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Carlo Prato

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Social scientist @ Columbia University | Formal Political Theory | Early memories: the fall of the Berlin Wall and that header by Claudio Caniggia | carloprato.com

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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The promise of AI is constrained by my ability to review that huge and fast-growing pile of stuff it produces. Which is tragically low.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
IE is building one of the best polisci and PE groups in Europe.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy birthday to the Republic of Italy, who turns 80 today. Ditching the king was and remains a good idea. Viva l’Italia
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Giovanna Invernizzi @ginvernizzi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Excited to finally share the program for the Columbia–Bocconi Political Economy Conference 🔥 Columbia University, June 4–5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @carloprato.bsky.social (Columbia), @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi)
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I keep thinking about this song. It’s about the shelling of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, and the obliteration of a nation’s cultural heritage. Cautionary tales are becoming blueprints. music.apple.com/us/album/cup...
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Cupe vampe by C.S.I. & CSI: on Apple Music
Song · 1996 · Duration 5:15
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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'm very excited that you all can now read about Itinerant Rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 919-1519 in the @ajpseditor.bsky.social! Thank you @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social and Jørgen Møller for a great collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Seems accurate
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Very attractive postdoc opportunity at the University of Padua. While the position is advertised as Econ, the group has strong interests in political economy and would consider seriously quant polisci students. inomics.com/job/two-year...
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Two-year Postdoctoral Research Position in Economics | INOMICS
The Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua invites expressions of interest from outstanding young scholars for a two-year, research-oriented postdoctoral position in Economi...
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Gwyneth McClendon @gmcclendon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Annual NYU CESS Experimental Political Science Conference
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Giovanna Invernizzi @ginvernizzi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Last day to submit: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging Columbia, June 4-5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @carloprato.bsky.social (Columbia) Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5 Details ⬇️
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Sean Gailmard @sean-gailmard.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Working on a paper on this with @anthlittle.bsky.social and @carloprato.bsky.social. Would welcome suggestions for papers that explore similar point.
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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
So six academics decided to read the same book together and did not realize how long the book was. Middlemarch took us almost a year and to discuss it we used slides. Anyway, my one sentence summary of the discussion is that it's a book about self-deception.
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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 09/12/2025
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨 Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Where willpower fails, a rolling pin-brandishing grandmother may still succeed
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging Columbia, June 4-5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi) Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5 Details ⬇️
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A prophecy from “The Makers of American Wine,” 2012.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
April 25, 1945 marks the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy. We honor those who chose to resist and those who died fighting. The Benedicta massacre occurred between April 6 and 11, 1944, a few miles from my hometown. It’s the largest mass killing of the Italian Resistance, taking over 150 lives.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
From a proud veteran of EITM 2011: do apply to this!
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🚨 please share! We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June. This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers. Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️ www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...
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MoPED Workshop
Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Please spread the word: Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University. The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th). More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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EPSA Pre-Conference on Culture
We invite submissions for a pre-EPSA workshop on the topic of “Culture”. The event will take place on June 25th, 2025 at IE University Madrid. The study of culture has a long-standing tradition in pol...
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Let’s just hope we were right about this one…
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 04/01/2025
Yes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
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Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
"Pasta alla Cacio e pepe" is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the sauce can ...
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Early this morning I saw a pineapple liying on the sidewalk and the image has been haunting me since.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
[CONFERENCE ALERT] Political, Social, and Economic Inequality Organizers: A. Alrababah and G. Invernizzi (Bocconi), S. Hirano and C. Prato (Columbia) The conference will be held at Bocconi University on June 19-20, 2024. Submit here before 12/31: shorturl.at/fDyoD
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Google Forms: Sign-in
Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Where Ian Turner and I argue that weakening congressional oversight may actually undermine presidential attempts to influence bureaucrats
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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
With @ginvernizzi.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and Shigeo Hirano, we're thrilled to announce the inaugural Bocconi-Columbia Conference on Political, Social, and Economic Inequality. 📅 Mark your calendars: June 19-20, 2025 at Bocconi University!
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is interesting. One can also interpret this in terms of aspirations—and maybe the connection between aspirations and expectations is cohort-specific. But still.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A counterexample: in my first election as a US voter, I supported the adoption of RCV in NYC based (among other things) on what I thought was a very compelling intuition. The math showed that the intuition was spectacularly incorrect
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Also, if you are looking for a balanced, ungated, and accurate source of Italian news, I recommend ilpost.it
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Il Post
Gli articoli, le rassegne, i blog, le foto, tutto quello che arriva dal mondo e dalla rete.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This headline is ambiguous
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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
they’re called tweets, it’s generic now, like bandaid and kleenex
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
“The mass migration of November 2024”
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
It is not a coincidence that the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this year recognizes a body of research centered around the importance of well-functioning institutions. For me it’s a bit like my team won the world cup but I cannot really celebrate. Bittersweet.
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
New website, still rather spartan but I updated food recs. carloprato.com
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- Carlo Prato
Welcome! I am an Associate Professor (without tenure) in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, where I am also a Lavine Scholar. I received a PhD in Economics from Northwestern U...
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
One of the things I will remember about these days is the wonderful contrast between the soothing jazz music played by the Columbia radio and their really high-quality coverage of the campus events
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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Today is the perfect day to share that my article with Juan Masullo "The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive" is forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! A preprint is available at osf.io/ve8w4 polisky
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Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
I don’t know where this originated but it’s too good not to share.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/03/2024
My favorite Kate theory so far, from threads
Look maybe Kate Middleton pressed her delicate palm to a standing stone at the apex of some quasi erotic midwinter festival and traveled back in time 100 years only to fall into the muscle braided arms of some gleaming tooth Scottish hottie who will battle repeatedly for her honor. And maybe she likes it better there despite the fact that she's frequently called a witch for being knowledgeable in the ways of ethernet cables, I'm just saying
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Gwyneth McClendon @gmcclendon.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Register for the Rebecca Morton Experiments conference at NYU on March 1 and 2: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We have a great lineup of papers and posters — schedule and more info on the conference website: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Please join!
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
how your email finds me:
A medieval drawing of a woman in a long dress with a bored look on her face falling upon a sword
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Carly Wayne @carlynwayne.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7
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Carlo Prato @carloprato.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
#psjminfo
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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Two-year post-doc in Russian Politics at the Harriman Institute at Columbia. Deadline Jan 8. Applications from all social sciences accepted. Come work with us. apply.interfolio.com/135397
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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
❗Job openings in our unit ❗ We currently have two job openings:   Postdoctoral Research Fellow Deadline for applications: 14.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80075 Student Assistant Deadline for applications: 02.01.2024 www.wzb.eu/de/node/80074 Please share widely.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 228)
For its research department Transformations of Democracy (TD) (Director: Professor Daniel Ziblatt) the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID...
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