🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
Quite the chart
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
How much do Nigerians trust their elections? 🗳️🇳🇬
We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇
You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:
www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...
Important story! Gift link!
The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.
By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
Great primer on using UCDP
Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
Is this irony? The Eurovision has always been political, just like the Olympics, the World Cup, the Nobel laureates, etc
🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
A thread 🧵:
💧Our researcher @stefandoring.bsky.social presented as a Featured Speaker at the 2025 International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In his presentation, Stefan touched on various aspects of how armed conflict shapes access to water.
Photo by Roger Anis
#Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict
The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions:
-- Editor, Medical Evidence Project
-- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch
and we're still recruiting for:
-- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database
🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎
Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 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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“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”
Wenn jemand hungert und ich gebe einen Krümmel Brot ist das keine Hilfeleistung.
„ U.N. aid officials said nine trucks had been cleared to enter, a quantity U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher described as "a drop in the ocean".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
A vote for Sweden is a vote for Finland (you get two for the price of one ;) #esc2025
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Gotta be Sweden again this year #barabadabastu #esc
I think OSF has lists for that
Research & Politics, Nature Human Behavior
Oh hey ACLED user,
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.
Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise
Graph with Twitter Mentions in march 2025
Graph with Mentions of research on Twitter, 2017.
In March 2024 Altmetric detected 1,024,527 mentions of research items on X, formerly Twitter.
This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago.
April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go.
Place your bets.
Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv...
In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE).
#RPVSky
missed this one last night: "Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance."
Nice presentation by @tilmanbrueck.bsky.social
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