A) That is A LOT of money. B) Makes the recent robbery of 20K euros from Cédric Grolet seem like small potatoes/pastries. C) It all seems more romantic in the movies! www.dw.com/en/germany-g...

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

"After six days of inspecting the suspect's bowel movements..." The occupational documentary we didn't know we wanted to see. p.dw.com/p/54nah

"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science" osf.io/preprints/so...

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

You see: husks that have given themselves to a delicious key lime pie. I see: 1 hour of labor, stinging fingers, and a sore wrist.

Quarterfinals of competitive pinball. Retro and modern at the same time complete with breathless announcers. Would have thought it was a sketch comedy satire, were it not on ESPN

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

ALL the far-right parties in Europe are Russian-funded, using offshore accounts in order to dodge campaign finance laws: this came out in the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020. Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad. Details:

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

For those who didn’t catch it:🚨 We’ve released 3 additional panel waves via @GESIS, bringing the total to 71 waves of survey data. Spanning Sep 2012–May 2024, the GIP dataset is fully accessible for researchers studying trends, attitudes, and social changes over more than a decade.

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college. That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours): www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it? Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies. 🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social 💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw

Grape Harvest Dates in Beaune/Burgundy, 1659-2018. Since the early 1980s, the moving 20-year avg of Burgundy grape harvest dates has dropped by 16 days. That is, harvest starts more than half a month earlier than 35 years ago.  #climatechange #globalwarming

Taking sage advice of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I’m posting cover of forthcoming book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis

Interesting read on schisms, but I thought we were well past calling WF a 'healthy' store. It's a high-end(ish) chain with mass produced organic products. There's a place for that + I'd rather see it than McDonalds. But 'healthy' is not my first (or second) thought. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/d...

The School of Public Policy at the LSE is hiring in political science! Associate or Full. I was the first political scientist hired by the SPP, come be the second! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

The real danger of MAGA lies not in Trump but in Vought: a zealous Christian nationalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of government bureaucracy who's willing (even happy) to hide in the shadows while directing any glad-hand who wants to focus on winning votes. www.propublica.org/article/russ...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research doi.org/10.1093/esr/... OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

We issued a press release when the article was published: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/newsroom/... For all 2025 @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social Awards please see: 👉 connect.apsanet.org/s43/awards/ 2/2

📣 Marc Helbling, @rahsaanmax.bsky.social , and Richard Traunmüller have won the @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social Best Article Award for “Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences”. Congratulations! 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly. What then must we do? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

I think you want to come to Sussex in a few weeks for the latest interdisciplinary migration research. Register now! @scmrjems.bsky.social

Tremendous research from Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe finds that "2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing terrorist attacks outnumber those from the violent far right." But don't miss the broader picture — depicted in the below graph... www.csis.org/analysis/lef...

Enough of the BS. It's not a 'crackdown' on academia. You 'crackdown' on criminals and villains. It's a wild assault and a desperate power grab. And that shouldn't be hard to say, regardless of ideological preferences. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

We’re at #LDConf discussing 'How can liberals win the argument on immigration?' With @lisasmartmp.bsky.social @markpackuk.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social + US migration expert Frank Sharry.

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

“Queuing in pubs combines the worst elements of communism – yes, the very worst elements – without any of the good stuff, like free housing or hastily built nuclear power stations.”

Alarming.

So these people are just now discovering the difference between the internet and their private group chat. Adults amaze me. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a 'Godfather of AI' — a technology that likely wouldn't exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT." futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm very honored to have received the Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize for the best paper published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social in 2024, together with Jonathan Rodden. Many thanks to the Editorial Board for appreciating our study! Here is the paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We all hate authoritarianism but sometimes there are clearly false claims in advertising that beg to be outlawed!

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

You would think that we are well past Peak Matcha. But I keep seeing new ‘grand openings’. And since it’s Nyc, they all start with long lines…

***Attention grad students*** Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history, broadly defined. iehs.org/awards/georg...

🚨 Job Alert U. de Montréal 🚨 Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job. Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing! Reach out with any Q?s tinyurl.com/y9trt5va

Next thing you know, these folks will unearth the shocking finding that people shop at Dollar General when they can't afford more expensive stores. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/r...