Seth Jolly
@sethkjolly.bsky.social
political scientist @SUpolisci with a book on European regionalist parties (sethkjolly.com) & co-PI of http://chesdata.eu
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A lot of this going around. No surprise that the CFO drove this process and invoked “return on investment” as justification. US higher education drove US global success after WW2 and was the envy of the world so of course we’re going to let accountants and philistines burn it down.
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A lot of this going around. No surprise that the CFO drove this process and invoked “return on investment” as justification. US higher education drove US global success after WW2 and was the envy of the world so of course we’re going to let accountants and philistines burn it down.
This one hits hard: dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
While I was in grad school at Duke, UNC’s Center for European Studies led by my mentor Gary Marks (quoted here) was a vibrant and vital source of scholarship, community, and resources. RIP.
While I was in grad school at Duke, UNC’s Center for European Studies led by my mentor Gary Marks (quoted here) was a vibrant and vital source of scholarship, community, and resources. RIP.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This one hits hard: dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
While I was in grad school at Duke, UNC’s Center for European Studies led by my mentor Gary Marks (quoted here) was a vibrant and vital source of scholarship, community, and resources. RIP.
While I was in grad school at Duke, UNC’s Center for European Studies led by my mentor Gary Marks (quoted here) was a vibrant and vital source of scholarship, community, and resources. RIP.
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I looked at worldwide surveys on democracy: adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/worldwide-surveys-about-democracy
Worldwide surveys about democracy
I studied worldwide surveys about approval of different political regimes and could not figure out what they are intended to reveal or what they do reveal.
adamprzeworski.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I looked at worldwide surveys on democracy: adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/worldwide-surveys-about-democracy
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The core thesis of our Brextinction paper, beautifully (or morbidly?) summarized in one flowchart (also based on YouGov data).
@simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The core thesis of our Brextinction paper, beautifully (or morbidly?) summarized in one flowchart (also based on YouGov data).
@simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
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Apply now for the 2026 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute by January 25th! The 2026 institute will be held May 24 – June 25, at Duke University. Hear from past #RBSI scholars about program impact on research and graduate pathways. buff.ly/0pLifGl
Apply Now! buff.ly/PqPljks
Apply Now! buff.ly/PqPljks
Call for Applications: Apply for the 2026 APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) | Deadline: January 25, 2026
RBSI 30th Anniversary Alumni Reflections Nikol Alexander-Floyd, JD, PhD Associate Professor, Rutgers University RBSI Class of 1989 " enabled me to have a
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December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Apply now for the 2026 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute by January 25th! The 2026 institute will be held May 24 – June 25, at Duke University. Hear from past #RBSI scholars about program impact on research and graduate pathways. buff.ly/0pLifGl
Apply Now! buff.ly/PqPljks
Apply Now! buff.ly/PqPljks
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@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely.
In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Etched in Marble: Erik Voeten on Time, Clarity, and Moving Ideas Beyond Academia
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely.
In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Check out the @iojournal.bsky.social special issue on the future of world order and global governance! #IOFoGG
Our online special issue, The Future of Global Governance and World Order, is out!
It features 15 short essays plus the editors' introduction, all #OpenAccess.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#IOFoGG
It features 15 short essays plus the editors' introduction, all #OpenAccess.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#IOFoGG
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Check out the @iojournal.bsky.social special issue on the future of world order and global governance! #IOFoGG
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Less than 2 weeks to apply to the Open Pool Fellowships of the Institute for #Qualitative & #Multi-Method Research (IQMR)
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
web.apsanet.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Less than 2 weeks to apply to the Open Pool Fellowships of the Institute for #Qualitative & #Multi-Method Research (IQMR)
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
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Check out chesdata.eu for the 1999-2024 CHES trend file, along with individual year surveys with both means and expert-level datasets.
We are also happy to release an updated CHES Shiny (CHES Interactive on the website) at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/!
We are also happy to release an updated CHES Shiny (CHES Interactive on the website) at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/!
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Check out chesdata.eu for the 1999-2024 CHES trend file, along with individual year surveys with both means and expert-level datasets.
We are also happy to release an updated CHES Shiny (CHES Interactive on the website) at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/!
We are also happy to release an updated CHES Shiny (CHES Interactive on the website) at chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/!
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The 2024 EU @chesdata.bsky.social has been added to both the trend file (1999-2024) and the Shiny app. Please take both for a spin!
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The 2024 EU @chesdata.bsky.social has been added to both the trend file (1999-2024) and the Shiny app. Please take both for a spin!
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
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Kate McNamara, Professor & author of The Politics of Everyday Europe, treats writing as a way of thinking clearly about power, markets & the ideas that connect them.
For her, writing isn’t easy, it’s a struggle, but one worth having!
🪶 New: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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For her, writing isn’t easy, it’s a struggle, but one worth having!
🪶 New: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Etched in Marble: Kate McNamara on Imagination, Compassion, and the Struggle Worth Having
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Kate McNamara, Professor & author of The Politics of Everyday Europe, treats writing as a way of thinking clearly about power, markets & the ideas that connect them.
For her, writing isn’t easy, it’s a struggle, but one worth having!
🪶 New: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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For her, writing isn’t easy, it’s a struggle, but one worth having!
🪶 New: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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Thanks for this advice, Anna! It is so helpful and concise. We have had a few this year and have scheduled a few more, so it is great timing for us!
Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend.
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
Other book workshop tips 🧵:
I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanks for this advice, Anna! It is so helpful and concise. We have had a few this year and have scheduled a few more, so it is great timing for us!
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📢 Since launching EPSS in June 2025, we’ve been thrilled by the positive feedback from across the political science community.
Now that Call for Papers for EPSS Conference in Belfast has closed, we want to share the response has been extraordinary!
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Now that Call for Papers for EPSS Conference in Belfast has closed, we want to share the response has been extraordinary!
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November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
📢 Since launching EPSS in June 2025, we’ve been thrilled by the positive feedback from across the political science community.
Now that Call for Papers for EPSS Conference in Belfast has closed, we want to share the response has been extraordinary!
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Now that Call for Papers for EPSS Conference in Belfast has closed, we want to share the response has been extraordinary!
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this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
this is objectively hilarious
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Highly recommend adding the @paper-feed.bsky.social feed - only papers from people you follow!
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October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Highly recommend adding the @paper-feed.bsky.social feed - only papers from people you follow!
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"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"
Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
www.aeaweb.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"
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✔ Claims the power to execute people he deems a threat
✔ Claims the power to spend public funds however he wants, ignoring the Constitutional powers of Congress
✔ Deploys the military in American cities
✔ Purges military and law enforcement who aren't loyal to him
✔ Posts AI slop saying he's a king
✔ Claims the power to spend public funds however he wants, ignoring the Constitutional powers of Congress
✔ Deploys the military in American cities
✔ Purges military and law enforcement who aren't loyal to him
✔ Posts AI slop saying he's a king
October 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
✔ Claims the power to execute people he deems a threat
✔ Claims the power to spend public funds however he wants, ignoring the Constitutional powers of Congress
✔ Deploys the military in American cities
✔ Purges military and law enforcement who aren't loyal to him
✔ Posts AI slop saying he's a king
✔ Claims the power to spend public funds however he wants, ignoring the Constitutional powers of Congress
✔ Deploys the military in American cities
✔ Purges military and law enforcement who aren't loyal to him
✔ Posts AI slop saying he's a king
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so happy to *officially* share that I have been awarded an APSA DDRIG this year! I'm thrilled and honored to be a part of this cohort and very excited to get started on some field work in the UK soon.
2025 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2025. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral…
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2025. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral…
2025 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2025. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented. The following PhD candidates have been awarded grants for the 2025 award cycle.
politicalsciencenow.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
so happy to *officially* share that I have been awarded an APSA DDRIG this year! I'm thrilled and honored to be a part of this cohort and very excited to get started on some field work in the UK soon.
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Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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👏 Maxwell Ph.D. candidates Nicholas D’Amico, Hannah Radner and Jingding Wang have been honored by the @apsa.bsky.social for research on global finance, elections and LGBTQ political identity. @supolisci.bsky.social
PhD Candidates’ Work Recognized by American Political Science Association
PhD Candidates’ Work Recognized by American Political Science Association
www.maxwell.syr.edu
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
👏 Maxwell Ph.D. candidates Nicholas D’Amico, Hannah Radner and Jingding Wang have been honored by the @apsa.bsky.social for research on global finance, elections and LGBTQ political identity. @supolisci.bsky.social
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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By Dennis Rasmussen, one of my colleagues here @supolisci.bsky.social -- also got a very enjoyable audiobook version, highly recommended.
What a magnificiantly charming #book!
Accounts for the deep friendship between two historical giants - David Hume and Adam Smith.
Even though their ideas changed the world, as people they were both deeply committed to friendships and good humor that comes with it.
Accounts for the deep friendship between two historical giants - David Hume and Adam Smith.
Even though their ideas changed the world, as people they were both deeply committed to friendships and good humor that comes with it.
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
By Dennis Rasmussen, one of my colleagues here @supolisci.bsky.social -- also got a very enjoyable audiobook version, highly recommended.