I know senior scholars have too much on their plates already, but I hope they will give this blogpost (and the ones to follow) a read. The "Early Career state of mind" is very real, and the anonymous ECRs here capture so many of the challenges that it raises

At the blog I wrote about a new paper by @natewilmers.bsky.social , @zparolin.bsky.social , and @lukaslehner.bsky.social . We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

🚨Very excited to see our new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! We looked at how working with AI shapes people's risk perceptions and social policy preferences, with some surprising results ⬇️

Thanks for the shout-out, @sophieehill.bsky.social! Our findings are a snapshot from the early days of AI adoption. You pick up on many of the open questions that we're trying to answer in follow-up work (how accurate are risk perceptions, role of people's psychological traits, etc), so stay tuned!

We've talked to the team at @worldpolitics.bsky.social about our recent paper on inheritance taxation. This is what came out of it. Have a look!

3 of 6 authors of the July @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" spoke with The Storied Teller about #inheritance #taxation & #wealth #inequality. @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This should be of interest not just for economists!

Figure 3 from "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" illustrates how people with low #wealth are much less likely to have an opinion about #inheritance #taxation than people with high wealth @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @aslicansunar.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social

🚨New #OpenAccess paper🚨 The viability of dual VET has come under scrutiny in the knowledge economy, but in a new article with Patrick Emmenegger in the Journal of European Social Policy, we argue that it continues to offer benefits such as lower wage inequality. tinyurl.com/3ayms6n2

It helps explain why governments, despite high and rising levels of wealth inequality, have not done more to alleviate it: Public opinion is disproportionately driven by informed and mobilized families of homeowners, who support low inheritance taxes 6/n

Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n

College bat > college cat

🚨 New OA article with Scherwin M. Bajka in @reggovjournal.bsky.social: “Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?” (link in last post) When people fear job loss from new tech, do they prefer vocational training over academic tracks? Short answer: yes.

RIP Tom Lehrer www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...

Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking

Absolute must read

Our paper (w/ @cbwlezien.bsky.social) is now in print! Perhaps of interest to survey researchers contemplating whether/how to use the DK response option when measuring the public's policy preferences. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists! Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂 Dates: 22-26 September Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social llmsforsocialscience.net

Seriously, Europe needs to get its act together on AC!

Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️ Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state. #Democracy #PoliticalScience 🧵 url: osf.io/usqdb_v2

Our article (with @madselk.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, and Laure Bokobza) on why it is so hard to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social! Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

People are more likely to accept gender inequality if it is men who are worse off. A new paper with experiments on 35k Americans shows that when men are worse off people are: - more likely to attribute the inequality to a difference in effort - less likely to support pro-equality policies.

Jasmine Bhatia at Birkbeck and I are hiring a research assistant for our project on irregular migration, organised crime and European asylum governance. If you're a postgraduate or early postdoc and have an interest in those areas, send us a CV! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT307/r...

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly. New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social Thread👇

If you’re like me, googling in disbelief, I regret to inform you this is real

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

Last time slot, yet another full house: Stellar end to our series of #EPSA2025 panels on AI and the knowledge economy! Great to see this scholarly community emerging, please get in touch if you want to be involved in future initiatives!

Another packed #EPSA2025 panel with impressive papers by @hilmal.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social, Dave Hope, @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social & @matteonebbiai.bsky.social. Great to see so much interest in questions around AI and the knowledge economy! One more to go tomorrow (3pm, room -1.A.03)!

Great start to #EPSA2025 chairing a packed panel on "Regulation and Governance of AI," with papers by @paoloagnolin.bsky.social, Alex Kuo, Brady Allardice, and Michael Becher (and @zackgp94.bsky.social discussing). We have three more exciting panels on the politics of AI coming up (see in reply):

Four more days to submit an abstract for our workshop and special issue! If you work on the politics of AI, we'd love to hear from you. We'll host a workshop in Oxford in the fall and put together a special issue for a leading political science journal.

🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com

📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢 We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)

Is wealth inequality corrosive to society? Can't wait to get started on our new project "Wealth and Social Cohesion from a Relational Perspective" with a fantastic team: @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, @rcarranzan.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

Linking Artificial Intelligence Job Exposure to Expectations: Understanding AI Losers, Winners, and their Political Preferences dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... @ssrn.bsky.social paper by @profjanegreen.bsky.social @zackgp94.bsky.social, Geoffrey Evans & Gaetano Inglese. #PoliSky #NuffSky

I am ecstatic that my paper “Sinking ships: liquidity constraints and return predictability in recessions” is now in press at the Journal of Monetary Economics! 🥳 If you are interested in financial frictions, illiquidity, and asymmetric amplification, you can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

How might AI transform the way we interact with government? Join us on 4/19: bit.ly/4ayMzii @shirraviv.bsky.social @kaylynjschiff.bsky.social @melodyyhuang.bsky.social @dashapruss.bsky.social @dschiff.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social @elizaoak.bsky.social @geomblog.bsky.social

Interested in using tools like #GitHub, #Markdown, #Docker for a more efficient and reproducible research workflow? If yes, my new course at UCL @ioe.bsky.social and NCRM may interest you. Registrations are open. Thanks to @pengzell.bsky.social for coordinating! www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

GOVPET is a truly amazing community of scholars - can’t think of a better opportunity for PhD students working on these topics to get feedback on their research!

The CfP for our GOVPET PhD Workshop is out! Topic: "Skill mismatches and shortages: Discourse, policies and policies between education, labour markets and migration". If you are a PhD student working on these or related topics, please consider applying! #polisky Link: ibb.unisg.ch/en/research-...

Reposting for the #polisky crowd!

Dear @profmusgrave.bsky.social , could you add me to polisky?

🚨 New working paper 🚨 How do AI tools like ChatGPT affect productivity? Existing studies find equalising effects within occupations, but does this generalize to the labor market at large? My new working paper with Jane Gingrich & Jasmine Bhatia addresses this question: (1/9)