it's actually illegal to be a scholar of bureaucratic politics if you can spell "bureaucracy" correctly on your first try more than 2 out of 10 times (average)

Whenever I set up a meeting with someone who hasn't met me in person, I tell them that "I'm the person with blue hair" as a way of identifying me. About half the time, people seem to think I'm joking 😅

Nothing, absolutely nothing, says your nodes need to be circles

Emily Riederer@emilyriederer.bsky.social · 4d ago

For no real reason, I was looking up something about the ancestry of causal DAGs in path diagrams and came across this picture. I got to see it so you do to. HT to Sewall Wright who both set the course for a very useful analytical tool but also took the time to include cute drawings of guinea pigs

niemand: wirklich niemand: random tag bei osnabrückfans: hey, wäre es nicht eine gute idee statt pyro und banner eine Achterbahn zu bauen? - hey, gute und absolut geistig gesunde Idee, das machen wir 🫡🫡🫡

🎨🐴 I will also be tabling at Art Horse Comic Bazar, my fave outdoor indie comics market, on Sunday August 30 from 15-20:00 at Wagenburg Lohmühle! Come say hello & check out the Art Horse Festival programming over the rest of the weekend!! arthorsecomics.noblogs.org

clairikine@clairikine.bsky.social · 3w ago

I will be tabling at FLYLEAF Book & Zine Festival on Sunday, August 23 in Neukölln! 13-19:00 at the Apartment location, come say hello!! flyleaf-festival.org #Berlin

Here’s a reminder that your EU friends who live in Berlin and aren’t German can only elect their district assemblies, & your friends who have neither citizenship can’t vote here at all! If you’re thinking of sitting out the Berlin government election next month, please reconsider! Thank you!!!

Wahlkampf, die Jahreszeit in der die Berliner SPD so tun muss, als hätte sie nie Berlin regiert, wäre gerade erst angekommen, und ehrlich gesagt auch ein bisschen schockiert von den Zuständen hier

I'm hiring! Three-year postdoc (80%) in my research group at @ipz.bsky.social, starting January 2027. Digital technology and politics, some teaching. Deadline: 30 September 2026. Questions welcome, and please share! www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bbee... (pdf)

Am Mittwochmittag wurde in Neukölln eine Fliegerbombe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gefunden. Die Polizei hat inzwischen einen Sperr-“Kreis" von 500 Metern rund um den Fundort am Weigandufer eingerichtet und mit der Evakuierung begonnen. Die A100 und die Sonnenallee sind nicht betroffen.

Nach dem Fund einer Fliegerbombe in Berlin-Neukölln bereitet die Polizei die Evakuierung rund um den Fundort vor. #Neukölln #Berlin

Fliegerbombe in Neukölln - weiträumige Sperrung

Am Weigandufer in Berlin-Neukölln wurde am Mittwoch eine Fliegerbombe aus dem 2. Weltkrieg entdeckt. Es wurde ein Sperrkreis für die Entschärfung eingerichtet.

berlin.de

Tl;dr:

IT SAYS AN HOUR TO GO YOU GUYS WANT COOL BOOKS RIGHT??

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're so grateful to y'all for the support. We couldn't do this without you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Your feed getting too predictable? If you like the kind of American Political Development analysis of history that I do in all my research, you'll love these other APD scholars. We study time, stasis, and change like historians do, but also distinct from the field of history.

not much on this in English language media but in Chongqing, male livestreamers gathered in front of an idol agency and encircled and attacked female fans. some are calling it "incel terrorism" in my social feeds. theinitium.com/20260820-wha...

重庆时代峰峻楼下冲突：女粉丝遭大批男性连日围堵

8月中旬起，中国偶像经纪公司时代峰峻位于重庆「长江国际」的办公楼外，数日聚集大批男性。他们围堵不满15岁的偶像练习生与女性粉丝，人数不断增加，行动亦升级为拳脚攻击。警方8月20日发布警情通报，未提及双方身分，称将进一步调查涉嫌扰乱公共秩序者，呼吁青少年文明追星。时代峰峻公司仅暂停线下训练。

theinitium.com

Friends in academia: how many of you are hearing from your admin that we need to infuse AI (or AI literacy) into the curriculum so your students "don't fall behind" students at other schools? Extra points for including your institution type.

I am hiring a Research Associate to join my team at Scholars at Risk: apply.interfolio.com/191007. Great way to get started in international human rights work, particularly if you have an interest in academic freedom

I'm so grateful that young quant-oriented scholars in the field can see a scholar like @adambonica.bsky.social—quantitatively rigorous as they come—using that rigor in service of the public good and public understanding.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.

📢 LSE Political Theory job opening We’re looking for a political theorist to join us at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is an open rank search, so we welcome applications at Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level Reach out with questions & please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Come join us... go.bsky.app/8CD2yKk

“A Man in a Rush” by Wang Jibing 趕時間的人 王計兵 Rushing wind from air
Rushing knives from wind
Rushing fire from my bones
Rushing water from flames Seasons don’t exist for a man rushing for time #everynightapoem trans. EC

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Spoke with Rob Schmitz for @npr.org #AllThingsConsidered on the poet Wang Jibing 王計兵, who just won a Lu Xun Prize. I also shared a quick translation of his best-known poem: www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...

Zhu Rongji, a former Chinese premier, has died. “I think that Zhu Rongji represented really a different time, a different era for China..” my radio obit if thr legendary official running shortly www.npr.org/2026/08/12/1...

Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97

Zhu was renowned for reforms that sought to transition China from the post-Maoist years to a more global market-oriented financial system, without ceding party control over the economy.

npr.org

Ripping out the copper www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Ich finde, es ist Aufgabe des Staates, solche Angebote zu unterstützen. Wie wichtig sie sind, hat sich in den letzten Tagen gezeigt. Wenn diese BuReg Zivilgesellschaft zermürben will, muss man gegenhalten. Deshalb gingen hier heut Spenden raus www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/quee...

Queerer Jugendverband Lambda verliert Förderung: „Jugendlichen mit Suizidgedanken können wir dann nicht länger helfen“

Familienministerin Karin Prien (CDU) streicht Fördergelder zusammen und erntet dafür viel Kritik aus der queeren Community. Die Geschäftsführerin von Lambda erzählt, was die Regierungspläne bedeuten w...

tagesspiegel.de

bumping this a month-ish ahead of the APSA annual meeting because there will be conversations about these topics #polisky, mostly on Thursday and Friday (rooms are still TBA) 1/x

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD@elizabethbitmeehan.com · 6mo ago

chat i'm going to ask a somewhat prickly question: what do you (fellow political scientists) want out of your professional association right now (knowing that this is a sample of Very Online People and folks with wildly differing opinions)

Die Sicherheitsdebatte nach dem Angriff auf den CSD, die weit über AfD und Union hinausreicht, macht zwei fundamental falsche Annahmen über Sicherheit und Gewalt. Sie sind generell falsch, aber besonders für queere Menschen. Erstens: "Gewalt geht von Extremisten aus, der Staat schützt vor Gewalt"

Film you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Rizzo & Gonzo: Light the Lamp Not the Rat!

Alt: Rizzo & Gonzo from the Muppets in red and white striped, old timey uniforms, presumably as lamp lighters. Gonzo accidentally lights Rizzo's tail when trying to light the lamp, and Rizzo starts screaming: Light the Lamp Not the Rat!

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Erika Moen@erikamoen.bsky.social · last mo.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

so I started thinking about my fall courses today (sorry!) and I have a question for #skystorians : What’s your favorite academic article (chapter, edited volume essay, etc) about non-European science in the early modern period? My 200-level “Scientific Revolution” survey could use a refresh.

Today at noon ET, join us for a free webinar on Book Publishing 101! If you can't attend live, register anyway and a YouTube link will be emailed to you when it's posted. 🗃️

American Historical Association@historians.org · 2mo ago

You've finished the manuscript. Now what? Join our AHA Online webinar on July 28 at 12 p.m. ET exploring the nuts and bolts of book publishing, from acquisitions and contracts to marketing. With Mike Baccam, Levi Stahl, and Elizabeth Townsend Gard. Register now.