Marking a student essay today that is a joy to read, that makes me proud as a teacher, that reminds me how much I value teaching writing. But I cannot know, will never again know, whether it was written by AI. Hard not to feel a massive sense of loss, as I prepare to use oral vivas this year instead

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing. We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it. I wrote up some reflections here: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin... A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

Labour should try and learn some lessons from Germany. Unfortunately, this rather speaks for a deep misunderstanding of what causes the success of the AfD and other far-right parties. Labour is set to repeat the mistakes of many other social democratic parites. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed. Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️

A fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/

Zuckerberg exposes a big problem with our ideas about authoritarian populism as backlash. Backlash as counterfactual means “if we had not had progressive thing X, we would not see that much support for this ideology“. It should have become clear that authoritarianism is nothing reactive 1/

Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality? New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social! 🧵 Thread 👇

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

A good news day :) "The Rainbow Vote" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social Building on observational data & six original experiments, the book explores & explains the distinctiveness of queer voters in Europe and demonstrates how this has both social & political consequences

Interested in doing a PhD in political science at UCL (or know a student that is)? On Friday 22nd November I am running an online information event all about our programme and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/political-sc...

Listen to the latest Transform Justice podcast with @drtomdog.bsky.social discussing our recent research with former justice ministers and advisors, along with other matters with @nacro.bsky.social CEO Campbell Robb