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Pau Grau-Vilalta

@paugrau.bsky.social

🛠 PhDing @eui-sps.bsky.social www.paugrau.cat

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Pau Grau-Vilalta@paugrau.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm very happy to share that on July 8th I successfully defended my PhD at the EUI. My dissertation studies how social divisions become politically consequential: how actors construct identities, deploy them in conflict, and govern through them, across three historical settings.

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Max Bradley@maxbradley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have a new paper out in PNAS. Susanna’s thread outlines our findings. The big picture takeaway is that well-designed climate education (active, personally relevant, science-based) can complement fiscal and regulatory instruments by building public support for ambitious policy!

Susanna Garside@susannagarside.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨I have a new paper out in PNAS with my co-authors, @maxbradley.bsky.social @renschazottes.bsky.social and @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social: "Educational policies can strengthen climate coalitions." A thread on what we found (and a great story about doing ambitious research without funding!) [1/9]

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium@behaviour-eui.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🎤 For the 24th session of the PBC, Alejandro López Peceño, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, will be presenting: "Militants in Exile: Spanish Republicans and Political Mobilization in France." 📍 Join us on Zoom! Please register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Militants in exile

This session of the Political Behaviour Colloquium features a presentation of a paper by Alejandro López Peceño (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at EUI) co-authored with Elias Dinas (EUI) and Pau Grau (EUI)

eui.eu

Roberto Valli@robertovalli.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى@salmamousa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The @compactmagazin.bsky.social article relies on cherry-picked data. Looking at ~5M employee records from public universities, we find: There isn't a secret cabal of white men pulling the strings — the *top* diversified the most. The tenure track hasn't been taken over by female or Black profs.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.

Cyrus Samii@cdsamii.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is an impressive project. My reaction to what it shows though is that survey experiments have gotten out of hand in polisci. I will blog more on this, but I do not think survey experiments are emblematic of the credibility revolution. Some are already interpreting as such, which is a problem.

Carolina Torreblanca@carotorreblanca.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵

Daniel de Kadt@dandekadt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I personally think this is a "harder problem" than we care to admit. So, are you a (social) scientist struggling with this situation? A break between what you _want_ to study (a causal process) and what you feel you _can_ credibly study (a correlation)? Here are some readings that might help. 👇

Casper Albers 🟥@casperalbers.nl · 9mo ago

Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

screenshot from the paper, stating that no causal claims (like they did in the title) should be made.
Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars

(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

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Matt Steinglass@mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Colleagues have backed up the point with data and infographics. The answer is no: political violence in the US is if anything declining, not rising. The far right commits more than the far left, but both are rare, and fewer than 10% of Americans endorse violence for political goals.

Is “radical-left” violence really on the rise in America?

The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence. This is what the data show

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Matt Steinglass@mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Another interesting point here is that extremist murders are very rare and do not actually seem to be rising—there were twice as many in 2018 as in 2022.

Anja Neundorf@anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧪 We ran a preregistered endorsement experiment with 4,000+ Spaniards. We tested whether VOX voters support funding for cultural orgs, including the Francisco Franco Foundation (which glorifies the dictatorship).

Simon Hix@simonhix.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

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 🧵

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · last yr.

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem. All charts free to use:

On Data and Democracy (Mid-Year Roundup): Charting the Assault on American Democracy and A Path Forward

A narrative of a democracy in the balance, told through 29 data visualizations.

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Pau Grau-Vilalta@paugrau.bsky.social · last yr.

"This paper finds that Jews are included in “the people” when this is ideologically conducive to the parties, when it can appear to justify Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiment, and when antisemitism can be used to argue that “the elite” are ignorant and incompetent"

Claire Burchett@cburchett.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access! doi.org/10.1177/1354...