🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database.
- State elections update: new years + mail-in
- 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European
- Municipal elections: 1984-2025
- Meinungsbild public opinion
- New website & features
german-elections.com
🚨Jobs!🚨
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
Post-Soviet Affairs is looking for a new editor. Spread the word. think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
📣 BREAKING NEWS:
Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.
“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Rümeysa Öztürk was ordered released by a federal judge in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.
Our collective power is needed now more than ever. We must do everything in our power to protect our institutions, faculty, staff, and students. We cannot wait.
Check out and follow the @russiawatcher.bsky.social bsky account for regular updates about Russian public opinion! Data comes from daily online surveys in Russia.
And follow the rest of the RW team: @grigopop.bsky.social, @isadesisto.bsky.social, and Jacob Tucker.
Letter to leadership of universities being targeted, to run in Chronicle tomorrow. Academic friends, pls sign if you are a US citizen and tenured (ie it’s safe for you to do so)
“We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together”
Text in replies
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Another abhorrent moment in Trump's America. The time for solidarity and action is now -- especially for those of us with immigration status (and other) privilege to speak out.
I spoke at yesterday’s Vigil for Democracy at Columbia. Here is an excerpt.
Unbelievable
Täna on Eesti iseseisvuspäev.
Tähistame Eesti vabadust, mille võitsime samuti ülekaaluka vaenlase vastu.
Täna möödub ka kolm aastat täiemahulise sõja algusest Ukrainas. Meie kohus on toetada Ukrainat kuni võiduni.
Elagu Eesti! Слава Україні!
I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place.
psantanna.com/did-resources
There, you will find
- 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course
- Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD
- My DiD R/Stata/Python packages
- Some DiD checklists
- DiD materials from my friends
Enjoy!
We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R.
yiqingxu.org/packages/fec...
Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will tomorrow permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid.
Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail.
This is a victory for freedom and European unity.
From our new issue: "My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead" by Nicholas Haas and Emmy Lindstam. #ASPRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
CCR just canceled the first round elections in #Romania. While Georgescu would've been a disaster as a president, the decision further undermines Romania's democracy. And it will greatly complicate forming a new gov't as mainstream parties go back to fighting each other. hotnews.ro/breaking-tur...