Duke’s own @p_beramendi presenting fascinating work (w/ Dan Stegmueller) on tax progressivity & redistribution DukePoliticalScience

Our new book is best enjoyed on a weathered bench in a small meadow, with a side of Cassirer.

Dr. Katalin Kariko, 66, is known to her colleagues as Kati. She's now also known as one of the heroes of coronavirus vaccine development. Alongside her collaborator, Dr. Drew Weissman, she laid the groundwork for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. nyti.ms/3uAKLAq

🔆If you’re a junior Chinese politics scholar on the polisci job market this yr, reply to this tweet w/ a brief description of your work and your website. Just one tweet, please. I’ll pin this tweet to my timeline. Feel free to retweet this to give them more publicity!

Yiqing Xu Hi, I am Zeren Li, a Yale Postdoc who studies business-gov relations, bureaucracy & authoritarianism. My dissertation analyzes how revolving door channel, a phenomenon that retired officials take private-sector jobs, emerges &prevails in China. My website: zerenli.org

We are welcoming paper submissions to the sixth Quantitative China Studies Seminar to be held at NYU. If you work on China-related topics using quantitative methods, shoot your paper to us! Great opportunity to get in-depth discussions. qcssnyu.org/call-for-papers

Thanks to ⁦Haohan Chen⁩, ⁦@tzryang⁩, and Yiqiang Wang for a fascinating presentation on audio-as-data and ⁦Bryce J. Dietrich⁩ and ⁦Rory Truex⁩ for helpful comments!

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

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

When researchers label social media posts using only their text and ignore multimodal content (e.g., videos, images, links), how much do they miss? Our answer: Not much. New paper with James Bisbee Jonathan Nagler Joshua Tucker at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…