancouver

This campaign has produced the best ads/content of any Democratic campaign I’ve covered since Obama ‘08 and it’s not really close.

The latest polling from East Germany's #SachsenAnhalt should come as no surprise to anyone studying the far right, paralleling trends from similar regions in the UK and France.

how many university presidents preemptively caving to the Trump administration are more interested in keeping their multimillion-dollar jobs than preserving their university's research funding and why is it all of them

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said direct talks between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy wouldn't happen, even as the Trump administration continues to push for a peace deal.

🚨 New OA article with Scherwin M. Bajka in @reggovjournal.bsky.social: “Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?” (link in last post) When people fear job loss from new tech, do they prefer vocational training over academic tracks? Short answer: yes.

Anthony Downs and Carl Schmitt walk into a D.C. bar

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

objektivpronomensubjektivierung

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Delta check in lady: Would you like to upgrade to first class for an extra $600 Wife: $600 to hit the mountain first? No thanks. Lady behind us: holy shit

Imagine your favorite sports game but with all players replaced by crack smoking raccoons. That’s what international politics is now.

After fielding a four-wave panel survey within just about a month, receiving some minor revisions on a manuscript is especially delightful.

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump. Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt. Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Wow. Research findings with p-values marginally less than 0.05 attract 60 to 110% higher Altmetric scores than those with p-values marginally above 0.05. p-hacking means more popular attention! p-hacking FTW!

Of note: The Union for Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S.

My overwhelming memory from Hebrew school is being young and seeing images of ancestors starving in the camps. “Never again” was our religion. Here is the paper of record today. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

mood

One little internal Maga skirmish and well over one year ahead of the midterms you call it a 'collapse'?

Bull run taking place (Pamplona/Wall St)

Late to the party. The Berlin sky was serving yesterday, so here's a view from the garden in the evening.

Things keep getting worse faster than I’m able to expect even when I expect them to get worse faster.

We've got your political science department surrounded. Put down the candy and let the little PhD students go

I had a fascinating conversation with @nicoabu.bsky.social about his 4 decade history of the Francoist dictatorship, 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre'. We discuss the Spanish path to fascism, how it diverged from the Germany & Italy & how the dictatorship evolved post-WWII while demolishing any idea

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. Here's what I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from the 2,000 phone calls.

The IRS said clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements, a potential move away from a 71-year-old policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

"Did you really use that hyphen on purpose or am I reading GPT content?"

📊 Deux sondages pour l'élection municipale de novembre à New York : ➡️ APR 🔵 Mamdani (démocrate) 35% 🟣 Cuomo (indépendant ex-dém) 29% 🔴 Sliwa (républicain) 16% 🟣 Adams (sortant, indépendant ex-dém) 14% ➡️ Gotham 🔵 Mamdani 41% 🟣 Cuomo 26% 🟣 Adams 16% 🔴 Sliwa 9%

until you do

why electoral integrity is just not quite enough to measure democracy

Differentiating yourself from AI by adding honest mistakes to your own manual labor

“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

New York City politics is making the summer spicy ☀️🌇

Europe must prepare for a future in which it is squeezed between an imperial, aggressive Russia and an America that can no longer be trusted. That means answering the fundamental question: Are Europeans willing to do what it takes to transform themselves into a viable power? (archive.ph/SvwxE)

Dark MAGA; MAGAH; MAGAW; MAGAG

Tonight at 6 PM CET, I'll start my busy week of (semi-)public speaking at @iwm.at with a lecture on my ongoing project "Rethinking the Far Right." While the lecture is fully booked, there should be a live stream here.