WHAT-IF team members met in Konstanz last week to design the WHAT-IF machine—an agent-based simulation with LLM-driven agents. It models media ecosystems to test 'what if' policy scenarios. Curious how? Read more: what-if-horizon.eu/2025/05/16/o...

Indeed, if you weren't already steeped in all this happiness and winning, we have a new study on happiness displays by US members of Congress. They're super happy, what's your problem? 😅

I'm getting the feeling that my current research on difference-in-differences with non-binary treatments has no shot at NSF funding.

Curious about how media influences voting behaviour? 🤔🗳️ This month on PhD Perspectives we chat to Lucas Da Silva, who tells us about his research on how media affects cross-pressured voters- those with conflicting economic & cultural views. Read about his research here 🔽 www.tcd.ie/Political_Sc...

For Zelenskyy to reach this point publicly means that the US offer is way outside the bargaining range. If Trump has burned all the bridges and Z realizes he has no influence, then, out of desperation, you negate Trump’s control of the narrative and mobilize public opinion youtu.be/9td4L_p5WhE?...

When cavemen learn how to run a corpus through a dictionary…

🔍PhD Perspectives🔎 This month, we spoke to 4th year PhD student @marinaschenkel.bsky.social about her research journey, from inspiration to real-world impact. Read her story 👉 tinyurl.com/m92ya5r4 #politicalscience #phd #trinitycollegedublin #polscisky #socialsciences

Trump Tower Gaza via ethnic cleansing.

Hello world! Meet our consortium—15 organizations, 10 countries—joining forces to rethink the digital political information space. 🚀 Last week, we kicked off our project WHAT-IF, setting the stage to build a digital twin that will help us test the impact of policy interventions. More in the 🧵!

My school @ucdpolitics.bsky.social has 2 positions (deadline Feb 21) one in Global Governance, one in Environmental Politics. They're called "Ad Astra Fellows" but between you & me they're basically tenure-track posts. It's a good deal. You get a PhD line & annual €5000 research budget for 5 years.

Yes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

[closes book, slowly removes glasses, and thoughtfully cleans them with a small cloth] I honestly don't think Waldo is in there

📢Join us! @tcdssp.bsky.social (Pol Scie) is hiring 2 assistant profs (1 comparative & 1 IR). I've only been at TCD since Sep but it's been a great place to work! Amazing colleagues, great students & vibrant research. Comparative: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/a... IR: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/a...

We’re excited to announce two Assistant Professor (5-year tenure track) openings in Political Science: 1️⃣ International Relations www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/a... 2️⃣ Comparative Politics www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/a... 🗓️ Applications close 12 Noon (IST), 8th January 2025. Details: jobs.tcd.ie

📖 To celebrate the migration to Bluesky I will put everyone who reposts this before Dec 2nd into a random drawing & send the winner a free paperback copy of my 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship anywhere they happen to be in the world. 📖

The 12 types of Political Science paper. What's missing #polsci?