Yes this exactly why highly regarded journalists have always aimed to work at the Daily Mirror or Sun. Because they have valued the impact of trying to reach vast audiences, through manipulative corporatist media while being bullied rather than work in spaces where they can do their best work.

You will remember, of course, all the minds that were changed for the better by political moderates on X.

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

#APSA2025 in Vancouver was a fine event but we need to rethink organizing political science conferences in Canada. It puts additional barriers for non-U.S. citizens and perpetuates inequalities in the field. No wonder many international students on F1 visas could not attend.

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters. equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

I am so excited that this excellent line-up of speakers are presenting in the LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour seminar series this term! 👇

The @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar Series will be back for the '25/26 academic year, as usually on Thursdays, 4-5pm, in CBG 4.17. Let us know if you are external and want to attend in-person, or join remotely on Zoom. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular. "Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered." (with A+ co-authors)

Love this. I am 💯 with Blyth: more than half of my writing time is done in frustration with something I observe and think about, and the reason I keep on going despite all the rejections in academia/life is that I can’t stop being pissed off about smtg and want to make the world a tiny bit better.

Kicked off my first week at @lsegovernment.bsky.social with the fantastic @psaepop.bsky.social #EPOP2025 conference in Exeter. Grateful for the warm welcome, great academic exchange and stunning English nature 🌿. Colleagues in or passing through London, please reach out, I’d be glad to connect!

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Thrilled to share that **fect** has won the 2025 Best Statistical Software Award from the Society of Political Methodology. We're honored! polmeth.org/statistical-... To celebrate, we've just released fect v2.0.5 on CRAN & Github 🎉

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

Assistant professors teach courses that are closer to the knowledge frontier than tenured faculty.

📢 New Publication 📢 📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries? (with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto) Short 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

I'm working on a difference-in-RDs project but struggling with how to properly handle bandwidth selection across treatment periods. It's not obvious to me how to choose a bandwidth for multiple separate RD estimates at once. Would love pointers to resources or best practices! Thanks in advance 🙏🏼

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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

Post just up: Is multiple imputation making up information? tldr: no. Includes a cheeky simulation study to demonstrate the point. open.substack.com/pub/tpmorris...

We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on. tl;dr it's about the state and society 🧵

🇨🇭🇪🇺 Just Published in Royal Society Open Science! A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Ever conducted a replication and pondered when/how to conclude if it was (un)successful? We have just the paper for you (led by Rachel Heyard)! 1/14

Have been reading Navalny's memoir and remembered that there is a gem of a field experiment published in @jepsjournal.bsky.social, which took place in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election, the last election Putin "allowed" Navalny to contest: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing. We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it. I wrote up some reflections here: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin... A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

on.ft.com/4nWM7Sy „Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning“

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

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.

"The restoration of liberal democracy remains mostly declarative, suggesting—along with the presidential election results—that Poland’s illiberal moment is far from over," write Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

A new 'public opinion analytics lab' has been launched: publicopinionanalyticslab.github.io/people/ Led by @miriamsorace.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social , @drjennings.bsky.social and a thematic leadership team, POAL advances research & teaching of public opinion measurement and analysis.

Organizing summer schools surely is a lot of work, but getting to know all these *amazing* junior scholars and learning about their work 💯% makes it worth it!! Can’t wait to see their work come out in top journals!

This was a really outstanding summer school, not least due to the amazing crowd of PhD attendees doing comparative research on challenges to democracy. I recommend you follow them and look out for their very promising work coming out soon. Romain was kind to tag everyone below 👇

We welcome today @sldelange.bsky.social at the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, to talk about far-right and populist parties. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social

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

Make slides accessible. Use readable fonts. Say as well as show results. Even if you know someone, approach them with a hearty ‘hi! It’s [name] and I’m so happy you’re here!’ Plan meet-ups ahead of time with a clear location (and if you’re hosting, share a unique clothing item you’re wearing).

All questions answered about @epssnet.bsky.social with links to the constitution, past reports, and statements. Amazing to see such rapid equilibrium selection ⬇️

I am really glad this has finally happened. The political science community who pushed for this big change is amazing, and I hope that lowering the fees and reinvesting the surplus income will make it easier for colleagues across and beyond Europe to join it. Putting Belfast 2026 on my calendar!

🚨 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. 🧵

Very excited to present my paper with @heikekluever.bsky.social on the consequences of far-right parties in government at #EPSA2025 on Friday! 🗓️ Friday 4:50-6:30 📍 Room 0A.06 | Panel P10-S253

Pre-EPSA workshop complete Thanks to all for coming 🏳️‍🌈🗳️

How do structural incentives, such as job scarcity and metric-based evaluation, shape the questions scholars ask, the methods they use to answer them, and the outlets they prioritize to publish their work? We have an updated draft answering these questions: osf.io/preprints/os...

Most literature reviews miss the point.
 Not because they’re sloppy. 
But because they treat the literature like a box to tick. In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter... 🧵

🎉 Thrilled to be at my first EPSA in beautiful Madrid —and to be busy in the best way! I’ll be: 🔹 Chairing and presenting at the panel "PUBOPI – Personality and Emotions" 🗓️ Sat, 28 June | ⏰ 09:30–11:10 | 📍 Room 1A.13

Consider joining our reception if you are in Madrid the day before EPSA and have no plans that evening:

DPIR’s 25th anniversary: Read our 25 in 25 Collection - celebrating staff, students, alumni, and the impact of our world-leading research. Meet @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social‬ - Associate Professor in Comparative Politics: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

EPSA-goers: reminder to pack your best buckets of ice

As early-career colleagues start thinking about autumn job applications, I wrote a piece describing my post-PhD path. Reflecting on "project," "person," and "place" with mentors helped me immensely, so I hope this note pays it forward somehow. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...

In 2021 and 2023 I had the chance to serve on the @ERC_Research Starting Grant evaluation panel. There are a couple of things I learned that might be helpful to future applicants. I guess some points apply to other grants as well.