Matteo Giuliani Pedraza

@mattgiulp.bsky.social

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Did a master in Social Sciences at UC3M. Now doing a PhD at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Trying to figure out something about political parties, referenda, national identities... that kind of stuff. A chess player by passion, not by talent or skill.

Chess position on a lichess board, the FEN is: 4r3/2P3pp/p1Pp1k2/3P4/P7/2N1p1P1/4K3/8 w - - 4 37

Graph showing the average self-positioning in a 1 to 10 left-right scale for men and women, by year of the survey and decade of birth. A gender gap, with women identifying as more left wing, appears suddenly in 2019 for survey respondents born in the 90's and voters born in the 2000's, but not for any other period or cohort.

The problem of the day on lichess, which today features the final position of the 2024 World Chess Championship Match.

Two tweets from the other side. The first one is from the professor in international law Yuan Yi Zhu, and says: «I'll shut up after this, but despite some improvement of late, political science continues to have a big issue with the study of right-wing politics. It's still being treated as a pathology by default, which means that there are huge blind spots in the literature.»

The second tweet, by Political Scientist Tarik Abou Chadi, quotes Yuan's tweet and says: «The far right is one of the most studied topics in political science in the last years. Far more than progressive movements and parties. We have an abundance of evidence. Much of it however goes against perceived wisdom of practitioners in media and politics and thus gets ignored»