About twenty leading scholars came together at ENAP to reflect on the future of AI and emerging technologies governance. Here’s what it looks like when they answer my questions for you (in French and English). 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...

New from Pamela Mondliwa and me in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social: the wild story of how South African banks launched mobile apps and chat-bots that compromised their customer data while patting themselves on the back for promoting "financial inclusion." doi.org/10.1177/2053...

In the latest issue of Global Studies Quarterly, Lars Gjesvik and I develop a conceptual argument to analyze the evolution of digital governance strategies in the 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇳. A short thread🧵 academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... @gsqjournal.bsky.social

How do ordinary citizens think about AI and its associated risks cross-nationally—and how can we measure it? I’m thrilled to share a new paper in Journal of Risk Research with @tylergirard.bsky.social, Mathieu Turgeon, Yannick Dufresne, Takeshi Iida & Tetsuya Matsubayashi. doi.org/10.1080/1366...

With the federal election approaching, I’m excited to share insights on how Canadians' vote intentions have shifted since 1945. This forthcoming CJPS paper, with @jacklucas.bsky.social, Dave Armstrong, and @eplusgg.bsky.social, features a public dataset, R package, and Shiny app—more details below!

Lol. Donald Trump has cost Canada’s Conservative Party 26 points in just 6 weeks.

Canada wins! #fournations

👇🎯🇨🇦 en Anglais!

Ever regret the timeliness of your research? I do. In December, the Foreign Policy in a Diverse Society project surveyed Americans about foreign aid. check out the results here: goodauthority.org/news/democra...

Interested in how Trump's tariff threats are impacting Canadian politics? Check out my new piece with @goodauth.bsky.social! goodauthority.org/news/canada-...

After American airspace was closed on 9/11, over 230 flights with 30,000 passengers and crew were diverted to Canadian airports. Transport Canada received thousands of calls from members of the public offering to help the stranded passengers. Thinking about that today, for no particular reason.

Don't forget to get your EGEN grant applications in by Feb 1. We want to give you $$$ to fund your research!

As we enter the New Year, RIPE editors have some good news to report!!! Our editors are: @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @hozic.bsky.social Alison Johnston @skostem.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social @stefanoponte.bsky.social @kevinyoung.bsky.social and Hongying Wang doi.org/10.1080/0969...

Just published on APSR First View: "The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States " by Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Jonathan Renshon, Jessica Weeks, and Chagai Weiss. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In April 2021, Apple quietly reshaped privacy governance globally by impeding other companies from sharing data about iPhone users without their explicit consent. When do private companies serve the public interest? 🧵

New paper out with Socio-Economic Review 🎉 Varieties of capitalism and patient capital in developing and emerging economies: evidence from Kenya academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

This year @ripejournal.bsky.social passed an important milestone: we have received more than 600 submissions even before the year’s end. We thank all the journal’s editors, authors and reviewers who have helped us maintain the journal’s reputation as the premier outlet for heterodox IPE.

Had such a great time talking about Adam Smith with @remiedwards.bsky.social. The real Smith was a radical critic of corporations, imperialists and enslavers and bears little resemblance to the Chicago School economists who would later pretend to be his heirs. Listen here: shorturl.at/23fUx

🔈Job Alert 🔈 I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.

🚀🏛️🚀 Introducing AGORA, ETO's new explorer for the AI governance landscape - with plain-English summaries, full text, and thematic tags for AI laws and policies around the world, from D.C. to Sacramento to Beijing 🌎 🗺️ agora.eto.tech

We've known this for well over a decade. It's taken courts this long because Google (and other tech giants) hoodwinked regulators into treating them with kid gloves. As I explain: research-api.cbs.dk/ws/portalfil... Journalists, contact me here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Hey #polisky check out my new article w/ Brandon Yoder @ajpseditor.bsky.social It's open access thanks to the Big10 Academic Alliance. Thread for anyone interested in the security dilemma, signaling, reassurance, or rationalist/constructivist theory. 1/4 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I will never recover from this student email.

Check out my new Good Authority piece about public support for foreign policy targetting China: goodauthority.org. It's based on data collected as part of the Foreign Policy in a Diverse Society project (fpds-surveys.org).

Still testing if it works but there’s now an IPE/CPE feed for folks who are in polisky already! It’s ipesky or cpesky or cipesky. First time I do any of this so I’m very open to suggestions (starting from the feed’s avatar!). Please help advertising it!