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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 1d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · 1d

Online first:

"Women’s descriptive representation in multi-level political systems: (almost) no pyramids found"

The new research note by @adamgendzwill.bsky.social & Stanislaw Mazur

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Abstract of the research note "Women's descriptive representation in multi-level political systems: (almost) no pyramids found" by Adam Gendzwill and Stanislaw Mazur. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying different patterns of the descriptive representation of women at national, regional, and local levels.

Figure 2, displaying (a) levels of women's descriptive representation in two-tier countries (left panel), and (b) inter-level gaps in women's representation in three-tier countries (right panel).

Tables 1 (upper panel) and 2 (lower panel), presenting the assignment of countries with three or two levels of political representation to specific patterns of women's descriptive representation.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5d

New paper with @hjghassell.bsky.social and @michaelheseltine.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social.

We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Plot showing perception of voter ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. Republicans are drifting slightly to be more conservative, Democrats are mostly staying in one place.

Plot showing messaging ideology of candidates overtime. It is separated by House and Senate. There is increasing separation between parties over time, with Republicans becoming messaging more moderately during the Trump era and then shifting to the right during Biden.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 10d

All EU countries appear to be gone in the Google political ad library

By @lizcarolan.com

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · 14d

Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.

European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 14d

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@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes

#OA

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Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation

JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tampere University Press @tampereupress.bsky.social · 15d

Millaista oli vaalijulkisuus viime presidentinvaaleissa? Mikä selittää presidentin korkeaa kansansuosiota? Tuore kokoomateos Presidentinvaalit 2024 avaa mm. näitä kysymyksiä. www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
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Jännittynyt turvallisuusympäristö heijastui vuoden 2024 presidentinvaaleihin | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö

Presidentinvaalit 2024 -teos analysoi vaalien ehdokasvalintaa ja kampanjointia, median roolia vaaleissa sekä kansalaisten näkemyksiä presidentin asemasta. Samalla kirja tarjoaa uusia avauksia Suome...

www.tuni.fi

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 16d

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨

I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.

I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19d

Like this! sessioninfo::session_info() can now (or will after review) output to LaTeX #rstats github.com/r-lib/sessio...

toLatex(sessioninfo::session_info() and a nicely formatted list of session details in a PDF

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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · 22d

📢 New paper alert: How does war shape democratic values?
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 28d

Map of Russian drones currently found in Poland:

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 29d

Russia dropped a 250kg guided bomb on pensioners waiting in line for their monthly payments in the frontline Yarova village

At least 24 civilians killed, 19 wounded in what officials call a deliberate act of terrorism

euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/r...

Russian airstrike targets civilians in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast: 23 killed

Civilians targeted while standing in line to receive pensions, with most victims reportedly of retirement age, in what Ukrainian officials describe as a deliberate act of terror.

euromaidanpress.com

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting

All going really well

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

www.wsj.com

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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · Aug 29

Highly recommend giving it a read! What a fun and insightful writing journey. Also, I’m new here on Bluesky, excited to connect!

Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Aug 19

{tinytable} 0.13.0 for #RStats can now draw interactive tables with sorting, filtering & pages!

And the 📦 is still an ultra-simple, powerful, and 0-dep way to create beautiful tables in basically any format: tex, typ, docx, pdf, png, md, etc

Gallery & Docs: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Plans are in the works to send at least one of Trump’s favorite interlocutors, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, along with Zelenskyy when he comes to Washington Monday to meet with Trump, according to two European diplomats and a person familiar with the matter."

Europe is sending heavy hitters to Washington alongside Ukraine’s president to bolster Kyiv

European leaders are on an all-out push to forestall Oval Office conflict at a crucial stage in diplomacy to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

www.politico.com

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ukrainian forces are decimating the Russian battle group north of Pokrovsk. In the process substantial part of that latest incursion was liberated. A portion of the Russian army, probably parts of the 132nd Brigade, are encircled Kucheriv Yar.

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

The political consequences of the mental load

Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

doi.org

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 11

Grad programs often don't teach folks how to write good reviewer reports. Here are some resources:

1. @brendannyhan.bsky.social review checklist: thepoliticalmethodologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/tpm_...

2. "How to Write an Effective Referee Report": aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

What else?

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · Aug 12

Bohdan Krotevych, former chief of staff of the Azov national guard brigade: “Mr President, I sincerely don’t know what exactly is being reported to you, but I’m informing you: on the Pokrovsk-Kostyantynivka line, without exaggeration, it’s complete chaos.”
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Russian breach sparks alarm on Ukraine’s eastern front

Sudden advance beyond Ukrainian frontline in Donetsk region comes ahead of Trump-Putin summit in Alaska

on.ft.com

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Veikko Isotalo @isoveikko.bsky.social · Aug 11

Niinpä. Olin itse aika yllättyny, että jopa 10-25% äänestäneistä "muistaa väärin" puolueen jota äänesti edellisissä vaaleissa.

surveyinsights.org?p=3543

Should Recall of Previous Votes Be Used to Adjust Estimates of Voting Intention? | Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (SMIF)

surveyinsights.org

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 5

Look at how exercising close to bedtime can destroy your sleep quality.

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Samforsk @samforsk.bsky.social · Aug 5

Do the rich ditch politics? In their newest article, Anton Brännlund and Rafael Ahlskog examine how individual wealth affects political participation using evidence from Sweden:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden

The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences o…

www.sciencedirect.com

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