We have a vacant position as Associate Professor in Political Science (International Relations). Deadline April 29. Please apply or distribute. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social. I show that - contrary to claims that personalised electoral systems are good for participation - Open Lists have no effect on turnout relative to Closed Lists; in fact, they increase rates of voter error. 🗳️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Norwegian special forces ready for deployment to the Greenland front.

Here's a short write-up of our recently published study: 📰"What People Really Think About Taxing the Rich – the surprising beliefs behind progressive taxation" TLDR: Most believe taxing the rich brings equality & growth! Elite fears are not shared. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites! It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov. You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? In a new @apsrjournal.bsky.social article, @victorgayeco.bsky.social and I show that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution 👉 Article: doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵1/X

Coffee roasted at soon to be Trump or Putin occupied Svalbard.

Interesting to see how economics as a discipline has now fully embraced papers that are _exclusively_ political science (not some or other variation on “political economy”), but squarely political science. Now the question becomes, should we expect a pay rise, or should they expect a pay cut?

Senior Researcher Positions – NTNU, Norway 🇳🇴 Full-time research roles in Historical Sciences & Cultural History. Eligibility: PhD in History, Economics or related discipline. Deadline: 15 March 2026. Apply: higherjobz.com/senior-resea... #AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs #NorwayJobs #postdoc

There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

📢 New article 👥 Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social (ISV) and 3 others 👉 Indian election data for polling stations and villages: National elections 2009–2019 📗 Open Access in Scientific Data 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Today - 15 December - is your last chance to apply for our amazing course Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies. I can strongly recommend it! www.peaceconflictresearch.org/courses/77?f...

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

We’re trying to raise $1 million for desperately poor people in Rwanda to beat last year’s mark and do more good. www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...

📢 📢 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

Kjære alle, USN lyser nå ut en 100 % fast stilling som førsteamanuensis. Spre gjerne utlysningen til alle dere tenker kan være aktuelle. Dersom dere har spørsmål om stillingen eller om USN, er det bare å ta kontakt med meg.

Norwegian indie startup @lugngames.bsky.social are doing a kickstarter for their game, and super close to reaching their goal! Have a look and see if this could be something for you 😊 www.kickstarter.com/projects/517...

Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT. osf.io/preprints/so...

As I reflect on this, three thoughts: 1. This case is only symptomatic of a bigger problem; increasingly broken incentive structures in our disciplines and industry. Our job is *not* to publish for the sake of publishing. It is to produce and advance *knowledge*. This process is hard and slow.

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

How did France become one of Europe’s biggest printers of vernacular books, and how did it shape its linguistic and political development? My paper w/Jacob Hall, "The King’s French," shows how a 1539 language mandate changed printing, standardized French, and strengthened national identity. (1/12)

Se også kronikk i DN av Morten Welde, som forsker på store statlige investeringer. www.dn.no/kronikk/samf...

Deadline for EPSS 2026 is this Friday!

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

No-one has covered themselves in glory here. The authors made errors that shouldn't even be possible. The peer reviewers didn't spot the red flags. The journal wrote a clickbait press release. The journalists lapped it up. The editors failed to swiftly retract the paper.

I drafted a correlation heatmap package for Stata. Does something like this already exist? I want to make sure before I put more work into this.

NEW - Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx "undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace" - @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen #OpenAccess

Discussant duties completed…

Now April coffee roasters. Probably the closest to the Tokyo experience you can get outside of Tokyo.

Major disappointment even for danish coffee. Avoid at all cost.

I am back in the country of bitter and sour espresso.

Always important to remind our danish friends of what they have lost...

I am thrilled to announce the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics! Over 70 scholars from various institutions in Norway and abroad have contributed their expertise and insights to 48 chapters on different aspects of Norwegian politics. A short🧵 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Time to get dirty.

Micro-tape-data

Bakeriet credo ved national biblioteket lager en meget god espresso for bakeri å være.

Suksess.

This is a great opportunity! You’ll get to work with a fantastic team and be a member of Norway’s leading political science environment. Best of all, you’ll have a supportive and innovative supervisor—by all accounts.

Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem: Political economy. 12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?” Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”

From the local newspaper Lister (1899), this gem: Political economy. 12-year-old: “What is political economy, Dad?” Dad: “Never buy more votes than you strictly need.”

Blast from the past

Happy to announce that I have been promoted to full professor in Political Science.

New APSR sure to spark discussion argues: Confederate monuments actually reduced violence against Black people historically & that their recent removals have increased anti-Black hate crimes Monuments "act as a substitute for performative violence in constructing a white supremacist social order"

Working on topics of Inequality and the #environment ? Join @sitestockholm.bsky.social workshop on Nov 28! Deadline October 15.