It's deeply worrying how few politicians, all around Europe, are willing to be like Ed and make the case for legal migrants

New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147... When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️

Oh yay, since there's no open professorships due to budget cuts all around, a record number of ECRs have to gamble their hopes for future on getting one of the few lifelines still available! Fantastic!

This whole thread is incredibly important for young scholars. We all get rejected. The very first line of the first review of the first ever paper I submitted to a journal read: "I strongly oppose publication of this manuscript in [Journal name] and any other journal"

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New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.

This is a fantastic public good for scholars working on parliaments and representation!

It's finally out! All parliamentary committee assignments for 14 countries, 30+ years, harmonized with other MP and parties datasets

Very cool (and depressing)

Tell me you work in Germany without telling me you work in Germany

Very happy to host @francescafeo.bsky.social this term!

Proud to be part of such a productive research group! 🔎Looking for a panel survey? Feel free to use ours!

Wait wait wait. A paper that explains radical right support with a sensible theoretical mechanism and a causal explanation that can actually be influenced by policy? Didn't know these still existed

this is a depressingly good point (about how the EU / Aus / China / Asia-Pac etc did not step up nearly enough to fill the gap left by USAID)

💯 yes to this

But since people on the other side of the political spectrum are not speaking out well there's nothing else to do, move on everyone

Periodic reminder. I will come to your office and set your computer on fire 🔥

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Tour de France 2027 lasting 5 months and going through every village and voilà we avoided President Le Pen

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Current conversion rate is 10 days on vacation = 136 new emails

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

Oh, John Bolton is being attacked with made up accusations for shady political reasons? Isn't that something...

📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
doi.org/10.1177/1065...

And the freestyle causal inference top Play of the Week goes to the @economist.com Charlemagne piece on Europeans needing to work more

Copenhagen, hands down, best airport in Europe

The Deutsche Bahn is rolling out ads on YouTube which are literally just them telling off customers for not behaving appropriately This must be the most German thing ever adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

The Israeli #polisci association just issued a statement opposing the government's plan to continue the conquest of Gaza, calling for an immediate negotiation for a permanent ceasefire. Main points (my summary):

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Funny how many people who'll shout Antisemitismus! every time they walk past a fruit stand are still happily contributing their posts and money to the platform that runs MechaHitler

Brazil didn't go kissing Trump's ass, Lula didn't fly to Scotland to tell him how brilliant a negotiator he is, and yet the 50% tariffs now got an exception list of *700 goods* which includes almost every major export item from Brazil to the US 🤷‍♂️

Anti-immigrant bias in the German criminal justice system: who would have thought? osf.io/preprints/so...

Instrumental variables in observational data: Worse than you thought! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So happy to see this special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies published today, coedited with @gmripamonti.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social! gendersky reprosky polisky

What's most depressing for me these times is seeing the absolute lack of a backbone from institutions that have resources and should know better. Elite universities, media, Mark "Big Daddy" Rutte, European leaders bending themselves backwards to suck up...

For all the early birds at #IPSA2025 🐥 @bcastanho.bsky.social will present our joint work on age-based representation tomorrow!

Thank God for people who don't take their badges off immediately when leaving the conference. I'd never find my way to this venue without you #ipsa2025

Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread. 1. Quantitative methods

Caught doing quanteda out in the open...

Local reactions to wolf attacks in Germany are not powerful enough to influence the election decisions of many voters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Strongly agree for reasons....

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For SD Parties this means that as long as their program is economically to the left, it does not matter much to working class voters what it includes culturally e.g. on immigration. In contrast, educated middle class voters will punish a program for being less culturally progressive.

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !