Forestillingen om at autoritære stater er mer økonomisk effektive er i ferd med å bre seg igjen. Den er uten empirisk grunnlag. fasterplease.substack.com/p/i-love-pro...

Det kommer illevarslende meldinger om at Ukraina snart må oppgi Pokrovsk. Virkningen av dette nederlaget kommer til å bli overdrevet av mange. Derfor skriver jeg om hva dette betyr i dag. snoen.substack.com/p/pokrovsk-f...

"No" Ned said with sadness in his voice. "Now it ends.'

“Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters.”

Det finnes etter hvert et ganske stort antall kvantitative studier på dette, som ser systematisk på læringsutfall korrelert med undervisningsformer, og de finner stort sett at tradisjonell lærersentrert undervisning gir bedre resultat. Se for eksempel her: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Relatert: Den siste Stortingsmeldingen om høyere utdanning anbefalte sterkt bruk av såkalt aktive læringsmetoder, med påstanden at "undersøkelser viser at studenter lærer mer". Jeg sjekket opp kunnskapsgrunnlaget som lå til grunn i referansene, var én eksperimentell studie basert på få studenter

In any somewhat functioning country this would lead to the fall of the government

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

Both can be true: 1. Many bad faith actors are trying to impose conservative viewpoints on academia and should be resisted as threats to academic freedom 2. Viewpoint diversity (broadly defined) is good for free inquiry scatter.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t... eternallyradicalidea.com/p/is-higher-...

Betting agency data strongly suggest an information leak of some kind in connection with the Nobel Peace Prize award. Between 00:40 and 02:00 last night, the Polymarkets probability of a Machado win rose from 4 % to 73 % www.vg.no/nyheter/i/o3...

RFK Jr is the OG p-hacker.

Fukuyama and Find Out

the history will continue until morale improves

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We must support our colleagues working in autocratic regimes

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

Please share this information and the call for papers in your departments, serve lists, emails etc. so it reaches especially those who aren’t using this platform! We very much hope to see as many people attend the EPSS inaugural conference in 2026 so spread the word!

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

In my field in #polisky, the literature on war typically starts and ends with states as actors. But if you read history about war, as in Horne's 'The Price of Glory," war is always about individuals. There's not enough research in IR that bridges that gap (but @jaylyall.bsky.social). We need more.

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

What if ICE is standing around outside the polls arresting people off the street in heavily Latino areas? What if the National Guard are deployed outside the polls in heavily Black areas?

This campaign has produced the best ads/content of any Democratic campaign I’ve covered since Obama ‘08 and it’s not really close.

Russland sitt undertrykkingsprosjekt i Ukraina har pågått i hundrevis av år, og Putin vil ikkje akseptere eit fritt demokratisk Ukraina. Europa må sørge for at Kyiv ikkje tapar, eller bli dominert av Russland i uoverskuelig framtid. Obligatorisk lesing frå @torewig.bsky.social Lik og del :)

Alle vil ha «forskningsformidling» men etterspørselen er lav. Valgforskere brukes f.eks lite og dårlig i valget. Istedet får vi dumheter som dette her.

«Akkurat nå gir jeg det amerikanske demokratiet 50/50 sjanse til å overleve Donald Trump», sier Carl Henrik Knutsen. Han er professor i statsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo og en av Norges fremste demokratiforskere. www.aftenposten.no/shared/verde...

The article is open access, and the dataset is publicly available: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... We hope that many will use it! Together with: @sirianned.bsky.social @haakongjerlw.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social @torewig.bsky.social @hannefjelde.bsky.social and Carina Strøm-Sedgewick

Introducing the Opposition Movements and Groups Dataset 1789–2019 in @cpsjournal.bsky.social together with @mariannedahl.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @hannefjelde.bsky.social @torewig.bsky.social Read about the paper👇 Or dive right into the data👉 www.prio.org/data/39

"Valentim’s central argument is that the recent rise in radical right behavior is not driven by a change in underlying preferences, but by a transformation in social norms that reduces the perceived costs of expressing pre-existing radical right views."

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

What could go wrong?

Jeg har hatt abonnement hos forskjellige PL-leverandører siden 2004, men jeg klarer heller ikke å bli forbanna på gratispassasjerene. DET. ER. FOR. DYRT. Tv-selskapene har selv bidratt ved å presse prisen oppover i hodeløse anbud, som har gått ut over seerne. www.nettavisen.no/sport/sjokkt...

Happy to see this finally out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social !

Vi lever i en verden, hvor de europæiske ledere må babysitte den amerikanske præsident - så den russiske babysitter ikke tager over - og tale til ham som om, at han er et barn for at forhindre ham i at ødelægge verden

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

The purpose of academic freedom is not to allow faculty to live cushy lives free from criticism or constraint. Its purpose is to allow them to investigate widely and report (or criticize) the results openly, instead of allowing politicians to decide what is true and what is not.

Federalizing the police in DC and deploying the National Guard for no reason...I worried this piece was too strong back in June. But we are really living in a personalist dictatorship in both domestic and foreign policy. @foreignaffairs.com 1/ www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

What better way to return from vacation than to see a new paper published? @sirianned.bsky.social. @torewig.bsky.social and I study reactions to democratic norm violations in Norway and find some bad - but even more good - news. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Kjenner jeg noen som har kunnskap om mulig forestående evakuering av personer ut av Gaza, utført av en norsk organisasjon? En familie vi kjenner i Gaza City trenger å evakuere bestemor, og har hørt at det kanskje finnes en mulighet. Ta kontakt ❤️

As things stand, Ukraine and Europe are on the verge of being confronted with exactly the kind of Faustian deal they feared would emerge back in February. The fact that Europe hasn’t moved to block such a deal in the past six months is a failure of leadership and diplomacy. /1

Unlike Sam Altman, the people behind Gemini actually do understand what it means to have five Ph.D.'s in your pocket

The best explanation for the Democratic Peace according to GPT5: A norms explanation. Because you can apparently vary democracy while keeping institutions constant…

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 🧵

Really important PSA: it currently looks like there may be both an EPSS and an EPSA conference next summer. Please make sure people in your networks understand this distinction (see thread below).

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.