What a wonderful few days in Belfast for #EPSS2026 and what a fantastic community! Thank you to everyone who joined the conference with such enthusiasm A special thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & the rest of the EPSS Council for making it all possible

Hooray! Museum drinks! See you all there 🎉

HPE folks at @epssnet.bsky.social! Don’t forget to attend our Historical Political Economy Agenda Setting panel, coming up at 10:50. My keynote includes AI and Roman scrolls! #EPSS2026 #EPSS

Delighted to share that this June I joined @LSE Cities as a Research Officer! 🎉 I'll be working on the City Government Innovation Observatory, leading surveys & quantitative analysis on local government leadership across 100+ European cities. Excited to work with @alicirone.bsky.social and the team!

Had an excellent time at the UChicago-Beijing Political Economy of Governance Conference, at the UChicago Global Center in Beijing! Top notch papers and amazing hospitality. Huge thanks to Zhaotian Luo, Scott Gehlbach, and Tianguang Meng for hosting!

3 new projects: 1/3 an Algorithmic Redistricting Atlas. Explore congressional redistricting across enacted, simulated, and optimized maps. It has data for the last 5 presidential elections, and you can swing the national baseline.

This week ⬇️

New publication from the POLLOT team! With Jessica De Rongé and Sofija Riegger we studied past lotteries in Belgium. @cevipof.bsky.social - Sciences Po

I am very excited to be returning to LSE and joining @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social. Eager to help develop this already fantastic policy school, co-teach with @alicirone.bsky.social, and launch a new course on "Designing Democracy”.

More exciting news: Simon Hix is joining us at the LSE School of Public Policy! Very thrilled to hire another political scientist, and looking forward to co-teaching our future MPA students in the core political science module 🎉 @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social

Except in the US, “chicken and dumplings” doesn’t mean a dumpling stuffed with chicken. The dumpling is basically pasta, in a chicken sauce…

Thrilled to have our LSE School of Public Policy Executive MPA and Executive MPP students back on campus for our Policy in Practice week. This year's simulation was on Environmental Impacts of AI, with a walkout crisis!

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

🏠 University of Barcelona – Department of Economic History, Institutions, Politics and World Economy (IPERG) 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/fwlhmuuqwa #Economics #PoliticalEconomy

🚨Political economy workshop at BI - May 28 🚨 👉 send me an email if you would like to attend Presenters: Sophie Hatte, @siggi-econ.bsky.social, Laura Barros, Nicola Mastrorocco, @moritz-marbach.com, @bcegerod.bsky.social, @oskorge.bsky.social, @alicirone.bsky.social, @maxemilking.bsky.social

Exciting news here at the LSE School of Public Policy -- our new Dean is Anne-Marie Slaughter! Very proud to be a part of the SPP, and looking forward to what’s ahead. www.lse.ac.uk/news/anne-ma...

Our article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social is about the travails of majoritarian mayoral elections for Women's Representation. Lets get PR & RCV in the USA! @rcvmd.org @rcv123.org @rcvmontana.bsky.social @maxberger.bsky.social @fairvote.bsky.social @fairvotewa.bsky.social @fairvotemn.bsky.social

Over 56,000 people demand water is put into public ownership, want a referendum if government won’t budge, and have signed this petition in under 2 weeks. If it gets to 100,000 it has to be debated in Parliament. 82% of people want publicly owned water. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

strait of WHAT

And an AI girlfriend will never ask for a divorce….. etc etc

The fact that the Pope saying some basic Christian stuff is considered a political attack against Trump and MAGA clearly shows the anti-Christian nature of the regime.

If you can automatically register people for the draft, then you can automatically register people to vote. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

People need to realize the 25th Amendment is HARDER than impeachment and removal. MUCH. Impeachment/removal: majority House and 2/3 Senate. 25th Amendment: VP, majority Cabinet, then 2/3 each House and Senate. I mean, come on folks.

Ready for Easter!

Hat tip to the brilliant Sesame Street deep cut. #NoKings

The awards for the MPSA Women's Caucus have extended deadlines - now due April 3rd. The early career nominations can be submitted here: umkc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Professional achievement can be submitted here: umkc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

From our FirstView article: Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems DANIEL M. SMITH, @AliCirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, GARY W. COX and JON H. FIVA. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

Thanks to @ximecalos.bsky.social for this fantastic summary of our research! Hidden Majoritarianism Hinders Women’s Political Careers: politicalsciencenow.com/hidden-major... @alicirone.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @fiva.no

Great to have our recent APSR highlighted!

If you are interested in doing high-impact, public-facing research ... Join Our Research Team! @SMLabTO is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow socialmedialab.ca/2026/03/04/p...

Oh they did? All by themselves? Did they show up all at once or arrive separately?

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

We’re hiring an Events and Department Affairs Officer at the School of Public Policy! Help plan and deliver a busy events programme, support internal communications, and work with academic staff and visiting speakers. Apply by 12 March 2026 (23.59 UK time): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Really enjoyed this. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

For anyone looking for postdocs for their students, over the next few months LSE “fellow” positions will start being listed. Research + teaching but 2-3 year runway. The new Global School of Sustainability has 5 new ones posted now! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

That cross!! Ashes are supposed to be a sign of repentance; not virtue signaling. Actual Catholics aren’t performative about this — the cross is usually a bit uneven (and there’s a gradient in color) and it starts to fall off almost immediately. Lack of humility defeats the point!

Care about preparing people to contribute responsibly to building the next generation of AI and technology? Full-time (or at least 50%) lecturer position at Cornell Tech just posted, teaching computer science or related topics. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31698

This is so cool. Hi, friends!

Call for nominations for dissertation and book awards from @sioecon.bsky.social. Please get the word out!

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Once again, I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats do not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn 🤔🧐

Nooooo