Lucy Barnes
@lucy-barnes.bsky.social
Professor of Political Economy, UCL. She/her. Here to lurk.
Political science paging @originstorypodcast.bsky.social
Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social · last mo.🏆 The 2025 Vera Troeger Best Paper Award goes to Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (@turnbulldugarte.com) and Markus Wagner (@markuswagner.bsky.social) for "Heroes and Villains: Motivated Projection of Political Identities". 🎉 Congratulations! 👏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
So much of it about this morning
Chris Hanretty@chanret.bsky.social · 3mo agoecological fallacy klaxon!
Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.
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Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Politics of Inflation
Inflation returned to the foreground of political economies worldwide after 2019, after 30 years of relative quiescence. Inflation remains unpopular—including among those who are hurt by the policies ...
annualreviews.org
Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · 5mo agothink @zackpolanski.bsky.social should ask: 1. why is Labour allowing Bank of England to abdicate its public duties during crisis? 2. How are interest rate hikes going to deal with inflationary pressures triggered by oil shocks without inflicting massive further damage on our battered economy?
Nice things to remember about the UK. I am not myself a UK doomer, I think there are plenty of good things about the country and our present state of affairs, and this well captures some of them. adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...
Don’t Panic: Britain is not broken – adamcorlett.com
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2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
A huge thank you to the authors who contributed to Volume 55, our first year of continuous publication. If you're logged into @bsky.app, our 2025 authors on Bluesky can be found here - https://cup.org/4oLdTRR If you are on Bluesky and we have missed you, let us know. 🎈 All the best for 2026! 🎈
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
Private detective, snore. So narrowly missed being a Scholar, amateur adventurer and alethiometer reader
Sue London@cmdrsue.bsky.social · 7mo agoWell, now I'm an English professor...
One of my favourite papers from this past year!
British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEW - Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - https://cup.org/49auQPf - @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social #OpenAccess
Bravo! As deserved as it gets. Wendy Carlin is a treasure.
Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 8mo agoFollowing her fireside chat on the Future of Higher Education CEPR is proud to announce Wendy Carlin was awarded the Lifetime Service to the Profession for her contributions to The CORE Project, increasing access and changing the way economics is taught. Our heartfelt congratulations to Wendy!
@carotorreblanca.bsky.social , Will Dinneen, and my paper entitled "Political Science Under Pressure: Competition and Collaboration in a Growing Discipline, 2003-2023" has been (conditionally) accepted at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. This paper has been a labor of love. osf.io/preprints/os...
good news is also a thing in the world
Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8mo agoDiane Abbott, the last remaining member of that original quartet, is now Mother of the House (the female MP with the longest continuous service). The ranks of MPs around have changed a lot during her long career. This is first ever Commons whose diversity roughly matches the nation it represents
For those who believe that the Commons should fairly represent the nation it serves, this is a story of remarkable progress. Those who would deny full and equal rights to people based on the race and religion natually don't see it that way, but thankfully they are a small (if noisy) minority.
This image highlights that one of the most important perks of the job is working with @alanrenwick.bsky.social
UCL Constitution Unit@conunitucl.bsky.social · 8mo agoJoin and help to lead the Constitution Unit! @uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities. Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD. Apply 👇
Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics at UCL
An academic position as a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Overall, housing is a central and growing cleavage in politics, challenging class dealignment story. Relying on occupation risks mischaracterising the class basis of politics - we must update how we think about this to reflect era of asset-based capitalism 7/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies
Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…
sciencedirect.com
Happy to see the first paper from @joshgoddard98.bsky.social ’s PhD project published today! 🙌 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Class voting is alive and well, once we recognise the importance of asset (housing) ownership as well as labour market position as a class marker
Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies
Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…
sciencedirect.com
We'll have to go back to studying history and institutions don't we. Even elites, Lord help us. Like in the Dark Ages.
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
timeshighereducation.com
Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing: What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?) Who are you arguing against? What alternatives are you rejecting and why? What follows if you’re right? These are also good questions for Q&A.
Gender neutral spaces have existed for years, we all know that. It isn't trans and non-binary individuals attacking women without any repercussions, that's men. Nothing about demonising trans and non-binary individuals makes women safer. It does make people more vulnerable though. 3/5
📣 New BJPIR article out now! 'The political effects of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone' by Andrew McNeil and Frieder Mitsch ⬇️ Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QIn8Bm9 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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“define a woman” fine ok, so you know when shania twain says “let’s go girls”? if you go then you’re a woman
Really excited that our @politicsjournal.bsky.social article on the Joy of the Teaching Track ✨ is out! Co-authored with the brilliant @ellenfelicity.bsky.social, Keith Smith, Kalina Zhekova, @rosegann.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social – we advocate for enjoying our jobs! Polisky SoTLsky
The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies - Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann, Madeleine Le Bourdon, 2025
In recent years, the number of academic jobs in research-intensive universities that are described as ‘academic education route’, ‘teaching and scholarship’, or...
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