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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2h

There. are. numerous. elevators.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2h

A Fistful of Bibberty For a Few Bibberties More The Good, The Bad, and the Emu

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 14h

<extreme youth pastor not quite reading the room voice> You know who else was able to send countless numbers of agents off to do amazing tasks and historically has run multiple local models?

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21h

Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That can definitely be frustrating, and especially when you feel like you're losing your center. Here are some common reasons why your falcon cannot hear you:

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 01/10/2026

Does anyone here have a favorite in-class exercise for helping students consider how algorithms work? Ideally this is completely non-computational—I just want them to try to think procedurally about how they would need to transform data—ideally historical/texty data—step by step

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

May be of interest to some Students:

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Ian Anson @iganson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is very humbling to write a book on political overconfidence (i.e., I now have some new form of imposter syndrome nobody has yet thought of). But I'm proud of the finished product and I hope it makes a valuable contribution! OVERCONFIDENT AMERICA (2027, Cambridge) is done & on its way to you ✨

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New from Hainmueller and Laitin on the causal effects of becoming a citizen on wages. Short story: the observational ests overstate the premium relative to the experimental ests. Authors conclude "observational averages should not be used as causal forecasts for policy" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

screen shot of the article with "observational averages shouldnot be used as causal forecasts for policy" highlighted

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Room Temperature Celsius: The official drink of "ok this is serious I'm checking Bluesky one more time while I drink this then really going to actually start grading"

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not embarrassed that I just said "(laudatory)" to my offline spouse in reference to something. I am embarrassed that I also involuntarily made an air parentheses hand gesture

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below --

Left hand holds a white hardcover book. The top half features an American flag with ASL alphabet replacing stars. Bottom half reads “before disability. A history of American citizenship. Sari Altschuler” in blue, red, and off-white text.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When the "biscuification" is part of the research. Such a great illustration of what we tell students (and ourselves?) eg research is the process not just the product.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/

95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055 - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is my favourite Borges story.

The Witness by Borges and translated by ANTHONY KERRIGAN

In a stable lying almost in the shadow of the new stone church, a man with
gray eyes and a gray beard, stretched on the ground amidst the animal
odors, meekly seeks death like someone seeking sleep. The day, faithful to
vast secret laws, continuously displaces and confounds the shadows in the
wretched stable. Outside stretch the tilled fields, a deep ditch filled up with
dead leaves, and the tracks of a wolf in the black mud where the woods
begin. The man sleeps and dreams, forgotten. The bells calling to prayer
awake him. In the kingdoms of England, the sound of the bells is already
one of the customs of the afternoon, but the man, while still a boy, had
seen the face of Woden, had seen holy dread and exultation, had seen the
rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments,
seen the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners. Before dawn he would be
dead and with him would die, never to return, the last firsthand images of
the pagan rites. The world would be poorer when this Saxon was no more.
We may well be astonished by space-filling acts which come to an end
when someone dies, and yet something, or an infinite number of things,
die in each death—unless there is a universal memory, as the theosophists
have conjectured. There was a day in time when the last eyes to see Christ
were closed forever. The battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with
the death of some one man. What will die with me when I die? What
pathetic or frail form will the world lose? Perhaps the voice of Macedonio
Fernandez, the image of a horse in the vacant space at Serrano and
Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes but think of how fast we're moving the frontier in nanatechnology

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Hilma Lindskog @hilmal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The paper shows that while workplaces may serve as sites for countervailing processes to educational polarization, structural patterns of educational sorting in the labor market contribute to a political polarization of education groups at the aggregate. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes - Volume 56

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The thing is, even if Cleveland doesn't win a Grammy this year, it could very well be nominated again in four years

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has always been a thorn in my side

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone has never seen the video of Stan Rogers and friends just being dudes, in the least toxic and most joyful way men have ever just been dudes, you're welcome:

youtu.be

Stan Rogers sings "Barrett's Privateers" in One Warm Line documentary

YouTube video by Kensington TV

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have mercy on us when the first AI agent joins a campus-wide reply-all situation

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have mercy on us when the first AI agent joins a campus-wide reply-all situation

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PSA: International Time Zone Chaos season starts tonight and runs for 5-6 weeks.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PSA: If you see someone carrying an iced coffee, do not wish them good luck on their job interview. There is a 99.9% chance they are a normal person not on this Web site and just be (rightly) confused.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not bring iced coffee to an interview. Ask them where their coffee machine is, and when they tell you it's broken, stare at it deeply for 90 seconds, hit it precisely in its weak spot, and then use the now-working machine to make coffee for everyone, demonstrating that you are a team player.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did *not* do this when I got mine earlier this week and have regretted it since

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The audiobook I'm listening to insists on quoting Derrida with a French accent and Heidegger with a German accent, which is slightly annoying, but refuses to do a Dutch accent in quoting Huizinga, which is just cowardice.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

8yo: "I really want to get a drink [soda] when we go to Friendly's because we used to do that when we went on half days. For nostalgia's sake."

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Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Out now! Cynthia van Vonno (@polscileiden.bsky.social) and I look at the political events in the Netherlands in 2025 for the @ejprjournal.bsky.social's PDY www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Netherlands: The end of the Schoof experiment | Political Data Yearbook | Cambridge Core

The Netherlands: The end of the Schoof experiment

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Starting off by saying that I don't know much but this Albanese guy seems good, then slowly revealing that my entire knowledge of politics comes from watching Bluey with my kids and that I may not be aware I don't actually live in Australia

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I feel like there's a swathe of our generation that got used to everything have a cheat code built in and are now just desperately looking for the Game Genie but for life

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you have an American/British child and take them to an event where they then sing the British/American version of the Hokey Pokey, you don't have to agree with this but I think you can empathize

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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

UNC Sociology is hiring! 🐏 We're looking for someone at assistant or associate level in ANY area, willing to teach in our dept's Management & Society program (i.e. courses on organizations, work and occupations, economic sociology, social psychology, non-profits, work and family, AI and work, etc).

unc.peopleadmin.com

Assistant or Associate Professor

The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an Assistant or Associate (tenure-track or tenured) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We w...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*academic job klaxon* very interesting looking 2-yr postdoc at Toulouse with @ccavaille.bsky.social on the political economy of climate risk and insurance!

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 22/09/2026

Far right parties strategically increase the (descriptive) representation of women assuming it helps them win votes in general and, in particular, from women. Does it work? In this short descriptive piece, I show the answer in the case of Reform UK is a clear ‘no’ doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Honestly already knew there were two brians inside my head

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah, ok, I understand now that you are sitting quietly in your own room, Blaise. Would you like me to find you some other sources of happiness?

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Submit your #APSATLC proposals for track panels, workshops, and roundtables. Topics to be discussed include AI in the classroom, civic engagement, and America's 250th! 2027 APSA Teaching & Learning Conference 📍Portland, Oregon | February 5-7 Submit by October 7, 2026! buff.ly/zr2pTD2 #polisky

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APSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2027

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

austerity increases "both electoral abstention and votes for non-mainstream parties...new, small and radical parties benefit most from austerity policies...effects of austerity on polarization are particularly pronounced when the mainstream right and left parties both stand for fiscal restraint"

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Does Austerity Cause Polarization? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Does Austerity Cause Polarization? - Volume 53 Issue 4

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing is that when someone bursts in claiming effectively magical powers and that the new moral order is simply "do what thou wilt," we already have an effective answer to this. (The answer is poets dressing up in wizard robes and throwing the so-called magician down the stairs, of course)

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