Alexander Geisler

So glad the implication is to develop better tests rather than to desk reject all work based on online surveys 🙏

NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

le tour 75 Map of Belgium and France with the Tour de France route drawn over it

#30DayMapChallenge

Day 18 - Tour De France 1975

The 1975 Tour de France was the 62nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 26 June and 20 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,000 km (2,485 mi).

I want Arnold Schwarzenegger to know that the notion of "out-cheating" each other in electoral districting is farcical when working in an area where using PEDs is increasingly becoming the norm (bodybuilding) to "outcompete" each other

THE YAED APPLE

Sliwa receives almost exactly the number of votes Cuomo would have needed to close up to Mamdani

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

This we’’ll feature the last two sections today:

🔝 This week: Comparative Politics of Development & Political Representation

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If I count Sam Altman as an elder millennial, it is actually quite noteworthy what he achieved: he made boomers and gen x listen

honestly tired of autocrats playing strongmen on the world stage just because their power doesn't depend on the will of the people in their countries

It's bad when your German friends say this all seems so familiar

We believe there’s room for multiple poli sci conferences in Europe, just like in the US & other regions.

🔝 But if you’re looking to support a Europe-based not-for-profit member-led organization, submit your work to 1️⃣ EPSS conference:

📍 Belfast
📅 18–20 June 2026
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Europeans: Kafkaesque
Americans: McCarthyesque

The State of American Democracy with Steven Levitsky, Adam Przeworski, Susan Stokes and Daniel Ziblatt | The Civic Forum E10 Spotify video

Here's 90 minutes with @adamprz.bsky.social,
Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and
@dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...

It wasn't even remotely Jimmy's most biting monologue that night

Emboldened by the Trump 2.0 administration, Orban-funded "researchers" are laying the ground for questioning some of the key tenets of European integration.

Very bad news for any political scientist wanting to replace human annotators with AI -- as expected, you can basically generate *any* statistical result you want.

A little warning about the CUP "coffee break" in Exhibit Hall A: they only had organic decaf when I went there #apsa2025 #apsa25

big egos

PSA: All APSA panels will be distributed along the various beaches of Vancouver

This campaign has produced the best ads/content of any Democratic campaign I’ve covered since Obama ‘08 and it’s not really close.

The latest polling from East Germany's #SachsenAnhalt should come as no surprise to anyone studying the far right, paralleling trends from similar regions in the UK and France.

how many university presidents preemptively caving to the Trump administration are more interested in keeping their multimillion-dollar jobs than preserving their university's research funding and why is it all of them

I hoped the LSD was going to provide them with some clarity of thought, but not so much

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting

All going really well

Putin-Zelenskyy summit won’t happen, says Germany’s Merz The chancellor’s comment is among the strongest public expressions of doubt yet from a European leader that Trump’s peace push will work.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said direct talks between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy wouldn't happen, even as the Trump administration continues to push for a peace deal.

🚨 New OA article with Scherwin M. Bajka in @reggovjournal.bsky.social:
“Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?” (link in last post)

When people fear job loss from new tech, do they prefer vocational training over academic tracks? Short answer: yes.