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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

On Thursday, July 16 at noon (eastern), Mirya Holmes (@mirya.bsky.social) and I will hold a Zoom workshop on "How to do Tenure Track," designed to help new TT faculty navigate better their new position. To RSVP, please fill the form below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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How to do tenure track (sign up)

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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 04/06/2026

We've gotten used to technology being democratizing but, unfortunately, it seems unlikely AI will be a leapfrog miracle story. New post out now on why: newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/ai-wont-b...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

michael kremer for nobel prize twice! please!! (another banger from paul)

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Matthias Reiter-Pázmándy @reiterpazmandy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Was ist eigentlich das Austrian Socio-Economic Panel #ASEP? Was hat es mit dieser neuen Forschungsinfrastruktur auf sich?❓Welche Daten über Österreichs Bevölkerung werden erhoben? 📊 Und wie komme ich als Forschender an die Daten? 🤔

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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 12/05/2026

New post: We don't know why Malawi is so poor newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/we-dont-k...

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Zwei Stellenausschreibungen in meinem Team am UZH Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch! Research Manager:in (50-80%): jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Policy Manager:in (60-100%): jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 17/04/2026

We've launched In Development! It is aiming to be the New Yorker for global development. We want to promote discourse on development without dogma - stories doing deep-dives into pressing development issues, backed up by evidence, argument, and experience. Subscribe here: indevelopmentmag.com

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In Development

evidence and argument for a developing world

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/04/2026

First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers: paulgp.com/replication-... Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

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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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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yet more outrageous pro-Empress Maria Theresa propaganda

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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

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The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca

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Chagai Weiss @chagaiweiss.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The course was a blend of technical lectures and applied discussions, and it was an opportunity for me to brush up on some open questions I had (DiD👀) and read exciting work from across all subfields in political science. Here is the syllabus: www.chagaiweiss.com/teaching/Cau...

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

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Nancy Birdsall @nbirdsall.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Accessible to all! ...my paper in Journal of Econ Perspectives on World Bank's 1993 East Asian "Miracle" report ("Too Much A Product of Its TIme?") (www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.p...). @cgdev.org @mclem.org @arvind2011.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social

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Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Book launch day -- congrats to @arvind2011.bsky.social & Devesh Kapur! The book is full of data and historical vignettes, but more importantly, really challenges a lot of received wisdom about India's development trajectory. Must read.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 17/10/2025

I thought this was quite a nice (and appropriately pessimistic) discussion of our paper on power in political science. All that I would add is that we found a small minority of research topics with high power! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

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Nathan Lane @nathanlane.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A staggering boost to quality of life tbh

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Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨 Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most? When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond? Our work with: @prashantgarg.bsky.social @trfetzer.com shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies. 🧵👇

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

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Lost Worlds

The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...

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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚨 We’re #hiring! CEGA is looking for a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our Data Privacy Lab and support the responsible implementation of privacy-enhancing technologies in low- and middle-income countries. 👉 Learn more and apply here: go.cega.org/DPLpostdoc

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Searching in HPE or related fields? Check out these great students/postdocs on the market!

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HPE candidates on the job market

Job market season is here.

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 10/09/2025

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the
power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the
discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow-
ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the
consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with
some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey
political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the
statistical power of political science research.

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Princeton Research Program in Development Economics @princetondevo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨 We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

For as often as I get asked "What do you think of Graber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything" I need to just have a blog post titled, "What I think of The Dawn of Everything" which is just a link to @walterscheidel.bsky.social's devastating review (here: escholarship.org/uc/item/9jj9...).

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Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Author(s): Scheidel, Walter | Abstract: Commentary on David Graeber and David Wengrow 2021.  The Dawn of Everything . New York: Penguin.

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Please share: Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for open science, design, aggregation, transfer..? Call open now with @egap.bsky.social egap.org/our-work/res... @awilke.bsky.social Deadline 31 October

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EGAP Innovation Grants 2025 – EGAP

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Beyond the claim that the Peasants' War (1524–1525) turned the German Reformation distinctly conservative, there's a potential paper below along the lines of 'Peasants, knights, & princes: the Dissolution of the German Monasteries and the rise of state capacity' or some such thing...

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

4 findings from our experimenting with policymakers paper, finally published in World Development last month (a mere 3.5 years after the CGD working paper version) ...

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Berk Özler @berkozler12.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

PhD students and junior colleagues. Join the Economics of Animal Welfare Mentorship program if you're interested.

Text of the announcement for the Economics of Animal Welfare Mentorship program.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🔥 Call for papers for EPSS 2026 in Belfast: migration, forced displacement, mobility, borders, asylum, diaspora, and other migration-related topics. Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social. Submit proposals by Nov 7! #EPSS2026

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Join as for double(!) EuroWEPS 🇮🇹-edition, generously hosted by Bocconi (@aalrababah.bsky.social & @catherinedevries.bsky.social) & @eui-eu.bsky.social (@eliasdinas.bsky.social). Very much looking forward to this! 👇

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

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CASSM Centre Manager

Full-timeFixed-term for 5 yearsGrade 8: £48,235 - £57,255 per annum

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Please share: @pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Political Economy of Development (PED) Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast We invite submissions of high-quality work on any topic in the political economy of development or comparative pol...

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This will be a great conference. Lots of good energy and new ideas. And a fabulous set of chairs. More on the new conference formats as well as the other developments at EPSS here epssnet.org/news/ Good time to join the listserv and sign up for membership

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EPSS News & Updates | Political Science Announcements

Get the latest news, conference announcements, and organizational updates from the European Political Science Society (EPSS).

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Millennial men of Bluesky, my husband wrote a piece about giving up on wearing big pants and I am here to co-sign the decision www.gq.com/story/bring-...

Thankfully, the hegemony of Clown Couture seems to have relaxed a bit. On the rack of public opinion, there is now a tiny sliver of space for the Regular Millennial Guy Look. I don't have to dress like an asshole anymore. What was passé just a few years ago is now vintage-evergreen menswear vocabulary. Whatever the reason for this, dayenu. It's starting to feel like the good old days again, back when we wore clothes and not the reverse. Back when we could walk around downtown without tiny children popping out with tiny microphones asking us how much our outfits cost. Back when genies were happy living in bottles.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Now that Beckert's new, even bigger, non-cotton book on the global history of capitalism is appearing soon, a 🧵 on “not outright errors but highly misleading statements” from The Empire of Cotton. I will be adding examples intermittently as I remember them, but 1st example is about Russia/Turkestan.

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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As someone who has read *a lot* of pop Taiwan books over the last few years, this one stands out in quality. Dawley’s retelling of Taiwanese history humanises Taiwan in a way that is desperately needed in today’s great-power focused world. It is a must read. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/taiwan?...

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Taiwan | Reaktion Books

While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, this history centres on the people of Taiwan themselves, and explores how they have formed a unique polity, telling the ...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

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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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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Ok ... Auflösung als 🧵...

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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit is underway in Nairobi, Kenya! With over 500 attendees, this annual convening is the largest on the African continent focused on impact evaluation and global development. #AES2025 You can still join us via livestream: go.cega.org/AESliveDay1

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 18/06/2025

Anyone have any ideas where I should submit this paper? I tried Journal of Applied Econometrics, no dice. arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20604

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