Looking forward to hosting the 2026 meeting of the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) on May 8 with Jamie Hintson, @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social & Nic Wicaksono. Please submit your papers and research designs if you're in the region!

Look what I found in the mail today, just in time for blizzard reading. Massive congratulations, @melinaplatas.bsky.social! It’s a beauty

ONLINE tomorrow: @guygrossman.bsky.social will present our new paper on the effects aid cuts for refugees. We follow 5400 households over 2 years and leverage a regression discontinuity design in Uganda. We find that self-reliance policies are not enough to mitigate the negative impact of cuts.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- Children at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/

⏰Application Deadline Tomorrow (27 Jan 2026) Are you an African national thinking of applying for graduate study in #economics at the University of Oxford to start in 2026? Find out more & listen to advice from CSAE professors.👇 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/scholarships #EconSky #funding #scholarships

The old view of skilled emigration as a 'brain drain' has collapsed after a generation of research. Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—> doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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.

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.

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/

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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/...

In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

Striking difference in trust in the World Bank & IMF between Africa & Asia (high trust) and the rest of the world (low trust) www.rockefellerfoundation.org/reports/dema...

@sophieehill.bsky.social doing the Lord's (statistics) work

All of us—including myself—should publish fewer but better papers. And we should spend more of our time on scrutinizing existing work, so we know which claims can be trusted. But that's hard work with little recognition. Thanks @sophieehill.bsky.social for doing it. Impressive 🕵️‍♀️ work. Fun to read.

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Exciting new work by @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social (who is on the market!) & Co

"Political brokers use social networks to identify & target reciprocal non-copartisans for vote buying. Parties recruit brokers central in networks to sway persuadable voters." From @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social, Finan, @hlarreguy.bsky.social and Schechter: www.restud.com/brokering-vo... #Econsky

📣 REMINDER for Latin America’s PhD students: apply to the EGAP PhD Lab 💥 📍 Lima, Oct 2–3 🗓 Deadline: July 31 🔗 buff.ly/qAfb6xC With support from: GRADE Peru, @wyssacademy.bsky.social @uniandes.bsky.social #PhD #LatAmResearch #EGAP2025

Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from Sara Lowes and @nathannunn.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33981

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Most literature reviews miss the point.
 Not because they’re sloppy. 
But because they treat the literature like a box to tick. In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter... 🧵

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...) w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Looking to work at the intersection of research and policy in development? Friends of VoxDev are hiring for 4 important roles in the evidence-to-policy ecosystem. Check them out below 🧵1/5

Work with my wonderful colleague @mamalik.bsky.social‬

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

🚨Last week to submit to PEEP- Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (Vancouver Sep 10). Submit by April 30 tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social and I look forward to reading & organizing! Last year’s program below

🌍 Explore how political institutions influence economic outcomes in Political Economy and Economic Development with MITxCourses. Dive into topics like corruption, voting, and the role of the media, while gaining tools to analyze real-world challenges. Enroll now: buff.ly/ony0iSq

A fantastic program taught by the best, almost for free for many

Are you interested in applying to PhD programs in political science? If so, join us for an info session on May 1 at 6:00pm pacific time (virtual and in person). You may register with this link: forms.gle/LHpzVZTaitvf...

This is brilliantly put by Rachel and @siddhharia.bsky.social , aid should stop trying to do everything and just do what it does best

Tatsächliche Expert:innen sind bei der Frage in etwa so gespalten wie beim Klimawandel - die Antwort ist ausgrenzen. Aber man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass man doch immer jemanden finden kann für bothsidesism. Politik nimmt sich dann was ihr besser gefällt. www.tagesschau.de/inland/debat...

Need field research training? There is still time to sign up for the all-virtual course the brilliant Alexandra Hartman (UCL) and I are offering at the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social in July! See infos below.

Very happy to see this with @piaraffler.bsky.social in press www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... It was a great excuse to go back to interacting more often as in our good old times at @harvard.edu

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

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The Berkeley Center for American Democracy is hiring a predoc next year. Please encourage any students interested in PhD study in political science to apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04782

I want to say thank you to all the women who are older than me and fought for everything we have, to the women who never pulled up the ladder behind them, to the ones who walked into the room as the first woman ever to be there. Thank you 🙏

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com you can search essentially every marketplace in one go so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)

🚨Funding alert🚨: The British Institute in Eastern Africa - where I am part of the research committee - 2025 grant programme is now open for applications! There are opportunities for Writing Fellowships, Thematic Grants, Dissemination Grants, Workshop Grants, ... biea.ac.uk/call-for-app...

This is an excellent chart, most notably because it shows that the collapse of mainstream parties in Europe & the rise of the far right started with the GFC/Lost Decade/needless austerity from 2008-18. Yes, the refugee crisis, Covid, & inflation mattered, but it was all well under way by then.

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

Aspiring economists from Africa: Extended deadline 4 March Oxford's CSAE offers full scholarships >3 year for African students How? Apply for grad studies in Econ = 2 yr Master's course w/ progress to PhD We automatically consider all applicants www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

Yes, the AfD did better than ever. So did the FPÖ in Austria and Le Pen's RN last year. But in all three countries, other elites immediately coordinated to keep the far-right out of government. (Yes, it's PR, and yes, they may yet fail (Austria?)) But at least they tried.