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I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators. ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
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We all know the pop culture trope about how many words inuit languages have for snow. New work looks at 'lexical elaboration' across languages computationally by leveraging word appearances in a corpus of bilingual dictionaries. Absolutely fantastic stuff. www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Debates re whether accepting a Qatari plane is "corrupt" makes parallels between Berlusconi & Trump even clearer The centre-left governments of the late 1990s wasted years pushing forward "reasonable" legislation to govern conflicts of interest They got played You can't halfway house this stuff

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Bit underwhelmed by this IRT paper now out in the APSR. You can get an article for saying, "constrain your discrimination parameters for selected items"? Haven't people been doing that for a long time? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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UK HE, standards and free academic labour. When an academic suspects plagiarism or cheating with AI, it takes at least an hour's extra labour to put together the evidence for a panel. 1/5

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Tomorrow there's a big White Paper on immigration (www.gov.uk/government/n...). Whatever else it does, it's bound to refuel Labour’s internal debate about net migration -- a debate full of assumptions about public opinion. Strap in for a long thread about a survey testing some of those assumptions.

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Political scientists are obligated to repost news of elections decided by single votes. I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules.

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Peeps, who has recommendations for non-Kindle ereaders? My current Kindle is dying and I want to break out of the Amazon walled garden.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Just watched The Taste of Things / La Passion de Dodin Bouffant, and oh my god it is the Frenchest film possible, a neutron star of frenchness so dense, and yet light and airy at the same time

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When we in Europe read these horror stories from the US, we should remember that these are the places where our governments are already “returning” migrants.

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There's a lot to disagree with concerning the response format (two ways to say yes, really?). But I dislike the fact that a lot of people aren't really democrats.

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Worth a read throughout, but this does make me ask why Stata silently drops things it can't estimate (see the paper in the last post in the thread, section "An RDD impossible to estimate")

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Admittedly not the biggest news in geopolitics today, but govt has finally staged an intervention in Warrington council, after years of warnings about its risky investments, £1.9bn in debt, five years of outstanding accounts and the resignation of its auditors last summer on.ft.com/3GYndRe

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Betfair thinks Parolin has got it.

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I've been looking at recent Arab Barometer data. The survey asks respondents to rate four countries (USA, Germany, China, their own country) on a scale from zero ("no democracy whatsoever") to ten ("democratic to the greatest extent possible"). Some of the comparative judgements are crazy (1/n)

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TFW when you check real GDP growth 2013 to 2023 and find it's lower than the feeble growth of the 1970s

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Do you feel seen? #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

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On campus for an event, surrounded by the dull-set, sometimes dulcet tones of students revising Land Law (God have mercy on them).

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cc @profafinlayson.bsky.social

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this is art

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We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

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What is the German for franchi tiratori? Or better put - what is the Italian for schadenfreude?

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When you headline an article "X is criticized for Y", you usually have to say *who* is criticising, no? nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...

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