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Julio Solís Arce

@juliosolis.bsky.social
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PhD student at @harvardgovdept.bsky.social. Studying political development, collective choice, and culture in Africa. juliosolisar.github.io

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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congrats Konstantin!
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Jared 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....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
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uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The 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...
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Care 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
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Very 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...
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How far left will Democrats go?
Its base is almost as mad at their leaders as they are at the president
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kickass!
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “Fairness Across the World,” by Almås, Cappelen, Sørensen, and Tungodden: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Fairness 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
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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fulvia Budillon and I are looking for a Portuguese-speaking field RA in Mozambique to start ASAP. More information here: tinyurl.com/2cs6jtjw. Please apply!!
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My sincerest condolences @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social
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African Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The 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!
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Political scientists: we are looking forward to welcoming you to Boston!
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks!
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@elizabethbitmeehan.com
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Derek R. Peterson @unseenarchive.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Colleagues 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/
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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
EuroWEPS 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.
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We had it so good on Twitter back then!
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Kiara Hernandez @kiarahernandezm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Very honored to have my work recognized! For those interested, here is a link to the updated paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The 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/...
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Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association
Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That’s pretty accurate marketing
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Jim Fearon @jfearon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New 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.
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James D. Fearon
James Fearon academic stuff
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I 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
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@rochellesun.bsky.social
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Belief 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...
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The magic of secularization
Abstract. Institutional secularization does not necessitate a secular public. In fact, as church memberships decline, more individualized sources of supern
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Working 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.edu
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Paige Bollen
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
congrats Chris!
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
From 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...
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Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
[insert a wild inference about the job market here]
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Had 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 !
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
someone 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
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy 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...
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Revisiting 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...
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Alex Yeandle @alexyeandle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Delighted 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...
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Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana
Mobile money platforms are ubiquitous in many emerging economies. Hailed for raising financial inclusion and economic wellbeing, governments have now …
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
EPSS 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!
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We appreciate the cultural exchange. The only thing missing was a Eurovision playlist, though.
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The American mind couldn’t comprehend!!!
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The political economy of development panels at @epssnet.bsky.social
listing of panels
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Tremendous privilege to have shared time in grad school with @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Super cool work by colleague Konstantin Poensgen
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@chinemeluokafor.bsky.social
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I 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)
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
curious about your take as well @cmewing.bsky.social !
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I 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!
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Tom, 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
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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Excellent 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...
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Latest issue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
wish I saw these a couple of weeks ago before "streamlining" folders to country-topic to confusing results!!
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
(Not a historian though)
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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Cognitive 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/
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Firewalking in San Pedro Manrique, Spain
YouTube video by UConn
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Vincent 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
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
From 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...
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How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records
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