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Andy Eggers

@aeggers.bsky.social
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Political scientist, dilettante fiddler, fatigued dad

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NBER @nber.org · 28/09/2026
An LLM workflow that reproduces, improves, and extends economics research has been applied to over 4,000 published replication packages, from Matthew Schwartz, Isaiah Andrews, and Jesse M. Shapiro www.nber.org/papers/w35782
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Classification testing: A new framework for drawing qualitative conclusions from quantitative estimates osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and recent Junior Visiting Scholar @tzkli.bsky.social
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OSF
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's specifically: what could *any* Democratic leaders (however willing they are to use their Green Lantern rings to steal the underpants) do with a 20-vote majority in the House and a 2-vote majority in the Senate (not enough to override vetoes or convict after impeachment) do about *these* issues?
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Three weeks ago, the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference took place in Belfast. The enthusiasm, active participation and support from the community made this conference a huge success.
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Reviewers sometimes point out a problem in an empirical project and say it needs "theorizing". I'm not sure what this means and I wish reviewers would be more specific.
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
TIL
Peanut punch, a peanut flavored milk drink
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"This is a X, not a Y" is a perfectly good sentence structure. Also, it has become difficult not to suspect that Claude is involved when you encounter it.
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Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Bye bye #EPSS2026 - the GOAT of all conferences ♥️ @epssnet.bsky.social
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Welcome to Belfast! 🎉Tonight marks the informal start of #EPSS2026! Before the conference officially opens, there are two great ways to ease in.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oxford academic Alexander Betts set a world record at the London Marathon yesterday for the fastest time while dressed as an academic, finishing the course in 2hr55m26 – an average speed of just under 9mph. He is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs at the Refugee Studies Centre.
Alexander Betts being presented with his World Record certificate
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Spotted on a local windshield: an admirably thorough and polite critique of how the car had been parked
Note left on windshield explaining the importance of parking carefully on the street to allow for maximum use of the parking bay
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Minas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
ergosphere.blog
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
For anyone looking for postdocs for their students, over the next few months LSE “fellow” positions will start being listed. Research + teaching but 2-3 year runway. The new Global School of Sustainability has 5 new ones posted now! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
GSOS LSE Fellow
GSOS LSE Fellow, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><spa...
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for
Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments
Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath
January 27, 2026
We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se-
lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of
American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality
and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com).
Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously
published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’
choosing.
The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a
meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi-
pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit
to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for
submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:
 
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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Michael Fuerstein @michaelfuerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Saint Olaf College is making a tenure track hire in feminist philosophy. We have great students, a lively, collegial department, and are near the vibrant twin cities metro area. Great job! Drop me a line with any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29582
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Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Tony! Toni!
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Yes. If you don't have tasks for which this makes sense, then move along.
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The endowment tax provisions seem to have been written by someone who likes RDD -- so many consequential and arbitrary cutoffs!
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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New working paper! - zikai.li and I look at the problem of assessing pre-trends using one of the "new" DiD methods - fixed effects regression imputation. tl;dr - don't use the same regression you used to impute post-treatment to also impute pre-treatment. osf.io/preprints/so... (1/14)
"Benchmarking parallel trends violations in regression imputation difference-in-differences" https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ngr3d_v1
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As an EPSA Council member I voted for the creation of EPSS yesterday and have been part of conversations about these issues for the past year. Others had a much bigger and longer-standing role, but I can answer questions, especially from those not at the conference.
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Whoa there, just tell your coauthors what regression you'd rather run -- no need to go to the NYT opinion pages about it
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
All over the US, Chinese students who have worked hard to get admissions spots at US universities and excelled in their programs are now considering whether it's safe to visit home or attend a conference abroad. They are wondering if they should transfer to a non-US program. What a ludicrous waste.
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
From end-of-quarter reflection essay by student: "Overall, I’ve realized that social science is more fundamentally flawed than I thought." Success I think? Then, "All science is imperfect in some way, and the act of generating knowledge despite the limitations of research is admirable." Success!
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Great news. Much more of this. Can't wait to hear that she's home safe and free again.
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation! Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...
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Re-Analysis of Ciacci, R. (2024). Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden.
EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW.
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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If we know where they were sent, but it isn’t to detention: exile. If we know where they are & it’s in detention: extraordinary rendition. If we don’t know where they are, but we know someone’s holding them: kidnapping. Otherwise, if we don’t know where they are: disappearance.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
So far, about 1000 students have had their visas revoked. Rubio has claimed these are activists that have vandalized libraries, taken over campuses, and done all sorts of crazy things. But Rubio or the State Dept refuses to get into the details. So lets do that.
map of US showing distribution of student visa revocations
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Great Swedish humor here: youtu.be/kF5Skmb6p1o?...
youtu.be
Swedish third tier team Torns IF find offside rule loophole
YouTube video by Guardian Football
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 29/03/2025
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Absolutely unacceptable, and would be even if it stopped at non-citizens
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This sounds great.
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Next Friday April 4 at 4pm DocFilms at UChicago will be showing "From Where We Stand" (dir Lucy Kaye), a profile of three post-industrial northern English towns fromwherewestand.co.uk I'll be moderating Q&A with producer/sociologist Adrian Favell, so good chance to get your Q in
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Home - From Where We Stand
From Where We Stand
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Anyone have recommended readings (appropriate for undergraduates) about the challenges of obtaining representative samples, in online surveys or more broadly?
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
balkin.blogspot.com
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Job alert! 🚨 PLEASE SHARE! I'm hiring a LSE Fellow (postdoc) in the School of Public Policy! To provide teaching support on our core political science course (which is what I teach) + time for individual research. Closes March 31: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Questions? Email me!
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Really, all bodies of literature are growing - it's just a question of how fast
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Many gems in this piece on mentoring student research (in ecology, but applies elsewhere). esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... e.g. on the value of asking questions with more than one conceivable answer, making explicit the theory behind the researcher's expectations
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Author self-promotion seems to be the thing to do this week because, you know, Xmas. So grab yourself a handy paperback of Why Politics Fails - a book whose title remains undefeated by this year’s events. Perfect for ornery teens, parents, friends and foes. www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Politics...
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Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them eBook : Ansell, Ben: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I have a vague memory of a meta-study showing that variation in findings in a crowded empirical field (minimum wage effects? something in corporate finance?) reflected researcher ideology, somehow measured. Am I imagining this?
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Are any other political scientists receiving a bunch of emails from French high school kids asking why Trump won? I must be on a list for some ill-conceived contact-an-expert homework assignment.
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Not long before I'll be in the first 5% - recruit your friends please!
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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
Hey all! We're hiring this year at UChicago Political Science for an open rank position in quantitative methods! Happy to answer any questions. See the Interfolio ad here: apply.interfolio.com/151969 EOE/Vet/Disability
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Loving this meditative fiddle tune by Christian Sedelmyer: open.spotify.com/track/3WCVVO...
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Pushin' Through
Listen to Pushin' Through on Spotify. Song · Christian Sedelmyer · 2020
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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Looks like some spatial policy diffusion of the city-manager form of government (City Manager Yearbook, 1923)
Map of US showing "city-manager municipalities" in US and Canada as of April 1923
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