Makes sense. Because we’ve clearly already solved all of humanity’s problems with our governments, economies, and social structures.
Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last mo.Because NSF has eliminated its directorate for the social, behavioral and economic sciences, it’s unlikely there will be any training funding for economists, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.
RIP Dolly. This album was not literally stuck in the tape deck of my dad's truck, but it might as well have been. One of my favorites since I was a kid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HMw...
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YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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If this is an audit study, it's a weird one.
Aidan Milliff@aidanmilliff.com · last mo.Prospective PhD Students (PoliSci, U.S. programs): You *do not need to contact faculty in advance*. If you decide to ignore my advice, at least contact them yourself!! Having a consultant cold-email faculty on your behalf *will not help you gain admission.*
Prospective PhD Students (PoliSci, U.S. programs): You *do not need to contact faculty in advance*. If you decide to ignore my advice, at least contact them yourself!! Having a consultant cold-email faculty on your behalf *will not help you gain admission.*
Man with Headache Hangover
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Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
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
Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edu
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American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom our FirstView: Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design by PAIGE BOLLEN and @nlnathan.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
I have an unbeatable idea for a PR firm. You pay me $1,000/mo and if Isaac Chotiner calls you, I slap the phone out of your hand.
Isaac Chotiner@ichotiner.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Very cool looking new NBER paper from @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social and Sultan Mehmood on one of the most transformative natural disasters in the history of modern South Asia www.nber.org/papers/w35360
How Climate Shocks Produce Armed Rebellion: The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Now that we’re well into summer, I think it’s time to announce here FSU’s polisci dept’s hiring last year. (I meant to do at the end of the year but forgot.) First up, James Gibson, previously of WashU, will be joining us in the fall as the Regent’s Research Professor. This is a huge coup for us.
New policy piece on our @bjpols.bsky.social paper with Paolo Bertolotti, Ali Jadbabaie, and Fotini Christia. What do drone strikes do to civilians nearby? The non-lethal effects are larger than advertised irregularwarfare.org/hidden-costs-of-precision-what-drone-strikes-actually-do-to-civilians
Hidden Costs of Precision: What Drone Strikes Actually Do to Civilians
New research using cellphone data from Yemen reveals that U.S. drone strikes cause widespread civilian displacement and communication spikes, even when avoiding casualties. These non-lethal disruption...
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"The non-lethal effects of drone strikes have substantial humanitarian and political costs." We are proud to highlight some outstanding new research on drone strikes by @aidanmilliff.com, Paolo Bertolotti, Fotini Christia, and Ali Jadbabaie at IWI.
Hidden Costs of Precision: What Drone Strikes Actually Do to Civilians
New research using cellphone data from Yemen reveals that U.S. drone strikes cause widespread civilian displacement and communication spikes, even when avoiding casualties. These non-lethal disruption...
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I also took the opportunity to write more about one of our puzzling findings: Why do we see so much regional variation in Indians' foreign policy attitudes? I toss out some ideas in this blog post: aidanmilliff.com/blog/indian-...
Partisanship, Region, and Variation in Indian Public Opinion – Aidan Milliff
What our new Cambridge Element reveals about how public opinion varies across India’s regions.
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Aidan Milliff@aidanmilliff.com · 4mo ago@pstaniland.bsky.social I appeared on Grand Tamasha 🎙️ with @milanv.bsky.social to discuss our new book on Indian public opinion. Check out the episode here: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/wha... And the book is free to download until June 15: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
@pstaniland.bsky.social I appeared on Grand Tamasha 🎙️ with @milanv.bsky.social to discuss our new book on Indian public opinion. Check out the episode here: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/wha... And the book is free to download until June 15: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New research in Science from @dominic-rohner.bsky.social and others: USAID cuts caused violent conflict to spike immediately in areas that received the most USAID support and last for months. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Aiding peace or conflict? The impact of USAID cuts on violence
Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...
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📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III is recruiting for a fixed-term 2-year position in Political Science. This is a two-year opportunity to conduct research, teach, and and collaborate in a vibrant and interdisciplinary academic environment. More info: lnkd.in/eyVbmPRJ
Visiting Professor in the area of Political Science | UC3M | Social Sciences Department UC3M
📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is recruiting a Visiting Professor in Political Science to join its international faculty. This is a two-year opportunity to te...
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Super clever idea.
Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/
Book Alert! @pstaniland.bsky.social and I have a new Cambridge Element out now — and free to download through May 18. It's the result of nine years of digging through historic survey data on how the Indian public thinks about major powers. Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Book Alert! @pstaniland.bsky.social and I have a new Cambridge Element out now — and free to download through May 18. It's the result of nine years of digging through historic survey data on how the Indian public thinks about major powers. Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
New book! @aidanmilliff.com and I spent years tracking down survey data from the late 1950s-2025 on how the Indian public has viewed China, the US, and Russia/USSR. We use the data to explore trends and patterns. Cambridge has made it Open Access until 5/18, so go read for free here: t.co/YtNCz74758
We are organizing a pre-conference workshop at EPSS on the Politics of South Asia. To present, discuss, or attend, please submit your info by May 13th: forms.gle/pXaKtTLifJAY... Please circulate widely! If questions, contact me, @aliz-toth.bsky.social or @simonchauchard.bsky.social!
Watching this made me so unbelievably happy. Wout is one of the best characters in professional sports.
VELO@velo-velo-velo.bsky.social · 6mo agoWout Van Aert Takes Dream Paris-Roubaix Victory over Tadej Pogačar Van Aert gets reward after years of bad luck and frustration, outsprinting Tadej Pogačar in Roubaix velodrome.
How is this not a threat to kill innocent people?
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6mo agoImpeach Trump.
Operation Names can also be used for peaceful purposes. aidanmilliff.com/post/project...
Project Name Generator | Aidan Milliff
Develop secret code names for your projects, just like the pros (claim to)!
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November Kelly@postoctobrist.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Enthusiast’s Guide to Military Operation Names: AMERICA: drink nine jack and cokes and throw these darts at the 9/11 Memorial Wall of Portentous Adjectives. Feastables Presents Operation Enduring Hubris
Now is the time for posting thoughtful discussions of the role of LLMs in academia. I don't have one of those. But Machiavelli does.
![CHAPTER XXIII.
HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
I do not wish to leave out an important branch of this subject, for it is a danger from which princes are with difficulty preserved, unless they are very careful and discriminating. It is that of flatterers, of whom courts are full, because men are so self-complacent in their own attairs, and in a way so deceived in them, that they are preserved with difficulty from this pest, and if they wish to defend themselves they run the danger of falling into contempt. Because there is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers except letting men understand that to tell you the truth does not offend you; but when every one may tell you the truth, respect for you abates.
Therefore a wise prince ought to hold a third course by choosing the wise men in his state, and giving to them only the liberty of speaking the truth to him, and then only of those things of which he inquires, and of none others; but he ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions. With these councillors, separately and collectively, he ought to carry himself in such a way that each of them should know that, the more freely he shall speak, the more he shall be preferred; outside of these, he should listen to no one, pursue the thing resolved on, and be steadfast in his resolutions. He who does otherwise is either overthrown by flatterers, or is so often changed by varying opinions that he falls into contempt.
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It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.
Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.
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If I read this reporting correctly, NSF is preparing to shut down SBE (social, behavioral, economic sciences) *in anticipation* of the FY27 budget, despite Congressional instructions that no directorate receive more than a 5% cut in FY26.
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 6mo agoBREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
