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I’ve also gone analog in my advanced undergrad seminar on identity this quarter. Students keep reading/seminar notebooks—questions, confusions, insights—and complete several field exercises, including a “seeing identity in the world” task. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"How do class gaps compare to race and gender gaps? Strikingly, we find that the class gaps in tenure-track academia are as large as or larger than analogous race or gender gaps."

Science magazine: US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office. [science.org]

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone."

academic.oup.com/edited-volum... Please feel free to access The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations edited by @sassangholiagha.bsky.social @philorchard.bsky.social @antjewiener.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻

Who funds NATO budget ⬇️

I did not know about this! Looks like a powerful research tool for social and family history.

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data. Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...

Malicious onboarding.

And Madel's decision makes the silence of every other Republican who does not all the more deafening.

The murderer before called the woman he had just shot a fucking bitch They then denied her medical care

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

The Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica invites submissions for a special issue on “The Comparative Politics of Gender” - https://cup.org/4sPDJXh Guest editors - @edegiorgi.bsky.social & @klbeckwith.bsky.social Deadline: 8th of February, 2026.

In our depraved country, children like five year old Liam represent themselves in immigration court, tasked with defending themselves against deportation. coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

As always, fuck cancer

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.” [thezebra.org]

Nehls: I would like to quickly address the police officers from January 6th. And I can tell you that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with the US capitol leadership team. Fanone: *Coughs: Go fuck yourself*

FBI agent: "I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day" FBI agent 2: "I was working an undercover operation on a neo-Nazi group with a long history of criminal activity... they'd have to close"

A study on publication time focussing on differences between the gender-composition of authors. "Sample averages show that all female-authored articles take about 9 % longer to accept [...] while female solo-authored articles take about 20 % longer to accept" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When political issues are heated, many people think staying neutral is the safest and most moral choice. But, is that how people truly see it? This new research by Ruttan, Adams, and DeCelles shows that’s not how others see political neutrality.

The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...

New paper focussing on publication time in Econ.

“I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day.” ~ an FBI Northwest Special Agent quoted in this exhaustive and exhausting piece 😬

3 years into the war, Ukrainians' resistance territorial concessions has weakened slightly (compared to 07/2022 when we first ran this experiment), but they STILL categorically resist Russian control. New paper with @marniehowlett.bsky.social & @carlmc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

I am happy to announce that I have joined the team of Politische Vierteljahresschrift / German Political Science Quarterly @pvs-journal.bsky.social as Managing Editor alongside the new Editor-in-Chief Marc Debus. I will assist Marc and the team of Associate Editors in managing this great journal.

We are #hiring a #phd student to develop novel #Bayesian #MachineLearning methods and algorithms. A fully funded PhD position at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. See full ad and apply here: www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:

New article! What’s capitalism – generational differentiation in the climate movement by Daphne Fietz. doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2025.2609418

I keep seeing US, China, Russia discussed as the Great Powers. But Russia is poor and backwards, GDP < Germany nominally, the same or so in PPP, aging weapons systems, it's running out of soldiers. GDP WAY < EU. What puts it on that list? It seems belligerent, sure, but manageable.

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

#OTD 1925 Annie T Randall b (d 16 Aug 2021) Mathematical statistician at NIH Mental Health Biometrics branch. A trailblazer for African American women in federal science agencies, the ASA Annie T. Randall Innovator Award recognizes contributions of early-career statistical innovators.

If the manuscript would fail in any undergraduate or graduate seminar, it should not be accepted into NeurIPS. Maybe slow science is the answer? Closer peer review? This is a real issue.

"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."

Are you looking for a postdoc position working on asteroids and comets? Would it help if it's in a beautiful place in southern France? If yes, then consider applying to the following position of my colleague Benoit Carry at the Observatory in Nice: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402212 #planetSci

Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️ - 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social – 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo – 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat – 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social – 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social – 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Why did countries back shared EU debt during COVID-19🦠 after rejecting it in the euro crisis? @tiagomramalho.bsky.social explains how a new “solidarity coalition” formed in 2020 and what it reveals about changing ideas of responsibility in the EU.

A nice update of the LaLonde study! Mixed data with an experimental benchmark and observational component. Our causal methods can work, if done properly.

arXiv📈🤖 Lost in Aggregation: The Causal Interpretation of the IV Estimand By Tsao, Muandet, Eberhardt et al

arXiv📈🤖 How Well Do LLMs Predict Human Behavior? A Measure of their Pretrained Knowledge By Gao, Han, Liang

NEW: AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor, "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Back in May, I also used the gambling metaphor to describe vibe coding. Claude Opus 4.5 has caused to me to reevaluate things. minimaxir.com/2025/05/llm-...

Democracy needs to mean something beyond simply the franchise. As a corollary, democracy does not defend itself. And there is much in it worth fighting for.