Giacomo Lemoli
@giacomolem.bsky.social
The IT newspaper I subscribe to (which normally has a good coverage of international news) gave a very disappointing "analysis" of the Chilean election. The 3 key words: Trump, Pinochet, Allende (the latter evoked as a contrast with the present). No serious discussions of Chilean domestic politics
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The IT newspaper I subscribe to (which normally has a good coverage of international news) gave a very disappointing "analysis" of the Chilean election. The 3 key words: Trump, Pinochet, Allende (the latter evoked as a contrast with the present). No serious discussions of Chilean domestic politics
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I promise if you’re not Jewish and don’t know any Jews quite well you really do not understand the level of justified paranoia baked into most public Jewish gatherings: Security at swimming lessons at the JCC, off duty police outside a bar mitzvah as a favour, etc. It shocked me.
Synagogues were safe until they weren’t. JCC were safe until they weren’t. Public beaches, public parks…risk is something I think about every single time I take my family to school, pray, exist as Jews
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I promise if you’re not Jewish and don’t know any Jews quite well you really do not understand the level of justified paranoia baked into most public Jewish gatherings: Security at swimming lessons at the JCC, off duty police outside a bar mitzvah as a favour, etc. It shocked me.
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Combining a high-quality probability sample with data from larger online panels
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Combining a high-quality probability sample with data from larger online panels | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Combining a high-quality probability sample with data from larger online panels
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/14/c...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/14/c...
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Three days ago. No more words.
Love that for security reasons, the Hanukkah party is at a secret location that won't be disclosed online at any time and only emailed to attendees the day before.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Three days ago. No more words.
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you hate chomsky for posing with bannon, i hate chomsky for denying genocides going back decades we are not the same
December 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
you hate chomsky for posing with bannon, i hate chomsky for denying genocides going back decades we are not the same
New Nobel Prize for racism and electoral interference just created!
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New Nobel Prize for racism and electoral interference just created!
Trump administration - FIFA
A marriage of the two most corrupt orgs of the globe
A marriage of the two most corrupt orgs of the globe
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Trump administration - FIFA
A marriage of the two most corrupt orgs of the globe
A marriage of the two most corrupt orgs of the globe
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New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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📢 📢 Call for Papers
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢 📢 Call for Papers
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
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“He combined more than 30 plays for the theatre with a steady stream of works for television and radio, and with screenplays including an adaptation of John le Carré’s The Russia House, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and a joint credit for the Oscar-winning screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.”
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“He combined more than 30 plays for the theatre with a steady stream of works for television and radio, and with screenplays including an adaptation of John le Carré’s The Russia House, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and a joint credit for the Oscar-winning screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.”
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
aeon.co
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am excited to travel to Amsterdam this week for a great workshop on Political Identities in Europe @acesuva.bsky.social.
I will present my paper (in progress) on language reform and identity changes in Navarre (Spain).
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I will present my paper (in progress) on language reform and identity changes in Navarre (Spain).
aces.uva.nl/content/even...
Political Identities in Europe - Amsterdam Centre for European Studies - ACES - University of Amsterdam
Call for papers: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Political Identities in Europe, 13-14 Nov 2025, Amsterdam. Submit by 26 Sept on belonging, boundaries & European identity.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I am excited to travel to Amsterdam this week for a great workshop on Political Identities in Europe @acesuva.bsky.social.
I will present my paper (in progress) on language reform and identity changes in Navarre (Spain).
aces.uva.nl/content/even...
I will present my paper (in progress) on language reform and identity changes in Navarre (Spain).
aces.uva.nl/content/even...
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I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
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📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr
A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025
How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025
How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr
A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025
How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025
How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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The question now is whether what happened in Madagascar will be repeated elsewhere on the continent.
Young people in Africa have been increasingly vocal, calling for major reforms amid growing unrest. The continent has the world's youngest population.
https://cnn.it/4nevWhP
Young people in Africa have been increasingly vocal, calling for major reforms amid growing unrest. The continent has the world's youngest population.
https://cnn.it/4nevWhP
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The question now is whether what happened in Madagascar will be repeated elsewhere on the continent.
Young people in Africa have been increasingly vocal, calling for major reforms amid growing unrest. The continent has the world's youngest population.
https://cnn.it/4nevWhP
Young people in Africa have been increasingly vocal, calling for major reforms amid growing unrest. The continent has the world's youngest population.
https://cnn.it/4nevWhP
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The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.
Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.
Another important paper of a new generation of PEDev studies rethinking concepts of "precolonial" politics that the first generation of studies oversimplified
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A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies
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October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Another important paper of a new generation of PEDev studies rethinking concepts of "precolonial" politics that the first generation of studies oversimplified
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.
Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.
Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.
October 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.
Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.
Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.
Fukuyama gets laughed at all the time because of "The End of History" (or at least because of the title choice), but honestly, "The Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay" are quite good.
October 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Fukuyama gets laughed at all the time because of "The End of History" (or at least because of the title choice), but honestly, "The Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay" are quite good.
It's 2025 and research institutes are still gating working papers/preprints written by academics. I don't know their business model, so they may have a reason, but for academics, posting *preprints* under a paywall without providing an ungated version is very unethical, sorry
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It's 2025 and research institutes are still gating working papers/preprints written by academics. I don't know their business model, so they may have a reason, but for academics, posting *preprints* under a paywall without providing an ungated version is very unethical, sorry
Riley's book is an important one.
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Riley's book is an important one.
Nice post by @kylefbutts.bsky.social. I have been puzzled too by papers using randomization inference in obs settings with no discussion of why/when the assignment should be seen as random.
www.kylebutts.com/blog/2025-09...
www.kylebutts.com/blog/2025-09...
Kyle Butts
Kyle Butts -- Urban Economics and Applied Econometrics
www.kylebutts.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Nice post by @kylefbutts.bsky.social. I have been puzzled too by papers using randomization inference in obs settings with no discussion of why/when the assignment should be seen as random.
www.kylebutts.com/blog/2025-09...
www.kylebutts.com/blog/2025-09...