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Cleo O'Brien-Udry

@cobrienudry.bsky.social
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International political economy, development, and climate politics | Assistant professor @UIUC | she/her cobrienudry.github.io

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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're hiring! GW’s Political Science Department is seeking a junior tenure-track professor in Comparative Politics. The search is open to any substantive or regional focus and all methodological approaches. Review of applications begins October 16. www.gwu.jobs/postings/128...
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in Comparative Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning as early as Fall 2027. This position is pendin...
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Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com · 08/09/2026
Honored to join 20 members of congress, led by @carbajal.house.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov, in filing this Amicus brief challenging Trump's forced restart of Sable Offshore oil off the coast of Santa Barbara. Full brief here: carbajal.house.gov/UploadedFile...
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Ms. Me @marsxstars.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
“The analysis focuses on ‘positive tipping points’ – thresholds beyond which a sustainable technology or practice becomes increasingly cheap, widespread or politically popular, allowing progress to become self-propelling. It identifies clean electricity as the ‘highest-leverage’ transition…”
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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Revamped two seminars for this fall! Thoughts/comments extremely welcome -- let me know what I'm missing! Politics of climate and development: cobrienudry.github.io/plsc441/inde... Politics of international development: cobrienudry.github.io/plsc340/inde...
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Schedule · PLSC 441
PLSC 441 — The Politics of Climate Change in Developing States, Fall 2026.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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Education Policy Initiative @edpolicyford.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're hiring! EPI is currently accepting applications for up to two Postdoctoral Fellows in Quantitative Methods, Education Research, and Data. Visit our website to learn more: edpolicy.umich.edu/what-we-do/j... Applications will be reviewed starting July 27th. Apply here: forms.gle/DknZEtRmuBrN...
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Join our team
The University of Michigan seeks candidates to become active members of the Education Policy Initiative. Our research group brings together a interdisciplinary set of scholars focused on the generatio...
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.
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Birte Julia Gippert @birtegippert.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢 Come and work with us at Politics in Liverpool 📢 TWO permanent T&R lectureships in Politics/IR (tinyurl.com/4zmcmy6a) and FIVE 3-year T&S lectureships in Politics/IR (tinyurl.com/3nse3a48). Please circulate.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Energy Institute at Haas is hiring an Office Manager. If interested, go to this Berkeley jobs page. External to UC and Internal applicants have separate links. Please search for job number “86265”. More info on EI: haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti... berkeley.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 21/05/2026
I'm hiring for In Development's first not-me hire. Help shape the future of development journalism; edit pieces that do serious cost-effectiveness analysis AND have jokes. Up to $90k USD, fully remote worldwide. indevelopmentmag.com/jobs/
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Jobs – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com
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Will Wheeler @willwheels1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Two more EPA RA opportunities for econ students, in the air office. Position 1: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... Position 2: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... #econ_ra
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Zintellect - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - EPA Environmental and Health Economic Impact Analysis - EPA-OAR-2026-0002
*Applications may be reviewed on a rolling-basis and this posting could close before the deadline. EPA Office/Lab and Location: A research opportunity is c
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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trying to stave off existential dread amid ~all this~? Try taking a shelter dog out for an adventure day! Low commitment, low cost, high fun! P.S. looking for a companion dog in the Chicago area? adopt Wendell, this beautiful puppy from chicagocaninerescue.org !
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African Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Call for proposals for papers and panels for the 2027 ISA conference in Atlanta. APCG has an opportunity to put together a few Africa-focused IR panels. The deadline is soon: Friday May 22nd! So get those panels and papers submitted to the emails in the link. www.afpol.org/blog/isa-nom...
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Call for ISA APCG Panels
Call for ISA APCG Panels for ISA in 2027
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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
folks does anyone know of recent evidence on the use of AI in grad admissions and whether or not the GRE is more predictive of quality as a result? @emollick.bsky.social @ryancbriggs.net @tompepinsky.com
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 07/05/2026
Carbon Brief's summer journalism internship is back for another year 🌍 You'll get the chance to write an article for Carbon Brief, and spend time with all of our journalists, as well as our visuals and digital teams 🌍 Paid at London Living Wage Apply here: bit.ly/42ZhdiR Happy to answer questions
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Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III is recruiting for a fixed-term 2-year position in Political Science. This is a two-year opportunity to conduct research, teach, and and collaborate in a vibrant and interdisciplinary academic environment. More info: lnkd.in/eyVbmPRJ
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Visiting Professor in the area of Political Science | UC3M | Social Sciences Department UC3M
📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is recruiting a Visiting Professor in Political Science to join its international faculty. This is a two-year opportunity to te...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...
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We’re looking for a writer
We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨 Job Alert: AsstProf International Peace & Security in Amsterdam (VUA)🚨 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor (UD) in Political Science (international peace and security)
Are you a political scientist with an engaging research agenda and a strong profile in international peace and security? Then, please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Nice to see the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee already using the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Sen Foreign Relations Committee - Dems tweet about the extra cost of gasoline and diesel due to the war in Iran
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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
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Kayly Ober @kayly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Call for inputs for the study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the implications of sea-level rise. Deadline: April 30. www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
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OHCHR | Call for inputs for the study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the implications of sea-level rise for the full enjoyment of human rights
BackgroundIn accordance with Council resolution 60/20, the Advisory Committee is preparing a study on the implications of sea-level rise for the full enjoyment of human rights, and in particular to id...
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"On the one hand, you have an imaginative property beloved by millions, and on the other, there are actually existing trans people." 🎁 defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...
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Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson @profericson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.
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Avi Ahuja @avi-ahuja.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨 In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social and I present results from a collaborative field experiment with the Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR rules in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections. A🧵:
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Vietnam ⬇️ "Vingroup has told Vietnam's government it wants to ditch ​a plan to build the country's largest LNG-fired power plant and embark on a renewable energy project instead, as ‌the Iran war has boosted the risk of the fuel becoming too expensive" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Exclusive: Vingroup proposes scrapping LNG-powered plant plan for renewables amid Iran war, document shows
Vingroup has told Vietnam's government it wants to ditch ​a plan to build the country's largest LNG-fired power plant and embark on a renewable energy project instead, as ‌the Iran war has boosted the...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while
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The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis
“There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”
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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hi team! I’m giving a talk on USAID withdrawal — send me your best work! Already including stuff from @ryanjablonski.bsky.social Bridgetet Seim Alex Yeandle @guygrossman.bsky.social @shelbycarvalho.bsky.social @yangyangzhou.bsky.social @fromagehomme.bsky.social @haleyswedlund.bsky.social
Announcement for talk: Dependency, Disruption, and Development: Rethinking the Consequences of Aid Withdrawal
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
With APSA decisions out, we extended the deadline for submissions to the 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference. If you are travelling to Boston in September, send us your work by March 20th! (CC @mariacarreri.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social)
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 13/03/2026
Hello! The best team in Climate Politics and Policy is still looking for a Data Engineer! We're interested in people with more relevant civic data experience and a strong interest in Climate Cabinet's mission. Priority deadline extended to March 17th. Fully remote within the US.
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Data Engineer - Civic & Political Data, Contract
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
You see this chart and you will likely go "Look, this is why we must move to clean energy." Not so fast. Higher fossil fuel prices make green alternatives more attractive, but they can also make it harder to deploy renewables. Story with @lauramillan.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I’m thankful and impressed by my colleagues who assembled the US Academic Alliance for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (USAA-IPCC) and my professional society @agu.org for hosting it. Without USAA-IPCC, US scientists wouldn’t be able to contribute to various @ipcc.bsky.social reports.
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Call for Experts for Upcoming IPCC Work | AGU
The U.S. Academic Alliance for the IPCC, hosted by AGU, is facilitating nominations to the Seventh Assessment Cycle.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Students on the Job Market: 2024-2025 Graduate Placement Data | APSA Data on the Profession The 2024-2025 APSA Graduate Placement Survey was conducted from November-December 2025. Collecting data from 31 participating institutions that provided data about 181 doctoral students on the job market,…
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Students on the Job Market: 2024-2025 Graduate Placement Data | APSA Data on the Profession
The 2024-2025 APSA Graduate Placement Survey was conducted from November-December 2025. Collecting data from 31 participating institutions that provided data about 181 doctoral students on the job market, the survey gathered information about the job placements, demographics, and fields of study of doctoral students on the job market during the 2024-2025 academic year. Despite a lower overall placement rate than in previous years, broad placement trends remain the same, with candidates with PhD in hand being much more likely to successfully place and a majority of candidates specializing in American Politics, Comparative Politics, and International Relations.
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨 A defining moment for global health data. The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… 📊 9,000+ studies
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Lorenzo Crippa @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Excited to share a new piece, co-authored with Eddy Malesky and Lucio Picci, at @foreignaffairs.com! We return to the Trump administration's decision to suspend (and reform) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. 🧵: "How Washington Is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law." 1/
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How Washington Is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law
The era of neutral enforcement is over.
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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
YIMBY Illinois is hiring a State Advocacy Coordinator! This is an incredible opportunity to shape the future of housing policy in Illinois. 🏘️ Applications will be accepted until 5 PM on Monday, March 2. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty: it’s the 7th annual American Political Economy Summer Academy May 31-June 1. Free travel and lodging (“it’s free real estate”) www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/events/summe...
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Summer Academy | Consortium on the American Political Economy
The annual CAPE Summer Academy is designed to introduce the APE framework, facilitate in-depth discussions around several key areas within APE, and create opportunities for participants to share work ...
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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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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_ra
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🆕 Excited to announce our free online lecture series on Industrial Development To mark the release of our new VoxDevLit next week, with Senior Editors Francesco Amodio & Markus Poschke, we have organised a series of lectures on the key topics related to industrialisation. Link to register below ⤵️
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities. The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills. Application👇
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Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics! Come join a great department: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312... I'm on the committee, so send any questions my way. #polisky #academicjobs
The Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for the position of Teaching Assistant Professor of Political Science.   

We are looking for a colleague who will teach three courses per semester in our undergraduate curriculum.  The principal responsibility will be teaching in Comparative Politics, especially the introductory course, but the candidate may be invited to teach other courses, depending upon the department’s needs and the candidate’s areas of expertise. 

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated record of successful undergraduate instruction.  There are no research expectations associated with this position.  

This is a fixed term position with an initial appointment for three years and opportunities for re-appointment and advances contingent on performance and available funding. As part of the University’s teaching track, the position offers competitive benefits. More information on UNC’s career ladder and fixed term ranks is available here: https://facultyaffairs.unc.edu/policies-and-procedures/faculty-appointments/fixed-term-faculty-ranks/.
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