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Chris Hanretty
@chanret.bsky.social
I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
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I think "crunch time" as an expression predates its use in software development

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Relevant for people who are modelling contests or anything where you need a conditional logit model

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New blog post: "How much do gender and ethnicity affect wannabe MPs’ chances of being selected?" chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/candid...

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All of you need to read this article now, because I have just read the words "Hummingbirds have to do this, or they would piss themselves to death" and must share the experience with you arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Hummingbirds thrive on an extreme lifestyle. Here’s how.
Hummingbirds thrive on an extreme lifestyle. Here’s how.

Nightly suspended animation, sugary diet, backwards flight, and long migrations help.

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Congratulations!

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Is the full text available yet?

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Good example of things social scientists study only b/c it illustrates a mechanism: a lottery win makes you more right-wing (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....), but no one's using "lottery winnings" to explain election trends

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There are lots of people like that, but I would still have expected asset ownership to increase the *probability* of voting Conservative, even if it's not a huge effect (say, two to five percentage points).

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Chris Hanretty
@chanret.bsky.social
I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
3k followers822 following1.1k posts