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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a (mostly) rationalist researcher of ethnicity who has just taught the accountability part in CP I have to say, man, Fearon in his prime was insane

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Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/192333

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Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A note in response to Lionel Page, “Why has sociology become so politicised?” lsage1.substack.com/p/a-note-in-...

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A note in response to Lionel Page, “Why has sociology become so politicised?”

From a quantitative sociologist

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yes, AI for research is great, but the use case that gives me more satisfaction is teaching. Vibecoding figures and diagrams in Rmd/tikz is awesome. Making effective visualizations manually used to take me a lot of time.

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Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 @yangyangzhou.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're hiring this fall at Dartmouth Government for an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics! See apply.interfolio.com/191508 I'll be at APSA Boston and will plan to be available at the Sheraton lobby on Friday Sept 4 afternoon if you'd like to meet and ask any questions.

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Northwestern is hiring in quant methods (assistant level, tenure track) Please repost and share with those you think would be good candidates, thank you! polisci.northwestern.edu/about/facult... #psjobs #psjminfo #poliscijobs

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Methodology (Tenure-Track)
The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time position in Quantitative Political Methodology at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin Fall 2027. We emphasize methodology with a strongly applied perspective: successful candidates will maintain an active, independent research program that includes methodological contributions in their own right, while also teaching quantitative research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and applying those methods to substantive questions in their area of expertise. We are especially interested in candidates whose work bridges data-driven/computational approaches with design-based inference, though we welcome applicants making cutting-edge contributions in either of these traditions or in other areas of political methodology. Successful candidates' substantive research agendas may be in any area of political science or may cross boundaries; as with all Northwestern faculty, successful candidates will be expected to provide service to the department, the university, and the profession.

Aerial photo of Northwestern's beautiful lakeside campus with political science's new building circled

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New paper w/ @hannohilbig.bsky.social: we examine how local exposure to the Great Recession affected politics over the long run. Counties where unemployment rose more in 2007–09 moved toward Democrats, not the populist right. The shift remained visible in 2022.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, I recommend one of my favorite history and politics books. A masterful study on the roots of collective action and the nature of political identities

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Seems about right arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14623

I argue that multiverse analysis is highly suited to two undesirable uses: abdication of researcher’s responsibility for their conclusion and manufacturing of
doubt. A review of multiverse analyses published in 2025 provides tentative
empirical support that abdication of responsibility is present in the literature and
I mention anecdotal evidence that multiverse has been used for manufacturing
of doubt about Covid-19 precautions. To mitigate negative effects if multiverse
analysis becomes widely used I suggest the community adopts two conventions
for evaluating multiverse analyzes: evaluating multiverses by the single worst universe they contain and considering large size of a multiverse as a sign of weakness
rather than a praiseworthy achievement.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🗳️ Electoral Reform Alert 🗳️ Yesterday, the Italian Lower House approved a new electoral reform, now headed to the Senate. This would be the fifth major reform of the electoral system in Italy since 1993, and it could bring an even more radical right-wing party into the next government coalition. (1)

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Looking forward to a great workshop!

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Here's the final program for PEEP 2026: the Political Economy of Europe Pre-APSA Conference (Sept 2, Harvard). To attend, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Excited to hang out again next month! CC @mariacarreri.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Whether people in Pamplona are happy for Mikel Merino scoring for Spain unironically occupied my mind for too long these past 2 years.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New website: giacomolemoli.github.io

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

@epssnet.bsky.social is clearly the scientific highlight of the year. This year it has been even more meaningful to me.

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Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

📢 The program for the 4th edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop is out! 📍 Barcelona · 🗓️ June 29–30 Two days of talks ahead — really looking forward to it! Jointly organized with the great @Didacqueralt.bsky.social

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Absolutely. I always found the "peer review should be paid" point self-serving and a bit weird. The way I see it: regular, *deep* engagement with frontier work is a key part of our job, just like regular presentations. It's not a favor to strangers

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My most recent pet peeve: Working papers posted behind the paywalls of "research institute WP series" should be treated as non-posted papers: not read, not cited.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Some job market news: in Spring 2027 I will join @cunef.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods. I am excited about joining a fantastic group of social science scholars at CUNEF and moving to Madrid, one of the capital cities of European political science.

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

🚨 WORKSHOP ALERT ¿Te interesa la economía política de España? El I Workshop de SPEIN reunirá en Londres a economistas y politólogos que trabajan sobre los fundamentos de la España moderna: conflicto, autoritarismo, transición democrática y su legado. 15-16 de junio, @kcl-spe.bsky.social

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Omg all the Covid influencers are popping up everywhere on my social media it must be a nightmare

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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Classical economics: 98% of the data is easily explained by one theory Behavioral economics: 2% of the data is easily explained by sixteen theories

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some extremely fascinating work, there is something to learn here about the roots of civil conflict These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

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These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Over the last months, my coauthors and I have been rebuilding our pipelines for several digitization projects from scratch, using Gemini. Our experience so far is that the results are absolutely impressive. @sergisme.bsky.social 1/n

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Poli sci did a good job on this one. Among others, shoutout to Grimmer for demonstrating in court (twice, I believe) that Eastman’s empirical claims about the 2020 election being manipulated were false

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Joan Ricart-Huguet @ricarthuguet.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

How has Senegal avoided major democratic backsliding? Social norms stemming from early nation-building, such as interethnic marriages. Easy read of my @AfrAfJournal article w Alioune Ngom in @democracyinafrica.bsky.social 👇

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's hard to overstate the importance of this election for Hungary and Europe, but also for the comparative study of democracy. Hungary was the epitome of democratic backsliding.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/04/2026

Saving local news means saving our shared memory. When archives disappear, communities lose their history. Learn about the librarians & archivists helping safeguard local history, & the collaboration between @archive.org, @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, & @ire.org that’s providing tools & training ⬇️

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The takes like "Democracy is not great because Hitler, Mussolini etc etc" mostly reveal ignorance about the history of fascism.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Follow-up work by the authors: Persuasion in RDD: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26517 Persuasion in DiD: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.14871 Hard to overstate how much I endorse these applied econometrics agendas. We need tighter connections between the estimands of popular designs and theoretical concepts.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today, April 7, is Kwibuka32, the commemoration of the 32d anniversary of the first full day of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Past US presidents marked the date with stock statements of “never again.” Today the president instead echoed the language & threats of the perpetrators.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In this new era, should I keep talking like a psyched music/podcast bro (new paper dropped) or switch to psyched tech bro instead (new paper shipped)

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can we have an Italian polisky to bash the shitshow that this referendum campaign is

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is also a Sanremo hater account

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sorry to my Barcelona friends, on the other hand tonight is a good moment to reveal this is also a Toko Shengelia stan account 🏆 🇮🇹🏀 ⚫️⚪️

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Four years ago, the lives of millions of people like me, including friends of mine, were devastated. On a much more minor note, my political identity changed maybe for good.

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Philine Widmer @phinifa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Seeing several non-US online commentators justify (if not praise) threats of invasion, abductions, and now plain murders, just because they like Trump and dislike the left of their countries, I feel bad for when in grad school I thought Svolik was overstating the role of polarization.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine your last act in life being to try to pick someone up off the icy ground and the consequence is you get repeatedly pistol whipped in the face and then shot to death. Donald Trump and his goons robbed a human being of their life during a moment of compassion. It is hard to even imagine.

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

1/10 🧵 The U.S. just captured a sitting head of state in a military operation—and Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela “for now.” Whatever you think of Maduro, this is the most consequential unilateral move in the hemisphere since Panama (1989).

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 03/01/2026

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Look, libs, he is a man of peace, not like that Hillary Clinton warmongerer, ok?

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