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Michele Scotto di Vettimo

@michelesdv.bsky.social
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Research Fellow in Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social). Spending my time on EU stuff, text analysis, books, and food. (michelescottodivettimo.eu). Live in Exeter.

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Michele Scotto di Vettimo @michelesdv.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚨🚨 500+ University of Exeter staff are at risk of compulsory redundancy. These cuts would devastate teaching, research, and the humanities. Stand with staff, students, and the wider community - sign and share the petition. @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk c.org/cJmrk7DNq4
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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drewfudenberg.bsky.social @drewfudenberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education: ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 13/05/2026
#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Whom do you serve? A comparative analysis of congruence between party representatives, voters, and economic elites (2007–2017) - cup.org/4uxxNCp - Paolo Marzi & @michelesdv.bsky.social #FirstView
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.
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Michele Scotto di Vettimo @michelesdv.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Finally out in European Political Science Review! @epsrjournal.bsky.social In “Whom do you serve?” Paolo and I look at whether parties align more with voters or economic elites across countries (2007–2017). A key question for understanding unequal representation in our democracies.
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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!
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European Political Science @epsjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
❇️ FirstView - 💼 Profession @michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social highlight the challenges, training needs, and preferences of scholars using text analysis methodologies. 👉 buff.ly/N2MngBm
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Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research
European Political Science | Cambridge Core
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 19/01/2026
#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research - cup.org/3ZlNL4Q - @michelesdv.bsky.social, A.Haraldsson, @gelovanishota.bsky.social, S.Banducci, K.Koc-Michalska & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social #FirstView
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Michele Scotto di Vettimo @michelesdv.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
How do central bankers talk when their reputation is at stake? Here's a brief post about a recent study by Christel Koop and myself on the Bank of England: shorturl.at/uGnF7 @kcl-spe.bsky.social @govjournal.bsky.social
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Central bank shifts tone when reputation is threatened, study finds | King's College London
New research has found a stark contrast in how policymakers at independent technocratic institutions such as central banks respond to different types of reputational risk.
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Senator Merkley is on hour 20 of reading How Democracies Die, mixed w commentary, on u.s. senate floor
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University of Exeter @exeter.ac.uk · 18/08/2025
If you're struggling with the effects of anxiety and depression, a new study has shown that a nature-based programme called Roots and Shoots could help boost your mood, enhance mindfulness, and reconnect with the natural environment. news.exeter.ac.uk/fa... 1/5
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Nature could be an effective self-help tool for improving mental health
Engaging with nature could be an effective measure for those with low wellbeing to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. A new pilot study from the University of Exeter, published in Behavioral Sciences, found that
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/06/2025
"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."
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“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Telling people on Bluesky that the crisis of left-wing parties and movements might have something to do with the behavior of left-wing parties and movements
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation 🧐
Chart showing Iranian nuclear centrifuge from 2011 to 2025
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't
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Michele Scotto di Vettimo @michelesdv.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The COMPTEXT family keeps on growing! #COMPTEXT2025
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
AI is already in the classroom. Instead of banning it, educators should focus on integrating it while preserving intellectual rigor.
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AI is already in the classroom. Instead of banning it, educators should focus on integrating it while preserving intellectual rigor.
AI is already in the classroom. Instead of banning it, educators should focus on integrating it while preserving intellectual rigor.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Michele Scotto di Vettimo @michelesdv.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy to promote this course I am delivering for the LISS DTP training programme. The course is open to London-based PhDs who want to explore how to use automated methods to classify texts and covers methods with different levels of complexity. More here: mscottodivettimo.github.io/liss2117.html
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LISS2117: Quantitative methods for text classification and topic detection
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 31/03/2025
What does the Spring Statement mean for lower income families?
Higher debt servicing costs and weaker tax receipts turned the Chancellor’s day-to-day spending surplus of £9.9 billion in 2029-30, into a fiscal rule breaking deficit of £4.1 billion. 

Policy measures announced in the Spring Statement have restored that surplus.The Chancellor has chosen to stay within her fiscal rules by cutting spending. This comes in the form of cuts to disability benefits, Universal Credit and departmental budgets. 

The biggest single cut is a restriction to eligibility for PIP, saving £4.5 billion. We expect 800,000 people will no longer qualify for support, losing out on £6,300 (in 2029-30) on average. 

68 per cent of all welfare cuts are concentrated on households in the bottom half of 
the income distribution.The Chancellor has also cut day-to-day public spending by £3.6 billion in 2029-30. This is far cry from a return to austerity - spending is rising in the intervening years - but nor can the cuts be delivered solely by painless efficiency savings.Real household disposable incomes are forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s.

This is down from £2,900 during the 2010s and £4,800 in the decade running up to the financial crisis (1997-2007).
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The biggest threat to European security does not come from Russia but it comes from the far right within its own nation states. All of the defense spending is not going to protect anyone if Trump's and Putin's buddies are voted into office, they consolidate power and erode liberal democracy 1/
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Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚨 Our paper "One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data" has just been published! What did we find? TL;DR: EU + L/R Super Dimension summarises EU VAA user data best. 🧵 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... PolDataSky polisky #polsci
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One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data
This article investigates the effectiveness of three different two-dimensional models in representing political competition using user data from the EU and I Voting Advice Application for the EU el...
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Widespread media coverage about a recent study suggested over half of Gen Z want the UK to be run by a dictator. But our research suggests it's more like only 6% who hold this view in reality. @bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @pmorini.bsky.social explain why this matters for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️ 🧵
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Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe
Gen Z don’t hate democracy, they have a problem with the way it is being delivered.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/01/2025
+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9
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Shota Gelovani @gelovanishota.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
What are the main challenges for the researchers studying citizen-produced political text? Data collection difficulties, steep learning curve, and more. Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.
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Citizen-produced political text: An interdisciplinary study of ineq...
Research possibilities utilising text data are expanding (Baden et al., 2022), and political text produced by citizens is among the most commonly employed text data within political and communicati...
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