Eva Krejcova

Simply scandalous.

Empires rise and fall, but some things endure: Nick Cox speaking Stata

🇷🇺🇭🇺 Meet Hungarian politician Péter Magyar – same name as the opposition leader, tons of photos with Viktor Orbán and his cabinet members, running as an "independent" in a West Hungarian constituency. A Russia-style spoiler candidate, designed to deceive voters. More on 444.hu: 444.hu/2026/03/12/v...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

This is the *fifth* study to undermine the idea that the muted political response to inequality is due to growing meritocracy beliefs, esp. among the poor.

- Inequality erodes meritocracy beliefs
- Poor meritocrats still want redistribution
- What matters is the politicization of inequality

Links:

Scene from Hungary tonight as crowds rally against the Russian-backed Orban regime.

Here is the call for papers in full. Participants from the CEE region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 30/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

"Show what you looked like before you joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

#Ukrainian Warriors share photos from life before joining the military and from the battlefield today.

📷: dr.velichko / khoma_khomickiy / vitsikkkk / drewndel / Threads

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

So important! @cbarrie.bsky.social and Roberto Cerina show that "persona-based prompting produces political belief systems that are unrealistically coherent."
We used to worry about bias stemming from data feeding these algorithms, here it seems structural to the simulation process.

There were four train conductor MPs in 1933 -- all Social Democrats.

Three ship captains -- all Conservatives.

Swiss voters will decide on cutting the radio & TV licence fee — a move that could significantly weaken public broadcasting.

Once popular (even within the mainstream right), the proposal now, for the 1st time, is supported by only a minority of Swiss voters, according to @leewas.bsky.social‘s polls

Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Not uncommon, @sundersays.bsky.social. See "Journal of Politics", Volume 85, Number 1, January 2023, doi.org/10.1086/722042

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Luisanney Toloza A 5-year-old from Venezuela who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border “My family”

"My family."

By a 5-year-old imprisoned in a Texas concentration camp.

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say Former opposition leader’s death while in Arctic jail at age of 47 result of mixture of diseases, according to Moscow The Foreign Office has blamed the Russian state for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was the result of poisoning from a dart containing frog toxin. The frog poison – called epibatidine – is said to have been used when Navalny, 47, died suddenly on 16 February 2024. Continue reading...

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):

We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.

Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.

w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social

URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

End of an era. Big time series loss.

sigh

Thanks so much, Rahel, for your support! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Join us on Thursday at 12h (IDHEAP Learning Lab) for the next IDHEAP–LAGAPE seminar!

@alexalenz.bsky.social (@lmu.de) will present "Inequality effects of bureaucracies’ coping with overload" (joint work w/ @janagomezdiaz.bsky.social & @evathomann.bsky.social)

@unil.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social

Full programme for the Spring semester: eva-krejcova.github.io/idheap-lagape/

Join us on Thursday at 12h (IDHEAP Learning Lab) for the next IDHEAP–LAGAPE seminar!

@alexalenz.bsky.social (@lmu.de) will present "Inequality effects of bureaucracies’ coping with overload" (joint work w/ @janagomezdiaz.bsky.social & @evathomann.bsky.social)

@unil.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social

Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election