Please help my student, Sayna Kaushik, who is working on an amazing AI-driven app that helps voters get accurate information about the voting process in each of the 50 states. She needs volunteers to spend about 15 minutes trying out two versions of the app for her research. Link is in the comments.

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

City of half a million under siege

Congratulations to Prof @selimgulesci.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor in Economics at TCD and to Kevin O'Rourke on his appointment as Honorary Professor of the Department of Economics! 🥳 Read more: www.tcd.ie/economics/ne... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

ofc the original ought to have been called watergategate

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Slides from recent talks and courses on a bunch of topics: macartan.github.io/teaching/sli... replication, experimental design, survey experiments mixed methods... human shields, community driven reconstruction, school sorting, crises, selection and incentives...

Thankful to @freitag.de for this write-up about my book on the normalization of the radical right, which has recently come out in German: www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

What a wonderful few days in Belfast for #EPSS2026 and what a fantastic community! Thank you to everyone who joined the conference with such enthusiasm A special thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & the rest of the EPSS Council for making it all possible

The first ever #EPSS 2026 football games were a great success! Thanks to @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and @vheddesheimer.bsky.social for organizing.

Thank you to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers for your amazing efforts to make this conference a success. 2/2

Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577

Huge congratulations to Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social for winning the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social best book award for “Making a Career in Dictatorship“ 🥳 #EPSS2026 @hertiesecurity.bsky.social

🌉Evening programme: 🗳️EPSS Annual General Meeting 18:20-18:50, Hall 1A (ICC) 🏆EPSS Prize-Giving and President's Keynote Address 19:00-19:40, Hall 1A (ICC) 🥂EPSS Reception 19:40-21:00, Halls1B-1D (ICC)

The political economy of development panels at @epssnet.bsky.social

Now traveling to @epssnet.bsky.social I would like to draw your attention to a panel on: Standards for Replication in Political Science 10:50-12:30 Thursday, 18 June, 2026, Bar 2 w. @bochkareva.bsky.social @fresejoris.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @aeggers.bsky.social and myself.

We had lots of fun doing egap.org/learning-days/ again this year with 25 students from across the continent All training material is open access: egap.github.io/learningdays... FR / EN slides, exercises. Huge thanks to Brice Bado for hosting; @vinarceneaux.bsky.social for leading & the whole team:

Merci infiniment à nos instructeurs pour le temps et l’expertise qu’ils ont si généreusement partagés ! @vinarceneaux.bsky.social @vincebed.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social Adikath Abiola, Arsène Brice Bado, Alyssa Heinze & Yannick Brice Kouogueng Yeyouomo

Headed to Abidjan today; looking forward to another @egap.bsky.social West Africa learning days If friends are in the area please drop me a dm or send on must dos for Abidjan

Without exaggeration the class I took with Mik Laver (in 1993!) was life altering; completely rewired my brain. Can’t recommend this enough

🚨 Get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Emeritus Professor Michael Laver 👉️ Measuring policy positions of political agents ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 16 June ➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 ‼️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuring-...

We are sharing the following message on behalf of EGAP's Executive Director, Daniel Rubenson and Leopoldo Ferguson, Director of EGAP's Latin America Hub.

So saddened, shocked, to hear this news. Inimitable Raúl, passionate, brave, brilliant, vital, generous; you will be terribly missed

RIP Raúl. May your memory be a blessing.

The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night. The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. #Bafta #Baftas

A great overview of the accommodation question by Hanno Hilbig, worth your time!

From 28–30 May 2026, the Visions in Methodology conference will convene in Berlin for the first time. The event will bring together women scholars in political methodology for three days of research presentations, mentorship, and academic exchange. 👉 vim2026.com/schedule

The Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World will be out this July Endorsement below by @argohdes.bsky.social

What an amazing music video 😍

Hottest ticket in Dublin ATM 🫡Be there or be square www.ria.ie/events/irela...

Our 2+2=5 moment

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

Friends, you've been submitting great proposals for this project and we're now coming up to capacity. We're closing proposals on April 15th; please send yours in!

MSF condemns this attack and calls for protection of civilians and health facilities. Strikes near hospitals spread fear and deter lifesaving care. MSF is deploying a mass-casualty kit and continuing support. Civilians cannot be collateral damage.

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

Mit der Süddeutschen habe ich über internet shutdowns und Gewalt gesprochen: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/iran... @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social

🚨Reminder that the nomination deadline for the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social Best Book Award is March 31, details below👇

🚨Reminder that the application for the @epssnet.bsky.social mentoring program is March 31, details below👇

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„Langfristig ist es daher nicht nur moralisch und rechtlich geboten, sondern auch im Eigeninteresse Deutschlands, auf einer regelbasierten Ordnung zu bestehen und entsprechend zu handeln.“ verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Remarkable amount of content in this short message ☘️

Fun fact: my dissertation was called "Wars of Choice" (became Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions @cornellupress.bsky.social). Tl;dr: they rarely go well. 1/ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801...

The Department of Sociology, within the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, invites applications for a PhD Researcher on far-right mobilization and community responses in Ireland. 🚨 Applications close on 30 April 2026 🚨 Find out more: www.tcd.ie/sociology/ne... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Reminder that the deadline for nominations for the EPSS Best Book award 2026 is March 31, 2026! The EPSS Best Book Award recognizes an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of political science. 1/2

🚨 Important news from EPSS, we are inviting proposals for pre-conference workshops. Proposals should be submitted via the form on the EPPS website by 2 April 2026. Applicants will be notified of decisions by 10 April 2026. Please find more information here: epssnet.org/pre-conferen...

Glad to see this getting international attention: the culture minister’s ham-fisted move against independent bookstores; another worrying sign of the German government drifting away from liberal principles

Horrific to see, again, the treatment of Lebanon and disgusted to see this reckless use of evacuation orders, this normalization of the abuse and traumatization of civilian populations, and the tolerance for this horror all around

What are our teams witnessing in #Lebanon How is Doctors Without Borders responding? Jeremy Ristord, Country Director, updates on the situation and our activities:

Please note the very short deadline