Links I liked
Here is a new (for me) reason why the peer review process is flawed. Contains a cool simulation
Interesting stuff, but the commenters are right: there are some major hurdles which the article ignores
Here’s a useful primer on the upcoming election in Bulgaria
I’m not normally into ethnography & critical theory, but this PhD student’s account of her journey aboard a vast container ship is well worth your time (which you would spend scrolling through Evergreen memes anyway)
The following post is the first in a series of oceanic dispatches from Disorder member Charmaine Chua. She is currently on a 46-day journey on board a 100,000 ton Evergreen container ship starting …
Excellent stuff that I missed last year 👉 @SLdeLange talks about the Radical Right in Government on the Transformation of European Politics Podcast @tabouchadi
Interesting. Have you ever appealed an editor’s decision?
To round off an eventful week at The 100% CI — after a series of posts on a Red-Team Challenge featuring our own Ruben (Part I, Part II, Part III) — we are pleased to present yet another guest blog: Leonid Tiokhin was desperate enough willing to let us illustrate the inaugural post of his own blog w
Looks like I’ve finally learned Portuguese
Oh joy, oh fun: looks like the AfD is going to kick off the national campaign with another leadership battle. Will probably come to naught, but might be entertaining nonetheless
Large parts of the GOP are nominally opposed to big government. But they have done nothing to stop the growth of ever more armed police forces – on the contrary. This long read about law enforcement in the US is worrying, but also quite fascinating from a political/administrative science point of view. Over the last…
Social Identity Theory is a prominent account of intergroup hostility and hence super interesting for political scientist. Groundbreaking work in this field was carried out by Henri Tajfel, who ran fascinating experiments back in the 1960s and 70s. Today, many of these would go nowhere near an IRB.
If you have 19 minutes to spare, this podcast delivers both a vignette of Tajfel’s life and a useful primer of Social Identity Theory ? ?
Rupert Brown on Henri Tajfel #socialScienceBites