The Department of Politics & Public Admin at the University of Hong Kong is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond. HKU PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters. Details:

We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!

🔓 @nicolewu.bsky.social and Zhongwei Sun's research uses qualitative and quantitative data to explore workers' responses and exit options in the face of increasing automation in manufacturing, finding greater anxiety amongst local workers than migrants. #机器换人. doi.org/10.1017/S030...

@adambonica.bsky.social showed ideology predicts which agencies experience DOGE layoffs. But what other factors could be driving this? Using a generative LLM-derived measure, I find agencies perceived as knowledge institutions are more likely to experience layoffs, even controlling for ideology. 🧵

Apply to present at Virtual IPES! We ask accepted authors to name their discussant “dream team” and we’ll try to make that happen, with the support of the wonderful IPE community (thank you). We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students and early-career scholars. ipesky

Apply to present at the International Political Economy Society's (IPES) Virtual IPES! This is an excellent opportunity to receive feedback from colleagues who work on your topic of interest. Application: forms.gle/hciLuthkhY1D... VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes

Virtual IPES submission deadline is tomorrow! polisky ipesky

International Political Economy Society (IPES)’s Virtual IPES is calling for paper submissions for its Winter/Spring 2024 round of workshops VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes Application link: forms.gle/BBGVJdJKnH2b...

In my seminar today, one of my students said, “Well, I don’t know how the Internet was like in 2001.” And the rest of them shrugged as they also don’t know. How much do I tell them. 🤣

Super interesting new experimental findings on support for AI regulations from @cmwitko.bsky.social just posted @3streamsblog.bsky.social cc @justinhendrix.bsky.social medium.com/3streams/peo...

I’m not so sure, folks. polisky

I saw a menacing “Bye Bye World” booth at a robot exhibition.

I prefer a human making my bubble tea, does that make me a Luddite? 🧋(It was bad and also had zero reviews on Google maps.)

My phone showed me this aggressive(?)/perceptive(?) ad from the School of Information at the University of Michigan 4 years ago.

The TimeOut Magazine named a neighborhood near the University of Toronto as one of the “coolest in the world.” One of the reasons cited were the existence of these “pubs where professors, students […] grab a pint.” Yep, right, I’m sure we are very cool …🤣

Did you know that Democrats are more permissive (pet) parents? See @tesler.bsky.social's latest piece on the political science behind the Bidens’ biting dogs. BONUS: this post has pictures of very, very good 🐶s.

Some important work by Claudia Goldin scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages...

I have a new article out in Review of International Political Economy co-authored with Rie Kijima. “Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education” (1)   www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Honestly it is very strange to read PR stuff from Penn when this was how they treated Katalin Kariko:

We put a guest bed in my home office and the unintended consequence is that my dog is always in my Zoom calls, posing in the background

Virtual IPES is a series of online workshops that aims to facilitate in-depth discussions of working papers in IPE. VIPES discussants have been reliably insightful & amazing. Oct 1 deadline: forms.gle/bmk9uyhNrroJ... VIPES: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes ipesky polisky

Still testing if it works but there’s now an IPE/CPE feed for folks who are in polisky already! It’s ipesky or cpesky or cipesky. First time I do any of this so I’m very open to suggestions (starting from the feed’s avatar!). Please help advertising it!

@profmusgrave.bsky.social Paul, would you please add me to your rapidly growing list of political scientists? (May this be our last attempt at mass migration!)