Giacomo Lemoli
Political scientist @ FUS, studying politics in multilingual places
giacomolemoli.com
- Seeing several non-US online commentators justify (if not praise) threats of invasion, abductions, and now plain murders, just because they like Trump and dislike the left of their countries, I feel bad for when in grad school I thought Svolik was overstating the role of polarization.
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- Reposted by Giacomo LemoliIn just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵
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- Reposted by Giacomo Lemoli1/10 🧵 The U.S. just captured a sitting head of state in a military operation—and Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela “for now.” Whatever you think of Maduro, this is the most consequential unilateral move in the hemisphere since Panama (1989).
- Reposted by Giacomo LemoliSecretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.
- President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
- Look, libs, he is a man of peace, not like that Hillary Clinton warmongerer, ok?
- Very important and underrated point. In HPE people often use historical surveys without discussing the original sampling and measurement process. Historical researchers had their own research questions and constraints. A common problem I found on my own digitization - linguistic surveys.
- The IT newspaper I subscribe to (which normally has a good coverage of international news) gave a very disappointing "analysis" of the Chilean election. The 3 key words: Trump, Pinochet, Allende (the latter evoked as a contrast with the present). No serious discussions of Chilean domestic politics
- Reposted by Giacomo LemoliI promise if you’re not Jewish and don’t know any Jews quite well you really do not understand the level of justified paranoia baked into most public Jewish gatherings: Security at swimming lessons at the JCC, off duty police outside a bar mitzvah as a favour, etc. It shocked me.
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- Reposted by Giacomo Lemoliyou hate chomsky for posing with bannon, i hate chomsky for denying genocides going back decades we are not the same
- New Nobel Prize for racism and electoral interference just created!
- Trump administration - FIFA A marriage of the two most corrupt orgs of the globe
- Reposted by Giacomo LemoliNew paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧵
- Reposted by Giacomo Lemoli📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT
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- Reposted by Giacomo Lemolinew paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
- I am excited to travel to Amsterdam this week for a great workshop on Political Identities in Europe @acesuva.bsky.social. I will present my paper (in progress) on language reform and identity changes in Navarre (Spain). aces.uva.nl/content/even...
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- Reposted by Giacomo Lemoli📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025 How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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- Another important paper of a new generation of PEDev studies rethinking concepts of "precolonial" politics that the first generation of studies oversimplified www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Fukuyama gets laughed at all the time because of "The End of History" (or at least because of the title choice), but honestly, "The Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay" are quite good.
- It's 2025 and research institutes are still gating working papers/preprints written by academics. I don't know their business model, so they may have a reason, but for academics, posting *preprints* under a paywall without providing an ungated version is very unethical, sorry
- Riley's book is an important one.
- Nice post by @kylefbutts.bsky.social. I have been puzzled too by papers using randomization inference in obs settings with no discussion of why/when the assignment should be seen as random. www.kylebutts.com/blog/2025-09...
- Gabriel Zucman be like
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- Great opportunity to work with my fantastic colleague Mateo and a team of top political economy scholars. Consider forwarding to your students.
- 🔍 #EconJob Research Assistant in Political Economy You'll work w/ M. Montenegro @hlarreguy.bsky.social, J. Merilainen & N. Garviras 💡France-based—Toulouse ideal; remote OK; part/full-time 🧠 Advanced Stata skills + knowledge of Spanish preferred Application: mateo.montenegro[at]tse-fr.eu
- Reposted by Giacomo LemoliRadical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇
- All this thread. Personally, my prior probability that a flashy headline finding is true, especially in the nutrition area, is close to 0.
- "Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
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- Great paper that clarifies a long-standing doubt of mine on the connection between empirical measures of persuasion and its behavioral definition. Identifying the Effect of Persuasion | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 131, No 8 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Giacomo LemoliPlease share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.
- A very interesting article on the logic of elite propaganda and group mobilization, an area with rich empirical evidence but many theoretical open questions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- "As a former police officer, I can tell you that my first reaction to unidentified men in masks converging on me or someone nearby would be to take cover and prepare to fight."
