I knew we were in a bubble but omfg!
08.12.2025 14:45
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I knew we were in a bubble but omfg!
Is it really that hard to practice pronunciations of potential names before announcing them for a major awards show? Maybe just look at Golderby to get at least 75% of them right. Instead of celebrating nominees the announcer made it all about himself. #GoldenGlobes
The child actors playing Hamnet and Judith broke me into a million pieces. Jacobi Jupe is a remarkable find and Hamnet should win the casting Oscar just for him alone.
I have felt pain before. I have felt love before. And I have envied those who can love before. Hamnet made me feel all three along with the most profound grief for a relation I will never have - that of sibling, and for one that I am yet to have - that of being a parent.
Nolan dodged a bullet by dropping Warner Brothers in 2021. But oh to know that most of his masterpieces will now be available for the binge service...
The implications of this will be severe. This is like Google acquiring Microsoft.
In December 2024, while planning my finances for the next six years, I had applied a conversion rate adjustment of 2.5 percent per year, expecting the rate to reach 90 by May 2028 when I return to India for fieldwork. Today is December 3, 2025. #RupeeVsDollar
First time being invited to peer review for an academic journal and I've been assigned as Reviewer 2. I guess this is the universe determining for me the kind of reviewer I will be for life.
Exciting work from Maharashtra on rural elite capture by the amazing @alyssarheinze.bsky.social
Clinton was secretary of state only for 4 years. John Kerry took over the second Obama term
What a year for cinema. From the ashes of COVID, we get our best year yet since 2019.
Was great to be in Beautiful British Columbia to present and think about research!
And Feyaad will present the other paper on an exciting Theme Panel about Parties and Democracy in India.
bsky.app/profile/feya...
At @apsa.bsky.social next week, I want to invite everyone to our panel where I present one of two papers from new joint work with @feyaadallie.bsky.social on non-partisan CSOs as distinct intermediaries linking parties and voters. We have an excellent panel on electoral politics and inclusion!
Officially matriculated at Yale! Excited for the years of learning ahead with my poli sci cohort!
It would be interesting to see these disaggregated by subfield/open positions. I have no priors for this but it seems as though the number of CP positions has plummeted
Ethnonationalist Gender Norms: How Parties Shape Voter Attitudes toward Female Candidates in India - Thomas - 2024 - American Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Did the number of positions REDUCE over the past month from June 2025 to July 2025? Or is that just the total number of positions added each month rather than the cumulative number of positions posted?
And here is the link for the dataset available on Harvard Dataverse: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... (4/4)
Here is the link for the dataset on SHRUG's User Contribution page: devdatalab.org/shrug_downlo... (3/4)
The LGD codes allow me to achieve 90% accuracy in linking SHRUG village identifiers with their corresponding GPs, and above 95% accuracy in most Indian states. Hope it will be of use to those trying to combine village and GP level datasets. (2/4)
New dataset alert 🚨 Using LGD codes assigned by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in India, I link villages across India with SHRUG (@devdatalab) identifiers to their corresponding Gram Panchayats, allowing for GP level analysis of census and other village-level data. (1/4)
This is the best and the worst Dall-E update ever. Did Studio Ghibli agree to this?
I have learned a lot from:
Saad Gulzar Who Enters Politics and Why
Kate Baldwin Traditional Authorities around the world
Pavithra Suryanarayan Endogenous State Capacity
Thank you so much Bhumi!
Congratulations Mathias, have learnt so much from your scholarship as a student! Looking forward to presenting at APSA at the same panel in Vancouver!
Thank you so much Saad!
Thank you again for your generosity Danny!
The poli sci community is generous, welcoming and I couldn't be more thrilled to become a very junior member of it. I hope to do justice to the faith shown in me by so many whose work continues to inspire me (14/n)!
Finally, I am grateful to @saadgulzar.bsky.social, Tanushree Goyal, @bhumi.bsky.social, Shikhar Singh, @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social, Prerna Singh, @dhdannychoi.bsky.social, Steven Wilkinson, Deborah Yashar, Kate Baldwin, and Adam Auerbach for guidance at various stages this past year. (13/n)!