mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We're pleased to highlight Wright Smith PhD '26 who is on the job market. @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @wrightlsmith.bsky.social 001
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Prof. Bailey Flanigan has been named a 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences. This year’s cohort brings together 28 researchers working across AI safety, science & society to help ensure AI benefits society by 2050. www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fello... @schmidtsciences.bsky.social 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meet the 2026 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, among them Prof. Volha Charnysh. @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social news.mit.edu/2026/tenured...news.mit.eduMeet the 2026 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesThe MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences announced that five MIT faculty were granted tenure. 110
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Prof. Mariya Grinberg has won the J. David Greenstone Book Prize from the American Political Science Association's Politics and History Section for her book Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines. @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/pr... 020
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“I always say, political methodology is the field where you ask questions as a political scientist, but then you solve them like an applied statistician or an applied computer scientist,” Naoki Egami says. news.mit.edu/2026/studyin... 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Just because a chatbot gives a confident answer does not mean that it is the correct answer,” Prof. Adam Berinsky said. He, Prof. Stewart & Prof. Podimata lead a data collection effort documenting what A.I. systems say about elections. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b... @mitelectionlab.bsky.social 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The American Political Science Assoc has recognized @kathleenthelen.bsky.social, Erik Lin-Greenberg, @arielrwhite.bsky.social, Andrea Campbell, Jerik Cruz,@gskulski.bsky.social,Angie Jo & Ye Zhang for outstanding books, articles, & papers.@mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social polisci.mit.edu 072
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Pathways@GDL, aimed at broadening the pipeline into US Political Science PhD programs, hosted a 4th cohort of interns this summer and will host a 5th in the summer of 2027. polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/pa... @nlnathan.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social 243
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Check out this article on the seven members of the inaugural MIT SHASS Faculty Fellows cohort, including Profs. Volha Charnysh and Richard Nielsen. lnkd.in/g3deit9e @vcharnysh.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 020
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Prof. Bailey Flanigan develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive. news.mit.edu/2026/followi... 011
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Prof. Kathleen Thelen's book Attention Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy has received APSA's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for best book in the field of U.S. national policy politicalsciencenow.com/congratulati... @kathleenthelen.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The overarching pattern we find is that if you compare people who live in compound houses to residents of other housing types...there is a pretty big difference in political actions,” says Prof. Noah Nathan. news.mit.edu/2026/how-arc... @nlnathan.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 26/06/2026news.mit.edu/2026/summer-... MIT's Summer Reading list features books by Mariya Grinberg and Erik Lin-Greenberg! Check out Mariya's book, Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines and Erik's book, The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft!news.mit.eduSummer 2026 recommended reading from MITA summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2025 to June 2026. 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Congratulations @adamberinsky.bsky.social who co-authored "Understanding and Combatting Misinformation Across 16 Countries on Six Continents." It won Best Publication from the Behavioral Science and Policy Association at their Annual Meeting last week. polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/ar... 020
Reposted by @mitpolisci.bsky.socialEvan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Over two billion people lack access to safe water. Are democracies better at closing this massive gap? A substack on recently published research at World Development with Naomi Tilles on the limits of democracy for achieving universal safe water access globalcommons.substack.com/p/democracy-...globalcommons.substack.comDemocracy delivers the tap. But not always the safe water.Roughly 2 billion people still lack reliable access to clean drinking water. 011
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 28/05/2026At today's commencement reception, Prof. David Singer presented the Lucian Pye Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis to Yui Fung Raymond Wang. Congratulations to all our graduates! @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Congratulations to our Political Science PhDs! Front row: Suzanne Freeman, Wenyan Deng, Ye Zhang, and Diana “Tingxuan” Zhu. Back row: Sukrit Puri, Nicholas Blanchette, Eleanor Freund, Eyal Hanfling, Raymond Wang, and Wright Smith. @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 19/05/2026“I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students.” Prof. Danny Hidalgo, who studies democracy and political behavior in Latin America, is honored as “Committed to Caring” for graduate student mentorship. news.mit.edu/2026/committ... @dhidalgo.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.socialnews.mit.edu“I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students”MIT Associate Professor Daniel Hidalgo, a political scientist who studies elections, democracy, and political behavior in Latin America, is honored as “Committed to Caring” for graduate student mentor... 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Congratulations to @kathleenthelen.bsky.social who has been named to the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, which includes 223 trailblazing artists, scientists and scholars across 55 fields. www.gf.org/stories/anno... @mit-cis.bsky.social 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026PhD student Daniel Cebul has been selec to receive a Smith Richardson World Politics&Statecraft Fellowship for resrch on "The Logics of Ambiguity in International Crisis Bargaining: Signaling Strategies&Conflict Escalation." polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/ph... @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 030
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Check out this MIT SHASS Senior Profile of Political Science and Urban Planning dual major Lauren Higgins! shass.mit.edu/people/laure...shass.mit.eduLauren Higgins - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesMIT senior Lauren Higgins is a double major in Political Science (Course 17) and Urban Planning (Course 11). 000
Reposted by @mitpolisci.bsky.socialSecurity Studies Program MIT @ssp-mit.bsky.social · 27/01/2026SSP Director @fravel.bsky.social speaks with @npr.org about the recent Chinese military purges. 🎧Listen to full story www.npr.org/transcripts/... 011
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“I would argue that there has been absolutely no regime change here. No institutions have been changed. It’s a leadership decapitation explicitly designed it seems to avoid regime change,” says @proftalmadge.bsky.social of US operations in Venezuela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVGe...youtube.comWhat did the US achieve in the Venezuela operation?YouTube video by Brookings Institution 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Eighteen MIT faculty have been honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2025-2027. Political Science Professor @dhidalgo.bsky.social is among them. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-fac... @mit-cis.bsky.social 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 13/11/2025How drones are altering contemporary warfare: a new book by Prof. Erik Lin-Greenberg examines the evolving dynamics of military and state action centered around drones. @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social news.mit.edu/2025/how-dro... 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Prof. Mai Hassan was interviewed about recent violence in Darfur on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. Her interview begins at minute 33. @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social www.cnn.com/audio/podcas... 020
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Congratulatons to Prof. Richard J. Samuels! The United States Japan Foundation has named its dissertation award after you. polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/un... @rjsamuels.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 010
Reposted by @mitpolisci.bsky.socialBritish Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 30/10/2025NEW - Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud? - cup.org/3LBfv1G "...we found no evidence that greater transparency leads to substitution into other forms of electoral manipulation..." - Miguel R. Rueda, @guygrossman.bsky.social & Shuning Ge #OpenAccess 053
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Students in our first year advising seminar take a break from discussing politics, policy, and political science at a field trip making bioplastics the MIT Museum. polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/fi... 000
Reposted by @mitpolisci.bsky.socialMIT Center for International Studies @mit-cis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"America’s federal retreat on the environment is very real. But the country is also unique in its private and organized capacity... Much of America is still trying to play its part in mitigating climate change." writes Evan Lieberman (@evlieb.bsky.social), director of CIS. ft.com/content/a3d9...ft.comOn climate, America is more than WashingtonIn spite of drastic federal rollbacks, numerous public and private actors remain committed to environmental causes 041
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2025We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Anum Mustafa who is on the job market. Learn more about Anum at www.linkedin.com/in/anum-must... 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 22/09/2025We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Wright Smith who is on the job market. Learn more about Wright Smith at wrightlsmith.com @wrightlsmith.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 032
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Sudan is What Happens When you Recognize a Junta A guest essay co-authored by Professor Mai Hassan appeared in yesterday's New York Times. nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o... @mit-cis.bsky.socialnytimes.comOpinion | Sudan Is What Happens When You Recognize a Junta 053
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Why countries trade with each other while fighting: Mariya Grinberg’s new book, “Trade in War," examines the curious phenomenon of economic trade during military conflict. news.mit.edu/2025/why-cou... @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social 020
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 27/08/2025We are pleased to highlight PhD candidate Suzanne Freeman who is on the job market. Learn more about Suzanne in this MIT News profile and at this website. news.mit.edu/2025/shadow-... american.edu/sis/faculty/... @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social 020
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 27/08/2025We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Benjamin Norwood Harris who is on the job market. Learn more about Benjamin Norwood Harris at www.benjaminnorwoodharris.com ! @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 020
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 27/08/2025We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Ye Zhang who is on the job market. Learn more about Ye Zhang at iriszhangye.com! @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social 030
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 24/08/2025“…American foreign policy could better serve our country & the world w/ an approach that harnesses the power of national pride while valuing a global playing field,” writes @evlieb.bsky.social in today’s NYT. @mit.edu @mit-cis.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | America Firsters Need to Take Tennis Lessons 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 19/08/2025“I wanted to understand why countries like the U.S., which famously offer minimal state support, suddenly mobilize an enormous emergency response to a crisis — only to let it vanish after the crisis passes,” says PhD candidate Angie Jo. @angiehjo.bsky.social polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/sh... 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Check out the third cohort of Pathways@GDL Summer interns! polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/pa... @nlnathan.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social @ncatsuaggies.bsky.social @unm.edu @howard.edu @mit.edu @mit-cis.bsky.social 072
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Professor Andrea Campbell’s new book shows that what we say we want on taxes doesn’t always match what we prefer in practice news.mit.edu/2025/what-am...news.mit.eduWhat Americans actually think about taxesMIT political scientist Andrea Campbell’s new book, “Taxation and Resentment,” digs into public views about different forms of taxation in the U.S. 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Congratulations to the four MIT Political Science faculty members who were included on MIT's summer reading list: Professors Andrea Campbell, @vcharnysh.bsky.social, Fotini Christia and @kathleenthelen.bsky.social! news.mit.edu/2025/summer-... @mit-cis.bsky.social 062
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Congratulations to Siddhu Pachipala for his first place finish in the Buckley Institute's 2025 National Undergraduate Essay contest examining social distrust. buckleyinstitute.com/buckley-inst... 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Congratulations to PhD student @ayeletc.bsky.social, who has been selected by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy to receive a research grant in the social sciences for her research on "Varieties of Financial Citizenship: Welfare States and Savings Regimes." polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/ph... 000
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2025"My research examines how new technologies impact the use of force and decision-making during interstate conflicts," scholar-warrior Erik Lin-Greenberg says. news.mit.edu/2025/scholar... @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.socialnews.mit.eduThe scholar-warrior: How Erik Lin-Greenberg bridges academia and Air Force intelligenceMIT political scientist and Air Force reservist Erik Lin-Greenberg assumed command of the 820th Intelligence Squadron. His research into drone warfare and leadership in the armed forces informs his wo... 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Institute Prof. Suzanne Berger co-chairs the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to reinfuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, bolster crucial U.S. economic sectors, and ignite job creation. news.mit.edu/2025/mit-ann...news.mit.eduMIT announces the Initiative for New ManufacturingMIT launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing, an Institute-wide effort to help infuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, while creating good jobs. The initiative will enco... 010
mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 29/05/2025PhDs participating in commencement today include J.J. Kwon, Kunal Singh and Tomoya Sasaki, seen here with Department Head David Singer. Congratulations to the Class of 2025! @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social 050
