This is why we have sample size justifications. Some people might mindlessly dismiss small N studies. But a well justified sample size (see online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...) defends against such mindlessless.

Maria Popova, McGill University: Russian manipulation of the facts endures because when #JeffreySachs and others tirelessly promote it, opponents politely disagree and the conversation is presented as a debate of equally valid viewpoints. www.policymagazine.ca/when-confron...

New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

🆕 Do Respectful Politicians Make Less Polarized Citizens? 🤝 @rtpedersen.bsky.social @julianchr.bsky.social & Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen use survey data to test whether politicians’ positive rhetoric 🗣️ ✅ can reduce #polarization in the same way negative rhetoric 🗣️ ❎ increases it 📖

#CallsForPapers Special Issue on "The Disinformation Economy: Digital Markets of Influence, Conflict and Polarization." @jmmnews.bsky.social Guest Editors: Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Sofia Ulver, & James Pamment. #disinformation #fakenews #misinformation #adtech www.jmmnews.com/disinformati...

Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

Strategy Grand Old Man, Lawrence freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social weighs in on the latest Russian provocations. Do read: samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My God, this UN speech.

The bigger problem is the deregulation that led to the television climate we have today, in which only 6 companies own 90% of the nation's media.

OpenAI acknowledges probabilities are indeed probabilities Users will continue to think AI is a demigod

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

New research on defense willingness in Sweden by Ralph Sundberg & Gina Gustafsson: Positive link to national attachment, cultural national pride, and civic conception of nationhood. An ethnic conception of nationhood shows no significant effect, and uncritical patriotism has a negative effect.

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation. This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region. The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

Posting about re-reading structuredprocrastination.com to avoid re-reading it to avoid writing.

▶️ Climate Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgenovese.bsky.social @antvalentim.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work on: * Green economic policy and green industrial policy * Geopolitics of energy transitions and climate relations >>>> 3/

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is not at all some kind of emotional problem

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉 With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone! godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

With the semester start, teaching starts! I usually compile a list of ressources for students to learn. Here are the ressources for #RStats : gist.github.com/brueckmann/f... Which R ressources does #PolSci recommend to students? Auch suche ich noch ein paar mehr Ressourcen auf Deutsch, danke 🙏

Since the Alaska “summit”’ Putin “has ramped up attacks on Ukraine, threatened to kill any future foreign forces in Ukraine, hit Western targets in Ukraine and unleashed a drone incursion into Poland.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

WTF

Russia’s war is escalating, not ending. We must raise the cost on Moscow, strengthen support for Ukraine, and invest in Europe’s defence. The EU plays a major role and we will support initiatives like the Eastern Border Shield defence line. (2/2)

Debating whether and how Russia intended to violate Polish airspace is a distraction: either way, Europe and NATO need to take countermeasures that will make sure Moscow does not walk away thinking this is a risk-free venture, then do it again and more. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/p...

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

In a new paper we show how misinformation derails support for public action on climate change by casting doubt on the scientific consensus (which undermines public opinion). Disinformers attack expert consensus because they know it works. Free: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are you watching, world? Treat AI as you would a very bright and fast but dishonest intern with a ridiculously inflated ego and sense of entitlement.

And the encouraging result of these conversations has been some slightly more measured reporting, with a bit more background and context on Russia’s long-term electronic warfare against Europe. “EU chief von der Leyen's plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ja, det er helt ko-ko. Det er altfor mye i akademia som er basert på ubetalt fritidsarbeid. Særlig ille blir det når man arbeider gratis for selskaper som har en kjempeprofitt. www.khrono.no/forlagene-tj...

New research publication by Finnish National Defence University: 'An army with too many people and not enough soldiers?' : Russia's military manpower system in flux

Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Donald so incompetent he'll be the first fascist to make the trains late.

📊 New dataset and paper alert! We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Below follows a 🧵

Found on Mastodon... fediscience.org/@kaiarzheime...

We all almost there! If we also convince North Korea, Iran and Nicaragua to provide security guarantees that would surely seal the peace deal

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 9: Senterpartiet Av de 9 største partiene er det Senterpartiet som har fått minst i pengegaver foran årets valg (så langt). Senterpartiet har lenge fått mesteparten av bidragene sine fra fagbevegelsen.

What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

Hvor mye skatt betaler vi egentlig?💰 SSB har regnet på det og finner at de rikeste betaler en langt lavere effektiv skattesats enn folk flest.

I'm pleased to introduce a full set of Congressional *and* legislative report cards, courtesy of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. An enormous amount of work, the culmination of several years of development. Check it out! samwang.substack.com/p/redistrict...

How can any American watch this cringeworthy royal court cosplay and not want to throw up? "Thanks to your infinite wisdom, your majesty, we have given arms to the troops occupying the imperial capital. They are an extension of your holy will."