🎉 I am so very happy that I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project BORDERS: Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond. My (future) team and I will investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects of border change on development in historical Europe and worldwide. #ERCStG 🎉

Though to be clear, given the number of allegations against Kreissler it seems quite likely to me that he plagiarised Tom Lehrer…

Also note that the paper pays most attention the sharp change in strategies of itinerant rule across the Great Interregnum 1250-73 in order to avoid drawing inferences from sweeping comparisons between the 10th and 15th centuries.

We totally agree -- the visualization of the all itineraries is only to give a general overview over the data. We will make the data interactively available such that one can plot individual emperors or even just years similar to the below examples from the paper.

3. While the impact of techn. change and the growth of centralized institutions would be fascinating to study, they cannot explain the stark discontinuity in rulers' destinations across the interregnum. Stopping in 1400 does not alter the gist of this finding.

Thank you Hein, also for your comments in Zurich! In case this is interesting, our Appendix now includes a long list of historical polities in Europe and beyond, coding whether their rulers were itinerant or sedentary (excerpt w/ France below):

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Isnt Anti-woke only the entry-drug here? Trump, Musk & co should be taken as straight-up white supremacists at this point. … see eg www.thehandbasket.co/p/nazis-musk...

Overleaf seems to be down -- anyone knows what is happening? Seems to be not only me...

good thing I regularly checkout my overleaf projects!!

🚨 UCL Conflict and Change PhD Workshop 2025 Call for Papers, deadline 8 Dec. Apply, it’s a fantastic workshop and crowd! t.co/rMWGimGtlw

🚨 New research paper: *Rulers on the Road*. We map emperors’ itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 719 to 1519 and shed light on how they projected power without centralized bureaucracies. Very fun project with @claranw.bsky.social @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/npKQ4

🚨 How do states and ethnic groups shape each other? Two new articles of mine in the AJPS explore this issue – I’m very happy that they were both published online over the weekend! Thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/ajps... and doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

We didn't run the survey experiment again, so we don't know exactly. But to the extent that our results mirror survey data on Ukrainians' support for government & military, opinions seem to be rather stable. See, e.g., Gallup survey from Jul and Aug 2023 news.gallup.com/poll/512621/...

How do Ukrainians think about self-defense against Russia? In a new paper out in the AJPS, @janinadill.bsky.social, Marnie Howlett and I find through a conjoint experiment that they are categorically against major concessions, even at very high costs of self-defense doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (1/6)