I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.

🚨 Are you or do you know a student interested in authoritarianism? I am recruiting an intern to work on authoritarian parties with me starting January '26! The position is in-person in Gothenburg, Sweden & the deadline to apply is 28 November 2025. Email your application to [email protected]

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

'As we speak, there is not a single broadsheet newspaper or broadcaster that is not under the control of the #Orbán government.' – @444.hu 's Gábor Kardos on media capture in 🇭🇺 #Hungary. @spheranetwork.bsky.social

🚨🚨 The EU is ratcheting up pressure on governments reluctant to agree on funding for war-ravaged #Ukraine — telling them if they don’t force #Russia to foot the bill, they’ll have to do it themselves. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-assets-ukraine-loan-eurobonds/

Starting a war and expecting to move freely in Europe is hard to justify. The EU is tightening visa rules for Russian nationals amid continued drone disruptions and sabotage on European soil. Travelling to the EU is a privilege, not a given.

Gabriele Nunziati was fired for asking if Israel should pay for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...

Russians to face more and more restrictions to visit the Schengen countries

Mainwaring 1993 ftw, always and forever journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bravo @gerardofortuna.bsky.social ! The centrist majority may soon shift rightward, see on migration, green policy, and social issues. Next week will tell. #EUsky

Research shows that vaping can damage arteries, raise blood pressure and trigger inflammation – the same early warning signs that lead to heart attacks and strokes.

We do not perform scripts, or give Ted Talks. We get to know students, build learning relationships, build knowledge over a semester, adjust our teaching to meet the needs of particular cohorts. This is how we are taught to teach and what makes teaching good 3/

Farage did not like the EU but EU funding is always appreciated www.euractiv.com/news/belgian... #EUsky

⚖️📬𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 & 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 Charges against ex-EU Justice Chief Didier Reynders dominate a week marked by new revelations on spyware, tax evasion, and political corruption across Europe and the pond. Read the latest newsletter here: www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

BROKEN RECORD is more than a book—it’s a collective outcry. Nearly 50 academics share stories of gendered abuse, harassment, and institutional silence, demanding accountability and transformation. #NewBookTuesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/znejxkdk #EndAcademicAbuse #FeministScholarship

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Journalists, politicians, pundits, please read! 👇

In extremist circles, the idea of retreating to the land has been repurposed into a political strategy. 👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/REvK2Cx

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler takes legal action amid a corruption probe into a failed rock museum in Italy.

Bella inchiesta di Gabanelli sul Corriere sul costo esorbitante dei disumani centri per migranti in Albania: 670 milioni di euro sottratti a sanità, scuola e lavoro.

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

This is the ancient Etruscan southern gate of Volterra. It’s a magnificent bit of architecture, not least because it has three stone carved human heads protruding across its top. They’re possibly the city’s protective gods. 1/7

"What he knew, in short, was that fascism was not over, and that the right would metastasise, returning in a new form to claim power over a populace stupefied by the tawdry blandishments of capitalism. Was Pasolini wrong in his predictions? I think we all know the answer to that."

The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

Looking forward to catching up with colleagues working on Women & Europe in Florence, in less than two weeks, where I will be talking about the challenges of transnational memory - www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Part of the plan, right?

About 700 killed in Tanzania election protests, opposition says

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Professor Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social has published a new article which addresses the fact that the mainstream formation of academic studies of Europe today is dominated by the methods of the social sciences, rather than the humanities. Discover it below👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

At its most basic level, sciencewashing entails using the vocabulary of science, and borrowing its authority, to claim sustainability outcomes.

Latvia votes to withdraw from Istanbul Convention

Tjaden, Jasper, and Tobias Heidland. “Did Merkel’s 2015 Decision Attract More Migration to Germany?” European Journal of Political Research n/a(n/a). doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12669. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

World Travel and Tourism Council quits UK for EU due to Brexit. 'The benefits of a European head office include lower operational costs, EU single market access and recruitment flexibility of a multilingual talent pool'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Frans Timmermans rose to the pinnacle of European Union politics. But it was his own Brussels legacy that sabotaged his attempt to defeat the far right.

The take-home message.

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ITALY’S COURT OF AUDITORS REJECTS GOVERNMENT PLAN TO CONSTRUCT THE SICILY BRIDGE

Women are consistently more represented among the highest educated in all EU countries. At the same time, they consistently make less money per worked hour.

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

An Italian friend sent a national newspaper commentary by a local political scientist writing something along the lines of “if the wife earns more than the husband their family is fragile” and I feel very confirmed of my personal choice of living abroad right now.

A fascinating long read by @naomiohreally.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces. Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%. Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying. Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done

Happy to see that our article, “Bringing Rokkan into the twenty-first century: the cleavage structure of Western Europe”, coauthored with @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social, has made it into the top 5 most read in @jeppjournal.bsky.social over the past year! Proof that cleavage theory is alive and well.

This is an excellent explainer of Finnish land use and its problems in climate policy. The bioenergy and pulp/paper model of industrial forestry has other drastic environmental consequences in addition to climate impacts, especially in wetland forests.

EP's missions & delegations highlights week 44 🔗 link.europa.eu/hbtBBg MEPs from @agri.europarl.europa.eu are in Brazil to discuss Mercosur's agricultural aspects. MEPs will also meet farmers, meat producers and researchers to learn about local agricultural production (Mon - Thu).

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.