Spoiled brats are running the world.

Margaret Thatcher was kept in dark over Reagan's attack on Grenada Daily Telegraph. It's an old tradition of the "special relationship."

A message for you all to carry through the year

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

"social science has to answer questions that people beyond academia care about..academia can['t] just be self-referential as it grows infinitely. I think there are challenges to understand what’s going on in the United States and the world and to talk about it to broad audiences in plain language.."

The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up. A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

This is extremely important

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

The dropout rate for apprenticeships is 38%. The dropout rate for universities is 6%. We talk a lot about the variable quality of university courses and nowhere near enough about the variable quality of apprenticeships

Damning overview of the nudging literature. "[We] provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging." "We find a small aggregated effect size." "[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered meta-analyses to clarify the true impact [of nudging]."

How hard would it have been to say "of course not... that's not what it's for"? I get that you've got a product to sell, but have some self-respect, man.

This is v good

Very cool paper using physiology to measure issue salience academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.

Experimental participants to us

"Broad claims of generalized cognitive enhancement resulting from physical exercise appear premature"

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u

The number of British citizens emigrating hasn’t increased, btw. Outward migration is up, but the increase is mostly non-EU migrants leaving the UK. The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…

Really great and interesting paper: "Using British electoral panel data, it shows that greater open-mindedness, tolerance for uncertainty, and social distrust are associated with greater political attitudinal volatilty."

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side. osf.io/preprints/so... #polisky

lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩 Can you see the problem?

New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

I'm happy to share my *open access* contribution to the "IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts" entitled simply "Immigration". I hope that the entry is of use for researchers at all levels! link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Looking at this fiasco, and the mess Starmer is making of government, it’s looking more and more like the defeat of Corbynism was about its own limitations rather than the Machiavellian machinations of the Labour right

It’s very revealing how the techno-futurist crowd assumes that the rest of us also treat other people as props and gadgets in our lives, as opposed to valuing the fact that there’s a thinking, feeling person there.

This is an absolutely fantastic video by @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social : "Could Britain rejoin Europe?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKk...

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

📢 @jamesrdennison.bsky.social, @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & Mariana Carmo Duarte: Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2419550

Even in the era of zero-cost LLMs, some scientists are still crafting data for their clinical trials by hand... and getting published in the @bmj.com! Inspiring. pubpeer.com/publications...

EU repeats request for Israel to let in media into Gaza

Kemi made me do it.

EU states have provisionally agreed to curb Russian diplomats' travel and ban imports of liquid gas, but Austria and Slovakia still have objections to the next round of sanctions.

Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈 But is this really the case? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

⚠️New publication @ssreditorial.bsky.social 📖 #ethics in the practical implementation of #migration information campaigns ➡️ Sender credibility and Anxiety-trigger both impactful for information provision ➡️ but via distinct paths: No double-down-effect 🛄 Multi-treatment RCT, N=2612 in Nigeria

reminded today of the incredible Summerhill parody in The Day Today, which is both *extremely* specific and very funny even if you have no idea what Summerhill was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tebh...

IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

The light of dawn hits cirrus clouds just right for a beautiful palette of cool and warm colors. Photo taken at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. August 2025. #Stunday #CratersoftheMoon #Idaho #NationalParks #photography #travel #camping #dawn #clouds

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Another problem is that UK politics has a serious "pipeline problem". If Starmer keeled over tomorrow, I've no idea who would replace him. I don't even know who the frontrunners would be. There are no experienced, tested candidates in either main party, because UK politics no longer develops that

The evil that men do lives after them

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Donald Trump, Peter Mandelson & Jeffrey Epstein. From Matt.

Remembering my childhood in Camberley, Surrey (at a later date, Michael Gove’s seat) where the Conservative controlled council proudly flew the 🇪🇺 flag outside their offices, at about that period of time.

IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.