Does anyone have colleagues/friends who recently passed through Canadian work permit application process as postdocs? I'd be very happy to connect and discuss the process. Thanks!
Stefano Sangiovanni
@stesangio.bsky.social
PhDing @NASP, University Of Milan. https://ste-sangiovanni.github.io/ Party Politics, Computational Methods, Valence Politics, Political Scandals. Just a nerd with some muddling through skills. I really like punk music :) #Firstgen
New (and personal first!) paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social w/ Chris Anderson. 🤖🗳️ Citizens increasingly use and interact with AI tools to make sense of political information and express views. We ask: what does this mean for citizens' autonomy in politics?
Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 2w agoNOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The Autonomy Paradox: #Artificial #Intelligence and the Foundations of #Political #Behavior By Christopher J. Anderson & @elenapro.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
NEW - The Equality Positions and Policies of Governments, 1970–2020: How Egalitarian Parties Evoke Equality While Evading Real Redistribution - https://cup.org/3TLOKfb - @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & @leoahrens.bsky.social #OpenAccess
🔔🔔 Russian polls have shown ~75% support for the war in Ukraine since February 2022, essentially flat. New working paper with Kirill Chmel and @nikitasavin.bsky.social shows that number is stable partly because it stopped measuring what people actually think. 🧵 ssrn.com/abstract=711...
New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇
“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old
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Which city/district councils have live streams of their meeting and can they serve as a data source for political scientists? Do politicians behave differently when they are on a live stream? Find out in the open access research note by Paul Reimers (in German) doi.org/10.1007/s11615-026-00672-8
Bridging the Gap? Liveübertragungen in Kreistagen und Stadträten als Datengrundlage für die politikwissenschaftliche Forschung - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The scarcity of meeting minutes makes it difficult to analyze the working methods of local political bodies and the behavior of the actors involved. The increasing availability of livestreams and video recordings of district and city council meetings is helping to remedy this situation. Combined with technical innovations for extracting and processing large (multimodal) datasets, this availability enables new perspectives for local political research. However, for this wealth of data to be widely used, it must be generalizable to the broader population of local government bodies. Accordingly, questions arise regarding whether districts and cities that offer livestreams and recordings differ systematically from those that do not and whether these broadcasts induce shifts in local political debates.To this end, based on systematic research and a survey of district council members, this study describes the legal, political, and financial framework for introducing such recordings and examines the resulting influence on speakers’ behavior. Meeting recordings are available, particularly in large cities, but have so far been scarce in districts with low population density; furthermore, significant differences exist among the federal states. The survey indicates that adjustments to expanded public visibility of meetings are also occurring at the local level. Thus, the external validity of meeting recordings as a data source is not yet established, which should be taken into account during research design and case selection.
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Americans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it? New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...
Back with a substantially revised version of our Information Limits paper ahead of #PolMeth Huge thanks to everyone whose comments and feedback have already helped improve the paper We’d love to hear what you think: osf.io/preprints/so...
Rachel Porter@rachelporter.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...
When the far right enters parliament, established parties go high on average. But right after a far-right speech, they answer madly in anger: in words, voice, and body. Joint work with @ankuepfer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social presented at #PolMeth2026 at Michigan State.
If you know of a flat/house that is going to be available in Dublin 7 in the next 5 weeks, please please please let me know.
New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]
NEW! Combining my two obsessions of cycling and political economy data into a new Substack: Tour de Data. Daily posts for every stage of the Tour de France, digging into what the race tells us about money, place, and power. Not just who's in yellow;) 🚴📊 tourdedata.substack.com
Tour de data | Lauren Leek | Substack
Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 18 hours ago...
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📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July
💭 Looks like the heat wave has brought some attention to my study - enough that it got a mention in the New York Times 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w... It’s also a good example of how weather extremes can shift public attention toward climate change (without necessarily prompting policy change).
As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action
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Jessica Haak@haakjes.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢 Very happy that my first single-authored paper found its home at @environmentalpol.bsky.social 🌱 I am beyond thankful to all the fantastic people who gave me feedback and supported me along the way! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/5)🧵
🚨🚨 500+ University of Exeter staff are at risk of compulsory redundancy. These cuts would devastate teaching, research, and the humanities. Stand with staff, students, and the wider community - sign and share the petition. @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk c.org/cJmrk7DNq4
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Almost ready to fly to Belfast #EPSS2026 I’ll be presenting work from a broader project on political scandals and electoral accountability, joint work with Andrea Ceron and @ginvernizzi.bsky.social If you'll also be in Belfast and want to chat, feel free to reach out or say hi 💙
My very personal reflection on the use of AI in social science, perhaps the first of many. yiqingxu.substack.com/p/ai-disarray
AI Disarray
I have felt a little disarrayed recently, and I attribute it to AI.
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Heading to the #EPSSBelfast conference next week? The EPSS Diversity Committee has organized several events to make this a welcoming space for everyone. Quick thread on what's happening and when 👇
But, apparently it is ok to use these same models to make decisions "balancing" the human rights of marginalised groups in the UK. They refused to provide the model, how it was checked, if humans were involved, or anything else. Many reasonable questions to ask which laws were violated by the EHRC.
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
I'm working on a project on cross-national young gender gap that shows dif patterns. The below w ESS & CSES data show 1. Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) btwn young men & women, where x is year & y is standard deviations 2. Young men & women ideology relative to other age-gender groups
Seva@seva.bsky.social · 2mo agoI've now seen four separate pieces accusing John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times, you've seen his stuff before) of messing with his data on four separate occasions: 1. isitcredible.com/cases 2. unherd.com/newsroom/the... 3. github.com/James-Traina... 4. blog.albertkuo.me/post/2024-01...
For the Guardian, I wrote about lessons that other Green parties can learn from the current success of the Greens in the UK. (1) Emphasizing economic inequality. (2) Positional clarity creates leeway to emphasize other issues. (3) Progressive identity politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To reverse the ‘greenlash’, Europe’s Green parties should embrace Polanski’s boldness | Tarik Abou-Chadi
Be more strident, take on economic inequality, and progressive voters will reward you as they have the UK’s Greens, says European politics professor Tarik Abou-Chadi
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On panelView, and why we should always look at our data first.. yiqingxu.substack.com/p/plot-your-...
Please look at your (panel) data
Many of the most egregious issues can be avoided by simply looking at the data.
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New paper w/ @lstoetze.bsky.social "Estimating Treatment Effects on Proportions with Synthetic Controls" out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 👀 When your outcomes are compositional (such as vote shares), applying synthetic controls separately to each part can break the math. We show how to fix it: 🧵
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago#OpenAccess from @polanalysis.bsky.social - Estimating Treatment Effects on Proportions with Synthetic Controls - https://cup.org/4nInIjU - @bogatyrev.bsky.social & @lstoetze.bsky.social #FirstView
50 minutes video of DS4-agent building a small programming language. Mixed 2bit/4bit (last six layers) quants running on M3 Max. Video is not accelerated, real speed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD7F...
40 minutes of DS4-agent building a small programming language
YouTube video by Salvatore Sanfilippo
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I feel lucky that I started using the internet in 2006 at 11yo and learned problem-solving and critical thinking before AI :) #GoogleIO
Wanna talk about the cordon sanitaire (the "Brandmauer"?) 🚨We (@christinajuen.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I) have a new paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... What do we do in the paper? A 🧵: 1/7
NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView
