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Thanks. Ultimately, I think novelty and priority are important, so reviewers'/editors' beliefs about novelty/priority are important, so it is wild to me to forbid authors from commenting on it. But yes other things are important and maybe claims about novelty are wrong so often a ban makes sense

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It's like they are saying "don't try to help us understand how your work compares to existing work"

But, what part of "previous papers do X; we do Y" is bad for accumulating knowledge? This must not be what they mean by novelty claims. "We are the first to do Y" is very useful information if true, and can be refuted.

Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That seems like a terrible policy! I don't like false claims of novelty but why would you prevent authors from stating what is new

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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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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excellent and very useful work! Thanks

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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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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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I think that's right. If reviewers are going to do this on a revision they can't just say "look at this paper and write a review"

Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am dealing with a review that is clearly AI-written. Also soul-killing

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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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But a lot of reviewer comments resort to "this choice should be explained/theorized/justified" when it would be more helpful to weigh in on whether it is a good choice

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But maybe the reviewer means, "By thinking more about mechanism M_1 and how it differs from M_2, you might be able to come up with a way to distinguish between them; that's your job not mine". I guess that would be fine.

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Stylized example: Study looks at effect of D on Y, interprets it as operating through mechanism M_1. Reviewer writes, "The link between D and Y needs explicit theorization. Without it, it's not clear whether it operates through M_1 or M_2." This makes "theorization" sound like magic!

Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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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Stuff like: (i) Make a bunch of plots of marginal and joint distributions and look into surprising values, (ii) Check for illogical data points (e.g. a speech attributed to an MP who is dead). The agent can probably help a lot with this and I have seen Claude do its own "sanity checks" (for math)

Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The only thing I'm sure about is that we should put more emphasis on something that was already under-emphasized before: how to check the results of the programming pipeline

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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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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Rearranging the chair's slide deck in the Titanic room

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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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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My model here is the UK, where the only thing a zebra crossing means is that everyone needs to stop for a pedestrian who is poised to cross (and everyone does). If it is a signalled crossing it looks totally different.

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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There are crosswalks cross stroads where people drive 50, and no one would ever try stepping out and expecting a driver to stop. My thing is that I wish we had different markings for those signalled crosswalks than for ones where drivers really should stop as you cross in a pedestrianized area

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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Isn't part of the issue that there are identical-looking crosswalks where a pedestrian who stepped out in front of a car would be in the wrong? Like, where there is traffic light and a crossing signal. There is driver ignorance and also a design issue.

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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

Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

And yet we still don't know [unknowable thing]

Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Have they checked for autism though

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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/...

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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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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Ansell comes out against snitching

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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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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Yes I have! Amazingly, every journal has its own long, idiosyncratic, and self-contradictory checklist spread across three web pages

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Andy Eggers @aeggers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tonight we're gonna rock you (tonight)

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Excellent either way, thanks

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If you have any ideas of how to accomplish that, I'd love to hear them.

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Right. In practice this might require either delaying publication of the critique (with costs to critique authors and maybe the community) or foregoing peer review of the authors' "last word" rejoinder. In our standard procedure the original authors get to weigh in on the critique during our review.

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