Pia Raffler

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EPSS 2026 submissions FAQ - EPSS Submissions are coming in fast for Belfast 2026 and so are your questions about submissions. Here are answers to the most common questions: Where do I go to submit? For panel submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/75765/symposia/create For paper submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266/submissions/new? How many papers can I submit? We put a constraint of max one presentation per person. This does …

Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026

really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting

⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...

In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

Striking difference in trust in the World Bank & IMF between Africa & Asia (high trust) and the rest of the world (low trust)

www.rockefellerfoundation.org/reports/dema...

@sophieehill.bsky.social doing the Lord's (statistics) work

All of us—including myself—should publish fewer but better papers.
And we should spend more of our time on scrutinizing existing work, so we know which claims can be trusted. But that's hard work with little recognition.
Thanks @sophieehill.bsky.social for doing it. Impressive 🕵️‍♀️ work. Fun to read.

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

Pages from a mini comic

Pages from a mini comic

Pages from a mini comic

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Congratulations, Alex!

Exciting new work by @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social (who is on the market!) & Co

"Political brokers use social networks to identify & target reciprocal non-copartisans for vote buying. Parties recruit brokers central in networks to sway persuadable voters."

From @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social, Finan, @hlarreguy.bsky.social and Schechter:

www.restud.com/brokering-vo...

#Econsky

📣 REMINDER for Latin America’s PhD students: apply to the EGAP PhD Lab 💥

📍 Lima, Oct 2–3
🗓 Deadline: July 31
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With support from:
GRADE Peru, @wyssacademy.bsky.social @uniandes.bsky.social

#PhD #LatAmResearch #EGAP2025

Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from Sara Lowes and @nathannunn.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33981

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

APSA eJobs year-to-year comparison #polisky:

June 2024: 41 positions (20 assistant TT positions)

June 2025: 29 positions (12 assistant TT positions)

Most Literature Reviews Miss the Point. Don’t Let Yours Critically Engaging Past Work to Confidently Shape Your Own

Most literature reviews miss the point.

Not because they’re sloppy.

But because they treat the literature like a box to tick.

In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review:

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter...

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Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Go Dr. Carvalho!!!!

Looking to work at the intersection of research and policy in development?

Friends of VoxDev are hiring for 4 important roles in the evidence-to-policy ecosystem.

Check them out below 🧵1/5

Work with my wonderful colleague @mamalik.bsky.social‬

On June 16 at noon (ET), I will hold a super informal Zoom workshop on "Navigating the Tenure Track System" for political science graduate students and postdocs about to start a tenure track position. #polisci

To register, pls fill the following form: shorturl.at/vVuQb

Congratulations! Love this paper

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

🚨Last week to submit to PEEP- Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (Vancouver Sep 10).

Submit by April 30 tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social and I look forward to reading & organizing!

Last year’s program below

🌍 Explore how political institutions influence economic outcomes in Political Economy and Economic Development with MITxCourses.

Dive into topics like corruption, voting, and the role of the media, while gaining tools to analyze real-world challenges. Enroll now: buff.ly/ony0iSq

A fantastic program taught by the best, almost for free for many

Are you interested in applying to PhD programs in political science? If so, join us for an info session on May 1 at 6:00pm pacific time (virtual and in person). You may register with this link: forms.gle/LHpzVZTaitvf...

This is brilliantly put by Rachel and @siddhharia.bsky.social , aid should stop trying to do everything and just do what it does best

Einbinden oder abgrenzen? Experten beim Umgang mit der AfD gespalten Wie umgehen mit der in Teilen rechtsextremen AfD? Darüber wird nicht erst seit Spahns Vorstoß diskutiert. Stärkt man die AfD, wenn man sie wie eine normale Partei behandelt? Oder nimmt man ihr damit d...

Tatsächliche Expert:innen sind bei der Frage in etwa so gespalten wie beim Klimawandel - die Antwort ist ausgrenzen. Aber man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass man doch immer jemanden finden kann für bothsidesism. Politik nimmt sich dann was ihr besser gefällt.

www.tagesschau.de/inland/debat...

Need field research training? There is still time to sign up for the all-virtual course the brilliant Alexandra Hartman (UCL) and I are offering at the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social in July! See infos below.

Very happy to see this with @piaraffler.bsky.social in press www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... It was a great excuse to go back to interacting more often as in our good old times at @harvard.edu