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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today in life under…competitive authoritarianism You don’t have to believe me. You can simply read the experts who, quite literally, invented the concept:

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've passed over 5000 out-of-print magazines in our digital archive! This is a big milestone that wouldn't have been possible without our community of supporters, collaborators, and industry partners. And it's about to keep growing. Learn more...

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VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next. | Video Game History Foundation

We've passed a big milestone for our digital archive. Let's talk about where our magazine collection is going next...

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Teaching people to analyze sources critically and independently of AI is important.

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In an essay from 1950, Norbert Weiner describes a guy who buys a player piano. It's clear he doesn't care about music, he's only interested in the mechanics of the thing. For Weiner, this is the difference between KNOW-HOW (technical skill) and KNOW-WHAT (how to use tech for human flourishing).

Quote from Norbert Weiner reading: "Some years ago, a prominent American engineer bought an expensive player-piano. It became clear after a week or two that this purchase did not correspond to any
particular interest in the music played by the piano but rather to an overwhelming interest in the piano mechanism. For this gentleman, the player-piano was not a means of producing music, but a means of giving
some inventor the chance of showing how skillful he was at overcoming certain difficulties in the production of music. This is an estimable attitude in a second-year high-school student. How estimable it is in one of those on whom the whole cultural future of the country depends, I leave to the reader."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A very dumb WaPo board editorial— as if in two years the US-Canada relationship can just go back to the status quo ante, as if the last decade hasn't happened. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure

Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have seen Russia’s recklessness at full display in the past 48 hours. A Russian warship fired flares at a Danish helicopter. NATO jets had to shoot down a drone over Lithuania. Russia struck a passenger train near the border with Ukraine. And Poland pulled a drone from its shores. (1/2)

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We need to be clear-eyed: those are not accidents. They are calculated attempts by Russia to weaken our resolve. Europe will not dial back its support for Ukraine. My intervention in #EPlenary ↓ link.europa.eu/YJFwcd

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Once again, the epic failure of the Iran war is simply not receiving the same nonstop, breathless treatment in the press that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean implementation of Trump’s totally unplanned rapid withdrawal timeline in 🇦🇫 received in 2021: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why does Trump hate #Canada so much? Because (like Putin and Ukraine) he can't imagine that it's actually an independent country and that it doesn't just do what he tells it to do. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Why Trump Has It Out for Canada

The superficial similarities between the U.S. and its closest friend are likely driving much of the president’s vitriol.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Leipzig attacks have all the hallmarks of state-sponsored terrorism. We will respond with resolve. 1.600 listings for the military complex of Russia are already in the pipeline. We stand ready to add more. We have also summoned the Russian representative to the EU, as have many Member States.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 01/09/2026

Press conference on this with interior and foreign minister has just ended. Some quotes, translated by me “The government has concluded that Russia is responsible for the hybrid attack in Leipzig.” “We do not consider Leipzig as singular event”

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David Karpa @dkarpa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

why do i -- to save a .docx -- have to click 5 times before i can see the treestructure of my folders @microsoft.com

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 29/08/2026

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 PhD in Political Science or related discipline 🏫 University of Oslo ⌛ Thursday 10 September 🔗 buff.ly/HRAaxYk #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

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Postdoctoral Fellow (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 17/08/2026

Me: my students are cheating and its harder to teach because of AI My university: Lets give students access to ChatGPT for free.

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 PhD in Political Science, or a closely related discipline 🏫 University of Oslo ⌛ Thursday 10 September 🔗 buff.ly/hPlrNvd #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

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Postdoctoral Fellow (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Once again, the Founders anticipated the possibility of a tyrannical president. What they didn’t anticipate is a majority of the members of Congress choosing subservience—not that they’d all be good people, but most should have egos and ambition, enough to object if someone tried taking their power.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Has the US ever been cowed by threats as badly as Trump backing down with Iran? Not only did he make big threats, get nothing, then drop the threats anyway. Iran made big threats and the US backed down in the face of them. No matter how much Trump lies about it, the whole world sees what happened.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.

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Victor Araújo @victoraraujo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📄 New pre-print on SSRN New evidence on a timely question: Does holding anti-democratic leaders legally accountable produce democratic backlash? Contrary to widespread concerns, I find no evidence that accountability increased affective polarisation or reduced support for democracy. 🧵👇

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Does Holding Anti-Democratic Leaders Accountable Backfire? Evidence from Bolsonaro's Arrest in Brazil

Whether holding anti-democratic leaders accountable strengthens or weakens democracy remains one of the unresolved questions in contemporary debates about democ

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

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Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In the stone ages I went to a training session where we were told students could only concentrate for 15 mins and this new invention - PowerPoint - would allow us to put up a captivating image. Professor of Medieval Italian was outraged: part of our job, he said, was to accustom people to boredom.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

For once, I believe him

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New from my outstanding coauthors @dowonkim.bsky.social and @glciampaglia.com et al.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When Mark Twain coined the term Gilded Age, he was mocking the Golden Age. He ripped into the greed and political corruption of post-Civil War era. Gilding referred to applying a thin layer of gold over cheap material. Any wonder why it’s Don the Con’s favorite period in US history?

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Good luck, everyone.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/10/2025

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

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Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com · 04/05/2026

My latest research offers an alternative. Rather than treating echo chambers as a single entity, it explores a socio-technical process with distinct stages. It helps to distinguish: • endogenous dynamics (like homoplhily) • exogenous meddling (like disinformation and bots) doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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Echo chamber dynamics on social media - Carlos Diaz Ruiz, 2026

Research on echo chambers has produced mixed support for the “echo chamber hypothesis,” partly because this complex phenomenon cannot be reduced to a single tes...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

As I wrote before the war, the entitled bully mindset is total. Not only find shallow displays of toughness emotionally satisfying, they believe it inherently succeeds. Not only disappointed Russia can't beat Ukraine; whole worldview is thrown off by it. Similar with Iran. It simply should not be.

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Trump, Iran, and the Limits of Bullying

The U.S. president deployed a lot of military firepower to the Middle East, apparently hoping to bully Iran into a deal, but that almost certainly won't work. What then?

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 02/05/2026

Thrilled to share, I rewrote the same three sections of my paper 27 times today.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I like the awareness that value is social but my own anthropological view is values are usually products of histories and valued substances index those histories in complex ways. A thread I should not attempt while suffering a major cold but what the heck let’s try… 1/

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The plan was for Iran to capitulate in response to threats, or quickly fold in the face of airstrikes and assassinations, empowering new leaders who then capitulate. There is no backup plan. Never was. Their whole worldview is that strength gets you whatever you want and bluster equals strength.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Offensively Dumb Realism

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I was just asked by a media outlet about Trump asking NATO for a plan for the alliance to do something about the Strait of Hormuz. Like fetch, it ain't gonna happen. 1. Trump started this without consultation so its his problem 2. NATO operates by consensus. Good luck with that 1/

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Svend-Erik Skaaning @skaaning.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One day, some PhD student will point to a Trump tweet from this period and say it was obvious what he meant and I will throttle them

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump threatening to annex Greenland because the Norwegian government didn't give him the Nobel prize seems relatively sane compared with where we are now.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

As @dandrezner.bsky.social concludes, the war is a strategic defeat for the United States. We are worse off than before the war, and already there have been military and civilian costs. As many experts have said, hard to see opening Hormuz militarily. 5/ danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-strate...

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The Strategic Defeat of the United States

Congratulations, Trump administration, you played yourself -- and America.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If we're to fix these problems then we need to understand what's causing them in the first place. In my opinion, since 2016, too much attention has been paid to issues like foreign interference and disinformation, and not enough time looking at the problems with our democracies.

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