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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend @nikhil-kalyanpur.bsky.social's substack The Price of Power for anyone interested in money and politics and what the latest social science research has to say about it.

The Price of Power | Nikhil Kalyanpur | Substack

Analysis at the intersection of money, corruption, and geopolitics based on the latest social science research. Click to read The Price of Power, by Nikhil Kalyanpur, a Substack publication.

thepriceofpower.substack.com

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Marina Duque @mduque.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Call for Papers!
We’re inviting submissions for the @politicalnetworks.bsky.social Online Colloquium (2025–26) (w/ @mtp.bsky.social)

🔹 Monthly, 1-hr sessions
🔹 Read-ahead format (no presentations)
🔹 Open to scholars in poli sci & related fields
🔹 Deadline: 17 Oct 2025

Learn more & submit here 👇

PolNet-PaCSS - Political Networks Online Colloquium

The Political Networks Online Colloquium aims to bring together a community of scholars to provide feedback on ongoing research about political networks. Each month we will meet for one hour to discus...

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · 11d

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation."

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Aug 21

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup!

Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected].

📅 Full schedule 👇

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 13d

Just out in the NBER.....identification of a structural model of human capital skill formation amongst adolescents using a field experiment.

www.nber.org/papers/w34274

Why Don’t Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16d

Political campaigns now burn 30¢ of every dollar raised just fundraising for more dollars (up from 9¢ in 2004).

In 2024, $3 Billion was spent on fundraising.

In 2026, fundraising costs are on track to exceed advertising spending for the first time.

The Fundraising-Industrial Complex Is Eating American Politics

New data reveals campaigns burn about a third of donations raised just asking for more donations

open.substack.com

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · 21d

Uh oh...

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 21d

Publications on Google Scholar since 2020:

Benseñor: 470 (*94* per year for the last 5 years!)
Lotufo: 440
Suemoto: 337
Santos: 199
Gouveia: 104

This is fine meme (Dog sitting at kitchen table with coffee. Everything is on fire. Dog says "this is fine".)

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 22d

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 25d

Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.

Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · Feb 5

Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@the-peio.bsky.social) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks to Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting!

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers!

@antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟

We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:

Call for Papers: Climate Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast

Call for Papers: Climate Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast We invite submissions of high-quality work on any topic related to climate change politics (and adjacent areas, e.g. environmental and energy pol...

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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · Sep 10

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

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IE Political Science @iepolisci.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

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Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social · 28d

I am thrilled that my article "The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference" is now out in the American Journal of Political Science.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non-Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ...

doi.org

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Sep 9

📄 Call for Papers: #EPSS2026 Belfast The call is out!

Submit your proposals here: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Proposals are already coming in, please help us spread the word!

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

epssnet.org

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on

𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡

🕵️Process tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models

All in two heady days.

training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

GESIS Training Courses

training.gesis.org

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Because USD rallied during the crisis, there is an assumption that foreign investors moved funds into the US [...]

The bid for US bonds came from central banks [...], not private investors.

[...] While foreign capital fled the US, US capital also fled global markets and returned home in 2008."

Foreign Money Flowed Out of the US, Not In, During the Global Financial Crisis

The dollar's rally during the global financial crisis is widely misunderstood.

www.cfr.org

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣Conference announcement:
Our PhD students are organizing a graduate conference. See call below.

Call for abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King's College London

Conference date: 26 Nov 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 29 Sep
Apply here (+ details): tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025

We are pleased to announce the PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference, taking place on November 26th, 2025, at the Department of Political Economy (DPE), King’s College London (KCL). The conf...

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Aug 30

1/blockbuster decision on Trump tariffs. Regardless of what happens at the Supreme Court, stretching national security laws to their limit, Trump has put the cornerstone of US coercion at risk.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Read the appeals court ruling on Trump’s tariffs.

An appeals court ruled on Friday that many of President Trump’s most punishing tariffs are illegal, delivering a major new setback to the administration’s global trade war.

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Aug 30

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025!

🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨
📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · Aug 30

- 7 dos 10 bilionários com menos de 30 anos são herdeiros da Weg
- Weg é a empresa que mais receberá $ da política industrial

g1.globo.com/economia/not...

Saiba quem são os 10 bilionários mais jovens do Brasil —e de onde vem o dinheiro

Na lista de 10 mais ricos do país com menos de 30 anos, apenas um não é herdeiro. Sete deles são acionistas da empresa de máquinas e equipamentos WEG.

g1.globo.com

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · Aug 29

Mais que 50 bolsas Fulbright disponíveis para estudantes e professores brasileiros, 2027/2027. Inscrições abertas.

fulbright.org.br/bolsas-para-...

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 28

Good morning, everyone. After introducing my book about looted art yesterday, let me tell you more about what's in there. Today is about Napoleon. Napoleon stole a lot of shit, no really, it was insane. In fact, the era of systematic state-sponsored looting on mass scale began with Napoleon. thread👇

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social · Aug 21

1/ 🧵I did an extensive test of GPT-5 Pro vs Gemini Deep Think on unseen #gametheory questions with no solutions available online. Here's my frank review with a clear ranking

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iasmin goes @iasmingoes.bsky.social · Aug 1

I wrote a whole paper about revisions! They are a statistical best practice but can erode public trust in institutions. Governments don't revise their data unless they're forced to - which is why revisions are more prevalent among democracies (see Ireland, Greece)

www.iasmingoes.com/papers/Goes-...

These boxplots present the distribution of current GDP estimates for (A) Greece and (B) Ireland from 1990 to 2020, using data drawn from the 104 WDI releases from April 1994 to December 2021. The estimate reported for Greece in 2005 is 70 billion dollars (32.78 percent) larger in the April 2008 WDI than in the April 2007 WDI. The estimate reported for Ireland in 2015 is 53.8 billion dollars (22.6 percent) larger in the December 2017 WDI than in the July 2016 WDI.

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Aug 20

I think there are a lot more people here that broadly share your politics than you seem to believe, which is why I will say that this "Bluesky sucks, prove me wrong" bit/trope/bait can be quite tiresome and off-putting for a lot of your readers.

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