Peter Egge Langsæther

My book on party families in Western Europe has been out for a year now so why not do an anniversary thread? 🧵 #polisky www.routledge.com/Party-Famili...

Jeg synes nordmenn skal ta ham på alvor. Ikke dra til USA mens denne mannen er president.

Vi ansetter (flere) samfunnsforskere ved ISF! Flott arbeidsplass, gode kollegaer og masse spennende forskning. Søk, søk! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Between TikTok suspending today the Musk movie account and Meta blocking the No Kings account - the question of who controls our media and social media has never been more acute.

Our large-scale study of phone bans just came out in Science. We randomized phone-free classrooms for 16,000+ students across 10 institutions in Odisha, India. Students deposited phones in a box at the start of each class, for a full semester.

Tell me about it ! in the mean time (Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) US vs China vs Europe (www.nature.com/articles/d41...)

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Narko-krigen, nå mer bokstavelig enn noen gang, mislykkes, som vanlig. "Record supplies of cocaine still arrive in the U.S., Europe and as far away as Australia every day, cheaper and purer than they’ve been in decades, said law-enforcement officials across four continents."

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Pangram is working surprisingly well! Given the large increase in journal submissions overloading the system, journals should probably use it to desk reject or at least flag papers with a high share of AI-generated content.

Noticed that I was cited in a new publication today... for a paper with @chknutsen.bsky.social we have never written. I start shuffling through the references, and it turns out that @edwardgoldring.bsky.social has changed name to Ellen! Friends, don't do this. People in your field will notice.

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

⚡️Norway's 2027 budget includes almost $9 billion in new Ukraine support. The money would be funneled into Norway's Nansen Support Program, named after humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, who led famine relief efforts in Ukraine in the early 1920s.

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

Cannabis: tryggere med kontroll. ⭐Med @dagw.bsky.social og @snoen.bsky.social⭐ Tid: Torsdag 15. oktober 2026. Kl. 18:00-19:30. Sted: Litteraturhuset – Hagerup normaloslo.no/arrangement/...

WERE YOU AWARE: If you made a list of every major-party candidate in the midterms who last had a working-class job, it would only have 7 names (out of 919 candidates) and you could fit them them all on a post-it note. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I have thoughts. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Now imagine that during a crisis an AI draws from a huge amount of data to conclude that Russia or China are preparing a nuclear first strike and an under-pressure analyst sends that immediately up the chain.

Runar Døving skriver i @vartoslo.bsky.social om alle fordelene ved å regulere et produkt, fremfor å forby det.

Finansieringen av forskning gjennom FRIPRO har i praksis blitt kuttet med rundt 25% de siste årene. Det gir mindre banebrytende forskning i Norge og svekker rekrutteringen. Et misntekrav bør være å opprettholde nivået vi hadde i 2019, helst bør ordningen styrkes. www.khrono.no/det-usynlige...

New working paper. We propose a theory of dynamic identity-based linkages between voters and parties. We base this theory on models of expressive voting where voting signifies joining a community of social groups of voters. People have a sense of which parties are associated with which groups.

Ikke åpenbart at kutt i bensinprisen skulle være høyeste prioritet i revidert budsjett…

Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark.” Rubio: “For now.”

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

Det siste tiåret har inflasjonen spist opp verdien av et forskningsprosjekt. Det forgubber sektoren, reduserer forskningskvaliteten, og øker den byråkratiske byrden. Det går til syvende og sist utover norsk verdiskaping Derfor bør Forskningsrådet øke prosjektrammene www.khrono.no/forskningsra...

🎉🚨New Publication 🚨🎉 Beyond thrilled this is finally out! First large-scale, cross-national database of parties' social group appeals — who they speak to, the stance they take towards the groups, and whether a policy is mentioned. 55 years, 8 European countries, fully public and available here:

Without the necessary expertise and efforts to evaluate and validate the output, AI is unreliable. Rather than replacing knowledge workers, AI still requires highly competent people to produce high-quality and trustworthy outputs. www.ft.com/content/a61c...

Ensjø er i praksis en planlagt, ny bydel, og likevel har man ikke klart å bygge barnehagene som trengs. Folk har barnehager på kryss og tvers av byen med alle de logistikk-problemene det skaper i en allerede travel småbarnshverdag. Hvem har ansvaret for dette egentlig? www.ensjo.org/stor-sokning...

🆕 Friends in high places 🤳 @allernelin.bsky.social, Maiken Røed of @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social & Gunnar Thesen compile survey data and daily news to highlight links between the media notability of #InterestGroups and their organisational connections to political parties 🗞️

Det ble vedtatt å utrede lobbyregister i går. I den anledning har @ma1ken.bsky.social og jeg skrevet om utsiktene for å faktisk få det på plass. Politikerne har ikke vist at de er villig til å innføre sterkere regulering av seg selv, så vi er ikke kjempeoptimisiske. www.altinget.no/artikkel/det...

Interesting paper on minimum detectable effects and underpoweredness www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Bra tifouke i Vålerenga! Fotball herrer serieåpnet med Sandefjord med denne tifoen. «Velkommen til Tigerstaden» frontbanner, en tiger i mosaikk med lysende øyne. (1/3)

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

"The lobbying works. In just a few months, several moves have pulled the EU in the wrong direction: towards entrenching carbon dependence."