Reposted by Tiago Santos Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026Relatedly, this is why I’ve been keeping a list of Untranslatable Words and their meanings: Verschlimmbessern — don’t know Saudade — no idea, sorry Tsundoku — ??? Something? Hygge — untranslatable sorry Gluggaveður — untranslatable letter too Hiraeth — who can say 1510614
Reposted by Tiago Santos Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Trump has threatened to sue the left-leaning @americanprogress.bsky.social (CAP) and its donors over a study it published questioning the benefits of his National Guard deployment. I'm proud that Cato's president is speaking out against this act of intimidation. "We stand with CAP." /1 9719158
Reposted by Tiago Santos Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Indoor air quality is one of the most underrated issues across human history www.slowboring.com/p/thousands-...slowboring.comThousands of years of indoor air pollutionThe too-late invention of somewhat safe ways to cook and heat with wood 3484
Reposted by Tiago Santos David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Studies show that donors are more extreme than primary voters, who are actually not so different from parties' general election voters. Far fewer people donate even small amounts than vote in primaries, and they are distinctive-more politically attentive, more partisan and more extreme. 0124
Reposted by Tiago Santos Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchic... 021
Reposted by Tiago Santos Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Isto é um ótima ideia! 122
Reposted by Tiago Santos Andy Seaton @aseaton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A large part of political discourse makes me think that it's just reality TV for people who turn their nose up at reality TV. Socially acceptable The Only Way Is Essex for the chattering classes 4438
Reposted by Tiago Santos Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026My reading of the literature on employment effects of minimum wage is that nobody who works on it will ever be unemployed 4478
Reposted by Tiago Santos Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026A public space that’s not unpleasantly overcrowded some of the time is going to be badly underused most of the time. www.slowboring.com/p/against-ur... 4677
Reposted by Tiago Santos Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I keep seeing memes about how Ai sucks, but which are very clearly made by Ai, and all I can figure is overseas content farms, whatever else you could say about them, have a highly developed sense of irony. 820719
Reposted by Tiago Santos Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026🧐🤔🇩🇪 Today in “Actually, Europeans are just like us, only with the good fortune of having better electoral & legislative institutions” 58415
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I'll create a bot account which will just retweet this every day, in 50 languages 010
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I don't think this is true at all. Most of the information we have on anything comes from text, and a textual "deepfake" has always been as easy as a true one. Yet for all the talk about misinformation, the information system in place works generally well. It relies on a network of trust. 110
Reposted by Tiago Santos Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Yes! And appropriately enough, central planning built an insanely expensive project that was largely to impress other nations. 2211
Reposted by Tiago Santos Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people 133103551999
Reposted by Tiago Santos Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Are there still political scientists who (i) are small-d democrats and (ii) would recommend presidentialism over parliamentarism for a country (re)drafting its constitution? Recommendation might be in general or in specific circumstances? 171
Reposted by Tiago Santos Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 15/02/2025Dois terços das salas de aula no país não são climatizadas www1.folha.uol.com.brSó 1 em cada 3 salas de aula públicas do Brasil é climatizadaEstudos mostram que excesso de calor prejudica a aprendizagem por afetar a concentração e a saúde dos alunos 3173
Reposted by Tiago Santos Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 28/01/2025Man presidentialism is such a stupid idea 611512
Reposted by Tiago Santos Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Immensely thought-provoking post by @tribsantos.bsky.social on voter (ir)rationality! open.substack.com/pub/whynotpa...open.substack.comThere are different ways voters can be rational or notThe rationality hypothesis works sufficiently well for some types of choices, terribly for others 162
Reposted by Tiago Santos Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Traditionally, social psychologists saw obedience as central to the conservative mindset. Recent research, however, suggests that liberals are just as obedient as conservatives, but just to different authorities. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-... 2105
Reposted by Tiago Santos Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025yes im cursed BY HAVING TO SHARE A WORLD WITH MOLD AND FREQUENTISM 2131
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 02/01/2025New year, new post. www.whynotparliamentarism.com/p/the-illuso... 000
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Good to see Levitsky discuss "Perils of Presidentialism" here 141
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024A good illustration of why using net present value is better than cost benefit ratios 100
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Wow, nice - particularly in light of the gold medalist 130
Reposted by Tiago Santos Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...worksinprogress.coWhy housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in ProgressWhy do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share. 11419147
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I also experienced the shift yesterday, when following news about South Korea 010
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Fully agree "constraints on the executive" is bad proxy for good institutions, but that is because it is bad terminology. Institutionalists mean "responsibility to parliament" when they say that. As Gabriel notes, though, there are several ways one can design constraints on the executive. 121
Reposted by Tiago Santos Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2024Clean indoor air the kind of no-brainer, basic component of civil society that future generations will be aghast we neglected this long 342051662
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Good evidence that bluesky might be the new (old school) Twitter 020
Reposted by Tiago Santos Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16/10/2024In case you missed this Bluesky moment 523969510
Reposted by Tiago Santos Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 15/10/2024In 2001 you already long had new institutional economics, you already long had economic history, you already had political science & sociology, yet it took 2 papers with bad data & a dubious IV to get institutions taken seriously. That is an astounding thing! Yet not enough people are astounded! 13912
Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 29/09/2024It is completely different, though. Stock market fluctuations can't be - reliably, through a widely known process - predicted because the prediction itself would change the trajectory by affecting market players. What PS paper argues prediction is basically impossible? 110
Reposted by Tiago Santos Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 27/09/2024A great philosopher recently told me: "you can always get away with saying 'I think you'll find it's more complicated than that', because it's always true. But it's not always helpful." 07816
Reposted by Tiago Santos Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 24/08/2024go.bsky.app/47ivadi 23124
Reposted by Tiago Santos Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 23/08/2024go.bsky.app/QrGQUgW 12016
Reposted by Tiago Santos Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Some of my favourite political science blogs (in random order). 1. @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.orggoodauthority.orgGood Authority - Political Science Insights to Illuminate the NewsPolitical scientists draw on their expertise and the discipline’s research to provide in-depth analysis and inform the political conversation. 199
Reposted by Tiago Santos Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 08/10/2023remember to put your phone on silent tonight so you don't get rudely woken up by the nobel committee at 4am 2494
Reposted by Tiago Santos Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 02/07/2023You can only read 600 posts per day on Bluesky because that’s how many there are 12086662011