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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 21h

a little girl is making a funny face with the words what ? on her face .

ALT: a little girl is making a funny face with the words what ? on her face .

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 22h

Elmo Satan GIF

ALT: Elmo Satan GIF

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 23h

They haven’t even completed phase 1 which we’ve been at before and phase 2 never happened. The headlines back home are all bananas, renaming building and other stupid things. Rename whatever you want when there’s actual peace. Its almost like the show is all that matters, wouldn’t you say?

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

Honestly, if peace actually happens they can give the Nobel to everyone involved for all I care, but there has to be peace first!

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

אם באמת יהיה שלום מצידי שיתנו נובל לכל המעורבים. אבל שקודם שיהיה שלום!!!!

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

So far in my short career, one of my papers was desk rejected after 6 months and another was desk rejected after 8 months.

Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

@mcopelov.bsky.social here’s another one for your list of reasons for why we are so so very tired

Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

שיהיה שלום קודם ינודניקים!

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

ואנחנו אמורים לסמוך על משהו שיוצא מהבית הלבן הזה?

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

What in the ACTUAL fuck is he talking about?!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

מה מה מה?? מה???

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

נדמה לי שרק הלב שלי ממשיך להיות כבד כי כבר היינו ב״שלב 1״ ואז ״שלב 2״ לא הגיע והמלחמה הארורה הזו המשיכה

אין לי טיפת אמון במילה שיוצאת מהממשל האמריקאי הנוכחי ובטח לא מהממשל הישראלי או חמאס. ואני כל כך כל כך רוצה להאמין.

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 1d

רעיון: אולי נחכה עד שיהיה שלום כדי להחליט אם למישהו שקשור לתהליך הזה מגיע נובל?

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 2d

epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...
EPL published a leading article based on my research ahead of Estonia's local elections.
Disheartening that parties still disadvantage women candidates with nominations & list placement, but after 10+ years researching this, nice to see it break into mainstream media.

Politoloog: naisi on poliitikas nii vähe, sest neid pelgavad teised poliitikud, mitte Eesti valijad

Kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole, valida ei saa. Asjaolu, et Eestis ikka veel märksa vähem naisi poliitikas ilma teeb ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade poolt ette antud valikutest.

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 2d

Spread the word!

Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) @sceus.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Apply now as a student assistant (BA or MA level) to join @lucykinski.bsky.social 's INCONEX project in Salzburg as soon as possible!

❗ Apply until 20 October 2025❗

ℹ️ More information at www.inconex.eu and in our Linktree

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Haneen Shibli @haneenshibli.bsky.social · 2d

"The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price"

-Mahmoud Darwish

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 2d

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

Three Student Assistants (m/f/d) Projects German Sexual Identity and Election Study as well as VisibleQueers

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 2d

If you aren't failing you aren't trying. Grad students and new faculty: the most prolific scholars are also the most prolific at getting rejected. Rejections suck but they are a big part of the publication process.

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 2d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 2d

מצד אחד אני מבינה ומסכימה. מצד שני זה המחיר הממוצע (בערך) של כניסה לכל אחד מהמוזיאונים באמסטרדם (והולנד בכללי), לפני עלויות של תערוכות מיוחדות. אומנם אפשר לעשות כאן כרטיס מוזיאונים שנתי שעולה משהו כמו 70-80 יורו אבל זה לא לתיירים. בלונדון לפחות הרוב בחינם…

Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 2d

The best part of submitting lengthy project reports to funding agencies that take d-a-y-s to write is how slowly the online system works to tell you are finally done

a cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words me today below it .

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 2d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

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Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL) @poalab.bsky.social · 3d

ESRC-funded PhD @lsegovernment.bsky.social × Campaign Lab: New Ways to Think Political Persuasion (start Sep 2026, 3.5 yrs)

Methods-heavy (experiments/computation)

Topics: multi-stage persuasion, interpersonal mechanisms, AI–voter interactions

📅Apply by 10 Dec 2025: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 11d

Are you, or do you know, someone who wants to do a PhD?

Applications are open for full funding (scholarship + maintenance) @sotonpolitics.bsky.social through the @scdtp.bsky.social

Get in touch if you're interested

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Apply - South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership

Our call for applications for studentships commencing in 2026/27 is now open (from 26th January 2025, 12:00am) The deadline for application is 17:00 GMT 16th Jan 2026. Below are our current applicatio...

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 3d

Important read 👇🏻

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4d

@carotorreblanca.bsky.social , Will Dinneen, and my paper entitled "Political Science Under Pressure: Competition and Collaboration in a Growing Discipline, 2003-2023" has been (conditionally) accepted at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social.

This paper has been a labor of love. osf.io/preprints/os...

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