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It's always such tremendous when you realise that some academics are really great writers when not forced into the straitjacket of peer review

Well, this is going to make any future APSA attendance a much bigger conversation with my partner than I had thought.

Can readers tell AI news from human news? In our new study (599 people, Switzerland), they couldn't. AI and human articles were rated equally credible and expert. Disclosing AI sparked curiosity but didn't shift broader attitudes. Open access in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have a new paper on the Gallagher index: the most common measure of electoral disproportionality. We often assume it runs from 0 (perfect 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺) to 1 (perfect 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺). But I show that in most party systems, 1 is not a possible value. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Big surprise. SCOTUS says Trump can fire anyone from independent agencies, except the Fed. For some reason, ungrounded in the Constitution, the federal reserve is unique. (The reason is that the Justices have financial investments and value them.) Couldn't be more nakedly political.

This is just false, isn't it? Avg levels of trust in Holyrood (mean 4.46 on a 0–10 scale) are higher than levels of trust in W'minster (3.06), so Dundee would have to be way out of line w/ the nat'l picture to trust Holyrood as much as W'minster www.electionanalysis.uk/scottish-ele...

For odd reasons, I was looking at trends in "insufficient physical activity". Does anyone really believe that more adults in the UK get sufficient physical activity than Norway? That's what www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/... suggests

I've checked it pretty thoroughly, and I think to qualify for the next round, Scotland just need Lord Lucan to win the 3:30 at Cheltenham riding Shergar #WC2026

Need greater devolution away from our overheated capital, to literally cooler heads.

I have filed expenses claims.

I kind of want to write to my employer and ask, "where in my workplace has a reasonable temperature where I can take calls in privacy?". But AITA that emails someone and adds to their work on this stultifying, anaerobic Friday? No, not today Satan.

NEW Survation poll of 10,024 people, 10 years after the Brexit referendum 🇬🇧 If a vote were held tomorrow: 55% would vote to Rejoin the EU vs 32% to stay out (13% undecided). Among decided voters, that's 63% Rejoin vs 37% Leave. 🧵 1/5 survation.com/buyers-remor...

A contribution to the economy? In this heat?

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

Cons: have spent an unreasonably large % of today in Belfast city airport. Pros: picked this up in paperback as an airport special

Of all the papers I saw at #EPSS2026, the one with the greatest potential was one which had digitised a bunch of interwar election addresses by Westminster candidates of all parties. The collection was assembled by the National Liberal Club. @markpackuk.bsky.social will be pleased.

It was a weird night. I suddenly became very important to SE Asian commodity traders.

Since we bitch and moan about journal production processes often enough: I'm quite impressed by how Taylor and Francis are using AI to help generate extended alt-text for figures. It's better than anything I would have had patience to write myself.

Odd question: is "expected goals" an integral? Is it a summation over "spells of play", however defined?

Drawing strange diagrams is what happens when you hang around @jack-bailey.co.uk at #EPSS2026

All set up for the glorious win against Brazil.

Um... What now?

⚽ Probabilistic forecasts for today's matches at #FIFA2026 using our machine learning ensemble. In Group C: #SCOMAR #SCO #MAR 🥅 Mean goals: 1.1-1.6 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 27.1% Draw 24.8% 🇲🇦 48.0% Heatmap with probabilistic forecasts for the possible outcomes of the match:

I think I registered for the #EPSS206 evening reception, but I ended up making other plans - so any grad student who wants to pretend to be me should do so. Scottish accent and beard probably not necessary

Sutva question from a discussant, damn #epss2026

New paper from me, Olli Heath, Humphrey Southall and Paula Aucott, just out in @polstudies.bsky.social: The rise and fall of class voting in Britain, 1885–2024 We link ~140 years of census and election data to map the relationship between class and vote in Britain doi.org/10.1177/0032...

I love this. Unmute.

The political economy punchline? Areas that voted most strongly for Leave have not suffered the largest economic costs. The correlation is weakly negative as Remain-voting areas (London, Scottish cities, university towns) bore the brunt Brexit was a levelling up by levelling down 8/...

Nadine Morano is now somehow on the left of Les Républicains. That is Nadine 'you should go back to Africa' Morano. Nadine 'France is a Judeo-Christian country of white race' Morano. Les Républicains has sunk irredeemably into the grips of the far right.

Exactly 10 years ago today, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right man. She was just 41 years old. One of many victims of far-right terrorism. R.I.P. 💔

My department is hiring a Lecturer in International Relations (full time, permanent, teaching and research) jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... <- very happy to talk to potential applicants about UK academia, the department (but probably not about the IR side of things)

TBF, I did destroy my eyesight reading in bed

Can someone find out what the average heights are for the Dutch and Japanese teams?

You can vote at 16, but the government decides your internet bedtime until you're 18. Make it make sense.

Damn, was out by a minute.

It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.

Clearly an important Q, but experience of local council elex suggests the love won't be reciprocated at elite level?

Wonder if @jisc.bsky.social has thought about this...

So, naive question about these campuses that pay OpenAI $13mil/yr. Why don’t they pour that money into a cluster running the strongest available open-weight model, with API and interactive options. And if the answer is “overhead,” why aren’t we collaborating?

Fun with text classification: I discuss decisions for coding text snippets with Claude Opus, ask it to compress our decisions for a future Haiku agent; the Haiku agent decides it's going to write a Python script to do the job rather than reading each text. Lazy bastard.

🚨 Our Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool is currently looking to appoint up to 7(!) new colleagues. This includes 2 permanent T&R positions: lnkd.in/eVabnhrP And up to 5 fixed-term T&S positions: lnkd.in/eyYX9tN5 The deadline for applications to both tracks is 28 June!

When someone on your project suggests we can include another case (@palesl.bsky.social)

First #WorldCup game today. Democrats should be supporting South Africa against Mexico (if you like V-Dem's measure of electoral democracy) (1/n)

🚨New publication (with Shane Singh) in @poqjournal.bsky.social! Proponents of compulsory voting often claim that obligatory turnout will increase citizens' political involvement, equalising levels of democratic attitudes and political engagement in the electorate. But does it? 👇

Those involved in disorder/violence in Northern Ireland in summer 2024 were much less likely to be arrested than in England Northern Ireland in 2024 [49 arrests; > 600 people involved in disorder] So up to 1 in 12 England in 2024 [1876 arrests of 4000-5000 people involved in disorder] About 1 in 3

If Musk was Russian or Chinese and behaving in the same way, he'd be declared a threat to national security, banned from entering the country and X would be blocked

We are happy to release Version 4 of WhoGov, which expands WhoGov to 2025. It now contains data on cabinet members from 1966-2025. The update is supported by UiO:Democracy and can be downloaded through GETGOV's page or through Nuffield College: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/whogov-datas.... 1/2