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Chris Hanretty

@chanret.bsky.social

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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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Rich @therichjames.bsky.social · 10h

Kiplimo couldn't sustain it but wins comfortably in 2:02:30. He has to helped away at the end. He left it all out there

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 11h

Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 11h

I've phrased these as though they were alternatives, but of course they're not. Once you start winning, even by chance, you start to believe

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 11h

It always makes me wonder: is this just a chance event? Did someone just open the box marked "one in a thousand chances", and find Vacherot's name inside? Or did something change perceptibly for Vacherot this week?

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 11h

This has been an incredible week for Valentin Vacherot: first Monégasque to win at ATP1000 level, and lowest ranked to ever do so youtu.be/sTlHqhHIKis?...

Cousins Arthur Rinderknech vs Valentin Vacherot Historic Final 🏆 | Shanghai 2025 Final Highlights

YouTube video by Tennis TV

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Government does some good stuff. In this case, it seems it's solved a coordination problem by walking people up the aisle until they have to go through with it. Bad approach to matrimony, surprisingly effective for public policy

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Here is why the National Parking Platform is cool:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/national-p...

The National Parking Platform is a big, exciting deal and you should know about it

How the government nearly squandered an enormous opportunity

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Here is why the National Parking Platform is cool:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/national-p...

The National Parking Platform is a big, exciting deal and you should know about it

How the government nearly squandered an enormous opportunity

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 2d

Goodhart's Law part N.

www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-son...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested

Anthropic's new model appears to use "eval awareness" to be on its best behavior

www.transformernews.ai

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Wonder whether the Scottish Trades Union Congress is still continuing with its campaign "condemning attempts to undermine [the Venezuelan] Government" www.stuc.org.uk/campaigns-in...

Venezuela

The STUC calls on affiliates to support the Scottish Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign

www.stuc.org.uk

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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 2d

Oh to be working during the Islamic golden age

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...

The Islamic Empire heavily patronized scholars. The money spent on the Translation Movement for some translations is estimated to be equivalent to about twice the annual research budget of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.[18] The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today.[18] The House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur[19] in 825 modeled after the academy of Jundishapur.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

This is work commissioned by the BBC, but (i) they are happy for me to put it up here and (ii) they are sharing it with other broadcasters. (This process of data-laundering means people will soon be assuming that these are "official" figures).

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

NEW DATA: Notional results for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election on 2026 boundaries. Of interest to academics/pollsters/journos

Post: chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/sp2026...
Data: github.com/chrishanrett...
Source: github.com/chrishanrett...

Notional results for the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election – chris hanretty

chris hanretty’s site

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

My quasi-heretical beliefs are that (i) there should be a lot less VI polling of all kinds and that (ii) we should adopt an electoral system that means we don't need PhDs to work out likely seat distributions.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

All I will say is that I hope anyone who bought an MRP after the 2019 EP election was happy with their purchase.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

I take yr point, but I'm not sure we "know" those things, because we're always conditioning on the set of responses given now. MRPs fall in line with uniform national swing as you get closer to the election, because the information environment changes (chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/changi...)

chris hanretty - Why is the MRP so variable when the uniform national swing is so predictable?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody immigrants, coming here and complaining about correct orthography

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, it's actually first from left who gives off those vibes www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...

What my GB News incest row critics fail to understand

If reproductive and non-reproductive incest are so bad, why do people resort to personal attacks as opposed to moral arguments?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 3d

Not quite sure why people putting the 14 words on signs get a ruminative essay on how the saltire has been used www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The battle for Scotland's flag: Why the right has adopted the saltire

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

crying now

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

Once you get sensitised to lag in the gaming context, you see it everywhere - and these people maybe don't?

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

But how do you ctrl-tab between them without getting stuck on tab twenty?

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

I don't understand how 3% of you live and function

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 4d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 4d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

ZOMG..... This is amazing!

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 4d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

It's not even the MBA stuff, it's the undergraduate degrees in Business. Three years of low-quality instruction!

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 4d

I was just in a Teams meeting with a colleague who'd just got a new standing desk and kept accidentally hitting the controls to change its height, and when she did she'd slowly vanish from the screen like she was in a lift and it really made my day 🤣🤣🤣

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 4d

This x100. Business degrees are cheap to run, easy to run badly, and face seemingly inexhaustible demand

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 4d

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