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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🚨 Call for Proposals: ELECTRANS Study on the 2027 French elections. Submit a proposal for a research project on French politics / comparative political behavior. Selected proposals will see their items / design included at no cost. More information: electrans-2027-9494e8.gitpages.huma-num.fr

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Something bugs me about Italian opinion polls. There's not enough variance: FdI has been at 27-and-a-bit in 12 of the last 13 polls. My suspicion was herding, so I went down a statistical rabbit hole, which involved inventing a new measure of herding (which may have picked up a different issue!). 🧵

A table of Italian polls. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Italian_general_election#Party_vote

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

Interestingly, it seems that some great and influential papers of that period (passing as signaling, ethnic pork barrel etc) are unpublished (people still cite the WP)

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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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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't get me started on this on a Saturday

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That paper and the APSR on manipulated ballots were so inspiring when I was a new graduate student

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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 · 17/08/2026

I take the 2-3 sections I'm interested in, scroll through all the panels and add the interesting ones to calendar. Then I adjudicate on the time conflicts

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Giacomo Lemoli @giacomolem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Select 1-2 really interesting panels per day (based on papers and/or people) and try to schedule meetings. There is no point in approaching it in "student mode" (maximize attendance), better to be in "colleague mode" (get useful research updates and seek face-to-face interactions).

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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.

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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 · 27/07/2026

He tried many genres and in each one he made that genre's masterpiece. In the war movie genre he even made two

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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

Close second: what language do Belgian players use with each other

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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 · 28/06/2026

I elect you my representative in these Bluesky debates (assuming open list vote)

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

Looks like a class I would have loved to take! Laitin's Hegemony and Culture could also be a nice reference.

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

The old one took me 1 day. The new one took Copilot (Claude) 7 minutes

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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

I am grateful to my mentors and colleagues at NYU, @iast.fr, and FUS (@ostrijbis.bsky.social) for making this possible and to public and private funding institutions for supporting my research.

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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 · 07/05/2026

Massive FOMO for Toulouse spring workshops

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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

In our applications, achieving near-perfect transcription accuracy in one API call without significant ex-post cleaning still requires frontier models (3.1 pro) and precise prompts refined through extensive testing, which drives up costs. But overall, the improvement over previous software is huge

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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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