Thomas Brailey
@tjbrailey.bsky.social
PhD in politics @ Oxford. Formerly at JPAL and UC San Diego.
Interested in state building, security outsourcing, and meta science.
he/him
https://linktr.ee/tjbrailey
Interested in state building, security outsourcing, and meta science.
he/him
https://linktr.ee/tjbrailey
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Currently in FirstView: In “Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings,” @joeornstein.bsky.social introduces the R package fuzzylink and shows how to incorporate pretrained text embeddings into probabilistic record linkage procedure.
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Currently in FirstView: In “Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings,” @joeornstein.bsky.social introduces the R package fuzzylink and shows how to incorporate pretrained text embeddings into probabilistic record linkage procedure.
Interesting new piece on the state's outsourcing of violence in Nigeria. "Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation"
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September 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Interesting new piece on the state's outsourcing of violence in Nigeria. "Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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It's very human to only double check that a process is working when you get a weird result. It's also very bad practice, because sometimes your "right" result is due to a bad process and you will be misled. Social scientists (economists) do this kind of asymmetric checking.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069
September 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's very human to only double check that a process is working when you get a weird result. It's also very bad practice, because sometimes your "right" result is due to a bad process and you will be misled. Social scientists (economists) do this kind of asymmetric checking.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069
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Visit egap.org/our-work/res... for more details on how to apply!
August 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Visit egap.org/our-work/res... for more details on how to apply!
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What are we missing when we talk about the arbitrariness of African borders and their economic/political impacts: kenopalo.substack.com/p/on-africas...
On Africa’s “arbitrary” borders and their alleged impacts
Borders are not the leading cause of state weakness or political and economic underdevelopment in Africa
kenopalo.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What are we missing when we talk about the arbitrariness of African borders and their economic/political impacts: kenopalo.substack.com/p/on-africas...
Looks like the DHS (the good one) is back with support from the Gates foundation! dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/N...
The DHS Program - News about the DHS Program
dhsprogram.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Looks like the DHS (the good one) is back with support from the Gates foundation! dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/N...
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I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.
CASSM Centre Manager
Full-timeFixed-term for 5 yearsGrade 8: £48,235 - £57,255 per annum
www.politics.ox.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.