The WSJ has finally reported on widespread concerns that Trump's circle is making money by front-running his market-moving pronouncements www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

The Well-Timed Trades Made Moments Before Trump’s Policy Surprises

The president’s critics have raised concerns about the action in oil futures, S&P 500 ETF options and prediction markets.

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Europe* really needs to wake up Europe = the European continent, including UK, Switzerland and other non EU countries.

Good news and an excellent study!

Sumitra Badrinathan@sumitra.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms hopeful findings👇🏽

#Science is not doing well, true or false?🔬Between 15 years of decline in #AcademicFreedom and strong but dented #confidence: introspection from within the world of research with @eribertsou.bsky.social @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @angelovpanaro.bsky.social.👇

Measuring the temperature of science

Horizons - Issue 146

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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

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🔥 Call for papers for EPSS 2026 in Belfast: migration, forced displacement, mobility, borders, asylum, diaspora, and other migration-related topics. Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social. Submit proposals by Nov 7! #EPSS2026

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥

Synthetic sampling is gaining momentum in a lot of the social sciences and, while I have been ambiguous about it myself, this white paper provides more information to ground the debate

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 12mo ago

In polling world, “synthetic sampling” (using LLMs to replace human respondents) has been getting a lot of attention recently. Last wk, Ipsos announced a synthetic panel! But does it actually work? Here’s a white paper I wrote: “Your Polls on ChatGPT” report.verasight.io/synthetic-sa...

In polling world, “synthetic sampling” (using LLMs to replace human respondents) has been getting a lot of attention recently. Last wk, Ipsos announced a synthetic panel! But does it actually work? Here’s a white paper I wrote: “Your Polls on ChatGPT” report.verasight.io/synthetic-sa...

Synthetic Sampling Report | Verasight

A report on the challenges of "synthetic sampling" for public opinion polling.

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📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

Science for democracy. Much needed. Powerful @science.org editorial by @gretchentg.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social “The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

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What--and I say this with my chest--the hell are we doing here people

Lukasz Olejnik@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · last yr.

AI-assistant caused DATA LOSS, destroyed projects, user files and a production database: issued faulty commands, overwriting data; another ignored freeze directives, fabricated test data, and dropped a live database. anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_d... www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/r...

This week we had to say goodbye to our dearest Lana, very suddenly and way too soon. A dedicated polisci dog, she conducted elections fieldwork for LSE's EPOB, became an honorary member of IPZ Zurich and visited the EUI. My loudest cheerleader, patient proofreader & the bestest girl that ever was ❤️‍🩹

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

Five things to remember about war:

Great thread and breadth of resources to learn more on this topic 👇🏼. Thank you @profsaunders.bsky.social

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

Shout out to Lea Heyne and Luca Manucci @populismblog.bsky.social whose work on populist radical right electorate in Portugal was mentioned on my fav politics podcast @therestpolitics.bsky.social this morning!

The Rest Is Politics@therestpolitics.bsky.social · last yr.

Watch/listen to the full episode👇 📺 youtu.be/WhTBNc5bB_8 🎙️ linktr.ee/restispolitics

Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom. It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last yr.

Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr) By 2024 vote Labour: -5 (down 34) Lib Dem: -13 (down 12) Conservative: -76 (up 1) Reform: -94 (down 5)

if you teach, you are engaged in an inherently political--but not necessarily partisan--act the political vs partisan distinction stays kicking people's ass this old @asociologist.bsky.social is very helpful on this scatter.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/p...

partisans, not scientists, decide if science is partisan

Last month, Audra Wolfe wrote a fantastic post about how science is and always has been political. In the post, she analyzes statements from Nature and Scientific American, both of which endorsed J…

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Politicians share similar climate policy views with citizens, but are slightly less supportive. Crucially, they underestimate public support for climate policies, potentially limiting climate action www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Responsive nor responsible? Politicians’ climate change policy preferences and public opinion perceptions

This study addresses the lack of sufficient climate action by examining politicians’ opinions and their perceptions of public opinion about climate change mitigation policies. After all, scholarly ...

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🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization? In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Here’s what we found 👇

She’s got guts. Chilling to watch, but necessary

Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · last yr.

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

This final publication from the project on #technocratic attitudes among citizens, serves to boost confidence in the survey measure, to trace the stability of the construct following the #COVID19 pandemic and to provide evidence on technocratic attitudes in the #US (plus some bonus thoughts!) 🧵below

West European Politics@wepsocial.bsky.social · last yr.

Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic make the role of experts in politics more relevant & boost technocratic attitudes - increased involvement of scientific expertise in politics - among citizens. New empirical evidence by @eribertsou.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #polisky #academicsky

Levitsky & @ryanenos.bsky.social in The Crimson hit the challenge that must be overcome: "Weaponized states create a difficult collective action problem for civil society. Individual leaders seek to protect their organizations against costly government reprisal." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Many of the scientists that the Trump administration is defunding and persecuting will be working on strategically important technologies and research areas. The UK and other European countries should urgently establish programmes to bring those researchers here.

We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website. Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!