🏅 Nos alegra anunciar que nuestro compañero Jorge Fernandes (@jmfernandes86.bsky.social) ha recibido el Premio Julián Marías de Investigación 2025 (modalidad investigadores menores de 40 años) de la Comunidad de Madrid. Un merecido reconocimiento a su trayectoria. 🔗 ipp.csic.es/es/article/j...

Updated version of "The Effects of Participating in Government-Led Citizens’ Assemblies“ with @mcduarte.bsky.social and @jmfernandes86.bsky.social Full draft: osf.io/preprints/so...

We have updated the #Migration Communication Campaigns Database. You can use it to discover narratives, stories, and representations of migration. This is a project by the @mpc-eui.bsky.social with @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and @mcduarte.bsky.social. migrationpolicycentre.eu/campaigns/

🚨Publication Alert Very happy to share that my second PhD paper is now out with @govandopp.bsky.social 🤗🎉 Do populist politicians use simpler language? I analyse 30 years of parliamentary discourse to shed light on that question! 👇 Full article: doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #OpenAccess

💥 New: Making sense of Europe’s boom in migration communication campaigns ✍️ @jamesrdennison.bsky.social @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social & @mcduarte.bsky.social @jeppjournal.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

We are thrilled to anounce the release of the 2024 CHES-Europe at chesdata.eu/2024-chapel-.... As always, the data are freely available on the website. Thank you to the hundreds of experts who share their expertise to make these data possible!

🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert! Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: "Political Representation as Communicative Practice" together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it? ⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇 cup.org/3ERYIUR

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Tomorrow at ICS Lisboa, talking about political hate...on Valentine's Day! 😍You can also tune in online: www.ics.ulisboa.pt/evento/measu...

📢 Call for Papers! Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2 co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social More details below 👇

You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.

Funding opportunity to visit and work on the history of EU integration at the Historical Archives of the EU - deadline April 30: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

Minimum wages matter. Think cost of living 🧮. The EU Minimum Wages Directive promotes their adequacy. Yet AG Emiliou proposed its annulment in a legal riddle and risk to living conditions. Claire and I show here why his view is legally inadequate and misleads: t.ly/teRI1 The AMWD should stay. 🧵

This is an excellent job opportunity! 📣 I have been working with @jmfernandes86.bsky.social over the past year, and I have learned so much from him. I cannot recommend this position enough! ⚡

The PhD programme in Political and Social Sciences at the @eui-eu.bsky.social recruits new candidates, deadline 31 January 2025. With scholarships from all over Europe, candidates can get their own national scholarship to work on their PhD thesis in Florence. Tell your master students!

Hi there 👋, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute! We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life! 📲 @eui-eu.bsky.social

Communication campaigns are increasingly used to shape perceptions and attitudes towards migration. Yet, there is little data available on migration communication campaigns. The Migration Communications Campaigns Database aims to change this. migrationpolicycentre.eu/campaigns/

I am over the moon and humbled to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how we think about representation in proportional electoral systems. Soon, I will make a thread with most relevant questions for the 2M project for the 2025-2030 period. 1/n

Os ciclos políticos mudam, mas no financiamento público da ciência fica sempre tudo na mesma ou pior. Esta é ainda uma tentativa de apelar à razão. Mas isto já não vai lá só com apelos, cartas e manifestos. Vai ser preciso agir de outra maneira. www.publico.pt/2024/11/26/c...

📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Good to know we are outdoing the potatoes!

For those of you who recently jumped from the sinking ship, this interview with Cas Mudde - @casmudde.bsky.social - reflecting on the 20th anniversary of The Populist Zeitgeist might be of interest 🔥

Made a starter pack for European Politics. Started with 27 profiles (wink wink) on a bit of everything, but feel free to (self-)recommend people to add. go.bsky.app/8UntgMG

This week Celeste Caeiro passed away. You may not recognize her name, but you are likely to know that the 1974 revolution in Portugal is often known as the “revolution of the carnations”. She’s the reason why. www.publico.pt/2024/11/15/s... 1/3

The People You can Ask for Restaurant Tips Ahead of Your Trip to Lisbon STARTER PACK (includes people in PT institutions and/or born there) go.bsky.app/Mrsz21f

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

These are examples of what we call "migration communication campaigns". In our new article (with @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and @mcarmoduarte.bsky.social), we present a database to explore how diverse campaigns shape our perceptions of migration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and Lorenzo Piccoli, we propose a unified research agenda on migration communication campaigns and present a database of more than 300 campaigns. 🧵⬇️

Online first: "Informing or guiding? The influence of party politicisation of the European Union on public opinion formation" by @mcarmoduarte.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

📺 Media outlets are not neutral actors in immigration debates. 📰 But while the media may shape how much we think about immigration, it doesn't influence our positions towards the issue, write João Miguel Carvalho @mcarmoduarte.bsky.social & Didier Ruedin PoliSky bit.ly/3KIw74c

In the European Research Council MULTIREP project we are looking for a postdoc in Computational Social Science. If you are a political/social scientist doing technical/methods stuff or data/computer scientist working on social science applications, 👇 is for you wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Join our (w. @AnnaFruhstorfer) ERC project LOOPS as a Doctoral Researcher (full-time, 4 years) at Free University Berlin! Explore the logistics of protest camps in competitive authoritarian regimes. 📆Deadline: 29.01.2024 👇 tiny.cc/p5huvz

Call for Papers! Join @AnnaFruhstorfer and me for a workshop on "The Backstage of Protest Camps: Conceptualizing Infrastructure, Logistics, and Organization of Popular Uprisings" on March 14-15, 2024, at Free University Berlin. tiny.cc/5avhvz