An important breakdown of the foundations, motivations, and strategies of the anti-science movement...

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BREAKING: A bipartisan majority of South Carolina lawmakers stopped a bill that would have redrawn Congressional maps, thrown out thousands of already-cast ballots, and disproportionately silenced Black voters.

Amazon CEO's assessment of Trump's second term:

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics? 🧪 The answer is a clear no. [The findings] raise a sharp warning against deploying LLMs as human proxies in social simulations. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18781 #SyntheticData #EsWirdImmerAbsurder

🏆 𝗦𝗢𝗠 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗗'𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗔 🏆

Don’t get me started. The citation gap persists and looks to me to be worsening. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve given detailed feedback only to not even get thanked, and coordinated most of the background sh*t only to not get acknowledged. I’ve even started a special jar.

We don’t talk enough about gender bias in academic attribution. For example, my 2011 and 2012 papers examining the intergenerational transmission of repression legacies are frequently overlooked, with credit instead going to scholars who published years later. (1/2)

New Working Paper: Perceptions of the Russia-Ukraine war in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. UNU WIDER Working Paper. www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

New Working Paper: Perceptions of the Russia-Ukraine war in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. UNU WIDER Working Paper. www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

From our February Issue: Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox” by @laiabalcells.bsky.social and STATHIS N. KALYVAS. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I always thought it was a bit ironic that graduation ceremonies are called "commencement" (beginning).

Very excited about hooding two PhD students this week. It's going to be my first time (though I have chaired one dissertation before). Looking forward to celebrating Ana Paula Pellegrino (currently at Stanford Uni) and Dain Yoo (currently at Bilkent Uni) during this Georgetown commencement!

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Will AI kill the research paper? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

A wonderful moment. Thinking of all my Hungarian friends, inside and outside of the country, who have been waiting for this for so long. Wish I could be at the “regime change party” in Budapest! 🎉

How does a nation's past impact its present? My latest research (joint with Elias Dinas and Ethan vanderWilden) explores in-group perpetratorhood.

You know, we could just enact proportional representation and be done with this silly gerrymandering suicide-murder pact. apnews.com/article/dona...

Episode 4,972 of Can You Imagine the Reaction if Obama Did That

From our FirstView: When the Church Votes Left: How Progressive Bishops Supported the Workers’ Party in Brazil by GUADALUPE TUÑÓN doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Absolutely, even in female dominant research areas... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We don’t talk enough about gender bias in academic attribution. For example, my 2011 and 2012 papers examining the intergenerational transmission of repression legacies are frequently overlooked, with credit instead going to scholars who published years later. (1/2)

By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress. n.pr/4edJ5XA

I am thrilled to appear (alongside other Georgetown University scholars) in the 2025 Elsevier/Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientist Rankings: elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btc...

🆕 How history shapes political generations 🧒 🧑 🧓 @laiabalcells.bsky.social & Francisco Villamil ask what the is the long-term impact of authoritarian repression on society, using survey data to assess differences in civic engagement across generations of regime

All Catalans (including Rosalia and myself) are obsessed with the tradition. Visca Sant Jordi!

We talk about this paper today in Piedras de Papel (in Spanish): www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

Tenemos nuevo post en nuestro blog. Hoy @laiabalcells.bsky.social y Francisco Villamil analizan la huella del franquismo en las generaciones: ¿cómo ha afectado la dictadura franquista a nuestro comportamiento político? www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

List political science departments that are underrated (because they are not appearing at the top of whatever rankings people look at). I'll start: -UW Madison -Georgetown University -Duke University

Note to PhD applicants: if you apply to an institution, you should be willing to go there if you get admitted. If not, what's the point of applying?

Breaking News: A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. nyti.ms/41K5qEP

Very happy to have this paper out. Thanks to all the people who gave us feedback at different stages.

I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

El fundador de Telegram asegura que ha hackeado la app de la UE para verificar la edad de los usuarios "en dos minutos"

Interesting.

My God, this story … www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

@laiabalcells.bsky.social and @franvillamil.bsky.social examine the long-term legacies of authoritarianism using Data from Spain to show that civic engagement is significantly lower for generations coming of age under authoritarian rule (🔓 OA): doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Europe has only six weeks’ supply of jet fuel left due to Iran war, says energy chief

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

What I think politicians should absorb about voters and inflation is that voters *are not* stupid and that inflation has been 50-100% higher than normal trends for the past 5 years and counting. Inflation of 3% is *33% higher* than inflation of 2%. Those are *big* differences as prices rise.

We Catholics are not going to be lectured to nor insulted by someone of the low character of Lindsey Graham. This man is so devoid of values that he has become Trump's biggest enabler because, unlike us, he stands for absolutely nothing except his never-ending promotion of war.

I don't get why these companies don't build EV versions of their most popular cars. I would spring to buy a full EV of a Corolla or Camry.

The FBI has been warning about a sharp increase in activity by “764” and other violent online groups that seek to exploit children.