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Macartan Humphreys

@macartan.bsky.social
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WZB Berlin, Humboldt University, TCD macartan.github.io Politics, conflict, inequality, political economy of development, causal inference

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 04/10/2026
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‘Protestant and proud’ Young Spencer: Meet the Shankill Road’s answer to Kneecap
Rapper says music is bringing young people together in Northern Ireland and talks about how his association with nationalist rap trio ‘divides opinion’
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The call for proposals for the @epssnet.bsky.social Pre-Conference Workshops 2027 is now open: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... If you're interested in hosting a pre-conference workshop please take a look!
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Pre-Conference Workshop EPSS 2027
Submit your proposal for a pre-conference workshop at the EPSS 2027 Conference in Copenhagen to lead focused discussions and skill-building sessions for political science scholars.
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Post doc alert: Very nice new opportunity in Hamburg: Climate change and social conflict www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nach der Landtagswahl in #Sachsen-Anhalt stellt sich die Frage mit neuer Dringlichkeit: Würde Regierungsverantwortung die AfD „entzaubern“? 📊 Unsere Analyse von 1.307 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien zeigt: Die radikale Rechte wird dadurch nicht schwächer, im Schnitt gewinnt sie rund 6 Prozentpunkte.
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think Martyn Turner has this figured out bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 23/08/2026
A lot of reasonable people insisted that Jason Arday must be a liar for having run 30 marathons in 35 days, all because a British rag deliberately refused to confirm that he did. If you didn’t already think that Arday was deliberately targeted by racist liars, here’s the evidence you need.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
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Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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Kimberly Marten @kimberlymarten.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Come join my fabulous department at Barnard College! We are searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in Comparative Politics and/or International Relations. #polisky The link is here: barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Assistant Professor of Political Science Job Description: The Department of Politica...
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Julian Berger @officialberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cool work! You might be interested in checking out rigor.me
rigor.me
Rigor
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Very nice. Beautiful site. I hadn’t seen this but looks very useful. Ours may be anachronistic is a sense that it insists on an authoritative code consumable by humans. But maybe the age of coding is coming to an end.
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yes. And it happens! Though less and less I think
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
this is focused on computational replication (reproduction); the hope is we are soon at the point where these fly w/out issue; I think we are nearly there + hope this might help for extensions: we learn a lot from these! one idea here is to allow for forward and backward linking to/from extensions
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The package includes a shiny and AI tools to convert existing repos. Still early days and surely a lot we have not thought about so we welcome all thoughts on how to improve it! With Vermon Washington and Cord Masche and lots of help from Cursor. 🙏
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
✅ the need for work to "check" that code runs largely vanishes ✅ at any moment you can audit all your papers (or your journal's papers, or your repo's papers) to make sure nothing has broken
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Key ideas: replicate-anything.github.io/replicateEve... ✅ treat the replication code base as a DAG so any element (a table, a figure) can be generated from its parents, or by going right back to raw ✅ each step easily accessible to humans but, structure means that live replication is easy
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Replicate everything? Interested in thoughts on this idea: shiny2.wzb.eu/ipi/replicate/ At @wzb.bsky.social we've been developing a protocol for replication files for empirical papers to: ✅be readable by machines ✅keep humans in the loop
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Burning money?
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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Glen Hansard’s great live cover of my all-time favorite song by anyone, Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks”. Rest In Peace, Glen Hansard. 💚🇮🇪 youtube.com/watch?v=H82p...
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Glen Hansard - Astral Weeks - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth, Austin, TX
YouTube video by Paste Magazine
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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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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This chat is one of the most incredible things you will read today And they didn’t even say thank you
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Michael Evans @mevanspolisci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Please help my student, Sayna Kaushik, who is working on an amazing AI-driven app that helps voters get accurate information about the voting process in each of the 50 states. She needs volunteers to spend about 15 minutes trying out two versions of the app for her research. Link is in the comments.
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 02/07/2026
City of half a million under siege
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City of half a million under siege
Global Briefing: El-Obeid is facing drone attacks from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that have hit civilian targets and public utilities
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Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin @tcdeconomics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Congratulations to Prof @selimgulesci.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor in Economics at TCD and to Kevin O'Rourke on his appointment as Honorary Professor of the Department of Economics! 🥳 Read more: www.tcd.ie/economics/ne... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
ofc the original ought to have been called watergategate
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!
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Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Slides from recent talks and courses on a bunch of topics: macartan.github.io/teaching/sli... replication, experimental design, survey experiments mixed methods... human shields, community driven reconstruction, school sorting, crises, selection and incentives...
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Recent presentatons | Macartan Humphreys
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thankful to @freitag.de for this write-up about my book on the normalization of the radical right, which has recently come out in German: www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
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Vicente Valentim: Es gibt keinen Rechtsruck, radikale Ansichten gab es immer
Mit seinem Buch „Die Normalisierung der radikalen Rechten“ hat Vicente Valentim ein Schlüsselwerk zum Verständnis der europäischen Rechtspopulisten geliefert. Seine These: Mehr Rechtsextreme gibt es h...
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
What a wonderful few days in Belfast for #EPSS2026 and what a fantastic community! Thank you to everyone who joined the conference with such enthusiasm A special thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & the rest of the EPSS Council for making it all possible
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Looking at the article and the links it seems that a. some, but not all solidarity symbols are banned and b. the banned symbols mentioned are not all antisemitic or illegal If so then the headline is correct but misleading. And your response is not correct? Am I wrong?
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The first ever #EPSS 2026 football games were a great success! Thanks to @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and @vheddesheimer.bsky.social for organizing.
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thank you to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers for your amazing efforts to make this conference a success. 2/2
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Such great work though And discussed just today at @epssnet.bsky.social as an example of hugely important work
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Pia Raffler @piaraffler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Huge congratulations to Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social for winning the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social best book award for “Making a Career in Dictatorship“ 🥳 #EPSS2026 @hertiesecurity.bsky.social
Picture of Christian Gläßel receiving the award.
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🌉Evening programme: 🗳️EPSS Annual General Meeting 18:20-18:50, Hall 1A (ICC) 🏆EPSS Prize-Giving and President's Keynote Address 19:00-19:40, Hall 1A (ICC) 🥂EPSS Reception 19:40-21:00, Halls1B-1D (ICC)
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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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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Now traveling to @epssnet.bsky.social I would like to draw your attention to a panel on: Standards for Replication in Political Science 10:50-12:30 Thursday, 18 June, 2026, Bar 2 w. @bochkareva.bsky.social @fresejoris.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @aeggers.bsky.social and myself.
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This material builds on all the resources maintained by Nahomi Ichino, Jake Bowers and Maarten Voors with contributions by many; egap.org/learning-day...
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The Theory and Practice of Field Experiments – EGAP
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We had lots of fun doing egap.org/learning-days/ again this year with 25 students from across the continent All training material is open access: egap.github.io/learningdays... FR / EN slides, exercises. Huge thanks to Brice Bado for hosting; @vinarceneaux.bsky.social for leading & the whole team:
learning days instructors Vincent Alyssa Adikath Yannick Brice Mac Vin
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Merci infiniment à nos instructeurs pour le temps et l’expertise qu’ils ont si généreusement partagés ! @vinarceneaux.bsky.social @vincebed.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social Adikath Abiola, Arsène Brice Bado, Alyssa Heinze & Yannick Brice Kouogueng Yeyouomo
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Headed to Abidjan today; looking forward to another @egap.bsky.social West Africa learning days If friends are in the area please drop me a dm or send on must dos for Abidjan
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Without exaggeration the class I took with Mik Laver (in 1993!) was life altering; completely rewired my brain. Can’t recommend this enough
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🚨 Get your tickets for our next MY580 workshop with Emeritus Professor Michael Laver 👉️ Measuring policy positions of political agents ⏰ 10:00am - 3:00pm 📆 16 June ➡️ In-person at CON.1.01 ‼️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuring-...
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