Japanese cat accounts have also largely coalesced around the hashtag #Blueskyねこ部 (which roughly translates to "Bluesky Cat Club") bsky.app/profile/pac2...

This work by Pieter Buegel is probably the very first painting of a White Christmas. The pregnant, blue-cloaked Mary rides a donkey led by Joseph, but they are inconspicuous as part of the throng (The Census at Bethlehem, 1566) www.artinsociety.com/bruegelrsquo...

BREAKING: sparked by a mass exodus of X users in protest of a new function that feeds images to Generative AI for other users to edit, for the first time since April 8th, Bluesky gained more than 55,000 new users in a day. There are still 6.5 hours to go before the @bskycheck.com counter resets.

This is the only empirically valid example of the horseshoe theory.

All I want for Christmas is for Sweden to revive its spooky Christmas goat tradition.

Gonna tell my kids that this was the signing of Saltsjöbadsavtalet.

För att ni 19.05 ikväll ska kunna imponera på er familj och släkt tänker jag att jag gör monstertråden om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton redan nu.

All I want for Christmas is for Sweden to revive its spooky Christmas goat tradition.

The Swedish Civil Defense Minister, whose portfolio includes protection against foreign information influence, is facing criticism for giving an interview to the Epoch Times, a far right magazine. www.dn.se/sverige/carl...

A hidden gem for PolSci in an Econ journal: mainstream right-wing parties seem to capture only a fraction (!) of the far-right vote when the latter don't run in an election. Crucially, left parties seem to gain votes! A key finding for understanding potential coalitions doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Wild that the US blew past democratic backsliding just is speed running to a personalist regime.

The Swedish Civil Defense Minister, whose portfolio includes protection against foreign information influence, is facing criticism for giving an interview to the Epoch Times, a far right magazine. www.dn.se/sverige/carl...

NEW AT DEMOGRAPHY: We use difference-in-difference approach using applicant vs. implemented counties w/ 287(g) ICE agreements 2000-2020 to identify a plausibly causal effect immigration enforcement leading to sizeable increase in Latino-White segregation. OPEN ACCESS PDF doi.org/10.1215/0070...

This is a great paper on residential segregation in Europe. See how Western Europe is rather much segregated.

Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social

How does a Trump victory (or loss) impact attitudes abroad? There are a bunch of papers that have asked this question over the last eight years. 🧵 The 2016 election lead to an immediate negative effect on public opinion towards the US. (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....)

The uncertainty created by these periodic nationalist backlashes (also in Denmark, for example) unfortunately puts brakes on the much-needed internationalization of European science and academia.

The ongoing radicalization of Gen Z Republicans is something media in Europe should absolutely start covering. Now.

I'm at the Pizza Hutt. I'm at the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. I'm at the combination Pizza Hutt and the The Donald Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts.

It's almost as though election confidence on the right *isn't* actually related to the security of the electoral system! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yikes!

Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Wild that the US blew past democratic backsliding just is speed running to a personalist regime.

Yikes!

There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

RA Position! @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and @osamet.bsky.social are looking for support for a project on opposition coalitions in autocracies. If you are - interested in opposition politics and electoral dynamics, and - familiar with data collection apply by Dec 31: gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.

🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help! Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar... Please let us know of any issues and feedback!

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14

I'm convinced that Nativity Scene shops are like Games Workshop for Catholic grrandmothers.

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording published! ➡️Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms 👤 @dscheykopp.bsky.social (Weizenbaum Institute Berlin) 📺 youtu.be/8gf2mjIs5j8

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

I am gonna start a PhD influencer tiktok account that is just livestreams of me hunched over R swearing to myself.

Madrid is quickly becoming a great hub for social science research. If you would consider moving here, here’s one potential way to do so:

If you are looking for somewhere to donate to the victims of the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi, this is the official communal appeal donate.thedorfoundation.org.au/bondi-beach-...

This one trick game theorists don't want you to know about:

This one trick game theorists don't want you to know about:

"We welcome PhDs to a round table table discussion from assistant professors who were recently on the job market"

Merry Christmas, EVERYONE!

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview

And since last week the corresponding dataset paper is also published **The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022** Paper doi.org/10.5117/CCR2... Dataset doi.org/10.4232/1.14... Appendix osf.io/58sdx/

"We welcome PhDs to a round table table discussion from assistant professors who were recently on the job market"

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

For my causal inference intro course I'm looking for a paper with a simple survey experimental approach: treatment vs. control. Nothing else. But on a timely topic. Any suggestions, ideas? I find it hard to find "simple survey" experiments these days.