Jamie McClenaghan
@jamiemcclen.bsky.social
PhD candidate & teaching assistant @ Trinity College Dublin | party competition, political behaviour #firstgen
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Fascinating how often political commentary in the UK still refers to the median voter. In a multi-dimensional space with salience endogenous to positions, it‘s unclear to me who that should be. In a multi-party system, winning the median voter is of course not necessarily a vote-maximizing strategy.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fascinating how often political commentary in the UK still refers to the median voter. In a multi-dimensional space with salience endogenous to positions, it‘s unclear to me who that should be. In a multi-party system, winning the median voter is of course not necessarily a vote-maximizing strategy.
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Applications for the PhD Political Science now open!📣
The Department of Political Science invites applications for four-year fully funded PhD studentships at Trinity College Dublin. The deadline to apply is 1st April 2026.
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The Department of Political Science invites applications for four-year fully funded PhD studentships at Trinity College Dublin. The deadline to apply is 1st April 2026.
Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/2rv4p89d
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Applications for the PhD Political Science now open!📣
The Department of Political Science invites applications for four-year fully funded PhD studentships at Trinity College Dublin. The deadline to apply is 1st April 2026.
Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/2rv4p89d
The Department of Political Science invites applications for four-year fully funded PhD studentships at Trinity College Dublin. The deadline to apply is 1st April 2026.
Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/2rv4p89d
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recently i have been doing some research for a company on using LLMs to replace humans in survey interviews (the results are not good, and it's generally a betrayal of many principles of public opinion polling, so i do not advise this).
but today OpenAI released a new model (GPT-5). i tested it..
but today OpenAI released a new model (GPT-5). i tested it..
August 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
recently i have been doing some research for a company on using LLMs to replace humans in survey interviews (the results are not good, and it's generally a betrayal of many principles of public opinion polling, so i do not advise this).
but today OpenAI released a new model (GPT-5). i tested it..
but today OpenAI released a new model (GPT-5). i tested it..
News organizations repackaging press releases as stories on behalf of private companies is a pet peeve www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/3700...
August 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
News organizations repackaging press releases as stories on behalf of private companies is a pet peeve www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/3700...
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People use beamer, in part, because they assume that it serves as a competence signal, but then use horrible looking defaults that signal only that they don't know how to use it competently. Use powerpoint or, if you want to integrate code or do something else fancy, Quarto. Beamer's dead tech.
My take on #EPSA2025: PowerPoint > Beamer
June 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
People use beamer, in part, because they assume that it serves as a competence signal, but then use horrible looking defaults that signal only that they don't know how to use it competently. Use powerpoint or, if you want to integrate code or do something else fancy, Quarto. Beamer's dead tech.
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📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
June 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
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Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
May 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
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(since i'm among friends on this platform, I'll be more explicit: if you say you understand politics - or if you are paid to - the least you can do is open a poll and **look at the fucking crosstabs** there is quite a lot going on in there beyond the surface level of 'one party up, one party down')
May 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
(since i'm among friends on this platform, I'll be more explicit: if you say you understand politics - or if you are paid to - the least you can do is open a poll and **look at the fucking crosstabs** there is quite a lot going on in there beyond the surface level of 'one party up, one party down')