Upgrading Karachi’s electricity network from bare low-voltage wires to aerial bundled cables significantly reduced theft and feeder losses, leading to improved revenue recovery and fewer power outages. Read today's article to learn more:

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...

"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week posted a video of himself in which he wore jeans in a hot tub, chugged a glass of whole milk and rode an exercise bike in a sauna. These activities were all performed shirtless and under the supervision of the musician Kid Rock."

I'm looking to hire an RA in Lahore for a project with @yasirkhan.bsky.social and Bakhtawar Ali. Please see details below.

Periodic google search: “what sport is Super Bowl?”

When is India's National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6)- 2023-24 data being released?

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

The complicated impacts of maternity leave garimasharma.com/files/matben...

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

Thrilled to have presented our work with @saadgulzar.bsky.social and @juanfeliperiano.bsky.social "Pay-to-Play: Campaign Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement" at the XLIII Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference at Caltech piep.caltech.edu/selected-pap...

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

UCLA CCPR Faculty Affiliate Professor Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, highlights new ICE data showing federal crackdowns are arresting mostly immigrants with no criminal record — far more non-offenders than serious criminals. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!

Very well said

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on.ft.com/4ovCLwn Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments Maguire… wrote that… Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”

What's the book/article on to read on the farmers' movement 2020-21 in India?

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Very interesting spillover effects into other domains and within families! Congratulations!!

Just posted a new review paper I co-authored with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social. It is prepared for the Annual Review of Political Science. Comments welcome! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixtd6...

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly. What then must we do? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

If the eggs in the egg sandwich are not from Japan, this is going to fail!

New UN Commission of Inquiry report reinforces the consensus among experts around Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. As the Israeli govt escalates its assault on Gaza City & destroys Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, states have a duty under Genocide Convention to act.

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

UN official says Israel's "deliberate shooting" of the single building where a fertility clinic was "immediately reminded me of the Rwanda genocide where I was a judge and where they ripped the bellies of pregnant women, pulled out the fetuses because they wanted to kill off the entire Tutsi group."

"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."

RF Kuang's new book's synopsis

📣 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:

Excited and honored that “Creating Partisans” has won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for its contributions to research on pol. organizations and parties from @apsa.bsky.social! Many thanks to the committee & everyone who helped improve the book! @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.

Markus Goldstein making the point that there are very few papers in top economics journals on sub Saharan Africa.

I'm reading The Inheritance of Loss in preparation for the new one :D

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

“We built our house with our own hands, and now it’s gone.” The Punjab floods, which have killed hundreds of people, are the latest in a string of extreme weather events this year that have devastated Pakistan. Many businesses that rely on agriculture have seen their impending harvest washed away.

New working paper alert 🚨 We investigate the influence of police unions in U.S. local politics. We show that in cities where the mayor was supported by a police union, police departments obtain more resources, but, if anything, police performance worsens in these cities. More in the thread below.

TIL that @rizahmed.bsky.social is pro-sortition (random selection of citizens to become politicians) 😱 youtube.com/shorts/M7oTO...

Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

What do bureaucrats maximize? New research by @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social & @saadgulzar.bsky.social demonstrates that governments can reduce intractable emissions problems — if they have the right incentives. legal-planet.org/2025/08/15/w...