Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting ⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

I just ordered @vincentab.bsky.social 's epic new book Model to Meaning. This project is one of the most exciting recent developments in data science. The book & #rstats / #python package show how to understand your model *within* its real-world context/use case. www.routledge.com/Model-to-Mea...

Absolutely beautiful performance.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

If people in government want my longer thoughts on why arbitrarily extending the time to ILR for people who are already here is bad (let alone the mass deportation policies of their rivals), and a sense of what I think a sustainable policy might be, then see: benansell.substack.com/p/select-and...

New paper: LLMs are increasingly used to label data in political science. But how reliable are these annotations, and what are the consequences for scientific findings? What are best practices? Some new findings from a large empirical evaluation. Paper: eddieyang.net/research/llm_annotation.pdf

BTW let's appreciate the sheer bathetic comedy of Trump's threats sliding from WE'RE GOING TO BAN ALL CRITICAL SOFTWARE WE WILL BRING YOUR ECONOMY TO A HALT down to WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN COOKING OIL SEE IF WE DON'T.

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Highly recommend @nikhil-kalyanpur.bsky.social's substack The Price of Power for anyone interested in money and politics and what the latest social science research has to say about it.

📢 Call for Papers! We’re inviting submissions for the @politicalnetworks.bsky.social Online Colloquium (2025–26) (w/ @mtp.bsky.social) 🔹 Monthly, 1-hr sessions 🔹 Read-ahead format (no presentations) 🔹 Open to scholars in poli sci & related fields 🔹 Deadline: 17 Oct 2025 Learn more & submit here 👇

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Just out in the NBER.....identification of a structural model of human capital skill formation amongst adolescents using a field experiment. www.nber.org/papers/w34274

Political campaigns now burn 30¢ of every dollar raised just fundraising for more dollars (up from 9¢ in 2004). In 2024, $3 Billion was spent on fundraising. In 2026, fundraising costs are on track to exceed advertising spending for the first time.

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Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.

📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers! @antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟 We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

I am thrilled that my article "The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference" is now out in the American Journal of Political Science. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

📄 Call for Papers: #EPSS2026 Belfast
The call is out! Submit your proposals here:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Proposals are already coming in, please help us spread the word! 4/

Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 🕵️Process tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models All in two heady days. training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

"Because USD rallied during the crisis, there is an assumption that foreign investors moved funds into the US [...] The bid for US bonds came from central banks [...], not private investors. [...] While foreign capital fled the US, US capital also fled global markets and returned home in 2008."

📣Conference announcement: Our PhD students are organizing a graduate conference. See call below. Call for abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King's College London Conference date: 26 Nov 2025 Abstract submission deadline: 29 Sep Apply here (+ details): tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

1/blockbuster decision on Trump tariffs. Regardless of what happens at the Supreme Court, stretching national security laws to their limit, Trump has put the cornerstone of US coercion at risk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025! 🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨 📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹) 📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

- 7 dos 10 bilionários com menos de 30 anos são herdeiros da Weg - Weg é a empresa que mais receberá $ da política industrial g1.globo.com/economia/not...

Mais que 50 bolsas Fulbright disponíveis para estudantes e professores brasileiros, 2027/2027. Inscrições abertas. fulbright.org.br/bolsas-para-...

Good morning, everyone. After introducing my book about looted art yesterday, let me tell you more about what's in there. Today is about Napoleon. Napoleon stole a lot of shit, no really, it was insane. In fact, the era of systematic state-sponsored looting on mass scale began with Napoleon. thread👇

1/ 🧵I did an extensive test of GPT-5 Pro vs Gemini Deep Think on unseen #gametheory questions with no solutions available online. Here's my frank review with a clear ranking

I wrote a whole paper about revisions! They are a statistical best practice but can erode public trust in institutions. Governments don't revise their data unless they're forced to - which is why revisions are more prevalent among democracies (see Ireland, Greece) www.iasmingoes.com/papers/Goes-...

"European leaders are tentatively hopeful after call with Trump" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Administrative data 1-0 Survey data "The findings will be a relief to the chancellor after a series of surveys, based mainly on anecdotal evidence, suggested her tax policies had prompted huge numbers of wealthy individuals to flee the country."

When I say 'the government has no project' this is a good example of that, where on the one hand we have 'remove barriers for critical infrastructure' and on the other we have 'but stop hiring construction workers from overseas'.

See the latest version here! datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com

Hey faculty! Want your students to produce better writing but not sure how to get there? I've got a FREE workshop for you - Helping Struggling Student Writers! 2 hrs of practical, deploy-anywhere tools for busy faculty who aren't trained to teach writing. buff.ly/78s8qu5

The upcoming Trump-Putin talks in Alaska have essentially no chance of ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Simply "failing" to end the war would be the relatively good scenario. There are far deeper consequences to these talks that could reshape the conflict and US diplomacy for the worse. (1/9)

"Unlike Mexico, whose exports to the US are crucial, exports to the US “represent less than two per cent of Brazilian GDP. That helps you understand why Lula’s instinct is to resist.” Notable that Lula and Trump have never met or spoken. www.ft.com/content/7f6b...

NEW PAPER!! We study how the "AI slop" era could actually boost demand for credible news. In an experiment with thousands of Süddeutsche Zeitung readers, we found that AI misinformation made people *trust news less*, but *read it more*. 🧵

Please share: @pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Just finished Girl on Girl by @sophiegilbert.bsky.social — a thoughtful, stimulating read that made me rethink key cultural moments in my lifetime and the narratives that shape womanhood today. A perfect companion to Cue the Sun! by @emilynussbaum.bsky.social

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Some clarification on next year‘s EPSS conference in Belfast - not-for-profit, the place to be, and lots of fun! Join us! Call for papers here:

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

🚨 Job alert! We’re looking for a 1-year Lecturer (T&S) in International Public Policy & Diplomacy to join our team for a year. 📍 1-year fixed-term 🌍 Open to applicants regardless of visa/immigration status 🗓️ Deadline: 20 August 2025 Come work with us! 👇 #AcademicJobs #PublicPolicy #IR #HigherEd