I know there are many crises at the moment but I would like us to discuss another one: bros talking crypto at cafes. It's inescapable and insufferable and someone do something.

NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

At a time when we're witnessing so much cruelty, it's crucial to recognize and credit good people doing thankless, benevolent, and sometimes therefore dangerous work.

🚨🚨 Some hope: media and information literacy trainings - modules providing crucial skills to better consume information - in classroom settings appears to move the needle, and to have positive externalities!

Check out the (open-access) results of our large field-experiment in India.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Francesca and her colleagues have contributed so much public data on India, it's truly transformative (and fricking hard work!)

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

My two year old has started following me around and constantly asking "Mumma doing? Mumma doing?" and it's easily my favorite part of each day

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Really great and carefully done paper on the bureaucracy ⬇️

Congrats!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Excited to be working from Madrid this year at @uc3m.es in the Fall and IE in the Spring!

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Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies,” writes Mohammed Mansour with the International Rescue Committee in Gaza. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’ These are questions we can’t always answer.”

🚨 Paper now as "just accepted" at @The_JOP. We ran the first WhatsApp deactivation experiment focused on multimedia content ahead of the 2022 election in Brazil. We find a reduction in users' recall of false rumors -- and, to a smaller degree, of true news. Null effects on attitudes. Full thread ⬇️

A huge congrats!

For those interested in what has been recently published on gender and politics in the global south, here's a roundup of some articles since Jan 2025: open.substack.com/pub/genderpo...

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I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL).

I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome!

seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...