Glad to be among this year's British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant awardees! Thanks @britishacademy.bsky.social for supporting me in advancing my research on authoritarian politics at @lsegovernment.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d ago

Such a fascinating range of projects funded through our small grants including looking at who voters blame for inflation, evaluating implementation of UK security/defence reviews and how geopolitics is impacting the UK semiconductor sector www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

JOB Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government / Rokos Professor of Government, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/foundin...

Very happy to see the UK Young Academy's "Beginner's Guide" come out and to have played a part in helping to bring it to fruition! @irph.bsky.social @lborocrcc.bsky.social

'Beginner's guide' launched to help at-risk scholars navigate UK academia | UK Young Academy

New comprehensive resource launched to reduce barriers for scholars rebuilding their careers and professional networks in a new academic system.

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This is the year universities are finally tackling the AI problem in earnest. But there is no consensus across schools, or even among departments within schools, about best practices. Six things I've learned in watching this conversation evolve:

Half of our seminars should be pre analysis plans and the other half results. Imagine if people had an up front stake in your research, and imagine getting great input before you finalize your analysis strategy. It should be the norm.

🧵 Just accepted @thejop.bsky.social, with @tswalve.bsky.social "What's in a name? Name recognition, place-based identities, and candidate success" Voters prefer local candidates. But how do they know who's local? Often simply from the name on the ballot👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Yet another reason to be REALLY, REALLY CAREFUL about using AI to label and analyze qualitative data.

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

Update (www.martindevaux.com/forecast/)

If you would like to work as a journal editor, @jeppjournal.bsky.social is looking for an Associate Editor, broadly in public opinion and behaviour. Couldn't recommend it enough! Deadline is next week - 15th September. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

Editor Resources provides insights and information to support the editor’s role and build connections between journal editors and research communities.

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We had a great time at our first conference happy hour at APSA last weekend! Looking forwards to keeping up with the SWEEP community at our Fall/Winter online workshop series. CfP out *now*; abstracts due by 10/1. Work at any stage is welcome! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📰How should researchers debrief participants after exposing them to misinformation? ➡️ @emmahoes.bsky.social & @sachaltay.bsky.social show that specific debriefings with fact-checks reduce belief in false claims, while general warnings may increase skepticism toward true news doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Lots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵

Can you hear concealed political dissent in a survey response? At #APSA2026, I’m presenting joint work with Andrey Tkachenko & Damir Sarsengaliyev using 7,324 Russian telephone interviews from the first months of the invasion of Ukraine.

As August ends and and we’re slowly getting back into things, I wanted to share a Russian election data paper we published in Scientific Data with @tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social and @nikitasavin.bsky.social earlier this summer: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Bocconi University is hiring an open-rank Comparative Politics position! Scholars at all levels with strong research agendas welcome; rigorous quantitative analysis (empirical or theoretical) highly preferred. Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. Apply: unibocconi.eu/jobmarket

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

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Highly recommend. [📢 shared through Valeria Umanets] Call for Papers: Politics & Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop @ MPSA2027 Chicago | April 1–4, 2027 We welcome research on politics & political economy across Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Deadline: Sept. 15 More info:

Politics and Political Economy of Eurasia Workshop

Chicago, US

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If you don’t have time to read the book, but fancy listening to a podcast about it, then try this episode of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/purges

Edward Goldring@edwardgoldring.bsky.social · last mo.

Publication day was last weekend. Book cake was this weekend🥳 Available for $35 with Cornell (unfortunately does not come with cake): cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Applications are open for EuroWEPS Berlin.👇There is also some change in the EuroWEPS organising committee. @pavisuri.bsky.social is taking a step back, while @aalrababah.bsky.social & @ewirsching.bsky.social are joining starting with this edition. A big thank you to Pavi & welcome to Ala and Elisa!

Anselm Hager@anselmhager.bsky.social · last mo.

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

Fantastic news. Oliver is a genuinely kind person and outstanding scholar. He combines cutting-edge computational methods with a strong commitment to credible research. LSE is lucky to have him.

Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS@gessunimannheim.bsky.social · last mo.

Congrats to CDSS alumnus Oliver Rittmann on his appointment as Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at LSE! Oliver’s research combines computational methods and #polisci to study inequalities in representation, discrimination among political elites, and political communication. 🎉

Global harms, local profits: How the uneven costs of natural disasters affect support for green political platforms by Silvia Pianta and Paula Rettl is now available in Early View. @paularettl.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/08/14/g...

A summary of what I understand and do not understand about the way democracy works: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7269378

Does losing an election affect politicians' democratic attitudes? A large literature documents a winner–loser gap among voters, but evidence on political elites was long scarce. A series of recent studies has narrowed this gap. A thread on the state of the evidence. 🧵

A thought-provoking and important paper: the diversity within pro-democracy coalitions may make them more likely to win elections, but it also makes it more challenging for them to govern effectively. And, as the analysis shows, there is much to learn from most different case comparisons.

Frances Cayton@francescayton.bsky.social · last mo.

The "Victory Trap," my latest w/ @elvinongpolsci.bsky.social. Why do victorious pro-democracy coalitions often struggle to reverse autocracy? Using a most different case design (Malaysia🇲🇾 + Poland🇵🇱) we argue that internal weaknesses to the coalition lay the groundwork for autocratic comeback. 1/3

I have spent far more time thinking and talking about AI policy than I thought I would when I became co-editor at AJPS a year ago. Here is the latest iteration of our policy.

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)@ajpseditor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The American Journal of Political Science has updated it's policy on AI accountability and transparency for authors and reviewers. Read the Editor's Blog here: ajps.org/2026/08/11/r.... The updated policy can be referenced here: ajps.org/ajps-ai-poli....

Our next session—and first as SWEEP—is this Friday!🌟 @bogatyrev.bsky.social presents "Military Casualties and Regime Support: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia," work w/ @tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social, Andrey Tkachenko, & @nikitasavin.bsky.social. @ildardaminov.bsky.social discusses.

Europe is experiencing a summer of extreme heat, drought & wildfires. Yet, climate policy is facing considerable resistance. My co-authors & I reviewed evidence on why this tension exists & what tob do about it for Nature Climate Change. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Green backlash and right-wing populism - Nature Climate Change

This Review considers research on the politics of climate policies. Climate policies, through their economic and cultural repercussions, impact public climate attitudes and voting behaviour, which in ...

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I just finished a book. The goal is to better understand how foreign aid affects elections and democratic accountability -- something I've been thinking about for a long time now. The book is free to read at cup.org/3U9VVxO.

Dependency Politics

Cambridge Core - International Economics - Dependency Politics

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2mo ago

Dependency Politics by Ryan Jablonski Examines how democracy works in aid-dependent countries, challenging conventional wisdom on how aid affects elections and public policy. 📚 https://cup.org/4pTmqDu

Have said it before, will say again: The mix of too-accessible-AI for both academic authors and editors (both categories currently overstretched) and the broken academic system of publishing will make for a huge amount of cherry picking of topics that get to be peer reviewed, let alone be published

Wow, I am impressed this happened so soon in economics

Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a watershed moment, and I hope other journals and competitors will join soon. There will be resistance from softer fields like sociology, but the moral arc bends towards AI review. If AI tools had been available before, none of the big misconduct cases like Arday/Ariely would've happened.

💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...