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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Very happy to have my latest research with my excellent co-author and dear friend, Xuan Qin at Fudan University, into the lasting effects of China's zero-COVID policy on its grassroots governance published in the China Journal!

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess #BJPIR article! 'The enemy behind the scenes: How China’s propaganda shores up support for Russia’s war in Ukraine' by @taomanchester.bsky.social & Han-yu Hsu 🔗 buff.ly/Sm3D27X @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New report spotlights collapse in politics researcher jobs and risk of "lost generation" for discipline. "While we knew the current situation was bad, the most surprising thing is just how bad," says @ralphscott.bsky.social, one of the authors. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Collapse in politics researcher jobs paints ‘troubling picture’ - Research Professional News

Amid university financial crisis, ageing discipline could face “lost generation” of academics, report warns

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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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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Catastrophic Success by Alexander B. Downes | eBook | Cornell University Press

In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change....

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Kevin Wei Luo @kevinweiluo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Cool paper: "An analysis of publicly available data of 2,200 experts on Chinese politics worldwide, compiled through a bottom-up snowballing nomination process, reveals that this China Watcher community is globally connected and diverse but also continues to be dominated by male US-based academics."

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Tao Wang @taomanchester.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Glad to be quoted in this report about Chinese citizens fighting for Ukraine (yes, there are many Chinese sympathetic towards Ukraine, 22% by our estimate). Special thanks go to @davidstroup.bsky.social for the referral. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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‘I wanted to do something more meaningful’: the Chinese nationals fighting for Ukraine

Volunteers defy their government and public opinion in China to risk their lives for an adversary of Beijing’s main geopolitical partner

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"I’d never been so curious about another writer’s routines, habits, and time-management skills." Hua Hsu asks the question we all have: how does Rebecca/R.F. Kuang manage to do it all?!?

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The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang

The author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell.

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Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives.

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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A few thoughts about today's protests: 1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures: -- total national turnout (~ 3 million) -- number of local protests (~ 1400)

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