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Different political science journals have different article formats with different word/page limits. Consequently, whenever you want to submit an article to a journal, the first thing to look up is the exact word limit. In order to get a sense of the different article formats and word limits in political science journals, I have created […]

1. Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients (Schoenfeld and Ioannidis 2013) 2. People in non-English speaking countries with subtitled TV are better at English than people in countries with dubbed television (Micola et al. 2019) 3. Walking speed is a function of city size in that pedestrians move […]

If you are interested in learning R, I can recommend this resource: Quantitative Politics with R. It is a guide in development (together with Zoltán Fazekas). In the current version, you will find an introduction to the basics of R (e.g. how to import and manipulate data), how to collect political data (primary and secondary […]

Boris Johnson writes in The Telegraph that since we could get to the Moon, we should be able to get out of the EU: “They went to the Moon 50 years ago. Surely today we can solve the logistical issues of the Irish border”. I sympathise with the sentiment in the argument. A lot of […]

A new study, published in Science Advances, questions the validity of the Big Five personality traits outside of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) populations. I was interviewed by New Scientist in order to give my take on the implications of the study. The article is available online.