Join us on Thursday, 25 Sept, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Maria Abascal🔹Money Whitening in the United States 🔹More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Det är drygt ett år kvar till valet 2026! Jag rekommenderar starkt Botten Ada poll of polls för att följa opinionsläget. www.bottenada.se

Just nu massor med tjänster inom statsvetenskap vid Linköpings universitet. BUL i offentlig förvaltning och internationell politik samt UL i internationell politik. Tex: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853...

Det är drygt ett år kvar till valet 2026! Jag rekommenderar starkt Botten Ada poll of polls för att följa opinionsläget. www.bottenada.se

Is altruistic punishment the secret sauce that facilitates cooperation? Fehr & Gächter’s research suggests cooperation flourishes if altruistic punishment—driven by negative emotions towards defectors—is possible, and breaks down if it is ruled out: buff.ly/DFjO0Br

Charles Sumner in 1855 rejecting xenophobia of the Know Nothing Party:

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

I am pretty impressed that Spencer Cox is citing Voelkel et al. (2024) here. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)! 🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée! Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland! Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

I am pretty impressed that Spencer Cox is citing Voelkel et al. (2024) here. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

Best agent-based modelling textbook you've read? Preferably R and Python examples (or translated into these languages).

The next social science revolution will be finding out that a lot of important things are non-linear.

The next social science revolution will be finding out that a lot of important things are non-linear.

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

Is there any empirical evidence of the radicalization of X post Musk takeover? It seems quite obvious but, due to barriers of studying X, I know this can be hard to actually empirically show.

I'm looking for someone UK-based with web-scraping skills who can scrape a substantial amount of data for me from the French parliamentary website in exchange for a fixed (negotiable) one-off fee.  French language skills are not essential as full instructions will be provided. 1/2

Are you interested in how parties' parliamentary behavior (e.g., passing bills, calling for elections, forming coalitions, cooperating/conflicting) affects voters (e.g., electoral behavior, perceptions, affective polarization)? Please let me know. I am putting together an MPSA panel proposal.

Tips till journalister om frågor de kan ställa till regeringen apropå sänkt försörjningsstöd och kvalificering till välfärden: Är risken för ökad brottslighet, minskad sysselsättning och sämre skolresultat värd att ta? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Ben Shapiro's explanation of why he supported Trump in 2020 and 2024 is a great confirmation of all research that shows when policy preferences are pitted against democratic principles, policy preferences often win out.

Ben Shapiro's explanation of why he supported Trump in 2020 and 2024 is a great confirmation of all research that shows when policy preferences are pitted against democratic principles, policy preferences often win out.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

These estimates of public support for violence (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...) are inflated - *much* higher than what we and others have found using question wording that reduces acquiescence bias: brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-... The vast majority of Americans reject political violence.

📢 New paper alert: How does war shape democratic values? Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies. 👇🧵

Love finding an NBER working paper from 2011 that was cited by 1293 but never published... tell me what the problem is

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

Recommend the video Good statement by Bernie Sanders

The Bluesky API is completely open. Everything you post can programmatically be archived by third parties.

Political violence is extremely unpopular. Disengaged respondents and design and measurement flaws lead to overestimations of support for political violence. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This speech was phenomenal. Worth listening to in full. I hope Cox’s words set the tone for deescalatory rhetoric from the White House. Kirk’s murder was, for the right, as important as assassinating AOC, Mamdani or Buttigieg would be for the left. A hugely dangerous inflection point in US politics

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

What are your favorite examples of a political science, sociology, or economics article using Generalized Additive Models (GAMs)?

A basic statistical point: Posts are not the same thing as *reactions*. Many, many users had the same reaction ("political violence is bad") but didn't post about it. (Why would they?) So think about what that "1-in-3" actually represents...

Det gör mig ledsen att vår vice statsminister beter sig så här. Utan bevis påstår hon att ”vänstern” firar mordet på Charlie Kirk. Jag har inte sett några välkända vänsteraktivister eller politiker fira mordet. 1/7

The @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar Series will be back for the '25/26 academic year, as usually on Thursdays, 4-5pm, in CBG 4.17. Let us know if you are external and want to attend in-person, or join remotely on Zoom. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular. "Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered." (with A+ co-authors)

All political violence, against anyone, is sickening poison that will ultimately harm all Americans. A Constitution is list of rules for resolving disagreements without violence. Let us take this moment to redouble our commitment to our Constitution, knowing where the other road leads.

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... We need to make the same thing happen this time.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Perhaps every A&M prof should teach the fired Prof's course, in every classroom on campus, until they are reinstated.

"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Bay Area may have a underdeveloped public transit system but the amount of merch is unparalleled.

🚨 Upcoming: "Assessing the Reproducibility of Observational Social Research" 👤 @lschaechtele.bsky.social (LMU Munich) 🗓️ Wed, September 10, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

The Bay Area may have a underdeveloped public transit system but the amount of merch is unparalleled.

Syllabus plug! Here's what I assign on how to give feedback (of which peer reviews are a special type, imo)

📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

Anyone my age who says 2005-2013 fashion was the best is 100% lying.

The Power of Gender Norms: In Switzerland, French-speaking cantons showed much higher support for the introduction of women's suffrage and today exhibit lower contemporary child and employment penalties for females. academic.oup.com/restud/artic... & www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...