Which does not mean that the EU needs no reform: The key priority should be to invest massively in education, universities, research, public infrastructure, and energy transition The key to its future productivity and prosperity /end

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🧵

The Gottheimer ACA discharge petition has, at its root, HR 185, the Responsible Legislating Act. This is the *third* separate discharge petition this year to have that catchall bill as its core underlying vehicle.

📢 APPLY NOW! @politicsoxford.bsky.social are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of the Comparative Politics of Africa, in association with St Peter’s College. 🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (GMT) 21 Jan 2026: ow.ly/H31A50XHn83

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with an interdisciplinary team (me, @bstewart.bsky.social, and @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social). Link: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please apply by THIS SUNDAY, Dec. 14!

hey if you study Congress and you could use estimates of status quo AND proposal location for over a thousand bills including many which never made it to the floor, we've got 'em! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

🚨 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 ‼️

PoliSci Friends- I'm updating some MRP-based public opinion estimates. Anyone willing to share micro data from recent nationally representative surveys you've run (e.g., CES modules) that ask one or more batteries of binary questions about the American public's issue/policy preferences?

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The Victoria Schuck Award honors the best book published on women and politics. For complete details about the award, including details about eligibility, please visit: apsanet.org/PROGRAMS/APS... Nominations Due February 11: openwater-os.secure-platform.com/americanpoli... Polisky Gendersky

We're recruiting for a Research Assistant at the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. We're looking for someone interested in one or more of the following - institutions; governance; devolution; place-based policy; and public administration. 2 years of funding in the first instance. Please share! 📆 5/1/26

We have a vacancy at UCL for a new permanent lecturer in British and Comparative politics, working as part of the Constitution Unit

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last night at the British Academy Festive Parliamentary Reception. @wmarybeard.bsky.social spoke powerfully about why, now more than ever, the humanities and social sciences need to be recognised and celebrated.

Americans aren’t following the news as closely as they were a decade ago. And that’s true for older and younger Americans and Republicans and Democrats alike. New today from Pew: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A word of wisdom from @cdsamii.bsky.social re credibility revolution and survey experiments: your conjoint or list experiment is not a policy intervention with real causal effects -- it's a measurement tool. A lot of smart folks are still confused about it for some reason! cyrussamii.com?p=4168

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

“When researchers randomly displayed these flood risk estimates to 18M people browsing Redfin, those who saw the feature were more likely to search for homes w/ low flood risk, according to a working paper published in the Nat’l Bureau of Economic Research last Nov*.”🧪 * www.nber.org/papers/w33119

#OpenAccess from State Politics & Policy Quarterly - Is It Worth Posting? Testing the Influence of State Legislators in Simulated Social Media - https://cup.org/4imtUes - @ahemmen.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Keith and I strengthened our lower bounds for randomized experiments in the linear-in-means model to a general minimax result Updated results available at arxiv.org/abs/2410.10772

💥 Northeastern University in Boston is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Network Science & Communication! Joint appointment with Communication Studies & College of Science. Review of applications begins 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Please share!! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

🚨 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/...

A student recently asked me for academic job market advice and I pulled up a slideshow from a few years ago. I don't think I've shared it, but it might be broadly useful. I think the advice almost entirely holds up. First part is about my time on the job market 1/3

Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.

A lovely trip down to Durham. Thanks @jongreen.bsky.social for the invite!

We actually have a paper that finds exactly that! osf.io/preprints/so...

I think a big failing of political science as a discipline in the last 10-15 years has been an underemphasis (quite severe I think) on economic inequality (income and wealth) as _the_ major social force in many (most) modern societies.

NEW - The Consequences of Elite Action Against Elections - https://cup.org/3K5I3Aa - @rachelporter.bsky.social, Jeffrey J. Harden, Emily Anderson, Géssica de Freitas, Mackenzie R. Dobson, @ahemmen.bsky.social & Emma Schroeder #OpenAccess

In a new paper, we show that "opportunity moves" foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. Please have a look at @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social's excellent summary for some more details. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

As AI becomes ever more sophisticated, its effects on those (like me) who use online surveys and experiments may be dire. (As one coauthor called it -- the botpocalypse!) The second POAL methods brief by the excellent @laurenleek.eu digs deeper into the problem. Very important reading!

Because I know no one really cares about the Bundesliga (and because I wanted to test how well the model generalises), I have tested it out on the Premier League too! The results look pretty solid to me, though I have a little less faith in how the model does with the Premier League than the BuLi.

New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Using a regression discontinuity in time design, we find that mass shootings mobilize local voters (especially in heavily Democratic areas) but do not shift presidential vote choices." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Washington State University is HIRING an Associate or Full Professor of American Politics who will also serve as the Director of our excellent Foley Institute. An awesome opportunity to be right at the nexus of research and policy! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

come work with us! @bluelabs.bsky.social is hiring a survey scientist. we're looking for someone who loves working with survey data and wants to solve tricky problems facing the polling industry. please share widely! job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluelabsanal...

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

Happy to share that my new book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser is now available from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! (preorder elsewhere til 12/2, but available now through Chicago) 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

100% agree and it’s not at all impossible to build popular support for this doi.org/10.1017/spq....

📄 New WP version out - full overhaul! The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social ) Comments welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it. This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

My article "The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," co-authored with Eugenia Artabe and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1065...

A little less than 2 weeks to submit an abstract proposal for PolMeth - Europe. Join us in Dublin this coming May to share your new political science research using cutting edge methods!!

If you or any of your students are interested in pursuing an MSc in data social or research methods, please join us online for our annual virtual open day sessions. These are brief but very informative sessions that prospective students tend to greatly enjoy. See you there.

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

🚨 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...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

Universities showcase the strengths and possible weaknesses of British institutions. I've written for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about our latest research, Shared Institutions on universities from @uclpolicylab.bsky.social & @moreincommonuk.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...