I can't recommend this job enough. An invaluable opportunity to develop your own research agenda in an interdisciplinary, research-focused environment. For me, it has been a transformative professional experience. Plus, I miss Toulouse quite often.

Charlotte Cavaille@ccavaille.bsky.social · 5d ago

Has this post-doc ad been circulating among political scientists? If not, please share! It is an amazing 2 year post doc. I was a fellow and my life was changed forever (I even work in Toulouse now!). It is the French version of the Nuffield post-doc ! www.tse-fr.eu/iast-researc...

This is why I have become increasingly skeptical of the ethnic boundary-making flavor of much of the HPE movement

Robert (Bob) Kubinec@rmkubinec.bsky.social · last wk.

I had a conversation today about the parochialism of political science sub-fields (i.e., what is IR vs CP, etc). Man these boundaries are stupid. Smart people obsessing about arbitrary labels. Just answer your research question already.

🚨 Call for Proposals: ELECTRANS Study on the 2027 French elections. Submit a proposal for a research project on French politics / comparative political behavior. Selected proposals will see their items / design included at no cost. More information: electrans-2027-9494e8.gitpages.huma-num.fr

Something bugs me about Italian opinion polls. There's not enough variance: FdI has been at 27-and-a-bit in 12 of the last 13 polls. My suspicion was herding, so I went down a statistical rabbit hole, which involved inventing a new measure of herding (which may have picked up a different issue!). 🧵

As a (mostly) rationalist researcher of ethnicity who has just taught the accountability part in CP I have to say, man, Fearon in his prime was insane

New Paper out now in PNAS: Is cousin marriage associated with greater or lower exposure to physical intimate partner violence and coercive control? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cousin marriage and reduced exposure to intimate partner violence and coercive control | PNAS

Cousin marriage, practiced by over 10% of the world’s population, restructures kinship networks by overlapping blood and affinal ties. Theory makes...

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Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/192333

A note in response to Lionel Page, “Why has sociology become so politicised?” lsage1.substack.com/p/a-note-in-...

A note in response to Lionel Page, “Why has sociology become so politicised?”

From a quantitative sociologist

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Yes, AI for research is great, but the use case that gives me more satisfaction is teaching. Vibecoding figures and diagrams in Rmd/tikz is awesome. Making effective visualizations manually used to take me a lot of time.

We're hiring this fall at Dartmouth Government for an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics! See apply.interfolio.com/191508 I'll be at APSA Boston and will plan to be available at the Sheraton lobby on Friday Sept 4 afternoon if you'd like to meet and ask any questions.

Northwestern is hiring in quant methods (assistant level, tenure track) Please repost and share with those you think would be good candidates, thank you! polisci.northwestern.edu/about/facult... #psjobs #psjminfo #poliscijobs

@cunef.bsky.social is hiring -- 3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor positions in Political Science. Details and contact information in the job post link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32392

New paper w/ @hannohilbig.bsky.social: we examine how local exposure to the Great Recession affected politics over the long run. Counties where unemployment rose more in 2007–09 moved toward Democrats, not the populist right. The shift remained visible in 2022.

In the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, I recommend one of my favorite history and politics books. A masterful study on the roots of collective action and the nature of political identities

Seems about right arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14623

🗳️ Electoral Reform Alert 🗳️ Yesterday, the Italian Lower House approved a new electoral reform, now headed to the Senate. This would be the fifth major reform of the electoral system in Italy since 1993, and it could bring an even more radical right-wing party into the next government coalition. (1)

Looking forward to a great workshop!

Miguel Pereira@miguelpereira.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here's the final program for PEEP 2026: the Political Economy of Europe Pre-APSA Conference (Sept 2, Harvard). To attend, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Excited to hang out again next month! CC @mariacarreri.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social

Here's the final program for PEEP 2026: the Political Economy of Europe Pre-APSA Conference (Sept 2, Harvard). To attend, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Excited to hang out again next month! CC @mariacarreri.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social

Whether people in Pamplona are happy for Mikel Merino scoring for Spain unironically occupied my mind for too long these past 2 years.

New website: giacomolemoli.github.io

@epssnet.bsky.social is clearly the scientific highlight of the year. This year it has been even more meaningful to me.

📢 The program for the 4th edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop is out! 📍 Barcelona · 🗓️ June 29–30 Two days of talks ahead — really looking forward to it! Jointly organized with the great @Didacqueralt.bsky.social

Absolutely. I always found the "peer review should be paid" point self-serving and a bit weird. The way I see it: regular, *deep* engagement with frontier work is a key part of our job, just like regular presentations. It's not a favor to strangers

Vincent Arel-Bundock@vincentab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

IMHO, the problem is not that profs don't collect money every time they evaluate a piece. The problem is that for profit publishing giants collect money every time we publish a paper.

My most recent pet peeve: Working papers posted behind the paywalls of "research institute WP series" should be treated as non-posted papers: not read, not cited.

Some job market news: in Spring 2027 I will join @cunef.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods. I am excited about joining a fantastic group of social science scholars at CUNEF and moving to Madrid, one of the capital cities of European political science.

🚨 WORKSHOP ALERT ¿Te interesa la economía política de España? El I Workshop de SPEIN reunirá en Londres a economistas y politólogos que trabajan sobre los fundamentos de la España moderna: conflicto, autoritarismo, transición democrática y su legado. 15-16 de junio, @kcl-spe.bsky.social

Omg all the Covid influencers are popping up everywhere on my social media it must be a nightmare

Classical economics: 98% of the data is easily explained by one theory Behavioral economics: 2% of the data is easily explained by sixteen theories

Some extremely fascinating work, there is something to learn here about the roots of civil conflict These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.

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Over the last months, my coauthors and I have been rebuilding our pipelines for several digitization projects from scratch, using Gemini. Our experience so far is that the results are absolutely impressive. @sergisme.bsky.social 1/n