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Tiago Santos

@tribsantos.bsky.social
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Lots of policy. No politics.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026
Relatedly, 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
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump 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
Cato Institute graphic with text "Disagreements on matters of policy should be settled through open inquiry, evidence, and debate -- not threats designed to silence criticism. We stand with CAP in defending the fundamental American principle of free speech." -- Peter Goettler President and CEO Cato Institute with picture of Goettler
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Indoor air quality is one of the most underrated issues across human history www.slowboring.com/p/thousands-...
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Thousands of years of indoor air pollution
The too-late invention of somewhat safe ways to cook and heat with wood
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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Studies 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.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchic...
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
They're good dogs
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Isto é um ótima ideia!
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Andy Seaton @aseaton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A 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
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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My reading of the literature on employment effects of minimum wage is that nobody who works on it will ever be unemployed
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A 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...
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I 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.
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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”
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I'll create a bot account which will just retweet this every day, in 50 languages
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I 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.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Yes! And appropriately enough, central planning built an insanely expensive project that was largely to impress other nations.
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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
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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Are 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?
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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 15/02/2025
Dois terços das salas de aula no país não são climatizadas
www1.folha.uol.com.br
Só 1 em cada 3 salas de aula públicas do Brasil é climatizada
Estudos mostram que excesso de calor prejudica a aprendizagem por afetar a concentração e a saúde dos alunos
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 28/01/2025
Man presidentialism is such a stupid idea
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Immensely thought-provoking post by @tribsantos.bsky.social on voter (ir)rationality! open.substack.com/pub/whynotpa...
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There are different ways voters can be rational or not
The rationality hypothesis works sufficiently well for some types of choices, terribly for others
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Traditionally, 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-...
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
yes im cursed BY HAVING TO SHARE A WORLD WITH MOLD AND FREQUENTISM
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New year, new post. www.whynotparliamentarism.com/p/the-illuso...
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Good to see Levitsky discuss "Perils of Presidentialism" here
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A good illustration of why using net present value is better than cost benefit ratios
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Wow, nice - particularly in light of the gold medalist
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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It’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...
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Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress
Why 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.
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I also experienced the shift yesterday, when following news about South Korea
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Fully 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.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2024
Clean indoor air the kind of no-brainer, basic component of civil society that future generations will be aghast we neglected this long
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Good evidence that bluesky might be the new (old school) Twitter
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16/10/2024
In case you missed this Bluesky moment
Bluesky thread:

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD:
Apparently I was just mentioned in Jeopardy?! Might anyone have seen it and gotten a screen shot! 😮

Beetlejosh Beetlejosh:
Here's the clip!

Screenshot of video shows this Jeopardy answer/clue:
NNEDI OKORAFOR'S
2015 NOVELLA "BINTI"
PICKED UP BOTH OF THESE SCI-FI AWARDS, ONE VOTED ON BY FANS, THE OTHER BY FELLOW WRITERS

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD:
Oh my God!! He pronounced my name perfectly, too!!! 😃😃😃🥹🤓!!!!!  And the guy got the answer right!!!
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

Ken Jennings:
We try.
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
In 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!
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
"Don't do that"
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Tiago Santos @tribsantos.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
It 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?
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
A 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."
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
go.bsky.app/47ivadi
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
go.bsky.app/QrGQUgW
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Some of my favourite political science blogs (in random order). 1. @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org
goodauthority.org
Good Authority - Political Science Insights to Illuminate the News
Political scientists draw on their expertise and the discipline’s research to provide in-depth analysis and inform the political conversation.
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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
remember to put your phone on silent tonight so you don't get rudely woken up by the nobel committee at 4am
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
You can only read 600 posts per day on Bluesky because that’s how many there are
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