What Americans Die from? And what the media reports on... Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Happy first day of the Autumn Term! 🍂 This academic year is an extra special one as we are celebrating LSE’s 130th anniversary 🎂 The theme is centred around LSE’s impact, past and present. Look out for celebratory events, freebies, exciting announcements, and much more from October onwards! 🎉

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Academic friends, what is the best place to run representative surveys in the US that is reasonably affordable? Recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

@fgenovese.bsky.social and I have put together some notes on the CfP for the Climate Politics section we’re co-chairing at @epssnet.bsky.social . Happy to answer any questions and look forward to your submissions! (thanks to @macartan.bsky.social & @pavisuri.bsky.social for showing us the way!)

It’s a wrap for PEEP 2025! Thank you to all the presenters, discussants and attendees! @awiedemann.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social and I are already looking forward to another full day of Political Economy in 2026!

PEEP 2025 is underway in beautiful Vancouver. So nice to see this community growing 🌱

🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨 If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be! More here 👇🏽

Even the ducks had enough.

📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Here's the final program for the Political Economy of Europe Pre-APSA Conference (Sept 10, UBC). Sign up here if you would like to attend: forms.gle/7U68mtR224QT... Excited to hang out again next month! CC: @mariacarreri.bsky.social, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social

Israeli political scientist Lihi Ben Shitrit: "The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear." forward.com/opinion/7598...

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025

"The most notable thing about Ilya Sorokin might be how ordinary he seems." Fantastic reporting, even better writing.

60+ people desperate for food killed by Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/w...

Horrific. And the US has been enabling this death trap of an aid scheme since May.

❓Who does Nigel Farage work for? Since 2024 election: £93,904 — MP salary (8.7%) £981,173 — outside income (91%) GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k) www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...

Manchete do DN de hoje...

Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The deadline for the Toronto political behaviour workshop is July 11. Get your paper in! Details 👇🏼

I hope they were just checking the crime committed by the designers of this football pitch.

If you're still at #EPSA2025 today: Catch our Panel P13-S315: Politicians & Representation 🕐 13:10–14:50 📍 Room -1.A.05 Featuring: @jacklucas.bsky.social, @mathisbr.bsky.social, John Griffin, @mafaldapratas.bsky.social I’m presenting our study on evidence selection by politicians👇

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Tourists and digital nomads have no agency in this story. It's just irresistible.

I guess we don't have participants from any other country in the region

‼️Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995. 👀 Clip from @thedailyshow.com 👇

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

It's only Wednesday and it somehow feels like the entire country except for Minnesota has somehow moved on from the political assassinations committed on Saturday. I feel insane and I'm disgusted that national interest seemed to last only as long as there was a manhunt.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid! The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below). To express interest, complete form (by 06/24) 👉 n9.cl/qdjvz 1/n

"Invitation Letters Increase Response Rates in Elite Surveys" with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social. Short report @ JEPS. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Usually at the end of the summer, I offer to read someone’s job market materials if they are looking for like an R2 or teaching oriented job (I’m best at reading American pol). Maybe people are doing this work earlier though? Happy to help 2 people. PoliSky

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

The left-behind-the-Alps phenomenon strikes again: Chega, the Portuguese far-right populist party, gets 46% of the vote among Swiss emigrants (against 29% across Europe and 23% in Portugal). No idea if this happens with other migrant communities across Europe

[Reposting] On Monday, June 16th, at noon ET, I will hold an informal Zoom workshop for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (and others) who are about to start a tenure-track position in a political science department on "Navigating the Tenure Track System."

Consider applying! The fellowship includes a mentor for a full year and two online feedback sessions. Open to all subfields

When reality confounds prejudice: “19-year-old Syrian refugee in Germany has been hailed as a hero after he pinned down an assailant at Hamburg’s main railway station, helping to halt an attack in which 18 people were injured.” The attacker was a 39-year-old German woman.

Consider applying! The fellowship includes a mentor for a full year and two online feedback sessions. Open to all subfields

Please share! We have FIVE openings for student assistants to work on a range of projects at our group at @wzb.bsky.social (must be a Berlin based student) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/384...

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

Last day to apply to the one-day conference that makes me feel the APSA trip was worth it before APSA starts.

What do you think they were trying to do here? (from a survey I just filled out)

The irony of Trump saving UK higher education on.ft.com/3GFlOPk

Mareike Kleine and I will be leading these workshops for PhD students working on Europe in June/July. Submit your work by April 27 🌊

If you plan to go to APSA in September, consider applying!

Please share widely: PhD workshop in June 2025 with @miguelpereira.bsky.social and Mareike Kleine politicalsciencenow.com/2025-dissert...

Topics that have shrunk in the top 20 political science journals 2003-2023: European politics, financial and labor markets, lobbying and interest groups, normative theory, security studies, the U.S. presidency. osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...