NEW - Skills, Spatial Polarization, and the Politics of the Knowledge Economy: Introducing the Regional Human Capital Database - https://cup.org/42ztudJ - Jane Gingrich, Daniel McArthur & Mihnea Cuibus #OpenAccess

Happy to share our latest paper👇👇👇

📢 ¡Les invito a la conferencia en @flacsoecuador.bsky.social! 🗓️24 de septiembre de 2025 🕚11h00 (hora de Ecuador) 📍Aula 353 (Torre 2, piso 3) 🔗Enlace de transmisión: bit.ly/4n9vDp5 Estaré compartiendo mi investigación con comentarios de grandes colegas @pvkastner.bsky.social y #CarolinaCurvale

Very excited for the first day of our workshop for PhD students and early career researchers working on Latin America! @marialingon.bsky.social @pvkastner.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social. Thanks to funding from @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, DPIR, SLAS and the LAC

The shapefiles are gone! 🎉 The {spData} package has officially dropped all datasets in the shapefile format, moving toward modern and efficient geospatial data standards. 🚀🌍 Upgrade your workflows with {spData}: https://buff.ly/4htZ5D3 #rspatial #rstats #GIS #Geocompx

Grad students and early career scholars: there is still time to send your submissions for this workshop on 10-11 March at Nuffield College, Oxford! Deadline 31 Jan, this Friday. Excellent opportunity to get feedback on your dissertation/JM papers and meet likeminded scholars.

📢 Calling early career scholars! Submit your abstracts by 31/01 for our Workshop on Comparative Politics in Latin America, hosted @NuffieldCollege 🌎✍️ A unique chance to workshop papers with senior discussants. Spread the word!

Workshop announcement: for the third year running @uclspp.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are teaming up to bring together some of the most exciting early career researchers in Law and Courts, this year also joined by @dnaurin.bsky.social. Apply by 31 March with @icuervo.bsky.social!

Here is a paper we wrote with @pvkastner.bsky.social and Eduardo Alemán on constituency representation in open-list electoral systems. While not the most exciting topic, we do make a point about unintended consequence of institutional reform 🧵. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...