Using Data Analysis for Social Science (DSS) to teach R and stats to beginners?
You might be interested in my recently updated teaching resources:
https://t.co/OIxWjQ50W1
📣 Now accepting applications!
The 2026–2027 CURA Call for Fellows is open. Join scholars and practitioners exploring religion and world affairs in a dynamic, interdisciplinary community.
🗓 Deadline: May 11, 2026
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Orbis, a journal with nearly 70 years of history as an outlet for policy-relevant research, has relaunched anew, complete with a podcast, Shifting Ground, and other programming.
I'm excited to serve on its editorial board.
Submit your work!
I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical.
It's a long one:
https://t.co/VFqxQUPsKG
"The most influential work of liberal political philosophy of the twentieth century." – Kwame Anthony Appiah, @nybooks
Happy birthday, John Rawls!
– Born February 21, 1921, in Baltimore
– James Bryant Conant University Professor at @Harvard
– Winner of the 1999 National Humanities Medal
– Writer of A Theory of Justice, a milestone work of political and moral philosophy incorporating the ideas of Kant, Rousseau, Emerson, and Lincoln
– Just as potent and powerful today as ever: https://t.co/PMyuPjSmPq
“We are not prisoners of the Sultan… We are servants of God alone."
In the Islamic tradition, there is such an anti-authoritarian spirit, rooted in the staunch monotheism of the Qur’an.
Here are some insights on its manifestations in Ottoman political culture:
Just released and #OpenAccess. I've been waiting for years to see these letters attributed to the emperor Leo III and the caliph ʿUmar II published.
https://t.co/uQM8kEd15n
As someone who played Putin in the same @welt wargame, I must attest - this was an excellent, nuanced 12-page plan that included multiple scenarios and options for Russia to escalate, and we didn't even need them all. We left the exercise more depressed and sobered than usual.
Great list. Glad to see Joffe on there. Would add Yu Ruxin’s book on the PLA during the Cultural Revolution, which was recently translated into English.
📢 Big news: After decades at @OhioState, CNEP is now based at @UPF_Barcelona with updates under new PIs @MarianoTorcal (UPF) and Robert Mattes (Strathclyde).
🎯 Renewed Research Focus
🌐 New Website
📊 Methodological Innovations
#Surveys#Elections
https://t.co/I7kkU2QPHd
Why does Confucianism support democracy in some cases but not others? This article finds that authoritarian and familial values undermine democratic values, while harmonious values actually strengthen them in East Asia. https://t.co/XPPmeLSFyz
On a related note it’s funny that we now have an unofficial governing body (Paradox Interactive) that assigns names and colors to every polity to every exist.