It's "help an undergraduate research project time"! Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was very fun! forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2... #OldWeirdScotland

This auction ends on June 7th at 1am BST. Jsyk.

PLC had a productive Board meeting where we tackled key topics like ongoing papers, organizational changes with our new publisher Radboud University Press and our launch event at Politicologenetmaal 2025 in Groningen (stay tuned!). A huge thank you to our editors for their dedication and enthusiasm!

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

As of Jan 1, 2025 PLC will be a diamond open access journal 💎! This means no costs involved for the reader, nor for the author or their institutions! Instead, PLC is funded by the Francopone-Belgian, Flemish and Dutch #polisci associations and by Radboud Uni Press, our new publisher! #openscience

As Janey Godley's hearse passed through Edinburgh today, fans held banners and flags emblazoned with phrases the comedian was known for

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

Of all the stupid suggestions I've seen, perhaps the most stupid is suggesting youth visas between UK and Europe could be delivered with visa waivers. Visa waivers don't give the right to work. Europe is *not* going to give longer visa waivers to Britons so exceptionalists can avoid tax.

📚We just published 'Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning'. A study supported by Data Civics Observatory @allartmarkets.bsky.social at Edinburgh Futures Institute to explore the potential of the #commons to mend our troubled worlds 👉🏽 efi.ed.ac.uk/reviving-the...