My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Fleabag season 3 writes itself

As an outsider, I find it insane that a for-profit organisation managed to present itself as a scientific, professional organisation for years. But continuing to organise an alternative conference to undermine the not-for-profit EPSS is beyond insane. epssnet.org/uncategorize...

A common Q from British colleagues I keep getting is why isn’t asylum as salient in Spain’s political debate as in other countries like UK, given Spain had the 2nd most asylum apps in 2024 in EU (165K, after Germany)? Attitudes to immigration also remain quite favorable (ESS 2024).

Many people desperately wanted to see Starmer's LPC speech as a new direction on immigration and asylum. Yet, we clearly see a continuation of an approach that basically says Farage is right on policy but morally wrong. Others have tried it, it won't work. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

open.substack.com/pub/benansel... Really nice post by @benansell.bsky.social to understand why Labour’s embrace of Reform positions makes zero electoral sense.

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The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

youtube.com/watch?v=nMyy... The zone of interest, but make it 2025

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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Super useful advice

When people tell me to be pragmatic & let it slide

@williamlallen.bsky.social every single time I see a jack russell walking the streets of Madrid, I ttell @deniskierans.bsky.social “Mira, una Pepita” 🩷🫶🏼

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

So: a) none of political assassins were students, or even shared a coherent ideology - shameful to blame universities b) Trump is already engaged in the attack on campus speech the Free Press wants c) I worry a lot more about the animosity to campus The Free Press is fueling than any of my students

This is insane www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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New papers out on perceived unfairness! A 🧵: In @sociusjournal.bsky.social with @brueggemann-o.bsky.social J. Lang, S. Strauss we show that women are no longer more accepting of lower wages than men by using linked employer-employee data.

This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥

Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization.

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Sad to leave Sibiu 🇷🇴 after a glorious month of work and vacation. @deniskierans.bsky.social and I met lovely people & cats, ate amazing food, loved both nature and the city 🩷 Ata pronto, Sibiu

Exceptional interview The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

bret stephens: israel isn’t committing genocide israel:

This report by Lee Mordechai👇🏼👇🏼 witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

‘The plan is manifestly illegal, and if carried out would amount to a series of grave international crimes’ - Israeli intl law scholars on plans by Defence Minister Katz to “concentrate” population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...

Ethnic and gender bias in Large Language Models across contexts: https://osf.io/9zusq

This how your email finds me.

Just learned that yet another university investigation into abuse of PhDs ended with a "recommendation" the professor talk to a labourr lawyer—no sanctions, no ban on supervising students. When will we stop tolerating abuse of junior scholars?

On 5 July 1948, the #NHS was born. 🕯️ Ahead of tomorrow, we’re shining a light on some of the many people who came to Britain to help make this vision for a better society a reality 💙 #HeartOfTheNation

EqualStrength crowd is the coolest crowd 😎🔥 #IMISCOE2025 (

Gearing up for the Annual Conference of IMISCOE, in Paris. Next week, our @equalstrength.bsky.social team will be presenting fresh results from multi-sited survey and field experiments on prejudice, intersectional stereotypes and discrimination conducted in 9 European countries. Stay tuned!

Power to the people ✨🌟🌈🎉🎉🎉

Fun fact: My secondary school’s name was ‘República Oriental de Uruguay’ (Republic of Uruguay), apparently bc Uruguay donated funds for its construction 🤔 why Uruguay gave money for a school in Spain? maybe due to the high number of Galician migrants in Uruguay? I’ll never know 🤷🏻‍♀️ My school today👇🏼🇺🇾

@iprnickp.bsky.social and @gavin-kelly.bsky.social analyse how the UK welfare state was reshaped by austerity and Covid, showing that despite fundamental changes, most reforms aligned with the UK's liberal model. They also explore future policy options. #UKWelfare academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

How does immigration relate to welfare states and public opinion about access to welfare? @mfreino.bsky.social, @isabel-ruiz.bsky.social and I have a new open-access review of the evidence in @oxrepjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/oxre... #polisky #econsky #socsky #migcitsky 1/n

People have real problems believing Reform voters don't come from Labour, if not recently, then in the past. A small proportion do, but let's look at how far back you'd have to go now ...

On the tariffs @strangeloopcanon.com over at the other place has pretty convincing evidence that the White House may have used LLMs to come up with its tariff model and that that evidence may have come from LLM scraping of a Peter Navarro book. We are in the dumbest AI timeline.

Shame on this labour goverment www.theguardian.com/society/2025...