Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

New open-access article with Trissia Wijaya on Indonesia, industrial policy and polyalignment in the new Cold War, out now! Indonesia has tried to use export bans and exploit geopolitical rivalry to drive industrial upgrading. How's that going? 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm looking for a talented graduate student to join our growing IR community The University of Hong Kong and collaborate on historical + contemporary Chinese foreign policy research. 🚨Funded PhD/MPhil. Apply by 10 April. Please share below info. Thank you! austinstrange.org/work-with-me

📜When measuring authoritarianism, the wording of questions is important. ➡️D. Peterson & C. Swartz find that respondents were significantly less authoritarian when a survey prompted them to think of a "girl" rather than a "child" or "boy" cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🚨My new research theorizes and demonstrates a novel mechanism to understand how international organizations legitimize foreign policy: by sending social cues. Please read more in the Open Access online version here! (will write a thread later...)

Here's the 🧵! Int’l relations scholars have long been trying to make sense of an interesting observation: policies endorsed by int’l organizations like NATO or the Security Council receive greater global approval. Some call this "legitimacy." But what does this mean? 1/n

Update your reference list! The global dataset on #education by Knutsen, Philipp Lutscher, and myself has landed in an issue in CPS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

📽️Are your favourite characters from Disney, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, & Star Wars left-wing or right-wing? 🤔 ➡️ S.J.Turnbull-Dugarte & Markus Wagner explore how we project political identities onto heroes & villains cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

The Department of Politics & Public Admin The University of Hong Kong is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond. HKU PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters. Details:

We are looking forward to hosting Selina Ho later this month at The University of Hong Kong ppa_hku! If you are in HK, please join us and hear more about this fascinating work on China, SE Asia, and "grey" special economic zones. Registration + details: hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdet…

Just open-sourced the course materials of my course "Data Science in Politics and Public Administration" at HKU. github.com/haohanchen/das…

We’re watching Noble House and wow look at what HK used to look like! Look at Aberdeen! Look it’s the famous pothole window building! Look at all that neon!

Acknowledging the success of digital activism during the Anti-ELAB Movement, this article Social Media+Society documents challenges to efficacy for organizers amidst democratic backsliding, including fragmentation of voices, diverse forms of participation, and concerns about trust.

"Comparative politics has needed a book like this – one that directly and dedicatedly tackles the topic of counterrevolutions – for a very long time." Return of Tyranny by Killian Clark, Coming Soon cup.org/4mR8tEf

Happy to share our new paper, published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with Masaaki Higashijima / 東島 雅昌, N. Shimizu & H. Washida. We introduce our new dataset, which records national election dates in 148 autocracies and democracies from 1945 to 2023. Open access: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02…

What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories Led by Giorgio Tripodi, postdoc in my lab. Fun collaboration with Xiangzheng, Yifan Qian, Dakota Murray, Ben Jones & Chaoqun Ni 1/n

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Gary Tang and colleagues examine how independent journalists in post-#NSL Hong Kong act as key agents of democratic resilience. The article highlights their risk navigation, persistence and professional ethics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

📢 Call for Papers – Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference 6th December 2025. Abstract submissions are open until 19 September. I’m honoured to be giving a keynote at the conference and look forward to engaging with fellow scholars.

HKFP_Live: Volunteers hand out supplies near Tai Po fire site x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Proud of our civil society. Hong Kong is very much alive.