2/2 This is in person in Syracuse (flex arrangements available). Unfortunately we won't be able to sponsor a visa for this (sorry!). You'll work in a small team within Maxwell w lots of opportunities to shape the position. Happy to chat with interested folks about SYR and/or the job

I love writing and started a passion project last year. A Substack on writing and creative intelligence. In this weeks’ post, I reflect on the journey of letting of go of my fear of the judgement of by others. catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/the-hardes... 🧵

Such great advice from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, highlighting maybe my most frequent plea to grad students: Share your work before it's perfect. It'll never be perfect. As CdV says: "ask someone you trust to read your piece and ask for advice. Do this earlier then you are normally used to."

The Hardest Part Isn’t Writing. It’s Letting Others Read What You’ve Written

The Long Carve #9: Why Fear Often Shows Up as Perfectionism

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I'm thrilled to share the latest @chesdata.bsky.social paper "A Global Scale of Economic Left–Right Party Positions: Cross-National and Cross-Expert Perceptions of Party Placements", out now at JOP, where we compare expert ratings from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, & the US.

❗The @chesdata.bsky.social team paper on the global economic left-right scale is now out in print at the JoP! Super happy to have contributed a tiny little bit to this huge effort by @ndelacerda.bsky.social, @rbakker.bsky.social and others!

Ryan Bakker@rbakker.bsky.social · 4w ago

Several years of data collection, 2 editorial teams and a few rounds of R&R were all well worth it to finally see this paper in print. Thanks to all the survey teams and the many experts who helped make this possible. doi.org/10.1086/736578

What a banger! #usmnt

Since we are marking the 10 year anniversary of Brexit and we are all talking abt it today, a few thoughts on the meaning of Brexit from somebody that has looked at it from the point of view of international cooperation and climate politics… 🧵- feat. work with @patrickbayer.bsky.social

Brexit referendum was ten years ago today.. I wrote this a couple days later. The predictions have held up well- though Brexit did less damage to EU than I suspected and was even worse for UK economy than I imagined. www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/uni...

London Falling

British politicians—and many voters—have blamed the European Union for their problems for years. Now they will have to find something new to bang on about as they deal with an economic downturn and in...

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In today's post, I survey the presence (and then absence) of militant democracy arguments in U.S. First Amendment law. tomkeck.beehiiv.com/p/militant-d...

Militant democracy in U.S. law

Is Joseph Goebbels's mocking of liberal democracy relevant to First Amendment disputes?

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And if you are interested in reading more about the enduring legacy of Brexit identities, see our book 📕Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain global.oup.com/academic/pro...

4-1!!!!

It's high time for university presidents to explain to the public and politicians that international students don't take seats from American students, they subsidize these students. At my university and many others.

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith@positivesubway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump take R1 ACC university

SPEECHLESS. LFGK

I'm not a Knicks fan but the reffing in this game is outrageous against the NYK.

📢 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

effectively the court is saying that there is no such thing as racial polarization, only party polarization. or at least, there is no such thing as racial polarization when to say otherwise would be to potentially benefit the democratic party.

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It gets a little more wild each time they say it. So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'

Full report: brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t...

🚨 New book alert🚨 @supolisci.bsky.social & @maxwellsu.bsky.social Prof @glynmorgan.bsky.social’s latest book on the rise and fall of American Europe was reviewed at the FT: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b1c7603e-c634-4575-b71c-3332e68de960

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MPSA 2026 was fantastic, so good to see so many friends and colleagues and great panels. Sorry I couldn't see more folks. Now in the home stretch of the semester, this tiny desk really fueled my Monday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgqa...

Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Look what showed up in my mail today, my favorite European politics textbook courtesy of @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social. My students love the data exercises built on their custom Shiny apps!

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

A 🧵on how the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social accountability indices help us understand how democratic backsliding is occurring in the United States. tl;dr: in principle, vertical constraints on the president remain strong; in practice, horizontal and diagonal constraints have been greatly weakened.

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Congratulations to our Head of Dept @catherinedevries.bsky.social on her latest publication in @thejop.bsky.social. The paper studies the effects of being socialized under East Germany on gender norms and the political engagement of women. Read more here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

@liss.bsky.social more fodder for your ongoing holy war.

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · 6mo ago

::taps the sign::

I tell my students that one of the main reasons not to over-rely on AI for research/writing is because--at some point in the future--you're going to have a face-to-face conversation with someone who matters, and if you don't actually know some things, that interaction will not go well for you.