Joe Noonan
@joenoonan
PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. website:
They sure don't make model train hobbyist magazine covers like they used to.
I took the train from Nevada to California. One train a day, 2.5 hrs late, live announcements of notable sights, an observation deck and a lot of blowing on the horn. Very different from rail travel in Europe.
America's state owned passenger rail company publicly calling out freight companies for breaking non-enforceable laws is a nice encapsulation of public policy in America.
Reverse culture shock visiting a sporting goods store with an animatronic Abe Lincoln performing the emancipation proclamation between the stand up paddle board section and the gun section.
The main goal is to help me decide which movie to watch. But you can also use it tournament style to find your top films. Works better with a smaller choice set because you quickly get fatigued.
I used the last days of Fable 5 being on Claude subscription plans to vibecode an app where you upload your Letterboxd lists and do rounds of choosing movies head-to-head.
Imagine telling Republicans in 1865 that the Confederate flag would have a net positive rating among their voters in 2026.
Republicans have worse mental health outcomes when living in neighborhoods with a higher concentration of Democrats.
The Swedish general election is in September. The government - right wing with confidence and supply agreement with the far right - has been polling badly the entire mandate period.
In 1993, you needed a citation to explain why you are using a mouse in your lab experiments.
I am presenting tomorrow morning at EPSS on democratic exposure, authoritarian predispositions, and liberal social values. Swing by if your interested!
Great discussion about the global governance of AI at Johannes Geith's thesis defense! Extremely timely and important research.
When I noticed that students were using chatbots during seminars, I explicitly told them that the point of seminars is to sharpen our reasoning and learn the material rather than being right. This reduced the use of chatbots during the seminars dramatically.
Swedish Social Democrats are polling at 33.9%. If this was the election results it would be their best since 2006.
Also, I very much appreciated this fresco which reminded me to cut down my drafts everytime I walked by it.
Next Tuesday (May 26th) will be my last day at the beautiful EUI Badia Fiesolana campus. I have had a great three months visiting the @eui-sps.bsky.social. It is great to see a pan-European project become a central hub of political science in Europe.
Election sign from a local branch of the mainstream right wing party in Sweden: "Wider cycle lanes don't help traffic - Vote for the Moderates".