📑❗️Our article with @grigopop.bsky.social and Graeme Robertson on the effects of Ukraine’s decentralization reform on satisfaction with public services (and democracy) in Ukraine 🇺🇦 was just published in Comparative Political Studies! doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Months after Ukraine’s morale hit a nadir and its allies despaired, the country’s turnaround has challenged the long-held conventional wisdom that Russia’s bigger army can outlast Kyiv’s — boosting Ukrainians’ self-assurance to a level not seen in years. My story with comrade @maxseddon.bsky.social.

Excited to announce that my paper "Socioeconomic development and the uneven legacies of authoritarian repression" has been published at the Journal of Historical Political Economy. This grew out of my second year ("591") PhD paper. www.emerald.com/jhpe/article...

We are entering a new phase in universities where degrees will be handed out, and it may well not be possible to know if the student did any work at all. Full post here: rorytruex.substack.com/p/will-ai-br...

Apocalyptic scenes. Kyiv suffered one of its greatest attacks this night Russia completely destroyed a business center and a market near Lukianivska metro. Including the cafe that reopened six times after Russian strikes. 📹 RFE/RL

Happy vyshyvanka day!

If the media never covers corruption, most people won’t know corruption is happening. The media is a crucial player in exposing corruption and making it a politically relevant issue.

Zelenskyy be like 😎💅💅

“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

Did Magyar’s rural tour help him win Hungary’s election? New research takes a closer look at whether his campaign across the countryside moved voters. Read the latest from @isadesisto.bsky.social and @grigopop.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/did-mag...

My latest piece with @grigopop.bsky.social in @goodauth.bsky.social analyzing Peter Magyar’s campaign strategy in Hungary’s 🇭🇺 latest election. goodauthority.org/news/did-mag...

Playing w/ Google Trends data in the wake of Russia's Telegram ban. Throttling began in Feb. 2026, as far as I can tell, & got more serious in Mar. (explaining the spikes). The interest in VPN - as measured by these trends - is much greater now than the Feb. 2022 when the full-scale invasion began.

📢 New paper out in @AJPS_Editor with Christian Baehr & Fiona Bare: "Climate Exposure Drives Firm Political Behavior: Evidence from Earnings Calls and Lobbying Data" When & how do firms engage in climate politics? 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

On my way to @mpsa.bsky.social, and especially looking forward to the PPEEW Workshop, where I’ll be presenting my paper and catching up with some of my favourite colleagues. If you’re around, do stop by

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

Go, @hannafolsz.bsky.social!! So well deserved. Can’t wait to visit you in Spain (and Cambridge) 😎

Check out our great Spring/Summer lineup at @eepgworkshop.bsky.social and come join for our first session next Friday, where @isadesisto.bsky.social will present fascinating work in progress with @snitsova.bsky.social serving as discussant!

Looking forward to a great Spring/Summer series with @eepgworkshop.bsky.social! We'll be kicking off next week (Fri April 17) with new work in progress from @isadesisto.bsky.social and @snitsova.bsky.social graciously discussing! More info + full schedule at the link below.

🆕 Ben Gardner-Gill, Isabelle DeSisto, and Robert Lipiński discuss historical experiences and their impact on Estonian political views and participation in this new episode of #BalticWays.

Thanks very much to Robert Lipinski for a great discussion, and to our excellent interviewer, Ben Gardner-Gill with @balticstudies.bsky.social 🇪🇪

Read more Moldovan literature! The great Tatiana Țîbuleac's novel "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" is now available in English translation. My latest book review for @kyivindependent.com. kyivindependent.com/loss-and-lon...

In the new issue of MAD css.ethz.ch/en/publicati..., I have a brief analysis of campaign financing in Moldova's 2025 parliamentary elections, looking at broad patterns of income and spending, including a very superficial analysis of the relationship between campaign spending and electoral returns.

A military investigation has determined the U.S. carried out the deadly Tomahawk strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials & others familiar with the preliminary findings. Latest w/ Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Tyler Pager, Helene Cooper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

🚨 Our paper with @vetasergeeva.bsky.social on how Russian wartime emigrants decide whom to help flee the country is finally out in Perspectives on Politics! Open access 👇

💥"Citing multiple European national security sources, [Szabolcs Panyi] has reported that a team of Kremlin-linked “political technologists” has been tasked with influencing Hungary’s election. The effort, he says, will be overseen by Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy chief of staff to Putin."

The science says that White House is unlikely to benefit from a rally-around-the-flag effect, nor is this likely to work as a diversionary war. And, as we all know, the Trump administration is all about the science. oxfordre.com/politics/dis...

The Iraq War unleashed unintended consequences. Every war does. This one will. This is not the A-Team or even the B-Team. Wrote this about Venezuela but applies equally to Iran. Pete Hegseth is the key node in the chain of command. Again. 5/5 goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

Is exile a dead end – or a launching pad for opposition? New research finds that exile prolongs and escalates revolutions. Read the latest from @isadesisto.bsky.social & @ernugent.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/is-exil...

@isadesisto.bsky.social + I have been investigating the role of exiles in contentious politics back home. This @goodauth.bsky.social piece draws on a working paper in which we find exile involvement escalates revolutions -- they're longer and more violent: goodauthority.org/news/is-exil...

A process begun already in 2014 with the state takeover of the Perm-36 gulag museum and its conversion into a museum honoring the prison guards. I interviewed the original directors of Perm-36 as well as the advisor for its replacement and wrote about it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'Ukrainians still unequivocally reject political or territorial concessions, at any cost, to end the war.' Dr Marnie Howlett, from the @politicsoxford.bsky.social and @osgaoxford.bsky.social, reflects on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ⬇️

Finally got my hands on this beautiful book ! 💕

A Russian drone strike killed 12 miners who had just finished their shift at a coal mine in east-central Ukraine on Sunday, officials said, highlighting the limitations of a partial, short-term truce that Russia agreed to last week at President Trump’s request.

My latest - some interesting insights from new survey data from 🇰🇿

Truth

Even fewer people believe administration lies the second time

When you explain it plainly, it’s hard not to see where we are as a country.

Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals

La guerra en Ucrania dura ya más que la Gran Guerra Patria. Vendida como « antinazi », ha reproducido prácticas oscuras de la II GM. Nuestra lista subió 7.500 nombres; Bashkortostán es la primera región en llegar a 8.000 zona.media/article/2026...

It's official: Bulgaria is in the euro-zone. An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor: "Thank you, friends. We are home. This is not a protocol. It is a feeling. In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution... www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...

Moldova's president Maia Sandu named world leader of the year by @telegraph.co.uk! www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.

Stalin, a supremely paranoid man, was positive Hitler would not invade Russia in 1941 because a two front war would obviously be very dumb. But it turns out dictators do very dumb things.

UNC-Chapel Hill is closing all six of its area studies centers to save $7 million dollars. UNC's football coach, Bill Belichick, makes $10 million a year. In total, the football team now has a $40 million budget. Make this make sense.

I've tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption @apnews.com that Western officials blame on Russia. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe's security resources and identify weak spots. Arson & explosives plots particularly increased: 2023: 1 2024: 26 2025: 6 apnews.com/projects/rus...

Peripheral Histories? closes 2025 with a brilliant post from @isadesisto.bsky.social on her ongoing research into the contemporary political impact of Soviet-era repressions

We have a fascinating new post from @isadesisto.bsky.social examining the impact of Soviet repressions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the political behaviour of victims and their descendants www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/remembe...

Do you follow World Politics' editorial chair @grigopop.bsky.social? While you're checking out his feed, take a look at his recent piece in @goodauth.bsky.social #Russia #elections #politics goodauthority.org/news/despite...