Very happy to see this out! Our new paper, "Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions," is now published in Psychological Science.

What a fitting end for Neymar…shit talking the goalkeeper who won the game for his team while you score a consolation penalty

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Iran-krigen koster liv, infrastruktur, og penger. Resultatet er en skjør avtale der usa fremstår dårligere stilt enn for tre måneder siden. Kanskje det kan bli en påminnelse om hvorfor utenrikstjenesten trenger fagdiplomater og litt kunnskap om motparten før man starter en krig...

What France would look like with all the trees they cut down to print letters they had no intention of pronouncing.

My suggestion that Norway should buy Anthropic is looking increasingly lucrative...

Instituttsektoren leverer både i forskningsfronten og i kunnskapseksporten. Hvis ministeren vil ha foroverlente forslag, må hun først beskrive hvilket problem hun prøver å fikse www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

«Instituttsektoren leverer i forskningsfronten og i kunnskapseksporten. Hva er det egentlig ministeren vil fikse?» spør @haakongjerlw.bsky.social, fungerende direktør på PRIO i @aftenposten.no. Les mer: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Instituttsektoren leverer både i forskningsfronten og i kunnskapseksporten. Hvis ministeren vil ha foroverlente forslag, må hun først beskrive hvilket problem hun prøver å fikse www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon.... Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.

Det siste tiåret har inflasjonen spist opp verdien av et forskningsprosjekt. Det forgubber sektoren, reduserer forskningskvaliteten, og øker den byråkratiske byrden. Det går til syvende og sist utover norsk verdiskaping Derfor bør Forskningsrådet øke prosjektrammene www.khrono.no/forskningsra...

PRIO is hiring a new Executive Assistant, This is a role that sits at the heart of our leadership, and is involved with most aspects of management. You will work closely with me - not sure if that is a boon or a curse - but there is room to shape how the role evolves www.prio.org/about/career...

📣Publication alert! New article just published online in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: “Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage”👇 cup.org/4cx2WOM Ahead-of-print and Open Access! 🧵[1/12]

I first reported on H.I.V. in Zambia in 2002, when no one had treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. I saw hospitals where gaunt, dying patients packed the corridors. But Zambia — bolstered by international donors and the U.S. PEPFAR program — turned the tide www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Together with @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Lise Rakner, I've prepared a short brief on Zambia's upcoming general elections, and three key challenges for the resilience of its democracy. www.prio.org/publications...

While it took a bit longer than expected to finalize this agreement on both ends, I’m grateful for the opportunity and excited to begin a new chapter in my research~

Very happy that my article "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" won the Frank Cass Prize for the best young scholar article in @democratization.bsky.social in 2025! Read it here or check the thread below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism". There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

Hilde Henriksen Waage har fått Fritt Ord for sin uredde og kompromissløse sannhetssøken om Oslo-prosessen På PRIO er vi dritstolte av Hilde i dag, og hver dag hun er ute og uttaler seg med sin karakteristiske, frie stemme Kjære Hilde, gratulerer masse, svært velfortjent! www.prio.org/news/3695

Jeg har pratet med TRY om bruken av AI i forskning på PRIO. Her er det flere godbiter - "Værvarsling" av konflikt - Bruken av AI til å analysere store mengder tekst - Noen av utfordringene med kommersiell AI for forskning + en liten sukkerbit til Nikolai Tangen open.spotify.com/episode/56j4...

Awards nominations are open for African Politics! Please share widely! @jsteend.bsky.social @stephaniewanga.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social @jsas-journal.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social @thelauram16.bsky.social @woldense.bsky.social

1990-2010, the credentialed middle class's peak economic power and political influence. Adapting autocratic innovations, econ and polit oligarchies fueled by tech and cheap capital have been pushing it back since. In seemingly ideological attacks, raiders probe for easiest paths to resource capture.

V-Dem Dataset v16 is out! The dataset includes several hundred indicators along with five indices that measure a country’s overall degree of democracy, according to different definitions of democracy. V-Dem Steering Committee comments on the new data and U.S. ratings: v-dem.net/release-stat... 1(2)

Unexpected bit of pop culture prescience…

Can this be a solution?

For en dypt feig argumentasjon fra Ulstein i #dax18 nå. Vage henvisninger til det grusomme iranske regimet og en kritikk av regjeringen men uten vilje til å si tydelig om man er for eller mot en angrepskrig. Dette er alt for alvorlig for denne typen sleivete politisk kommunistiske.

Cutting down the manuscript word-count to fit the journal requirements🤦🏽

Nå skal ikke jeg miste statsborgerskapet på en fredagskveld...men hva er egentlig toppidrettsbudsjettet som gir oss 17. Gull...? Virker kanskje som vi kunne brukt litt mindre og likevel ikke gjøre det så aller verst...?

Er dette OL tenker jeg debatten om at gutter ikke viser følelser er dø

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Brødrene Dross vender hjem, men landsbyen har endret seg på merkverdig vis når vi spiller rollespill på Det Andre Teateret kl 19:30! detandreteatret.no/forestilling...

Plagiarism detection on 500k publicized Chinese dissertations uncovers widespread hidden misconduct that predicts adverse political selection and poorer civil service performance, from Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, and Shaoda Wang www.nber.org/papers/w34747

Trump is quickly passing Mobutu Sese Seko in corruption, although it took Mobutu more than two decades to reach $4 billion.

PRIO is hiring a PhD for the RECON-project RECON will critically examine how dissemination of knowledge about past and ongoing injustices affects reconciliation,using empirical evidence from the Norwegian truth and reconciliation commission in Norway's South Saami area www.prio.org/about/career...

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...

Definitely worth going to this! Nice people, nice city, interesting research 😁

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Jeg tviler på at dette setter en presedens som påvirker Kinas kalkyle i Taiwan. For en eventuell invasjon er spørsmålet om USA vil forsvare Taiwan. I den avgjørelsen er det irrelevant for Trump å ha et konsekvent forhold til folkeretten. Jeg tror Kina holder seg til de planene de har, hva de nå er

Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?

Several large donations has come in, but most importantly, @sschutte.bsky.social , Elin, and Niklas have just given 30 000 NOK to the cause - I'm extremely humbled by their generosity! Only 9 980 NOK remains to disperse the full 50 000 NOK I'm matching: gieffektivt.no/innsamling/h...

Dear everyone, As you know, we have yet to eradicate global poverty. To do my part, I have set up a fundraising for GiveDirectly. For every NOK you contribute today, I will match it, up to 50 000 NOK. For donations and more information, please visit gieffektivt.no/innsamling/h...

Dear everyone, As you know, we have yet to eradicate global poverty. To do my part, I have set up a fundraising for GiveDirectly. For every NOK you contribute today, I will match it, up to 50 000 NOK. For donations and more information, please visit gieffektivt.no/innsamling/h...

And now, 2 job openings at projects associated with the ViEWs Team at PRIO A junior data scientist at the UFFAC project: www.prio.org/about/career... A postdoc for the ANTICIPATE project: www.prio.org/about/career... Apply before 15. January!

PRIO's Conflict Forecasting Team @viewsforecasting.org has published predictions for 2026. As ViEW's leader Hegre says, there is warning bell that the situation in Sudan may get much worse in the coming months. Political action is needed Read: www.prio.org/news/3670 Explore: viewsforecasting.org

Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year. Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨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/...

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...