Reposted by Julio Solís ArceJared Rubin @jaredcrubin.com · 22/09/2026**We are hiring a postdoc in the Economics of Religion** The post is for two years beginning in August 2027. In the past we have had economics, sociology, and political science PhDs join us as postdocs. Join us in southern California! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....aeaweb.orgAmerican Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027 014
Reposted by Julio Solís Arceuoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Metaketa Initiative, led by @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social's @egap.bsky.social, has received the Margaret Levi award from @apsa.bsky.social. 👏👏 @dktrdr.bsky.social www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/egap-in... 055
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Care to elaborate? I just had coffee with a colleague that was telling me there’s a chapter on Botswana, a case where it has been said (and I believe so) good leadership was fundamental. So I was this close 👌 to buying it 100
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceAmelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Very cool to have my research on progressive insurgent candidates cited in The Economist. TL;DR: there's more progressives who should enter Congress after the November elections than the last several www.economist.com/united-state...economist.comHow far left will Democrats go?Its base is almost as mad at their leaders as they are at the president 43411
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceThe Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Recently accepted by #QJE: “Fairness Across the World,” by Almås, Cappelen, Sørensen, and Tungodden: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...doi.orgFairness Across the World*Abstract. This paper provides the first comprehensive global evidence on people’s fairness and efficiency preferences, beliefs about the sources of inequal 063
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceSara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fulvia Budillon and I are looking for a Portuguese-speaking field RA in Mozambique to start ASAP. More information here: tinyurl.com/2cs6jtjw. Please apply!!tinyurl.com 011
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My sincerest condolences @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social 110
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceAfrican Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The APCG has 11 great panels on at @apsa.bsky.social in Boston this week. Check out below for the full list, and many thanks to @adajkanu.bsky.social and Alex Michael Kroeger for putting together such a great line-up! 121
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Political scientists: we are looking forward to welcoming you to Boston! 010
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceDerek R. Peterson @unseenarchive.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Colleagues will be sorry to hear that historian John Iliffe has this morning passed away in Cambridge at age 87. Iliffe was a maker of the academic field of African history. He took up a post at the University of Dar es Salaam shortly after Tanganyika's independence. 1/ 26034
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceAnselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11. 13222
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceKiara Hernandez @kiarahernandezm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Very honored to have my work recognized! For those interested, here is a link to the updated paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 154
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceCyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The new Alsan and Neberai paper on why the US doesn't have national health insurance offers an interesting template for research on the origins of institutions academic.oup.com/qje/article/...academic.oup.comWhy Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical AssociationAbstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical 1133
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceJim Fearon @jfearon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New website is now up at jfearon4.github.io. I hadn’t updated the old one in embarrassingly many years. Lots of new and old unpublished stuff on the new site.jfearon4.github.ioJames D. FearonJames Fearon academic stuff 2125
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I saw this paper presented at the Brown-Harvard South Asian Politics Seminar. AMM delivered one of the best presentations I’ve seen, followed by a extraordinary discussion by a Martha Chen, a development practitioner in BGD when the cyclone. Research is most powerful when it tells human stories 001
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceToni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Belief in magic emerges most strongly among those who are both scientifically oriented and residually religious. Secular rationalism does not erase belief in supernatural mechanisms. It affirms the individual’s agency to decide what they are academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...academic.oup.comThe magic of secularizationAbstract. Institutional secularization does not necessitate a secular public. In fact, as church memberships decline, more individualized sources of supern 055
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceNoah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edupaigebollen.comPaige Bollen 0165
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceAmerican Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026From our FirstView: Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design by PAIGE BOLLEN and @nlnathan.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...doi.orgVernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design | American Political Science Review | Cambridge CoreVernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design 062
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026[insert a wild inference about the job market here] 000
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Had that impression during the conference, confirmed now by the report: Harvard University was the non-European institution with the most attendees at EPSS. Not all European/Europeanists: we were 11 participants presenting papers across 10 different sections. Good stuff @harvardgovdept.bsky.social ! 100
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026someone told me the other day your hometown is called Sebastopol which didn’t make me update much about how crazy is California but I was nevertheless surprised 010
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceHaneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...hbes.comRevisiting Man the Hunter - HBES– by Haneul Jang For decades, the phrase Man the Hunter has occupied a central place in discussions of human evolution. Today, however, the phrase sounds outdated, evoking a familiar image of men hunt... 02316
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceAlex Yeandle @alexyeandle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Delighted to see my paper "Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana" (coauthored with David Doyle) out at World Development! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from GhanaMobile money platforms are ubiquitous in many emerging economies. Hailed for raising financial inclusion and economic wellbeing, governments have now … 1113
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceEPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026EPSS 2026: That's a wrap! 🎊 Thanks to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers, & participants for making this conference such a success. Safe travels, and see you at EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen! 1776
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceEPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026We appreciate the cultural exchange. The only thing missing was a Eurovision playlist, though. 111
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceMacartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The political economy of development panels at @epssnet.bsky.social 0133
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Tremendous privilege to have shared time in grad school with @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social 140
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Super cool work by colleague Konstantin Poensgen 010
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I understand. FWIW, I believe that the names of those who are actually approached with offers are not disclosed to graduate students and are only revealed much later. So this is not public information as of now (as far as I am aware) 000
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026curious about your take as well @cmewing.bsky.social ! 000
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I am honestly just trying to understand what is our disciplinary norm and what is the assumed common knowledge in job searches. Thanks for your sharing your take! 100
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Tom, I am genuinely curious whether you think the issue here is the "leaking" of the shortlist or smth else. In other disciplines, for example, job talks are posted on seminar calendars. At Harvard, job talks are also widely advertised internally, with no mention of confidentiality 200
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceHeidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Excellent new special Issue on the challenges raised by the ancient DNA of kinship Special Issue: Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Socio-cultural Anthropology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgLatest issue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge CoreCambridge Archaeological Journal 12212
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026wish I saw these a couple of weeks ago before "streamlining" folders to country-topic to confusing results!! 110
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceColin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Cognitive anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas measured heart rates of firewalkers, relatives, and tourists. The walker and relatives' heart rates were synch'd. (Tourists weren't) Walkers reached 180bpm tho they recalled being "calm" www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNfg... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21536887/youtube.comFirewalking in San Pedro Manrique, SpainYouTube video by UConn 001
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceVincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com 311735
Reposted by Julio Solís ArceAmerican Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026From our FirstView articles: How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records by ALEKSANDRA CONEVSKA, SHIGEO HIRANO, @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social, JEFFREY B. LEWIS, CAN MUTLU and JAMES M. SNYDER Jr. doi.org/10.1017/S000...doi.orgHow Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records | American Political Science Review | Cambridge CoreHow Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records 065