More than a decade of effort went into this magnificent dataset. What an incredible public good. People need to know how hard it is to do rigorous empirical work in political science.

Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more: buff.ly/rxgfboR @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Are universities perceived as left-wing bastions? Are police officers seen as right-wing? And are judges considered impartial? In a new publication in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Erika van Elsas, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, and I answer these questions ... (1/3) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can read the book and buy a copy with a 35% discount (using code 'Greenwood-Hau35') here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Following the success of our spring seminar series earlier this year, we @psapolpsychology.bsky.social are running an autumn/winter series, with four online presentations by great scholars. Please do register and come along to hear about some really fascinating research!

Our article about representation on BBC Question Time is now in print at IJPP. We find they closely reflected Brexit and Iraq war viewpoints of the public and MPs, but see a huge overrepresentation in guests from elite educational backgrounds @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social

"Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

🧵 The Gallagher index is the industry standard measure of disproportionality in political science 📈 What values do you think it can take? 📏 In my new paper, I show something surprising: under democratic conditions, it can never exceed 1 / √2 ≈ 0.707

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

📊 Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum? ➡️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki & @drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Power and influence in Britain is still wielded by a slither of the population: the 7% who are privately educated and roughly 1% who go to Oxbridge for uni. 6 years after the last rendition of Elitist Britain, and the situation hasn’t really changed! Huge privilege to be involved in this project.

rixpress is now an @ropensci.org package! Link: docs.ropensci.org/rixpress/

A reminder to submit your abstracts! We'd love your papers on gender + candidates, vote choices, turnout, the role of feminist + LGBT issues, gender gaps etc.!

✨ How does 3 days of academic & social exchange in the beautiful city of Newcastle sound? #ecpg26 The European Conference on Politics and Gender @ecprgender.bsky.social is seeking Paper & Panel proposals to kickstart the event! 📆 15–17 Jun 2026 📍 @nclpolitics.bsky.social ⏳ 7 Nov buff.ly/1JuXxxz

Thanks again to @avrilkennan.bsky.social for the opportunity to share some thoughts on research integrity and methodological rigor with a room full of Irish health research funders via @hrci.bsky.social. 🙏 youtu.be/5q8l-OV9Msc

Delighted to say I'm chairing a section at ECPG 2026 with @jess-smith.bsky.social @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social @gefjonoff.bsky.social and @liranharsgor.bsky.social on Elections, Parties, and Voters! Please send your abstracts in - full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecprgender.bsky.social

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

“It’s your boy RC and here’s the top 8 reasons W.T. Cosgrave was downright skibidi in the face of some world class rizz coming out of our guy Eamon de Valera”

Education will never be as engaging as entertainment, asking it to be is like asking veg to taste like fudge. That doesn’t change the fact that veg is good for you

Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters. This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.

New #research that included analysis of our democracy #data was recently published by Political Behavior (@springernature.com). @chankaming.bsky.social (@newcastleuni.bsky.social 🇬🇧) explored whether authoritarians’ electoral success abroad can change citizens’ satisfaction with #democracy.

We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Today at #EuroScipy2025, @glemaitre58.bsky.social and I presented a tutorial on pitfalls of machine learning for imbalanced classification problems. We discussed what (not) to do when fitting a classifier and obtaining degenerate precision or recall values. probabl-ai.github.io/calibration-...

📢 Glad to share my new publication in @polbehavior.bsky.social 📢 In this paper, I study whether authoritarians’ electoral success abroad can change citizens’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Well done everyone, you've built the worst of all possible worlds! Despite being told exactly what would happen at every stage. You'll have to raise fees *and* degrade quality *and* close some institutions. Superb stuff, 10/10, no notes. 👏👏👏👏

Another day, another article on use of LLMs in coding data (though in this case the text data is news stories not open ended responses): journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨New book alert!🚨 Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month. Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

This workshop is tomorrow! Don’t miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

📣Out on #FirstView 📣 In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility. polisky gendersky buff.ly/vkcPI2Y

I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies. OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

🚨 New publication! 🚨 Do people really trust the government? It depends on how you ask. Happy to share that our paper on why Question Form Matters with KatharinaPfaff (@stawi-univie.bsky.social‬) is now out in @jssam.bsky.social 📊🇦🇹 🔗 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

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 🧵

"And what is happening may yet come to define its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations" Truly chilling two minutes here.

grading final projects and I've never ever seen so much brazen LLM output. **Most stuff is still great!** only ≈20ish% is pure LLM (text like "Lifenpsctarece.years" in completely made up images!) This is the most disheartening time I've had grading, like, ever. What are we even doing anymore.

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

Delighted to see this published - this article is based on my PhD @unistrathclyde.bsky.social and started as a humble draft in the @psayoungpol.bsky.social "Paper to Publication" workshop. Maybe also interesting to researchers in @rc34youth.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social & @johnsmithcentre.com.

Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more: buff.ly/tBe6gLG @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

I've been working on something on this and here's a sneak peek of recent trends in Politics job adverts on jobs.ac.uk Here's a scatterplot and (GAM) trendline showing that the number of advertised politics jobs has pretty much halved since 2021.

More details about this (and a bunch of other little annotations tips and tricks for my #dataviz class) here! #rstats datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-07...

My new Constitution Society report on compulsory voting has now been published. I argue that low turnout has left the UK with an unrepresentative electorate. This is creating warped incentives for politicians, and contributing to low growth, high inequality, and rising democratic discontent.

Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

Early Career Researcher, Maria Papageorgiou, writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Donald Trump's attempt to strengthen ties with countries in the Middle East aims to contain China's growing ambitions in the region. Full article here >> bit.ly/3SKIyk4

Great write up of their fascinating research on the different time horizons of politicians and voters by @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's finest, @philipjcowley.bsky.social , @mbarnfield.bsky.social and @karlpike.bsky.social

Delighted that our paper "Cooperate but Divided at Heart: Analysis of an Opposition Elite Survey During Autocratization" is selected as the 2024 Political Studies Review's Best Research Article. A🧵on this research

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since. PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

Updated my "AI, LLMs, and bullshit" mini-lecture post in my dataviz class with a new section on vibe coding datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-...

I've received funding to improve my UK General Elections dataset (1832–2024)! We will validate existing variables and add new ones — e.g. registered voters, campaign spending, candidate gender, IDs for matching with other datasets. Current version: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...