Joe Noonan
@joenoonan.se
PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.
website: https://joenoonan.se/
website: https://joenoonan.se/
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I wrote a post with some reflections on Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (2025), Claude Code, and automation in quantitative social science.
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
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No Other Choice, Quantitative Social Science, and Claude Code – Joseph Noonan
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February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I wrote a post with some reflections on Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (2025), Claude Code, and automation in quantitative social science.
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
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Prosocial acts attract social rewards—unless they also benefit you, when you get moral derogation instead.
Research by @shafenbraedl.bsky.social suggests this is because social rewards are treated as reserved for *genuine* costly prosocial actions:
buff.ly/LThi1MW
Research by @shafenbraedl.bsky.social suggests this is because social rewards are treated as reserved for *genuine* costly prosocial actions:
buff.ly/LThi1MW
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Prosocial acts attract social rewards—unless they also benefit you, when you get moral derogation instead.
Research by @shafenbraedl.bsky.social suggests this is because social rewards are treated as reserved for *genuine* costly prosocial actions:
buff.ly/LThi1MW
Research by @shafenbraedl.bsky.social suggests this is because social rewards are treated as reserved for *genuine* costly prosocial actions:
buff.ly/LThi1MW
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Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3
I wrote a post with some reflections on Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (2025), Claude Code, and automation in quantitative social science.
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
No Other Choice, Quantitative Social Science, and Claude Code – Joseph Noonan
joenoonan.se
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I wrote a post with some reflections on Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice (2025), Claude Code, and automation in quantitative social science.
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
joenoonan.se/post/claude_...
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Does anyone have good resources or papers that explain when to use matching versus weighting for causal identification, and how they differ conceptually?
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Does anyone have good resources or papers that explain when to use matching versus weighting for causal identification, and how they differ conceptually?
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CALL FOR EDITOR -
@jepsjournal.bsky.social seeks an editor or editorial team with a commitment to publishing articles that represent the substantive and methodological diversity of experimental work in the discipline.
https://cup.org/4ae3Tul
cc @apsa.bsky.social @experimentsapsa.bsky.social
@jepsjournal.bsky.social seeks an editor or editorial team with a commitment to publishing articles that represent the substantive and methodological diversity of experimental work in the discipline.
https://cup.org/4ae3Tul
cc @apsa.bsky.social @experimentsapsa.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
CALL FOR EDITOR -
@jepsjournal.bsky.social seeks an editor or editorial team with a commitment to publishing articles that represent the substantive and methodological diversity of experimental work in the discipline.
https://cup.org/4ae3Tul
cc @apsa.bsky.social @experimentsapsa.bsky.social
@jepsjournal.bsky.social seeks an editor or editorial team with a commitment to publishing articles that represent the substantive and methodological diversity of experimental work in the discipline.
https://cup.org/4ae3Tul
cc @apsa.bsky.social @experimentsapsa.bsky.social
In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
February 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
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Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.
osf.io/preprints/so...
1/15
osf.io/preprints/so...
1/15
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We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography - Uppsala University
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography, Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
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i renamed a document and added two paragraphs
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
i renamed a document and added two paragraphs
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We are advertising two fully funded doctoral (PhD) positions:
🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research
🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
🗓️ Apply by 25 March 2026
👉 Full details and application instructions:
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research
🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
🗓️ Apply by 25 March 2026
👉 Full details and application instructions:
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
We are advertising two fully funded doctoral (PhD) positions:
🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research
🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
🗓️ Apply by 25 March 2026
👉 Full details and application instructions:
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research
🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
🗓️ Apply by 25 March 2026
👉 Full details and application instructions:
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Read my latest post for reflections on reproducibility, research quality and a summary of a great new study which shows how NOT to do it
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
Gambling with research quality
How you get 244 different ways to measure performance on the same test of decision making. And what it means for the reliability of behavioural science
tomstafford.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Read my latest post for reflections on reproducibility, research quality and a summary of a great new study which shows how NOT to do it
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
The "shooting the messenger about AI" block list.
Not that a lot of people who feel that way are listening to me.
February 2, 2026 at 10:38 AM
The "shooting the messenger about AI" block list.
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You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize.
But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
February 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize.
But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
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📢New Working Paper Alert📢
Very excited to share the latest version of our paper with
@hlarreguy.bsky.social, David Martinez, and Mariano Sánchez-T on how authoritarian regimes vary their strategies across territory to maintain political control.
🔗https://juanfeliperiano.com/papers/militias.pdf
Very excited to share the latest version of our paper with
@hlarreguy.bsky.social, David Martinez, and Mariano Sánchez-T on how authoritarian regimes vary their strategies across territory to maintain political control.
🔗https://juanfeliperiano.com/papers/militias.pdf
February 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM
📢New Working Paper Alert📢
Very excited to share the latest version of our paper with
@hlarreguy.bsky.social, David Martinez, and Mariano Sánchez-T on how authoritarian regimes vary their strategies across territory to maintain political control.
🔗https://juanfeliperiano.com/papers/militias.pdf
Very excited to share the latest version of our paper with
@hlarreguy.bsky.social, David Martinez, and Mariano Sánchez-T on how authoritarian regimes vary their strategies across territory to maintain political control.
🔗https://juanfeliperiano.com/papers/militias.pdf
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Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
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Protest scholars: I'm looking for event data on protests that covers the 2000s to early 2010s. I'm trying to track democracy protests globally but ACLED doesn't seem to have pre-2016 for most countries and most of the existing ones I know of aren't at the event level. All help much appreciated!
January 30, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Protest scholars: I'm looking for event data on protests that covers the 2000s to early 2010s. I'm trying to track democracy protests globally but ACLED doesn't seem to have pre-2016 for most countries and most of the existing ones I know of aren't at the event level. All help much appreciated!
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now in print in the new issue of APSR: Campos and Federico (2026), "A New Measure of Affective Polarization" -->
A New Measure of Affective Polarization | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
A New Measure of Affective Polarization - Volume 120 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
January 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
now in print in the new issue of APSR: Campos and Federico (2026), "A New Measure of Affective Polarization" -->
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Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
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New right "intellectuals" in 2026 🤝 fearing Scandinavian radicalism 🤝 factory owners from 1910
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
New right "intellectuals" in 2026 🤝 fearing Scandinavian radicalism 🤝 factory owners from 1910
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When being democratic becomes part of a country/citizen's identity it leads to weird reasoning where it is impossible to be undemocratic.
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 AM
When being democratic becomes part of a country/citizen's identity it leads to weird reasoning where it is impossible to be undemocratic.
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
New right "intellectuals" in 2026 🤝 fearing Scandinavian radicalism 🤝 factory owners from 1910
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
New right "intellectuals" in 2026 🤝 fearing Scandinavian radicalism 🤝 factory owners from 1910
When being democratic becomes part of a country/citizen's identity it leads to weird reasoning where it is impossible to be undemocratic.
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 AM
When being democratic becomes part of a country/citizen's identity it leads to weird reasoning where it is impossible to be undemocratic.
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
"We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"
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Senior professors with good funding and armies of research assistants should share what they delegate to their RAs without giving them authorial credit.
This will help us without such resources understand the ethical boundaries of using Claude Code and other LLMs for our own work.
This will help us without such resources understand the ethical boundaries of using Claude Code and other LLMs for our own work.
January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Senior professors with good funding and armies of research assistants should share what they delegate to their RAs without giving them authorial credit.
This will help us without such resources understand the ethical boundaries of using Claude Code and other LLMs for our own work.
This will help us without such resources understand the ethical boundaries of using Claude Code and other LLMs for our own work.