As a reminder for all #polisky grad students: if you presented at #ISA2026, the Human Rights Section has a best grad paper award. Deadline is AUGUST 15. For more info see: isanet.org/Programs-Res...

Genevieve Bates@genbates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2026: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

Universities can actually do what the tech-venture capitalists can only promise to do

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Holy shit, we're actually getting there. "UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample [—] In tests, MethylScan detected about 63% of cancers across all stages and roughly 55% of early-stage cancers." (from April) #ShareGoodNewsToo

My book, Taming the Careerists, will be published by Cambridge University Press this September! There is growing debate over whether federal employees should be easier to dismiss in order to make them more responsive to presidential directives. What would be the consequences of such a change?

Re-upping this now that we're almost a month out. Deadline is August 15th! #polisky #ISA2026 #humanrights

Genevieve Bates@genbates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2026: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

Re-upping this now that we're almost a month out. Deadline is August 15th! #polisky #ISA2026 #humanrights

Genevieve Bates@genbates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2026: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

...ICC members need to operate on the assumption that the US is fundamentally opposed to ideas of international justice and accountability. And that opposition is robust, across time and (hate to say it) often across parties. Maybe 2028 goes great and everything is fine. But that's a fools bet

Very excited to welcome these new fellows to @goodauth.bsky.social! goodauthority.org/news/new-voi...

New voices join Good Authority in 2026

We welcome nine political scientists to our team of experts in our latest cohort of Good Authority fellows.

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Encode/Decode: Allison Carnegie, @rickyclark.bsky.social, @noahzucker.com use new #data to prove their theory that #populist #leadership helps to explain whether a state provides accurate information to #IOs. #anti-elitism #science #environment #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2026: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15. For more information, see here: isanet.org/Programs-Res...

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2026: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

My department is hiring an assistant professor in political theory with a focus on American political thought and/or American constitutionalism jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Political Science - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!),…

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega

Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…

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Unexpected breakthroughs like this one are the reason that the Federal Government funded basic research. This funding contributed to America’s post-war economic growth and created the world’s greatest system of higher education. Now, racist fools are dismantling the system to own the libs.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago

TIL that the basic research that led to GLP-1 drugs was conducted by government scientists at the VA and NIH whyy.org/segments/oze...

This is undisputedly true, & the fact that so many politicians in states like WI spend so much time demonizing, defunding, & otherwise kneecapping the single most outstanding & world-class institution in their state remains mind-boggling to me, even after 20 years as faculty at one of these places.

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

I don’t need to be called out like this on a Saturday night.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

New article: Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones meets James Scott’s legibility It’s actually about how states tapped archaeologists for early intelligence capabilities Check it out! “History, archeology, and espionage as improvised legibility” in @ejir.bsky.social coauthored with @asaxton.bsky.social

Adam Saxton@asaxton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to announce the publication of my first peer reviewed academic article at EJIR! Co-authored with @carsonaust.bsky.social and available @ejir.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... See a quick summary below!

Orban has conceded!

theresa gessler@gessler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Keeping this for the future: Orbán on TV saying that the election results are painful but clear. This feels momentous. #Hungary

Just Security is hiring an Editorial Assistant! Ready to bring your skills to a small, collegial team, supporting work that elevates the public conversation on law and policy? Learn more and apply!

Just Security Is Hiring! — Editorial Assistant

Seeking candidates with strong organizational, project management, and writing skills to fill a full-time Editorial Assistant role

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From February 2026 - The Unequal Challenge of Learning from Under-Informative News - https://cup.org/461vHAT "findings shed light on the importance of considering heterogeneous preferences along ethnicities within the same racial ‘in-group’" - @atrexler.com #OpenAccess

New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨 In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social and I present results from a collaborative field experiment with the Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR rules in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections. A🧵:

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 4mo ago

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone - https://cup.org/41rDghm - @avi-ahuja.bsky.social & @gmcclendon.bsky.social #FirstView

Innovations in Human Rights Edited by @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social and Francesca Parente Contributors incude: @genbates.bsky.social @ajullmann.bsky.social @andrew.heiss.phd @aperezli.bsky.social @rjschoner.bsky.social Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures

Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

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Publicly announcing the intention to do war crimes should immediately end American presidencies

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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Grateful for the support from RSF and @j-palna.bsky.social and excited to work on this project with @genevavalerie.bsky.social!

Russell Sage Foundation@russellsagefdn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Geneva Cole (University of Arizona) and Genevieve Bates (@uwmadison.bsky.social) will examine the impact of exposure to interactive memorials of past atrocities on support for contemporary efforts to redress those atrocities. Co-funded by J-PAL North America www.russellsage.org/research/gra...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Recontextualizing #Whiteness: Understanding White Identity in the Era of #Black #Lives #Matter By @genevavalerie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...