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Joe Noonan
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PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.

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.

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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
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📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games

We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis!

Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients.

All tips and data very welcome!
February 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Only two more days to apply!
My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science for an open position!

I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply.

Deadline is 6 February 2026!

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PhD student in Political Science
The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an
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February 4, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Hive minds: I'm looking for working papers recommendations on the politics of deforestation. THANKS.
February 3, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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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
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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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
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_...
No Other Choice, Quantitative Social Science, and Claude Code – Joseph Noonan
joenoonan.se
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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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
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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
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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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
February 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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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.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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February 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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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.
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
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i renamed a document and added two paragraphs
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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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/...
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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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
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
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
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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.
February 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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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
February 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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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."
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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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
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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
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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-...
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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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