supervisor speech at a dissertation party:

I am very happy to explain the rules of baseball for any curious Europeans who want to attend this!

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · yesterday

Bring your colleagues and friends to enjoy a classic #Boston baseball game experience during with fellow #APSA2026 Annual Meeting attendees! 📍 Fenway Park September 2, 2026 @ 4:10 PM ⚾️#BostonRedSox vs ⚾️#SeattleMariners 🎟️ Ticket sales close Thursday! buff.ly/Z0utkoL

The news cycle moves fast. But it is important not to forget what the Trump administration did to Minnesota last winter.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.se · 7mo ago

Just so people understand the timeline: (1) The president of the United States called Somali-Americans "garbage" and the Vice President says that the US has a "Somali Problem". (2) The White House directs immigration agencies to Minnesota due to its large Somali community.

This is one of the joys of teaching undergraduates!

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · yesterday

As a general rule: explaining something you know well to smart people who ask good questions but do not know the topic well is a really useful exercise. If nothing else, they tend to ask interesting questions which you hadn’t considered.

I'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken

The news cycle moves fast. But it is important not to forget what the Trump administration did to Minnesota last winter.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.se · 7mo ago

Just so people understand the timeline: (1) The president of the United States called Somali-Americans "garbage" and the Vice President says that the US has a "Somali Problem". (2) The White House directs immigration agencies to Minnesota due to its large Somali community.

It's remarkable that there is a relative lack of political science articles classifying the Republican Party as a (very extreme) far right party.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 3d ago

I disagree. Le Pen hasn’t instigated a coup d’état. Meloni does not have track record of openly racist remarks. And Orbán accepted his electoral defeat. Not to say that Europeans would no longer vote for these leaders if they did, but we simply don’t know yet. Trump is much more extremist!

Coming up with a post-hoc theory section when your results are weird:

Hoisted by our own shame research. Thanks! I hate it.

Came across this stunning photograph of Lund's 1938 public baths in goodwill bargain book from 1950. Quite the milestone in the local spatial politics of public luxury that was rolled out as social democratic welfare planing in the postwar era. The architects were Hans Westman with Tor Andersson.

Journals should pivot to only publishing experiments as registered reports. This would improve the quality of experiments and decrease publication bias.

Journals should pivot to only publishing experiments as registered reports. This would improve the quality of experiments and decrease publication bias.

Review: There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible

Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

Are Young Republicans Too Based to Work for Congress?

Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.

politico.com

This applies to Spain too and makes walking the Camino de Santiago one of the better long distance walking experiences that exists in the world. Walking 20 km elevates 7/10 food to 10/10.

Leonardo Carella@leonardocarella.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think this is the key to Italian (and Spanish, arguably) food culture: high average quality, not a long upper tail of the distribution. Applies to eating out but also eating in. Everyone* can put together a 7/10 meal, but far fewer people have sourdough starters or ground their coffee beans.

Time to offer this seminar again I see.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

People use jargon to signal group membership-they also use it to compensate for low status. Nine studies found that being put in a position of low status increases jargon use. An analyses of 64,000 dissertations found that authors from low-status schools use more jargon: gwern.net/doc/psycholo...

🎉🇨🇭 CfP: New Working Group on Political Psychology at SVPW/ASSP! Our first call: “Democratic Resilience” for the annual conference #SVPW2027 at Lucerne. SVPW is a great, open international conference in Switzerland — apply to our call or the general one by 31 Aug 2026 here: tinyurl.com/4rz4a55b

They sure don't make model train hobbyist magazine covers like they used to.

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

Just heard of the passing of the Swedish political scientist Torbjörn Bergman, with whom I did some work a while back that allowed me to spend a few fab days with him up north in Umeå. He was a great scholar - particularly on coalition politics - and, most importantly, a really lovely bloke. RIP.

State media control influences large language models LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom. States have strategic incentives to shape LLM output. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you use emojis in a tag, they will be displayed next to the item's title. Helpful if you want to make some entry really stand out for any reason.

If was this years old when I realized you can hover over references in @zotero.org to open a preview ... wonderful. What other Zotero hacks are out there I probably don't know that will make my life easier? Actually while we're at it, I find dragging pdfs into zotero finnicky. Where to drag?

🚨 PNAS paper: "Indirect reciprocity undermines indirect reciprocity destabilizing large-scale cooperation" w/ Eric Schnell How do we achieve global cooperation on climate or conflict reduction? The problem isn't selfishness as much as it is cooperation itself - at a smaller scale. 1/

APSR titles in the 1970s were amazing. You could basically get an article published with the title "I have some thoughts..." www.jstor.org/stable/1959143

Theory and Voting Research: Some Reflections on Converse's "Change in the American Electorate" on JSTOR

Walter Dean Burnham, Theory and Voting Research: Some Reflections on Converse's "Change in the American Electorate", The American Political Science Review, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Sep., 1974), pp. 1002-1023

jstor.org

They sure don't make model train hobbyist magazine covers like they used to.