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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6h

The ways in which the WNBA shows up all over the place in 2026 politics are wild. So much gender.

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to Mara Marin, co-recipient of the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory for "Structural Responsibility," published in the APSR. buff.ly/5h6Z3JU

APSR abstract for "Structural Responsibility," by Mara Marin, The author argues current views of structural injustice wrongly treat structures as only constraining action. Drawing on Sewell, Haslanger, and Arendt, she proposes "structural responsibility": acting to disrupt unjust structures from within. Full abstract is available in linked article.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 28/09/2026

🗓️ Reminder: The first OSF Projects transition deadline is 7 weeks away. Starting November 16, 2026, you will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects or add new components to existing projects. (🧵1/3)

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Stum Granitehammer @stumgranitehammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One must imagine Megan McArdle happy.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The best Fringe show I've ever seen was a musical about turning Pocahontas into a Disney musical. Along those lines, I won't watch dark Mary Poppins, but I _would_ watch a dark comedy about the TV Studio developing dark Mary Poppins...

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The 1972 ANES is a trip

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(Actually they’re printer’s fists not manicules)

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm sure psych is a much better discipline these days, but wild west psych (i.e. before 2000 or so) was wildly entertaining (this from 1999)

For exam ple, the conventional consent form described the potential risks as: `The participant(s) are to understand that if the task is not performed correctly, the participant runs the risk of being burned from a possible explosion’ and described the alternative activity as: `If the participant(s) does not want to participate in the experimental study under the speci® ed conditions, there is the option of participating in a card sorting experiment without penalty or loss of bene® t’ .

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very excited: Cornell Arts & Sciences seeks up to 5 postdoctoral scholars working on AI and the humanities/social sciences. Not involved in selection but could serve as a faculty sponsor if you are working on topics related to ~"how to do social science in the age of AI." Happy to chat.

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Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships

Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing is fun. You endure hours of excruciating pain and self-doubt. But in the end, you’ve created something. And then you get to hate that thing.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What's the best introductory reading on research fraud, preferably no more than 10 pages?

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vladimir Nabokov said that adultery was the most conventional way of being unconventional and after seeing literally every "innovation" award at my place of work go to AI projects I'm beginning to think that AI is the least innovative way of being innovative

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At SocArXiv, our intrepid volunteers screen a few dozen papers per day, using this moderation policy: socopen.org/moderation-p..., supplemented by this AI policy: socopen.org/ai-policy/. If that sounds fun or interesting or important to you, join us! Contact: socarxiv at gmail.

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Moderation Policy

This moderation policy is now supplemented by our AI Policy, here. If your paper has been rejected and you would like to appeal the decision, use this form. Policy revision date October 2025, by th…

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's in some ways worse. The places scares of scraping locked up 10 years ago w Sci-hub at all. All the captchas you are seeing now are sites desperately trying to stay online under a quasi DDoS onslaught of crude LLM bots

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From the paper: "There is very little research on the role of class in career outcomes like hiring, pay, or promotion"

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now Open! Submit papers for the 18th APSA Teaching & Learning Conference, to explore the theme "Building Bridges: Dialogue and Discovery in Political Science." 📍Portland, Oregon | February 5-7 Submit by October 7th! buff.ly/AOMVnAq #APSATLC

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Now Open: Call for Proposals for the 2027 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC)

Join political science teacher-scholars and students for a unique meeting to promote greater understanding of high-impact practices and innovative methodologies for the political science classroom.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is it, though?

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love overly honest READMEs

Screenshot of GitHub README saying known issues: coding style only a mother could love

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CLARITY Act loses--Moderate Dems, even ones who worked on and championed the bill like Gillibrand, voted against it. A strong signal that moderate Dems are more vulnerable to progressives (in the case of crypto, led by Warren) than big crypto PAC money. Seems like a big deal.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fluency with which every academic can parrot (ha!) AI-speak (and assume everyone else gets the joke) surely is in some trauma category.

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Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're hiring at UNC! Assistant or Associate level, any area of comparative politics. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob... If you have any questions, get in touch with me!

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Open Rank

The tenure-track, open rank position, (Assistant or Associate Professor) includes 40% teaching, 40% research and 20% service to the department/college. The service portion includes, but is not limited...

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Hakkı Taş @hakkitas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Come and work with us at @giga-hamburg.de in Hamburg! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. It is a 3+3 year position, offering up to six years to develop an independent research profile at GIGA. www.giga-hamburg.de/en/career/po...

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GIGA Hamburg

German Institute for Global and Area Studies

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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP) is now online! 🇩🇪 GLMP provides a systematically documented & reproducible corpus of local manifestos & related political programmes from municipalities across Germany. Browse & download the data: localmanifestoproject.de @christinajuen.bsky.social

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German Local Manifesto Project

Besuche den Beitrag für mehr Info.

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Durian Durian

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You are not ready for the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Danna, you’re moving from a place of doubt. Who did this to you, an absent parent? Yeah, I can tell. I was once just like you, thinking I wasn’t good enough to klarna first class flights to the Texaspalooza Executive Circle Leadership Summit. I let doubt put a ceiling on my belief.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some poor sociologist is going to write _the_ book on this (I gather from other bay area posters that this also involves a big bay area polycule) and everyone will think they lost it.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remember: if she’s in the senate, you can have her cross examine RFK Jr. the Nixon - Kennedy we deserve

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Of course I bought three

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@maxwellsu.bsky.social is searching for the Phanstiel Chair in Leadership. We welcome applicants who study leadership in any of its many forms and styles and across a wide range of contexts. Happy to answer questions you might have. Job post is here: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114...

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Phanstiel Chair in Leadership | Advanced Associate Professor or Full Professor with tenure

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for the Phanstiel Chair in Leadership. The nation’s top-ranked school of public...

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 09/09/2026

#openaccess colors are BROKEN. Gold, Bronze, Green, Diamond, Hybrid... They are journal-centric, mix access and business models of journals, etc. We formed a working group to recommend how OpenAlex could implement a new classification system. Here's our report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Recommendations for Revising the Open Access Classification System in OpenAlex

The open access (OA) color classification system used by Unpaywall (i.e., Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, and closed) was introduced in 2018 and has since become widely used across the ecosystem, includi...

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I can't be the first one to wonder if a couple of those Navier Stokes AI agents did go off and broke into supposedly private chat records at OpenAI -- clearly their opsec is lousy, so wouldn't have been hard...

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Holy shit -- I knew this was a thing, but I thought it was like 105-110, not like "one in two women have fled from here" (I'll add the image with alt-text in a reply)

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Survey 160 has job descriptions up for for two business development roles, a business development manager and a business development associate. The job listings are below, but I want to highlight two things about these roles. www.survey160.com/business-dev... www.survey160.com/business-dev...

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Business Development Manager — Survey 160

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Need #dissertationfunding for a US survey? The Rapoport Family Foundation Dissertation Grants provide up to $15,000 for US-based PhD candidates conducting American political behavior research. Apply by October 21st! buff.ly/HfkdGGX

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've followed this work (& 'participated' in it as @apsrjournal.bsky.social 's data editor). It's extremely important and carefully done. I wasn't shocked by the results (they asked us what we expected before they started) & we had started checking for PII earlier, but doesn't mean I'm not worried

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UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉 Data Impact Fellows - 10 years in and going strong! We’re kicking off a series of posts to mark 10 years of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows scheme. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/data-impact-...

Blue and gold balloons and confetti in the sky

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My dad, a math prof, used to get a steady but slow trickle of amateur letters -- most commonly attempts at proofs -- & usually reply. Then he published something on general relativity & had to stop because the anti-relativity folks are *crazy*.

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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Job Alert! We now have another position in computational social science. In the context of an interdisciplinary method center, we offer a 4+1 year 100% postdoc position with no teaching! If you have any questions, send me a PM. uol.de/en/job/postd...

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Postdoctoral Position in Digital Social Sciences and Humanities // University of Oldenburg

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sidenote: this all illustrates an recurrent fascination of mine -- how often the blocked to good work is never having gotten to see "what good looks like" like if you've never seen a of datamart or an orchestrator, this feels reasonable. And DE has far fewer public examples than DS 12/

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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The @zotero.org team is looking for an Account Support Specialist ($50,000 - $70,000 + benefits), full-time, working at least 3 days on site at the @digitalscholar.bsky.social office in Falls Church, VA: www.zotero.org/jobs/zotero_... Great org, good people.

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Zotero | Zotero Account Support Specialist

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First discussion I'm seeing at #APSA26 starts w my pet issue. Grad students, please heed this! Don't write lit reviews. Do them before you write

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Lit review is incredibly thorough review of work on housing policy, institutions, and elections

reads like a lit review — but needs a theory to set up expectations for your paper

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All true, but Aretha does deserve an airport (or equivalent) and DTW isn't currently named after anyone...

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a new paper by Tim Rakow of King’s College London reveals that prior work that relied on database searches to report replication rates underestimated the number of replications that have been conducted. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 4/

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Especially if you're arriving on Thursday & want your badge at the same time as hundreds of other folks -- you'll want that email.

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