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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · 5d

Not a very sophisticated solution, but maybe just graphing the 'live' rating at the end of each chapter or book (or however you call the parts the illiad is divided in, I don't know the word in English). That way one could easily see where each hero ranked at the time of his death.

Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Enhorabuena Tarek!!

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Really good and really really interesting.

To a large extent, it goes against my expectations, and yet it does cover it's bases well enough that I may have to accept that maybe norms are a bigger part of the far right story than what I initially thought.

Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

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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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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 31

Ada: Somehow I always hurt only my most sensitive body parts!

Me: Okay kid, it’s time we have The Talk—

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · Aug 30

Et voila! Case proven.
#solar

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations! I truly enjoyed the reading. I do hope that the final plea for further research gets followed up, it looks like lots of interesting things may come out of this.

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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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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Absolutely, I am ready even to buy some story closer to the original claim. Maybe Democrats are actively doing something that creates that perception, I just need to see some evidence to support that claim. And them some more showing that this supposed halo of wokness is bad at the ballotbox.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 27

It is amazing how often "bad things are the fault of the left for being too woke" is presented as a default truth, with out need for any logical or empirical support.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 26

Of course, the good bigot knows how to use any small and apparently neutral cognitive bias such this in order to build his castle of biggotry.
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 26

I do not remember who I read saying that humans only understand three probabilities: 0%, 50% and 100%.

This statement (I don't know how well founded) is consistent with the anecdotal evidence I have encountered ever since.

I believe it also applies to fractions and continous distributions.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 25

In general “bimodal but not binary” is something that seems to break brains a lot. Like a specific type of personality really dislikes the idea that something is neither a neat continuous distribution nor a on/off. It’s a type of complexity that just drives some people nuts, not just on gender stuff

Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · Aug 25

Biological sex is a spectrum too, not just gender. That’s not postmodern nonsense, it’s reality as revealed by science. Sex is a cluster of phenotypical characteristics that tend to, but do not always, correlate. The spectrum follows a bimodal distribution, but that’s not the same thing as a binary!

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 21

Does reasoning well entail being a basically pleasant bureucrat?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think I have access, which article do you need?

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David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Overall, our findings suggest a “ratchet-effect” heuristic: left parties may still push back against rising disparities but have given up on lowering existing levels of inequality. To us, the findings imply lock-in effects [...]"

David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social · Aug 16

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020

new paper in APSR. How do parties react to inqeuality levels and changes to these levels?

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Aug 10

Done it! It is impossible to do it without developing hypotheses. My siblings and I have a whole set of theories for the interaction between gender, cat-dog feelings, and self reported cookie eating capacity.

Your students will have so much fun!

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 31

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Deadline: 7 November 2025

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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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · Jul 29

The old party is dying. The new party struggles to be born. Now is the time of Schumers.

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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · Jul 29

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters.

New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw
tinyurl.com/d42wyb79

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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza @mattgiulp.bsky.social · Jul 29

I like the metaphor, but a difference, which gives me hope, is that the kind of products AI seeks to replace are not consumed by use.
You may drink a good coffee and the next guy may chose to make insta coffee to save time.
But when you read a good book, the book is still there for the next reader.

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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · Jul 28

a good diff in diff without a formal theory model delivers a casual causal estimate

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Chess Olympus @chessolympus.bsky.social · Jul 28

Marcel Duchamp, born July 28, 1887, loved chess as much as he loved art. My favorite thing about this photo (by Mark Kauffman for Life magazine) is that Duchamp has a modernist chess set for show, but you can see over his shoulder that he has a Staunton set for business.

Marcel Duchamp lounges in an easy chair behind a modernist chess set, smiling at the camera and holding a cigar.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jul 28

If this is true (I don't think we fully know if the EU public feels humiliated by this deal - also partly because we just don't know much about it! - but happy to entertain):

let's then remind the public that they voted for people that wanted the European leaders to get to that.

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