Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social , Maiken Røed @ma1ken.bsky.social and Gunnar Thesen 🔎 Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage 📗 Open Access in European Journal of Political Research doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Amazing the personal risks people will take to preserve archival material www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

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Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

ICYMI my solo article on MENA identity. When MENA Americans aren’t given a “MENA” option on forms, they answer identity-related questions on politics more strongly (eg higher end of the scale) than if“MENA” had been added. Having the group label or not changes the average response!

I wonder if comparative pol people have tested this hypothesis: no country (post 1945) has successfully and peacefully democratized while being treated as a military-strategic adversary of the US

This is big. The last kingpin. Of Mexico’s biggest cartel- CJNG. Many thought he was already dead. Now he is.

1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎: "An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang

In a new paper with @evadavoine.bsky.social @enguehard.bsky.social & I. Kolesnikov, we build a historical GIS of a core fiscal institution in early modern France: the gabelle (salt tax). It generated up to 25% of tax revenue and sparked intense popular resistance. 👉 hal.science/hal-05501504 🧵1/7

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

I've been observing academic LinkedIn for a while. Unfortunately I'm not witty enough to write a sarcastic op-ed, so all I can say is posts in academic LinkedIn are so weird

"Switzerland + its stakeholders are recognised worldwide for their integrity + transparency. They are not attractive for illegally acquired assets ... [but] it is likely that there's a high number of unreported cases" - Switzerland's new Anti-Corruption Strategy 🤨 www.news.admin.ch/en/newnsb/sy...

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

After a short hiatus, Respect the Marble is back: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin... Introducing a new series The Long Carve: about how to decide which ideas deserves our long-term writing attention, & how we learn to keep writing when the outcome is unknown and uncertain. 🧵

🎉 This is now out in the latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue with page numbers! We find that modernization and expanding state reach through railroad construction in Europe tended to produce backlash and separatism among peripheral ethnic minorities.

Während wir auf Trumps geopolitische Eskapaden blicken, geht unter, was gerade im Inneren der USA geschieht: In Internierungslagern werden Menschen getötet. Der neueste, erschreckende Fall ist der des Familienvaters Geraldo Lunas Campos.

#OpenAccess from @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social - The political economy of policy instruments: The Left and collectively governed markets in Germany - https://cup.org/4qjQnMB - @ndurazzi.bsky.social#OpenAccess& Cecilia Ivardi (University of St.Gallen) #FirstView

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Amidst mass killings and internet shutdowns the Iranian regime has also found a way to jam access to Starlink: restofworld.org/2026/iran-st... @restofworld.org

I also hope it makes clear how important it is to just read the papers you are citing (gasp!), and if necessary to develop the methodological expertise to interpret them sensibly.

Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack) open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Tupac tried to scold y'all

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

I think it’s fairly common that somebody raises concerns about selection bias (as a threat to internal validity) but then others read it as a concern about generalizability (i.e., external validity). The former is way more damning for any attempt to make sense of the data.

Selection on the cases with digitized data. Selection on the questions with easily accessible data. What does this do to knowledge production? Here is a great piece that deals with some of these issues. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Finally completed the 12 part podcast series on Fela Kuti. Well worth it. A complex human being, an amazing artist, a political visionary but also a hugely flawed man. open.spotify.com/show/320MJFB...

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

I used MEMES as a teaching tool: Students designed memes to capture a core idea of the course readings. The ensuing class discussion often led to new perspectives on the readings, plus students had fun. The course was on State and Violence @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich A selection:

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Every academic has one superpower: the ability to turn a five-minute task into a three-month digression

Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492

Apply to join the Transparency International EU (@transparency-eu.bsky.social) team as an Illicit Financial Flows Policy trainee, monitoring anti-corruption and anti-money laundering developments and trends at EU level. Applications due by 7 December 2025 transparency.eu/illicit-fina...

I'm delighted to announce that my paper "How terrorism affects support for democracy" doi.org/10.1007/s111... is now published in Public Choice. Thanks to all my dear colleagues and friends who supported this project in whatever way over the years.😍🥳🍀

Ugly campaigns hurt voter trust. Weak institutions make it worse. New research on negative campaigning in Africa reveals what really undermines democracy. See the data here: goodauthority.org/news/ugly-ne...

www.tagesanzeiger.ch/representati... It's really really frustrating to realize that many economists still don't know that political science exists.

The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

Papyrus or vellum perhaps? Looking forward to the next “call for parchments”

Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women." But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.

New paper: LLMs are increasingly used to label data in political science. But how reliable are these annotations, and what are the consequences for scientific findings? What are best practices? Some new findings from a large empirical evaluation. Paper: eddieyang.net/research/llm_annotation.pdf