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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The poetry of the prose is as glorious as ever. But I guess the bite-sized lifestyle has come for us all, because I’m rarely ready for this level of literary sumptuosity these days…

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But your question about whether that logic actually pays off is a good one. We all know another motivation is for administrators to be involved in Big Important Expansion, which doesn’t always work out…

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They can offer ‘study away’ opportunities to the students, which are presumably in demand, while keeping all the money in-house.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not faculty. Which is why I agree there is room for your agenda. But that’s different from saying ‘nobody is talking about class’ that’s the phrase that really struck me, bc it implies that you discovered this entirely new lens for analyzing the world.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘Despite widespread agreement that class is important for occupational development, we don’t have credible causal estimates of the impact of class on employment outcomes’ rings more true to me than ‘nobody is talking about class’. I completely agree w your agenda! Maybe the NYT oversimplified

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know how the publishing game works but you could have been more measured/specific in your language. Not sure about the DEI thing either bc all universities I’ve been at have promoted ‘first gen’ sensitivity and networks etc. Although yes, not seen as a protected class like race or gender.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"no-one was talking about class"??? That's an indictment of who you were talking to. You do realize an entire discipline (sociology) has been studying class and employment/occupational outcomes for over a century. You do know Bourdieu? That said, fine work, nice paper and good media coverage.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Europe is heading into a super election year in 2027. Those elections will take place against a precarious security backdrop: war in Ukraine and Iran, a retreating US & Europeans increasingly worried about their own security. So shouldn’t this benefit the political centre? Not so fast. 🧵

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Nathalie Giger @nathaliegiger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨We are looking for a teaching assistant/PhD student in political behavior - to be able to teach in French is an asset for this position👇 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

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Assistant-e au Département de science politique et relations internationales (7048)

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh no... Now also Ireland is planning to increase the residence requirement for naturalisation (from 5 to 8 years)?? If this goes through it would be a pretty dramatic move. Justification rests on picking the most restrictive examples across Europe... www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

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Alexander Agadjanian @agadjanian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another good lesson in questioning assumptions about core social science variables often seen as fixed and exogenous huber.research.yale.edu/materials/12...

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Polls have closed in Saxony-Anhalt and exit polls put result on a knife edge (AfD 41 seats, others 42). First projections based on actual results due out soon. But if exit polls are right this is a rupture in the history of the federal republic.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Whether we want to admit it or not, every NFL game is a snuff film. It's long past time fans of the sport faced up to a reality that becomes clearer every day: American football is simply too dangerous. This year, turn off the NFL. Our latest in @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com.

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CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching

A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There is a lot that is unprofessional about people in our profession! I agree this is a bad one. You would expect people to learn and manage their time, especially if they are no longer fresh-faced first year grad students

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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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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Shameless self promotion, but my book on noncitizen students, the university, and immigration law comes out on Fordham in October and I'd be happy to share proofs and talk to students!

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Degrees of Empire - Abigail Boggs

A sweeping history of how noncitizen students shaped U.S. universitiesFrom colonial missionary schools to the globalized university of the twentieth century, U.S. higher education has long depended on...

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle. Deadline Oct. 21. www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant

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Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants

Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.

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With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don’t think there are any adults in the room right now offer meaningful guidance! It’s too new and rapidly evolving. Seems like in-class is the only way to be 100% sure no AI is used, if that’s the goal.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Interesting question. I don’t think there’s a lot of variation across these audiences for me. The biggest variation is across manuscripts, based on the quality/magnitude of what I’ve produced!

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I guess it depends on advising styles. I rarely give students ‘strategic’ advice bc that is usually guesswork. I encourage them to think about other cases and they’re generally open to ideas. The expertise/data connections/personal investment in home country all good reasons for primary interest

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You think this is faculty driven? I’ve never seen that. (Not saying it doesn’t happen) Most times we see international applicants already planning to study their home country/region before they arrive, for all the obvious reasons.

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Interested in a PolSci PostDoc @ Berlin? 4 more days left to apply! 👇

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/08/2026

Democratic Drain by Justin Gest Explores a new phenomenon in which migration depletes origin countries of people with democratic political values, enabling authoritarianism. 📚 cup.org/4uhxpat

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The most offensive thing I saw in the flurry of news stories about Puff getting sent to solitary is one media outlet referring to him as a rapper.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"They’re reliably predictable, tasting the same in schools, delis, airports and Walmart stores..." Say what? Only predictable thing about bananas is they taste like cardboard garbage in US + Europe bc those are not tropical zones. They taste very different at home. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/d...

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Everything’s Bananas

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“Since 1776, the United States has received about 130 million immigrants—a legacy that the Founders fully expected and would have welcomed.” As a proud American immigrant, I absolutely adore this tremendous piece by @davidjbier.bsky.social and @cato.org.

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The Founders Lived Through—and Loved—High Immigration Rates

Whatever anxieties individual figures voiced about one group or another, they chose to build a system more open than any other in the world at the time. Two hundred and fifty years later, the debate o...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Brilliant work 👇

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

IDK, I like seeing all the black and brown players. Lots of layers to trace over representation dynamics, but I like seeing the guys at the top of their field (even Japanese goalkeeper is black).

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What really interests me in the Nationalism Cup is all the coaches who are not from the country they are coaching. Seems odd in the midst of the Patriotism Games, but shows the business side of the games

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Four white people in starting lineup. A lot more than France! And France is the juggernaut with so many guys playing for homeland countries (a few Dutch-born Moroccan origin playing for Morocco in this match)

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Looking forward to presenting at #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week! @klingelt.bsky.social and I hand-collected 10,000+ campaign posters in Berlin and use automated image analysis to study placement and content strategies across parties THU, 5:10–6:50pm, Brookfield (Hilton) @epssnet.bsky.social

Map showing the spatial distribution of campaign posters by party across electoral precincts in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin. Nine panels display poster locations (dots) overlaid on precinct-level 2021 vote shares (shading) for: Die Linke (n=1,129), Die Grünen (n=1,459), SPD+JUSOS (n=693), CDU (n=639), AfD (n=107), FDP (n=348), Volt (n=780), and BSW (n=248). Each panel uses the party's color. Based on automated classification of 5,854 detected posters (conference version, ~50% of full corpus).

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Preliminary projections by the broadcaster SRF suggests Swiss voters are set to reject the population "cap" referendum proposal - by 45% to 55%. (Methods unclear: actual result may differ) edition.cnn.com/2026/06/14/e...

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Swiss voters poised to reject 10 million population cap in referendum, projection shows | CNN

Swiss voters were set to reject a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million in a referendum held on Sunday, according to preliminary projections by national broadcaster SRF.

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Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yes maybe a little tricky to get data but doesn’t strike me as the most sensitive in the world, could be anonymized. Could be a nice study of academia: ‘who reviews?’ with lots of angles, including events like WC. Maybe someone has already done it

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