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Lucy Barnes

@lucy-barnes.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Economy, UCL. She/her. Here to lurk.

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It may also be that the right place to look for “quality” here is at the student-supervisor dyad level, not the indiv supervisor — a question of fit where better fitting a greater share of students is not obviously the same as “being better at it”
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I worry both that I am not good at this, but also that there are very few sources of reliable evaluation.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you haven’t already read Henry Pelling’s “social geography of British elections, 1885-1910”, I would massively recommend it. won’t have the exact answer but might have clues, and more generally even over 100 years out it is fascinating
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So looking forward to reading!!
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations! Long time fan of this paper, as you know.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Political science paging @originstorypodcast.bsky.social
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So much of it about this morning
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 26/03/2026
Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
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The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Me too! Thank you for all your comments and support with it!
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Politics of Inflation
Inflation returned to the foreground of political economies worldwide after 2019, after 30 years of relative quiescence. Inflation remains unpopular—including among those who are hurt by the policies ...
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
😮
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Nice things to remember about the UK. I am not myself a UK doomer, I think there are plenty of good things about the country and our present state of affairs, and this well captures some of them. adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...
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Don’t Panic: Britain is not broken – adamcorlett.com
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
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Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A huge thank you to the authors who contributed to Volume 55, our first year of continuous publication. If you're logged into @bsky.app, our 2025 authors on Bluesky can be found here - cup.org/4oLdTRR If you are on Bluesky and we have missed you, let us know. 🎈 All the best for 2026! 🎈
Logo of the British Journal of Political Science displayed in white text on a green background.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Private detective, snore. So narrowly missed being a Scholar, amateur adventurer and alethiometer reader
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
One of my favourite papers from this past year!
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thoughts and prayers
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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Bravo! As deserved as it gets. Wendy Carlin is a treasure.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@carotorreblanca.bsky.social , Will Dinneen, and my paper entitled "Political Science Under Pressure: Competition and Collaboration in a Growing Discipline, 2003-2023" has been (conditionally) accepted at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. This paper has been a labor of love. osf.io/preprints/os...
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
good news is also a thing in the world
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
For those who believe that the Commons should fairly represent the nation it serves, this is a story of remarkable progress. Those who would deny full and equal rights to people based on the race and religion natually don't see it that way, but thankfully they are a small (if noisy) minority.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This image highlights that one of the most important perks of the job is working with @alanrenwick.bsky.social
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Not a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
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Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics at UCL
An academic position as a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Josh Goddard @joshgoddard98.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Overall, housing is a central and growing cleavage in politics, challenging class dealignment story. Relying on occupation risks mischaracterising the class basis of politics - we must update how we think about this to reflect era of asset-based capitalism 7/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies
Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happy to see the first paper from @joshgoddard98.bsky.social ’s PhD project published today! 🙌 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Class voting is alive and well, once we recognise the importance of asset (housing) ownership as well as labour market position as a class marker
sciencedirect.com
Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies
Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Sandel’s thesis is a different version of this: politics under neoliberalism* vacated the space of morality (incl. religious community); people want morality in politics; aggressive far right moral panics filled the void *shorthand for vibes/era, not nec scholarly/intellectual position
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This question is less on my personal radar and I think other people will have more information interest in judging
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Note: it’s not like there are any things that would flag/trigger an immediate desk reject! This is (was) just one that I think often correlated with overall thinking the paper’s not quite ready, or not quite rightly targeted
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
all very new and impressionistic but the main one is that I think a “flag” ~a year ago would be to fail to articulate any explicit argument for the paper’s importance or innovation. now those *forms* are almost always present, and it’s deeper work to separate the substantive from the specious
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
speaking just for myself: trying to do this, but the numerical increase hits hard here too. Also “flags” for desk rejection are changing, in ways which also increase the editorial time required to reach each DR decision. No call for sympathy but it’s not trivial at the ed stage either. Also: sorry!
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 18/11/2025
We'll have to go back to studying history and institutions don't we. Even elites, Lord help us. Like in the Dark Ages.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
100%!!!
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Strong agree, but worry about the degree to which this prescription comes from a place of relative privilege, ex ante, and survivor bias, ex post. Maybe more universal: be good and be lucky, and if you can only pick one, be lucky
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Congratulations!
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
100% correct response
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
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Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Almost: some of us got lucky and own it
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
yes, next question
Can me and women be just friends by the economist
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Please, God, no
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
My hunch is that it is hard to reconcile perceived levels of inequality (high, growing) with the idea that taxes are (sufficiently) progressive
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This, but also for research
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Very Cirrus People
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
populism<->austerity doom loop, anyone?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing: What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?) Who are you arguing against? What alternatives are you rejecting and why? What follows if you’re right? These are also good questions for Q&A.
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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Love this but think the gaming element is the cherry; the “seeing like a market” (or if you prefer, the Beatles (can’t buy me love)) is the cake
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Gender neutral spaces have existed for years, we all know that. It isn't trans and non-binary individuals attacking women without any repercussions, that's men. Nothing about demonising trans and non-binary individuals makes women safer. It does make people more vulnerable though. 3/5
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📣 New BJPIR article out now! 'The political effects of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone' by Andrew McNeil and Frieder Mitsch ⬇️ Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QIn8Bm9 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
buff.ly
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“define a woman” fine ok, so you know when shania twain says “let’s go girls”? if you go then you’re a woman
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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Really excited that our @politicsjournal.bsky.social article on the Joy of the Teaching Track ✨ is out! Co-authored with the brilliant @ellenfelicity.bsky.social, Keith Smith, Kalina Zhekova, @rosegann.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social – we advocate for enjoying our jobs! Polisky SoTLsky
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The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies - Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann, Madeleine Le Bourdon, 2025
In recent years, the number of academic jobs in research-intensive universities that are described as ‘academic education route’, ‘teaching and scholarship’, or...
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