# About the Open Notebook Welcome to my open notebook. My name is Jack Bailey, and I’m a [Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at the University of Manchester](https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/jack.bailey). My academic interests are wide-ranging, though at the moment include #Elections, #Psephology, #InformationTheory, and #Statistics. If you’d like to find out more about my day-to-day work, you can find it on [my website](https://jack-bailey.co.uk) or check my profile on [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=82kKRKIAAAAJ&hl=en). I also share more immediate thoughts and questions on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/jack-bailey.co.uk). This website is an open repository of any half-formed ideas and passing thoughts that I would prefer not to lose. The hope is that my notes might help you to realise a fresh perspective, a useful insight, or a realisation that what I have written is nonsense. While most of the content relates to political science, don’t be surprised to stumble across digressions into other topics too. To make things as navigable as possible, I’ve grouped notes into folders, included links to other notes where appropriate, and tagged entries with hashtags for context. You can explore these connections using the interactive graph on the right or search using the field on the left. Hopefully this lack of structure will also help you to stumble onto something interesting. Feel free to poke around and do [get in touch](mailto:[email protected]) if you want to follow up on something. Finally, please *do not* reproduce any of the content here without attribution.