My reading on my way to Manchester for #POLNET. We need more exhaustive single-country books like this.

I'm developing a taste for small conferences. After @wzb.bsky.social's #MoPED in Berlin last month, I'm getting ready for @politicalnetworks.bsky.social's #POLNET2026, next week in Manchester, to present this paper on "Gendered Informational Inequality in Elite Networks" (available upon request).

Relevant again, with today’s Morocco 🇲🇦 France 🇫🇷 game.

Mohamed Dhia Hammami@meddhiah.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tuesday, Senegal 🇸🇳 plays France 🇫🇷 , its former colonial ruler, in the World Cup. French police was set on high “vigilance across the territory” (AFP). Why are such post-colonial encounter sensitive ? Answer from a paper I wrote (available on request, previously presented at MPSA)🧵

Tuesday, Senegal 🇸🇳 plays France 🇫🇷 , its former colonial ruler, in the World Cup. French police was set on high “vigilance across the territory” (AFP). Why are such post-colonial encounter sensitive ? Answer from a paper I wrote (available on request, previously presented at MPSA)🧵

📢 Public good announcement : I’m releasing 3 R packages 📦 with data from the last 2 censuses in Tunisia 🇹🇳, including one with harmonized panel data (I’m using in my dissertation). Available on my GitHub. CRAN version upcoming. www.mohameddhiahammami.com/data

Done with #APSAVRM26. Looking forward to presenting the same paper at the @yaledatascience.bsky.social. FDS workshop on AI for social science research methods organized by @dremmazang.bsky.social, Daniel Karell, Tong Wang and @harshparikh.bsky.social. fds.yale.edu/events/fds-w...

Looking forward to presenting my new paper on the use of Agentic RAG for elite network data collection, with an application to the Israeli case, at the APSA Virtual Research Workshop organized by @javierosorio.bsky.social, P. Brandt, V. D'Orazio and L. Khan. eventdata.utdallas.edu/workshops/ap...

Eid Mubarak 🌙

Early version of the network based sampling method I use in my dissertation field research is out in the new issue of QMMR. Many thanks to the Emerging Methodologist Workshop team for making this possible. www.mohameddhiahammami.com/working-papers doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Mohamed Dhia Hammami - Working Papers

Sampling Elites: A Network-Based Approach to Reduce Bias in Elite Research

mohameddhiahammami.com

Can’t wait for our panel with @lisablaydes.bsky.social, @sharangrewal.bsky.social, @shalaby12.bsky.social, @aasiegel.bsky.social, Neil Ketchley, and me. We’ll discuss data scarcity in MENA and how to overcome it. 📅 Today, 2:00–3:30pm PDT 📍 VCC, West Level 1, Room 113 (or Zoom) tinyurl.com/ymnyafts

In a few minutes, I’ll be presenting a novel network-based method for better sampling of elites at the Emerging Methodologists Workshop panel on frontiers in QMMR. 📍 VCC Floor: East Meeting Level, East 8 (or Zoom) #APSA2025