🚨🚨 500+ University of Exeter staff are at risk of compulsory redundancy. These cuts would devastate teaching, research, and the humanities. Stand with staff, students, and the wider community - sign and share the petition. @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk c.org/cJmrk7DNq4

Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education: ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.

#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Whom do you serve? A comparative analysis of congruence between party representatives, voters, and economic elites (2007–2017) - https://cup.org/4uxxNCp - Paolo Marzi & @michelesdv.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

Finally out in European Political Science Review! @epsrjournal.bsky.social In “Whom do you serve?” Paolo and I look at whether parties align more with voters or economic elites across countries (2007–2017). A key question for understanding unequal representation in our democracies.

That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!

❇️ FirstView - 💼 Profession @michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social highlight the challenges, training needs, and preferences of scholars using text analysis methodologies. 👉 buff.ly/N2MngBm

#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research - https://cup.org/3ZlNL4Q - @michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

How do central bankers talk when their reputation is at stake? Here's a brief post about a recent study by Christel Koop and myself on the Bank of England: shorturl.at/uGnF7 @kcl-spe.bsky.social @govjournal.bsky.social

Senator Merkley is on hour 20 of reading How Democracies Die, mixed w commentary, on u.s. senate floor

If you're struggling with the effects of anxiety and depression, a new study has shown that a nature-based programme called Roots and Shoots could help boost your mood, enhance mindfulness, and reconnect with the natural environment. news.exeter.ac.uk/fa... 1/5

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

Telling people on Bluesky that the crisis of left-wing parties and movements might have something to do with the behavior of left-wing parties and movements

In a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation 🧐

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

The COMPTEXT family keeps on growing! #COMPTEXT2025

AI is already in the classroom. Instead of banning it, educators should focus on integrating it while preserving intellectual rigor.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Happy to promote this course I am delivering for the LISS DTP training programme. The course is open to London-based PhDs who want to explore how to use automated methods to classify texts and covers methods with different levels of complexity. More here: mscottodivettimo.github.io/liss2117.html

What does the Spring Statement mean for lower income families?

The biggest threat to European security does not come from Russia but it comes from the far right within its own nation states. All of the defense spending is not going to protect anyone if Trump's and Putin's buddies are voted into office, they consolidate power and erode liberal democracy 1/

🚨 Our paper "One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data" has just been published! What did we find? TL;DR: EU + L/R Super Dimension summarises EU VAA user data best. 🧵 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... PolDataSky polisky #polsci

Widespread media coverage about a recent study suggested over half of Gen Z want the UK to be run by a dictator. But our research suggests it's more like only 6% who hold this view in reality. @bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @pmorini.bsky.social explain why this matters for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️ 🧵

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

What are the main challenges for the researchers studying citizen-produced political text? Data collection difficulties, steep learning curve, and more. Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.