I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941. Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.

🚨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/...

🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help! Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar... Please let us know of any issues and feedback!

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.

#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!

The Commission decides to push the crisis button (article 122 for economic emergencies) that allows through qualified majority voting to bypass Hungary and the parliament (and de facto muddles US bilateral plans with Putin) 🔥

Join us tomorrow for Dr. Chikane's seminar on The Hidden Architecture of Elite Power in South Africa.

🚨 📖 “Nationalism and the Transformation of the State” is out with CUP! I’m so happy to conclude 6 years of research with Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Yannick Pengl and many others like that! It’s open access @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org here: tinyurl.com/nastac What’s the book all about? A 🧵

Folks interested in European politics and political geography, there's two postdoc positions open at LSE with the wonderful @carlmc.bsky.social looking at border change and local development in Europe jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/... #psjminfo

🚨 📖 “Nationalism and the Transformation of the State” is out with CUP! I’m so happy to conclude 6 years of research with Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Yannick Pengl and many others like that! It’s open access @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org here: tinyurl.com/nastac What’s the book all about? A 🧵

Posting images is hard these days or am I doing sth wrong?

Political attacks on the press are ↗️ globally & so is partisan polarization. In a new 📝 @aasiegel.bsky.social & I explore the polarizing effects of attacks on the press using an event study of targeted radio journalists and a series of experiments in Israel! www.chagaiweiss.com/papers/inpro...

🔺 We're #hiring for two #Research #Officer positions! The posts will be part of the research project 'Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond' (BORDERS) led by Dr Carl Müller-Crepon for a period of 3 years. 🗓️ Apply before Sunday 4 January 2026. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social: State-provided welfare increases intergroup ties, by reducing people’s dependence on their own identity group as a safety net. Evidence from caste networks in India. cup.org/3X3DtWb

📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...

🚨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/...

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

🚨New publication alert! 🚨 Our article “The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa” is now out in @thejop.bsky.social 🎉-- fantastic collaboration with Stephen Dawson, @carlmc.bsky.social & Aksel Sundström Article: doi.org/10.1086/739777 Short summary thread below 👇

🚨 Please send in your application by 10 December to be considered for this ESRC studentship in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. Both home and international students are eligible for funding. Some advice on how to apply below 👇

🚨 The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection in Africa: New paper with Stephen Dawson, @felixhaass.bsky.social and Aksel Sundström! We find that politically included groups get shielded from the local costs of establishing natural parks. Out now at @thejop.bsky.social shorturl.at/tm78R

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Epic open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

China is mobilizing an armada of civilian ships that could help in an invasion of Taiwan – a mission that could surpass the Second World War’s Normandy landings. Interesting visual analysis by Reuters www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.

It's time we asked a different question about migration: Why are so many British people leaving the UK? inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

Take note Starmer and co

Ultimately, politics is about making hard choices and leading. Sure, easy for me to say, but you won’t get there by focusing only on just the one selective bit of public opinion you fear today.

Shout out to FT colleague David Sheppard, who wrote this last week... www.ft.com/content/5480...

I think I now understand why they had to invent Gen-AI, many of our wealthy elites actually cannot type out complete sentences or spell

Chat, generate a picture of the state of America showing Trump's indifference to the plight of its everyday citizens.

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

🚨 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...

My new essay in the WSJ about the essential role that enslaved labor played in America's capitalist takeoff. Born in Blackness. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Well, there are some interesting details in this…

Maybe our "peace president" could tear himself away from remodeling his bathroom to address the staggering violence and humanitarian crisis in Sudan (and perhaps a word could be spared for UAE, which is fueling this)

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

We are looking forward to hosting Jamie Hintson this Thursday.

National TV announces that all schools and universities will shut down for two weeks due to "disruptions of gas supplies"

📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴! The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School. 👇 More details in the next posts.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

We are excited to begin @lsegovernment.bsky.social 2025/6 APEG seminar series with Jamie Hintson (Harvard University) on Thursday, 30th October (12:00-1:30 PM GMT). Please join us. @carlmc.bsky.social

🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨 We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨Postdoc altert 🚨 Come to @upenn.edu for a great postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at @perryworldhouse.bsky.social. Pass it on. perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/opportunitie...

Yes indeed. A tremendously rich but largely forgotten past. And wrongly so.

Great place and fantastic team to do a PhD or Postdoc! Apply!

Expert on ceasefire agreements writes on the threat of a strangle contract in Gaza theconversation.com/the-gaza-cea...