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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

한글로 다시 한 번 올립니다. 서울대 정치외교학부에서 비교정치 전임교원 1분을 모십니다. 접수기간은 10/7 16:00시까지입니다. 한국은 언제나 접수 기간이 몹시 짧은 점, 시차 및 중간에 낀 추석 연휴에 유의하시기 바랍니다. 자세한 사항은 아래 링크를 참고 부탁드립니다.

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

2026 May SWERP event: Yong Kyun Kim (Seoul National University) will present on territorial rewards and state restructuring in Vietnam’s 2025 provincial mergers. May 8, 10am KST (May 7, 9pm ET). Hope to see you there!

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Super happy to see this paper finally formatted. While this paper might seem about political fundraising, it's really about the theory of *parties*: is it a broader network (UCLA school, i.e., Bawn et al. 2012) or elite/institutions-driven (re: Aldrich)? doi.org/10.1086/735435

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Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party’s Public Good | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2

What determines the relative importance of extended party networks versus party leaders in parties’ campaign strategies? We synthesize theories of party organizations by highlighting the interplay bet...

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

서울대학교 행정대학원 BK 프로그램에서 포닥 1명을 새로 모집합니다. 최근 박사학위를 취득하신 분들께 좋은 기회가 되길 바랍니다. 지원 마감은 다음 주 월요일입니다. gspa.snu.ac.kr/kr/Board/Det...

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서울대학교 행정대학원

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New SWERP event alert! Three SNU master’s students will present their research in a lightning-round format. Join us Apr 3 10 AM KST (= April 2, 9 PM EST) to see Seoul National’s crème de la crème in action. Personally looking forward to this one.

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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Happening tomorrow evening for US folks--𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟑/𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐭 𝟗𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧. I genuinely love this topic and hope you can join! 😁 @sysilviakim.bsky.social

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Jae-Hee Jung @jaeheejung.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New year, new forthcoming book announcement! Very excited to post more about it soon! Link: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

1. Downgraded from Claude Max to Pro. My mental health has significantly improved. Less feeling like I'm being chased all the time (was whipping myself for higher productivity) 2. Claude>>Codex for me so far 3. Still haven't figured out how best to raise the next academic generation in this era

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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🚨 Interested in survey experiments? I'll be giving a virtual talk on (false) null results in experiments--and how to protect against them--at SWERP on 3/13 (3/12 8pm EST). Hope to see you there, and thanks to @sysilviakim.bsky.social for inviting me! Link to join: swerp.netlify.app

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

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Jeong Hyun Kim @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So happy that my Cambridge Element with @yesolakweon.bsky.social has been published! Free access for the next two weeks!

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work. Now to get these revisions done.

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just built ✨FlowCraft✨, a free, open-source diagramming app (thanks Claude Code!) Browser-based, no server, no signup, no tracking, no subscription, no dependencies, and no Internet required. Just open a single HTML file and start diagramming. AGPL. github.com/sysilviakim/...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 26/01/2026

Look at the intensity gap in this NYT graph of how voters describe their current feelings toward Trump www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

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CNN @cnn.com · 07/10/2025

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)? I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

SWERP is back for fall 2025! Under what international contexts are citizens more likely to support peace with a foreign adversary? Jungmin Han will present about how third-party interactions shape public opinion on rapprochement. Sep 26, 2025, 10am KST (= Sep 25 9pm ET)

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I'm not at APSA, but my master's student/coauthor, Sangmyung, is presenting! Come see how ideological "incongruence" in the U.S. has changed in the last decade. Sat, Sep 13, 2-3:30pm local time.

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This was a really fun paper to write (but a pain to collect data!) It took me embarrasingly long to wrap up and submit, so I'm thrilled it's now in the books.

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Hans Hassell @hjghassell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Ideologically extreme candidates don't solicit more small dollar donations. New at @respol.bsky.social from @sysilviakim.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Currently in FirstView: In “Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences,” Yuki Atsusaka and @sysilviakim.bsky.social examine the statistical consequences of measurement error and introduce a framework for improving ranking data analysis.

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/4

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

SWERP returns with 2025's third presentation. Dr. Kyosuke Kikuta asks: what is the effect of solar eclipses on violence? Find out how armed groups rationally can use darkness for their tactical purposes. 5/2 10am KST = 5/1 Thu 9pm EST. See you soon! swerp.weebly.com

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Wasn't there a paper recently about how partisans are willing to tolerate cost to themselves and copartisans as long as outpartisans were going to suffer more? Anybody remember which paper this was?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/03/2025

Targeting people for their political views is not going to stop with immigrants. Gift link: wapo.st/43Ssl2Q

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Opinion | They’re coming for immigrants first

And the Trump administration is signaling that no one else might be safe, either.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 New paper (with Kasey Rhee & Nico Studen). We use a new within-precinct design to isolate how ideology affects vote choice holding turnout fixed, analyzing 3.4M precinct observations across state & fed elections (2016-2022). tldr: Ideological moderation affects vote shares, but not by much. 🧵⬇️

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The Electoral Consequences of Ideological Persuasion: Evidence from a Within-Precinct Analysis of U.S. Elections

Most research on the electoral penalty of candidate ideology relies on betweendistrict or longitudinal comparisons, which are confounded by turnout and ballot c

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

A screenshot of a social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated March 4, 2025, at 4:30 AM. The post states:

“All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Citizens can write persuasive messages to those on the other side, especially if they can bridge identity divides through perspective-taking & personal narratives. But unsuccessful senders perceive themselves to be as persuasive as successful ones www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Carlisle Rainey 👨‍💻📊📚 @carlislerainey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"The Need for Equivalence Testing in Economics" from Jack Fitzgerald (@jackfitzgerald.bsky.social) Preprint: osf.io/preprints/met... We know that "not significant" does not imply evidence for "no effect," but I still see papers make this leap. Good to see more work making this point forcefully!

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Two new pubs this year! Journal of Politics w/ Zhao Li: Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good doi.org/10.1086/735435 Political Analysis with Yuki Atsusaka: Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences doi.org/10.1017/pan....

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Keep Winning with WinRed? Online Fundraising Platform as the Party's Public Good | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Straight up to the top of the queue 🔥

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

What is the purpose of the excessively emotional delivery of North Korean TV news? SWERP will host Jongyoon Baik on Mar 7, 10am KST (Mar 6, 8pm EST). Put it on your calendars and DM me if you want to be put on the mailing list! swerp.weebly.com

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I've written an opinion column on the JoongAng on the parallels between January 6 and the 2025 Seoul Western District Court riot. www.joongang.co.kr/article/2531...

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What are some poli sci pubs/working papers on Jan 6? I've read Craig and Albertson (2024) PSRM, Curry and Roberts (2024) APSR, and am trying to get my hands on Gary Jacobson's Cambridge Elements. What else have I missed?

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Under what conditions can friend-shoring--relocating economic activities to nations with aligned political interests--be effective? SWERP is resuming 2025 workshops with Haillie Na-Kyung Lee presenting on the topic, Feb 7, 2024, 10am KST (8pm EST). Join us online as usual!

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The parallels between the Korean martial law incident and Jan 6 still run strong. Rampant misinfo, fueled directly by the incumbent president, accusations of election fraud ("stop the steal"), storming of key democratic institutions, the violence/destruction. m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/articl...

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Police apprehend 45 protesters for storming court in protest against Yoon's formal arrest

Police on Sunday apprehended 45 protesters on-site who stormed a court in an angry protest against a decision to formally arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid.

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Jean Hong 洪知延 홍지연 @jeanhong.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wrote a piece in with Hye Young You goodauthority.org/news/south-k... Our main points: - massage from South Korean politicians and citizens was clear: no return to military rule. - then, why democratic institutions that should have deterred President’s undemocratic move did not work?

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How strong is South Korea's democracy?

The big lesson from the recent tests of democratic resilience in South Korea is that any democracy can be at risk.

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We’re asking for solidarity from political scientists worldwide: you can read and sign the statement in English, Japanese, Chinese, and French in the below Qualtrics form: ysgrad.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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A Declaration by Political Scientists of South Korea

Call for an Immediate Reintroduction and the Passage of the Impeachment Bill to Restore the Constitutional Order

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

573 political scientists in and out of Korea have written and signed a declaration calling for Yoon's immediate impeachment. I've translated it into English with Prof. Jeong Hyun Kim at Yonsei: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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A Declaration of Political Scientists of South Korea

A Declaration by Political Scientists of South Korea Call for an Immediate Reintroduction and the Passage of the Impeachment Bill to Restore the Constitutional Order The emergency martial law declar...

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

서울대학교 정치외교학부에서 비상계엄 사태에 대한 긴급 좌담회를 내일 오후 (12/5 목요일) 3시에 아시아연구소 영원홀에서 개최합니다. 많은 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/11/2024

President-elect Trump is keeping the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort secret, in a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest groups, businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term.

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Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money

Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.

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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So there's no bookmark feature on BlueSky? Then how will I store all my read-later posts that'll gather dust forever and never be read?

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