Happy to announce the IPERG Seminar Series at @ub.edu for this academic year! A great lineup of seminars and events is coming up — don’t miss it. 📅 Full schedule here: www.ub.edu/iperg/activi... @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social

Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered. Please apply! Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.

TODAY on the Economics Observatory – What are the effects of youth club closures in the UK? By @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

I will be engaging a conversation with @daliyang.bsky.social, @vicshih.bsky.social, @tompepinsky.com and Martin Dimitrov on my new book at the #APSA2025 Author Meets Critics panel on 9/14, 10:00 to 11:30am PDT. Come join us if you are still around. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

It’s a wrap for PEEP 2025! Thank you to all the presenters, discussants and attendees! @awiedemann.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social and I are already looking forward to another full day of Political Economy in 2026!

Abysmal idea:In times of increasing extremism in Germany & abroad, we need to strengthen the study of politics, not weaken it beyond recognition. Cologne is one of the best departments in Germany with colleagues doing world-class research on relevant topics. Hope the NRW government will think again!

I'm putting together a talk on a new applied micro paper, and I'm reminded that (I believe) it's very hard to outperform the structure proposed in this piece by Jesse Shapiro. shapiro.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

Recordeu que per destacar la qualitat o qualitat fem servir una forma exclamativa introduïda per "que". Si sou parlants orientals, això és un [kə], no pas un ['kɛ]. Això si no el feu a la castellana, és clar. Exemples: "Que pesats que sou amb l'accentet!" "Que fort que hi poseu l'accent!"

To punish critics and to intimidate dissidents, the communist parties in the Soviet bloc would conduct raids on their apartments, searching for more pretexts to put them on show trials.

Please share! We look forward to your submissions to EPSS in Belfast next year. We hope the below will be useful as you plan your panels/paper. Do reach out if you have any queries!

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

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.

Whether you're an early-career researcher or established scholar, #EPSS2026 is a premier space for cutting-edge political science. From comparative politics & public policy, from political behavior & methods to international relations, #EPSS2026 is the place to be. 2/

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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🧪How did COVID-19 affect citizens’ democratic preferences? ➡️ @cescamat.bsky.social A.Arenas A.Falcó & @jordimunoz.bsky.social find a lasting rise in technocratic preferences and a temporary bump in the willingness to sacrifice civil rights and freedoms www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Congratulations to the MIPE Third Cohort Graduates! 🎉 We’re very proud of each of you and excited to watch your next chapters unfold. The future is bright, and it’s yours for the taking! 🌟 @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social

Very happy to see this one published at @psrm.bsky.social! This is joint work with @jordimunoz.bsky.social, Andreu Arenas, and Albert Falcó-Gimeno.

Congratulations to our MIPE students on successfully presenting your Master Theses last week! 🎉 Your research tackled highly relevant topics, and the quality of your work was truly impressive!!! @ubeconomics.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

🚨🚨 New paper alert: Culture vs. Institutions @ainagallego.bsky.social‬, Ana Tur-Prats and I have a new paper out in the JOP that examines the impact of historical family types on modern-day female political representation.

Submit your research to PSRM! And if you were wondering: @epssnet.bsky.social is fully committed to supporting PSRM as a product of the collective efforts of the European political science community. We encourage you to continue submitting your work, reviewing for it & supporting the editorial team

Are you: ✅ A young scholar in econ, poli sci, or law ✅ Working on institutions, broadly defined ✅ Interested in spending a week in Italy with amazing faculty If so, please apply to this year’s Coase Institute Workshop! It’s a transformative experience for many, and always fun. I’ll be there.

It’s been a pleasure to host Dídac Queralt from Yale University in our master’s program. His course on the Political Economy of Public Policies has just wrapped up, leaving our students with a truly enriching learning experience!

Some key questions about @epssnet.bsky.social answered here.

Really great initiative! We have managed to preserve the scientific community and at the same time become a non-profit association. Very good news!

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Excited about this new direction and looking forward to Belfast 2026!

Thanks to the new/old EPSS Council and President for making this happen! This is very good news for Political Science in Europe. See you all in Belfast next year and let’s make the EPSS a success! 👇

DPIR’s 25th anniversary: Read our 25 in 25 Collection - celebrating staff, students, alumni, and the impact of our world-leading research. Meet @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social‬ - Associate Professor in Comparative Politics: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

‼️ Last chance to apply for the UB School of Economics Summer School on The Political Economy of Immigration – Economics, Attitudes, and Votes: Unpacking Immigration Dynamics, taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2025! 📅 Applications will close on June 26, don't miss the chance!

Very happy to share the program for the 3rd edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop. Taking place at the University of Barcelona on June 30th and July 1st. Really looking forward to it! Cc: @didacqueralt.bsky.social

Thrilled to share the program for the III Yale-UB HPE Workshop — a joint initiative bringing together HPE researchers across continents and disciplines. Huge thanks to our sponsors, presenters, and discussants. Can’t wait for a great conference! cc @cescamat.bsky.social (UB co-host)

Very happy with this initiative! This is already the third edition of the joint Graduate Workshop in Social Sciences, which promotes cooperation and interactions between master's students from @ubmipe.bsky.social and @ic3jm.bsky.social. See you next year in Barcelona!

Starting day 2 of the III Graduate Workshop in Social Sciences (IC3JM–UB ‪@ubmipe.bsky.social‬)! Looking forward to four more great Master’s thesis presentations and rich discussions ahead.

Les condicions precàries de tants doctorands. Beques que no s'han actualitzat des de fa temps, amb ingressos que estan per sota del salari de referència per viure a Barcelona. És urgent actualitzar i millor les beques dels nostres doctorands. www.rac1.cat/societat/202...

Very happy to share the third edition of this great initiative with our colleagues at IC3JM

We’re kicking off the III Graduate Workshop in Social Sciences (IC3JM–UB)! This initiative brings together students from two leading MA programs in Spain to share and discuss their Master’s theses. Eight projects, two days, and plenty of academic exchange with peers and faculty!

This seems like the crux of the issue. Harvard produced the data. DHS demanded more. Harvard produced more. DHS still said it was insufficient without saying how and revoked SEVP. It's just coercion.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Just utter lawlessness from the Trump Administration, with no goal other than to punish institutions for refusing to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Today we are very happy to have John Ahlquist (UC San Diego) @thequist.bsky.social giving an IPERG Seminar at the University of Barcelona. Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm. Everyone welcomed! @ub.edu @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social

📜 How can we promote female talent in research? Read the latest post on @5centims.bsky.social, where our researcher @juditvall.bsky.social, together with @lidiafarre.bsky.social (CSIC-IAE), dives into the issue. 🧵

📣 Tomorrow, John Ahlquist (UC San Diego) will be giving an IPERG Seminar at the University of Barcelona @ub.edu Don’t miss it! Details here: 🔗 www.ub.edu/iperg/events... @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social

We're thrilled to welcome Maria José Hierro from Yale University to our master's program, where she's teaching Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics. Students are loving the experience!

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

Gaza: "The entire population is facing high levels of acute food insecurity, with half a million people (one in five) facing starvation." www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...