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🌐 Excited for our Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity & Politics! Explore how political processes shape group identities and their impact on political dynamics and results. Join us on May 15-16 in Toulouse 🇫🇷! 🔗 iast.fr/interdisciplin… #IASTevents #IdentityPolitics 📚

Cogliamo l'occasione che ci fornisce questa vicenda Rai per postare i miei incipit preferiti

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This is a 3+2 postdoc fellowship with a very generous research budget. Come work with us!

If you want to ask me anything about the institute, I will be happy to talk.

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Excited to share our new paper “The Class Ceiling in Politics” conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review! Co-authored with Johanna Rickne. Available at: drive.google.com/file/d/1rdrUwP… 1/9

The merch at MPSA this year was pretty great -- check out the branded chapstick!

My friend Abidine Sakande is fundraising for London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Check out their JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/abidine-s…

Is authority fungible? Legitimacy, domain congruence, and the limits of power in Africa - Baldwin - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Please consider signing up to mentor young aspiring PhD students across the continent. Please share widely across your networks. My mentees are now navigating offers for graduate programs and it is a very great way to give back. Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Innovations for Poverty Action J-PAL ESRF

Gemma Dipoppa and I are looking for an RA. Please apply by March 29 with your CV and a few lines about your research experience. 🙏🏽 cc Econ RA Listings

Are the exact words of a language arbitrary or necessary? – aeon.co/essays/are-the… via Aeon+Psyche

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Kidnappers returning me after I talk about my research for 1 hour

When I was in the West Bank settlers attacked olive pickers, saying they were Hamas agents. IDF soldiers used the same pretext to stop the harvest. One soldier told me picking olives was a “political act.” A thread on things I saw while reporting for The New Yorker:

🚨Publication🚨 Is there a relationship between state-provided religious education and support for political Islam? Do graduates of state religious education view Islamists as potential allies or competitors? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I have a new paper on redistributive politics under spatial inequality out in Journal of Politics @[email protected]!

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Reminder of the Mar 1 deadline for the APSA David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award in Politics and History! Paul Herron and I are on the awards committee: apsanet.org/section24

Happy International Mother Language Day!

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🔴 Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chief of Defence Staff of Italy and upcoming Chair of the NATO Military Committee, warned: “We are witnessing in these days the intensification of a Russian disinformation strategy, with Putin himself leading the charge”.