Thomas Hegghammer

There was a thread recently about ways in which life is better than in the recent past Here's one other academics might appreciate: many style guides no longer require us to list the location of a book publisher. Yay.

Are you an IR prof feeling like the world's a hot mess and you're not quite sure how to teach global governance or international order? Well, ISQ has a new Special Section out, and my "Making Sense of Disrupted International Order" introduces it. Hope it's helpful!

Jeg har laget KI-skills som hjelper Claude, ChatGPT m.fl. å hente tall fra Statistikkbanken til SSB. Hovedregelen er: Ingen tall fra hukommelsen, alltid tabellnummer og oppdateringsdato. Også skills for SCB og andre PxWebApi-er. github.com/janbrus/pxwe...

But we have Lutefisk

New and noted (paywalled) article.

Anybody aware of a systematic data collection effort on the French protests? (Other than ACLED)

holy moly openai.com/index/securi...

Criticizing the elements of the paper that they themselves insisted on in the previous round. Final proof that they are like humans

One dead and several wounded after shooting in Paris suburb

BREAKING: At least 7 killed in Jordan church shooting. Follow updates here www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Remains poorly understood that humans hallucinate more than frontier AIs at this point bsky.app/profile/matt...

"No matter how we look at the data, AI wins. It wins in 100% of the pairs overall when judged by another AI model...and 87% overall when judged by human journal editors... [H]umans agreed as much or more with AI’s judgment than they did with other humans" gking.harvard.edu/files/peerle...

Holger Kern & Georg Vanberg have released a structured, machine-readable dataset of the full set of scanned NSDAP membership cards. Thanks, Holger & Georg for providing such a great resource! holger-kern.com#nsdap-data

Lost in the uproar about AI text editing is the fact that authors have always used third parties to improve and sometimes rework their texts. Many academics pay for such services for both books and articles. If we had a Pangram-like detector for this, it would go off on a lot of published work

“ICEYE and Nokia signed a letter of intent with Ukraine's Defense Ministry on Oct. 22, formalizing a partnership aimed at developing Ukraine's own satellite communications system.” kyivindependent.com/amid-starlin...

Trump Called Musk and Asked Him to Lift Ukraine Starlink Restrictions Military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

There are bombshells and there's this www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Very disappointed with reality once again -- why can't you just accord with beautiful, elegant theories?

Weeks old, but cool chart on AI costs epoch.ai/publications...

This is how I use LLMs. With the recent release of models like deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017, I feel vindicated. You get near-flagship model performance for very little money and with much better privacy pad.hegghammer.net/posts/a-reas...

Italian humanoid developer Generative Bionics is teaming up with long-time strategic partner AMD to build what it calls “Europe’s largest” physical AI data factory.

OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems ft.trib.al/6GsEjJn

My mother, who lives in Narvik, Norway, took this picture from her balcony this evening

The Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University is searching for a 2-year political scientist postdoc. I am on the search committee, and would love to see strong candidates. Please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/195069

Because irony is dead, Egypt has launched an AI-powered fact checking platform to track, verify, and respond to rumors less than 3 weeks after arresting the entire newsroom of @matsadaash.bsky.social and torturing them for doing the same english.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inn...

Much easier to blame foreign actors than identify and address the domestic conditions that resulted in this level of violence.

My friends in Norwegian HMRC are shaking their head at this. I know BSky doesn't care, but imo it's symptompatic of a deeper pb in UK politics: that obviously arbitrary and harmful arrangements never get fixed. There are so many of them they just cancel each other out www.ft.com/content/248b...

🎓 Applications are now open for postgraduate study at Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. For 2027 entry, we’re also introducing two new one-year programmes: the MSc in Politics of Global Challenges and the MSc in Law, Governance and AI! https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/study

The kids and young men who burned and looted across France this weekend, and the populist-left parties that encouraged the protests which enabled them, have probably ensured that Marine Le Pen will be their next president.

Idag mottar Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer (@malfridbh.bsky.social) Ingrid Aunes minnepris for sitt arbeid for kjernefysisk ikke-spredning og nedrustning

Dette er ikke greit. Det er drittifisering uten AI. Hvis man mener masse lenker gir transparens, putter man dem i et nettbasert appendiks, ikke i den trykte boken. Det ironiske er at AI kunne omformet alle disse lenkene til fullverdige referanser på 20 minutter www.morgenbladet.no/boker/kildel...

L’Orient-Le Jour’s Stephanie Bechara talks to elderly retirees impoverished by Lebanon’s banking crisis: today.lorientlejour.com/article/1550...

techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/i...

The benchmarks

🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank

"Telegram has dramatically changed from a company that very rarely, if ever, provided data to the authorities, to one that does it as a matter of course" www.404media.co/heres-what-t...

a couple weeks ago I saw some very silly post about how no open weight model was at the Pareto frontier so it now pleases me greatly to inform you that no closed weight model is at the Pareto frontier

Min jihad var høsten 2015 da jeg i en serie tweets forsøkte å få Flytoget til å forstå at det engelske verbet "arrive" ikke er transitivt. Konduktøren idag: "we will arrive Oslo Airport at 16.02" Sjelden har et prosjekt mislyktes så totalt

DPIR seeks 2x Postdoc Research Fellows to work with Prof Petra Schleiter on the Trust, Participation, & Democratic Resilience project. CLOSES: Noon BST, 23 Oct.  PRF in Quantitative Political Science: https://tinyurl.com/mryzuddc PRF in Experimental Political Science: https://tinyurl.com/3re5yyu8

This is blaming AI for human error. Modern AI agents don't just delete your stuff without you telling them to. In the pre-AI era, when people accidentally deleted stuff, we didn't say "the computer deleted the files"