The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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looks v interesting
Reminds me of this paper: www.jstor.org/stable/21183...
I came prepared to be annoyed but it’s not an unreasonable report: president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full
For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️
many things about us politics that made no sense to me made a little more sense after reading this essay: patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-g...
A really impressive field experiment
Congrats!
This would have been useful to for anyone who imagined that a bombing campaign would result the spontaneous collapse of the Iranian regime to read
Reminded today that the term "developing democracy" is a weird vestige of modernization theory -- it elides level of economic development and democracy, but as the US demonstrates, you can be rich and have a very dysfunctional democracy. Very important to keep the two things conceptually separate
Ah interesting, maybe I need to get on there…!
Yeah I think so. That said someone suggested this and it looks promising! bsky.app/profile/pape...
Thank you I’ll try this out!
I’d say I do find bluesky less useful than (the old) twitter — I used to get tons of working papers and research on that feed but for some reason that’s not the case for me here despite mostly following academics. Not sure if it’s the algorithm or something else….
Interesting aspects of having a campus on a natural reserve
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
political pressure
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Interesting argument…( although the title is bothering me — worse than war: the costs of [concept that includes war] )
Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:
nobel peace prize never fails
does seem like an empirical regularity
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
very cool
Social science has been solved: Write 1600 lines of instructions to Claude Code to generate a publishable paper based exclusively on silicon samples.
Econ Nobel Prize here I come.
unbearable stupidity
Yes that’s ridiculous. I’d personally write to the editor first and then withdraw it if it’s not sent out within a reasonable time frame…
There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution.
In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789)
👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc....
👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective?
In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
