Beyond the financial toll, the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers. 3/3

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

How do violent pasts shape democratic politics decades later? A new Broadstreet blog by @laiabalcells.bsky.social, @apvjustino.bsky.social and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social dives into findings from the Comparative Political Studies special issue. Read more: go.unu.edu/fc9rP

A great overview of a great special issue, including our paper on the legacies of antifascist resistance in Italy. Thank you again @laiabalcells.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @andrearuggeri.bsky.social !

First time writing for Broadstreet blog! With @apvjustino.bsky.social and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, we wrote about the Special Issue just published at Comparative Political Studies: www.broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-o...

Librarians at my institution are reporting weekly requests from students to find AI generated titles for non existent papers. Why do researchers think AI can do something they've spent 10+ years training in how to do? Stop using AI. You're a researcher. That is literally your job.

Polarized Equality? Ideological and Affective Divides Over Gender Equality in Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very sad and distressing news from UNC: www.dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee...

guys is it happening?? www.mediaite.com/politics/two...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.

Unlike in the U.S., in Hungary sexual abuse of children is leading to massive protests that pose a serious threat to the power of their far-right leader.

Jews everywhere understand that this is the omnipresent reality of being Jewish now. There's a reason my synagogue built a 10-foot tall fence around the whole building and has armed security guards.

Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"

Today, on what should have been a day of celebration, the Jewish community is instead mourning once again after a horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia, where two men opened fire and killed at least 12 people in a targeted terror attack against Jews celebrating Hanukkah. Antisemitism is evil.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

I sometimes teach in Providence. In the classroom where I most frequently teach, there's a section labeled for where students are supposed to go for active shooters. It is a cliche of a phrase, but I want to echo the Professor here and say: it does not have to be this way.

Thinking of all the community of Brown University people, including friends.

Fotografías muestran cómo quedó el Ala Este de la Casa Blanca tras ser demolida cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/10/23/e...

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

Una de les coses més xules de ser catalanoparlant és tenir un idioma "secret" a la major part del món. Només això hauria de convèncer als joves de seguir parlant-lo.

Very exciting news to start the weekend. My paper with Fran Villamil, entitled "Generational Legacies of Authoritarianism: Evidence from Spain", has been accepted for publication at the European Journal of Political Research. This paper has had a journey, but I believe it has made it better.

How to juice your Google Scholar h-index, preprint by preprint retractionwatch.com/2025/12/08/h...

Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation

"Right-wing extremism in Germany scares me" Say 74% of Germans.

Això serà demà dimecres 10 de desembre a les 18.30h. Parlarem d'institucions, ciutadans i confiança en les institucions. Veniu!

Great to have When Rebels Win now in physical form! It’s available from Cornell University Press (use code 09BCARD for 30% off) or other major booksellers www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

NEW ISSUE from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - American Political Science Review - Volume 119 - Issue 4 - https://cup.org/4pzLcrt cc @apsa.bsky.social

Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/3Y9b15s

I tried to explain this to people the other day - a rainbow flag to me as a gay man means, “LGBTQA+ people are welcome and safe here”. No more. No less. And removing them means, “You are not welcome or safe here”. No more. No less.

This Republican number is wild: 23% approve. It's their Congress! news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

Check out this special issue of Comparative Political Studies: Legacies of Repression and Resistance in the Early 20th Century, which we edited with Patricia Justino and Andrea Ruggeri. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...

Important meta-analysis by Joan Barceló on the legacies of wartime violence, out at the APSR: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This Thanksgiving I am grateful for having a beautiful mother tongue that is however on it way to disappearance: www.rac1.cat/politica/202...

The Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology (CAPT) at Purdue University is currently searching for a Postdoctoral Research Associate! The deadline to apply is Dec. 31, 2025. More information about the position is available here: careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoct... #commsky

Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible. A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597

I was very puzzled when I saw this. Time to unsubcribe from The Atlantic?

But Spain is the EU country with greatest economic growth, etc.

Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) is very funny. Does anyone have the clip of his joke about US bathrooms (from the show The Second Best Night of your Life)? It's hilarious.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don't. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows. If you've screwed up & done that, immediately end the interview when they performative lie in public on your teevee shows. Congrats again to everyone who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary.

Quietly terrifying. www.wsj.com/economy/aida...

How I recovered from a collaboration gone wrong www.science.org/content/arti...

The country/world we live in now.

OPINIÓN | Abusos en la universidad: por qué persiste la impunidad y qué reformas pueden cambiarla, por Aina Gallego www.eldiario.es/132_c306cd?u...

"Boris Johnson took four days off from official government business during a key period in the UK’s Covid preparation when the NHS was bracing to be “overwhelmed” by the virus." When we most needed a leader we, instead, had this guy.

he never looks at JD that way

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year