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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 23h

Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)

Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH

@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Screen shot of the title and abstract of the article I am talking about

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 8d

My two year old has started following me around and constantly asking "Mumma doing? Mumma doing?" and it's easily my favorite part of each day

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 12d

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 17d

“If the United States and others are serious about achieving lasting peace in Sudan, they must empower the country’s civilian representatives, not its warlords,” Suliman Baldo and Mai Hassan write.

Opinion | The World’s Warlords Are Watching Sudan

If the world recognizes Sudan’s military government, it will exacerbate a humanitarian crisis — and betray the country’s pro-democracy movement.

nyti.ms

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Allison Grossman @allisong.bsky.social · 20d

Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#polisky

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 25d

Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️

Martin Haus @martinhaus.bsky.social · Aug 20

Do managerial bureaucrats impact the quality of service provision for difficult-to-monitor tasks?

In my JMP, I argue that they do but that the type of bureaucrats having an impact is not what gets most attention in the literature (and from politicians / media).

Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats!

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29d

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to be working from Madrid this year at @uc3m.es in the Fall and IE in the Spring!

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please share:

Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for
open science, design, aggregation, transfer..?

Call open now with @egap.bsky.social

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@awilke.bsky.social

Deadline 31 October

EGAP Innovation Grants 2025 – EGAP

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The 51st @51st.news · Aug 20

Do you need a helping hand? Here’s where to find all kinds of help in D.C., from legal aid to housing assistance. 51st.news/a-guide-to-g...

A guide to giving and receiving help in D.C.

Where to find all kinds of assistance, from legal aid to food donations to political organizing.

51st.news

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Aug 3

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Jul 24

“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies,” writes Mohammed Mansour with the International Rescue Committee in Gaza. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’ These are questions we can’t always answer.”

Opinion | The World Is Letting Gaza Starve

Today, many children in Gaza are so hungry they may never recover, and our supplies are critically low.

nyti.ms

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨 Paper now as "just accepted" at @The_JOP. We ran the first WhatsApp deactivation experiment focused on multimedia content ahead of the 2022 election in Brazil. We find a reduction in users' recall of false rumors -- and, to a smaller degree, of true news. Null effects on attitudes. Full thread ⬇️

NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics @csmapnyu.org · Jul 17

In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook.

New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Abstract: In most advanced democracies, concerns about the spread of misinformation are typically associated with feed-based social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. These platforms also account for the vast majority of research on the topic. However, in most of the world, particularly in Global South countries, misinformation often reaches citizens through social media messaging apps, particularly WhatsApp. To fill the resulting gap in the literature, we conducted a multimedia deactivation experiment to test the impact of reducing exposure to potential sources of misinformation on WhatsApp during the weeks leading up to the 2022 Presidential election in Brazil. We find that this intervention significantly reduced participants’ recall of false rumors circulating widely during the election. However, consistent with theories of mass media minimal effects, a short-term change in the information environment did not lead to significant changes in belief accuracy, political polarization, or well-being.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · Jul 14

A huge congrats!

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · Jul 13

For those interested in what has been recently published on gender and politics in the global south, here's a roundup of some articles since Jan 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo...

#GenderSky #PoliSky

Summer 2025 Roundup

Articles on abortion liberalization, women's surveys, and more

open.substack.com

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Jun 30

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL).

I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome!

seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Trump administration made Jim Ryan's resignation one of the conditions of the DOJ's case against UVA's alleged DEI. The executive branch just taking over every institution in US society--quite authoritarian.

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · Jun 27

Kudos to Jim Ryan for a terrific tenure as the President of UVA. Again, this is not normal. We should all be alarmed.

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · Jun 27

Amen. Good luck!

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · Jun 26

Dems will actually put money behind a guy with corruption or harassment charges rather than a progressive, eh? Cool cool

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 26

The day after Zohran Mamdani rocked the nation’s largest city by becoming the presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee, New York’s political leaders declined to formally endorse him, and some donors to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo considered coalescing behind Mayor Eric Adams.

As Donors Work Against Mamdani, Top Democrats Stop Short of Backing Him

After Zohran Mamdani’s performance in the New York City mayoral primary, Republicans and suburban Democrats attacked him, and party leaders seemed to be hedging their bets.

trib.al

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Nick Kuipers @nickkuipers.bsky.social · Jun 20

My book was just sent to press! It'll be available in print end of July. Focusing mostly on the topic of bureaucracy in Southeast Asia during the 20th c, the book develops an argument about how state-building can present headwinds for nation-building.

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · Jun 18

Contributing to the lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes

www.cambridge.org

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