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The way we're already pricing in authoritarianism is very, very bad. Trump is using his power as president to openly retaliate against a law firm for representing Jack Smith and it's barely news. The signal this sends is chilling to anyone who would oppose him. What else will he do to his opponents?

submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

Trump's Project 2025 included 18 specific anti-LGBTQ policy proposals. 10/18 have already been implemented and we're only a month into this. Really impressive (if depressing) work from the folks at the Project 2025 Tracker www.project2025.observer

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

This is no time to try to will normality into existence by acting normally. It is time to fight any way we can.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Two great job opportunities in polisci/CPE at @ipz.bsky.social Less than 2 weeks left to apply!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 11 days ago • 303 comments

Individuals bear the costs of speaking out but don't capture the collective benefits for democracy. A classic externality - and one that could doom our system of government.

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 13 days ago • 519 comments

Heute hat mich Herbert Kickl informiert, dass die FPÖ und die ÖVP sich nicht auf eine Regierung einigen konnten. Und daher hat er heute den Regierungsbildungsauftrag zurückgelegt. (1/6)

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 15 days ago • 143 comments

New WP with @vincentab.bsky.social @ryancbriggs.net. We use LLMs and RAs to track publication trends in polisci. Here’s how subfields have changed in AJPS and JOP osf.io/v7fe8

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

The whole article is interesting, but this stands out: 'Across our 62 countries, the higher benevolent #sexism, the lower was the gender equality, women’s labour participation and the more time women spend on unpaid domestic chores.'

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.

submitted 18 days ago • 92 comments

That does give pause:

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

All these attacks on scientific research means progress towards finding treatment that can improve many chronically ill people's quality of life is slowed down.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

UW-Madison estimates every $1 in revenue has +$26 ROI in economic impact, so defunding universities will wreak havoc on local, state, and national economies. Many tens of thousands will lose their jobs in US. Thousands of startups stopped. State tax revenues lost. budget.wisc.edu/budget-in-br...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

For anyone doing democracy-relevant work in any domain, the SNF Agora Institute is accepting applications for our Visiting Fellows program for next academic year: snfagora.jhu.edu/visiting-fel...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

APSA Statement on Executive Action Impacts on Research Funding, Data Availability and Academic Freedom The American Political Science Association (APSA) is deeply concerned about recent executive actions that have had troubling implications for research funding and academic freedom. In January,…

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Please spread the word: Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University. The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th). More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

📣Call for papers! Dr Daniel de Kadt and @audreyalejandro.bsky.social are hosting a two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Kenneth Sherrill Prize recognizes the best doctoral dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBTQ+) topics in political science. #KennethSherrill Submit your nominations by Wednesday, Feb. 12th! apsanet.org/awards

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The Judges Won’t Save Us: Constitutions Aren’t Self-Executing We need our civil society to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Social sciences are the scariest thing for dictatorships, that’s why we didn’t have social sciences in the Soviet Union. Seeing this unfold in real time in the US is surreal and mortifying.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Why target USAID when it’s <1% of budget? “USAID funds democracy-promotion programs around the world, including in European countries where right-wing populist movements are thriving. Musk has become an ally of those movements, some of whose leaders have specifically targeted the agency…” Gift link

submitted 23 days ago • 63 comments

This whole thread. Call your reps right now. Make the phones ring.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

The Tea Party mobilized over far less than Trump has executed in the last two weeks and was able to shift national media coverage to a focus on debt for months.

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

Es sind zehntausende auf der Straße gegen die Normalisierung und Ermächtigung radikal rechter Kräfte. Es ist beeindruckend, wie viel Willensstärke die Zivilgesellschaft zeigt. Das obwohl SPD und Grüne jahrelang nur die "besorgten Bürger" anerkannten, die eine weniger offene Gesellschaft wollen. 1/

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

A mobilized civil society

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

This interview with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social is absolutely essential listening for anyone who wants to understand what’s happening with American government right now

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

I’ve seen several posts by researchers noting that specific data is no longer available on government websites. But is there a comprehensive list of what is gone?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

“But where are the opposition leaders? Where are the mass protests?” Been wondering this every day for the past week.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

If you conduct research with federal data of any kind I strongly suggest you spend this weekend downloading copies of everything you use.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

JOB ADVERT Associate Professor of Social Psychology at University of Oxford + Fellowship at Christ Church. Can be appointed at Full Professor if suitably qualified. Come and join the best Psychology department there is! @oxexppsy.bsky.social Please share, and apply: tinyurl.com/OxSocialPsych

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

Happy 50th birthday, @stawi-univie.bsky.social! It’s been an honor to share part of this journey with you—wishing you all the best for the years ahead! 🤗

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring! 5-year postdoc position in International Relations at the Department of Political Science of @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Deadline for applications: 12 February 2025. Full information: tinyurl.com/postdocIP #Polisky #AcademicJobs

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

✨ Yaah! My paper w Luuk vd Baaren & @david-reichel.bsky.social introducing a new dataset on dyadic dual citizenship acceptance 🌎 is now out in IMR! Our dataset covers: ⁃ 1.8 million directed dyad-year obs - combi rules in origin & destination ⁃ 201 states ⁃ 1960-2022 a 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment