Haha, no - AJPS is getting 5.7 submissions a day!

I have submitted a paper to @ajpseditor.bsky.social . It is submission #608 at the journal

That makes this year an average of 5.7 papers a day, up on last year's 4.7 a day, which was already the highest ever.

Probably the 'top' journals are getting the first wave of AI-helped papers.

I have submitted a paper to @ajpseditor.bsky.social . It is submission #608 at the journal

That makes this year an average of 5.7 papers a day, up on last year's 4.7 a day, which was already the highest ever.

Probably the 'top' journals are getting the first wave of AI-helped papers.

I mean, at this rate, I really will have to open up that cafe+bakery! Thanks @ddc-sdu.bsky.social for the warm welcome, and for letting me talk about the politics of charts based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social work with @justynabandola.bsky.social @sotiriagrek.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Robert Huber discussing publishing in EJPR with an early-career scholar. Photo credit: ECPR

At the #ecprjs26, I had the pleasure of meeting early-career scholars to discuss publishing in @ejprjournal.bsky.social. One rewarding part of being an editor is learning about the incredible research taking shape. I look forward to seeing these projects develop. Photo: @ecpr.bsky.social

Abstract of the article "A party's pledge fulfillment and procedural transparency affect voters' trust" by Ann-Kristin Kölln, published online first in West European Politics. Shows the title, author, and abstract summarising a survey experiment on how party performance cues shape trust.

Figure 2: point estimates of voters' trust in the party (scale 0–1) under three experimental conditions — control, good pledge fulfilment, and bad pledge fulfilment — with 95 percent confidence intervals. Trust is highest under good fulfilment (~0.52), intermediate under control (~0.48), and markedly lower under bad fulfilment (~0.36).

Figure 6: two line plots showing predicted effects of perceptions of a party's pledge fulfilment (left) and law compliance (right) on voters' trust (0–1), both measured on a 1–7 scale with 95 percent confidence ribbons. Trust rises steadily with perceived pledge fulfilment and law-compliance.

🎉 Online first:

What moves voters' trust in a political party?

@annkristinkolln.bsky.social's new study shows that a party's pledge record and its procedural transparency shift trust by 7–26 points — read by voters as signals of ability and integrity.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

The Royal Liver Building, Liverpool

The call for papers for #EPOP2026 in Liverpool (17–19 September) is now open!

We welcome submissions across all areas of research on elections, public opinion and parties.

Deadline: 26 April

Submit your proposals here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/eve...

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

DIVE BAR BATHROOMS by merritt k

i put together a bunch of the photos of dive bar bathrooms i’ve taken over the years and compiled them into a FREE digital zine. check it out if you are a little freak like me who loves grimy spaces marked by the passage of countless human dramas merrittk.itch.io/dive-bar-bat...

It's basically done. Will email you!

That is, Colchesterians rather than art school tossers.

I will not have my kin besmirched

It's the accent though, rather than the people! I also had a tough time choosing between the Gallaghers as one has a stronger accent than the other, with Noel closer to the GNE... but yes - these are unfortunately only indicative.

Today I'm looking forward to presenting our paper on (political) candidate evaluations, accents, and social class, at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin.

Featuring my favorite slide of examples of the accents and a (not comprehensive) map of their prevalence...

I suspect anything will be alien to them except social media. Schools use email still (?) so I'd imagine Teams or equivalent are just as alien if more modern.

Do I prefer 'thanks sir' or 'Professor Devine, I cannot thank you enough for this incredibly helpful guidance, support, and explanations. I will take this on board and do my absolute best...'

New this year: students writing emails with chatGPT. I hate it. Not for any luddite reasons; just that they're all the same and all long.

Okay. What the fuck am I supposed to do. I'm supposed to do that?

A great effort and service to the field by @mcchacha.bsky.social and @floriangkern.bsky.social! With my editorial hat on, more journals should be thinking about how they can support the pipeline of research coming to them. Intervening in these kinds of ways also helps build better & wider networks.

Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Nottingham Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Political Science on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Nottingham Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Political Science on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

There is a rare permanent job in the UK - assistant prof (lecturer) in political science with a focus on quant methods

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD143/a...

At @poqjournal.bsky.social there is a call for papers on a special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Survey Research.

If you have papers on this obviously important topic then here's a link for more information!

static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/poq/d...

My guess, based on vibes only, is that the empirical turn happened much later and we hadn't had bad habits as baked in.

British workers are being set up to fail.

A factory worker in Germany or France has access to nearly twice as many machines, robots & modern equipment as a worker doing the same job here.

Businesses need to invest and the government needs to incentivise them to do so: www.ippr.org/articles/tur...

A hat trick of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social prizes last night! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize, @dbonansinga.bsky.social for Specialist Group of the Year @psa-italian.bsky.social & @williamlallen.bsky.social for the Joni Lovenduski early-career achievement award. #psa26

Posted this a few years ago, sigh. Humble brag time! A student said they enjoyed my course today 😊 (brag). But also I hate myself and everything I do, I think I am a fundamentally negative force in the world, I feel trapped in my own skin always doggedly pursued by the one I most loathe (humble).

2017!

PM remarks in Welwyn Garden City: 10 February Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave remarks during a visit to Welwyn Garden City.

That people, especially Labour, do not use this is mad to me. It seems Starmer is starting to use this in his speeches:

"I’ve got the most working class cabinet in the history of this country [...] as Prime Minister, having come from a working-class background"

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Most research shows that when given 'class' indicators or appeals, people respond along class lines.

👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Also, ~two thirds of the public still describe themselves as working-class - largely stable for decades - yet a political class that seems completely terrified to use this as a valid, powerful social group to address. And there's evidence 👇

📢 Our article on institutional trust development during adolescence is now also featured in ECPR's The Loop! Check it out if you want to know the main findings and their implications for democratic accountability.

With @cvalebeek.bsky.social