Bruno Castanho Silva

Top papers in any social science discipline generally require huge amounts of work which are equivalent to books. People think their own discipline is the special hardworking snowflake only because that’s the only one they’ve seen up close

Very cool (and depressing)

Tell me you work in Germany without telling me you work in Germany

You know how there’s that one mate of yours who lurches from personal crisis to personal crisis, keeps losing his job, goes through a string of emotionally devastating relationships and yet somehow comes out of it with an enviable lifestyle?

France.

Very happy to host @francescafeo.bsky.social this term!

Proud to be part of such a productive research group!

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Wait wait wait. A paper that explains radical right support with a sensible theoretical mechanism and a causal explanation that can actually be influenced by policy? Didn't know these still existed

this is a depressingly good point (about how the EU / Aus / China / Asia-Pac etc did not step up nearly enough to fill the gap left by USAID)

Congratulations! They're lucky to have you!

That looks cool, thanks for sharing!

Curioso pra ler!

The current consensus in political science is that Nazis hating me and me hating Nazis are both equal parts of the ~polarization problem

💯 yes to this

But since people on the other side of the political spectrum are not speaking out well there's nothing else to do, move on everyone

Screenshot of a tweet that contains two slides from a presentation: the first reads "If the first line of your R script is setwd("C:\Users\jenny\path\that\only\I\have") I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE", the second reads "If the first line of your R script is rm(list = ls()) I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE

Periodic reminder.

I will come to your office and set your computer on fire 🔥

Oh the amount of colleagues for whom Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer waltzed off their tongues but still cannot pronounce a friend's 5-letter foreign name even once...

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I feel I should clarify I have no idea of anything cycling and have no clue who this person is but sure go for it! As long as there's no wolves on the way

a cartoon of spongebob giving the thumbs up with the words too easy below him ALT: a cartoon of spongebob giving the thumbs up with the words too easy below him

Tour de France 2027 lasting 5 months and going through every village and voilà we avoided President Le Pen

Petition unterschreiben Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
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Current conversion rate is 10 days on vacation = 136 new emails

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

Oh, John Bolton is being attacked with made up accusations for shady political reasons?

Isn't that something...

📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

Definitely taking the passenger seat, as made very clear now with Trump II

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9


doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Extract from the Charlemagne column in the Economist, reading: "more working means more money, and more money means added clout in global affairs. Until the 1960s Europeans toiled longer hours than Americans, and mattered somewhat more in the world. That is no coincidence"

And the freestyle causal inference top Play of the Week goes to the @economist.com Charlemagne piece on Europeans needing to work more

Copenhagen, hands down, best airport in Europe

But are they as fun as barking Hey du! to someone doing something wrong though?