Alexandra Jabbour

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

Really cool work from Lauren!

*Pret A Manger cannot be classified as French

🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨

Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Not really keeping up with the PL, but why does Tel always get snubbed?

I love football, especially my beloved Olympique de Marseille. But Infantino makes it extremely difficult not to consider boycotting the World Cup. It was already a close call with the one in Qatar

It's almost the end of Term 1 and my first 6 months. All good :)

Experimental participants to us

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.

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As you rightly mentioned in your elevator pitch, you’ve already shown you’re a prolific and very creative researcher, so it’s not luck. Congrats!

Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

🎉 SPS researcher Max Bradley has been awarded the Ireland Thinks Best Paper Prize for his paper 'Cost, Risk, and Threat: The Material & Contextual Factors Driving Climate Policy Preferences&#3... 🎉 SPS researcher Max Bradley has been awarded the Ireland Thinks Best Paper Prize for his paper 'Cost, Risk, and Threat: The Material & Contextual Factors Driving Climate Policy Preferences' 💬 “This...

So this happened a little while ago. I'm very grateful to the judges from the @psaireland.bsky.social and to @kevcunningham.bsky.social for generous financial support of the prize. It was great to be in Galway a few weeks ago to collect the award at the PSAI annual conference.

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🎤 The ninth session of the PBC will host @riazsascha.bsky.social from @eui-sps.bsky.social, who will present:
"Regime Loyalty in Wartime Nazi Germany"

📍 Join us on Zoom!
Please register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

It’s annoyingly unsurprising

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

If AI pushes the field away from low-quality samples, that’s a win for science (2/2)

I don’t see this article predicting the end of surveys, just a faster, somewhat forced shift toward higher-quality sampling. The solutions it lists (pts 1–5 on p. 9) are already known but costly and depend on survey firms’ willingness to cooperate (1/2)

🚨 New working paper 🚨

We often see populist parties like Reform UK blame higher energy bills on climate change policies. What are the political consequences of this strategy?

Very early draft; comments and criticisms are welcomed!

full draft: z-dickson.github.io/assets/dicks...

A glass of Nikka Coffee Malt Whisky with a big ice rock with a background of about a million vinyl records

my friends, I am in a 10-person capacity record bar in Tokyo requesting songs and drinking Japanese whisky. the owners are a married couple chain smoking behind the bar, slinging cocktails, and spinning records.

this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️

Today, we took part in a symposium at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on the challenges & opportunities experienced by descendants of immigrants in Italy. We presented recent and ongoing PhD projects from SPS researchers @eui-sps.bsky.social of the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social, and my work on discrimination.

🚨Only 2 days left to apply

Cool new working paper on why and how cable news threw gasoline on the culture war fire. The culture war isn't optimal for electoral candidates, but it's optimal for cable news companies.

ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

Help candidates on the market by signing up for a mock interview. It doesn't cost you much time, but it can help candidates tremendously!

Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself).

Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:

🚨 New paper out!

Very happy to see our (Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social and mine) paper out at the @bjpols.bsky.social.

We explore how voters react to new, disruptive political actors.

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Despite everything else going on, France last night honoured Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who ended the death penalty in 🇫🇷 in 1981. He entered the Panthéon in a moving moment of national tribute that the French do so well

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

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You can download your files from Overleaf and move them to Sublime Text. It requires some adjustments to get everything right (such as packages, etc.), but it’s worth it, assuming you don’t need to share the project with co-authors www.sublimetext.com

New office, new role: I’ve started a new job this summer as an Assistant Prof at Warwick. Now I just need some good books to fill these shelves. Recommendations welcome!

I agree with Charlotte, but I'd add the Max Weber Fellowship to the list. I cannot emphasize how great the programme is (research, networking, quality of life, social life, etc). The deadline is a month before the IAST's fellowship: www.eui.eu/apply?id=max...