At LMU Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, the team identifies administrative “Achilles’ heels” and develop proposals for adaptive responses. Team: C. Knill @cknill.bsky.social, A. Lenz @alexalenz.bsky.social, F. Findeisen, D. Zink @dionyszink.bsky.social .

At the University of Oslo @uio.no, we map how growing rule volumes reshape public administration: who implements what, and how responsibilities shift. Team: Y. Steinebach, M. Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social , M. Povitkina @mpovitkina.bsky.social, L. Gulli, M. Imran, T. Molde.

Södertörn Uni. @sodertornshogskola.bsky.social studies how rule-offsetting schemes work, combining theory, coding, and interviews with policymakers & civil society. Goal: effective and legitimate rule design. Team: Brigitte Pircher @brigittepircher.bsky.social , Miranda Thulin, Swapnil Vashishtha.

The University of Barcelona @ub.edu team turns archives, APIs, web-scraped material, and legal documents into machine-readable data using text-as-data and NLP — building a dataset on rule growth across the EU. Team: Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, David García García @davidgg.bsky.social , Prachee Arora.

What brings the SUPA scholars together? Turning laws into data to ask why rules multiply, how to streamline without hurting democracy, and how to help policymakers make sense of it. In the posts below ⬇️👇🔽 we show how each partner tackles a different angle. It really fits together, doesn’t it? 💡

The European Citizen Action Service @ecas-europe.bsky.social connects the project to citizens, helping us understand how rule growth affects everyday life. Team: Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social, Claire Morot‑Sir, Nicolò Triacca.

🚨nouvelle ublication avec @giuliasandri.bsky.social et F. Von Nostitz ! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

After 2 intense with academics & practioners, here are my takeaway messages: 1. People do not care about technology but purpose. 2. Digital tools must feel natural. 3. Barriers might be simpler than you think. #Relink2 @lucaskins.bsky.social @hendriknahr.bsky.social @giuliasandri.bsky.social

How can we bettet connect citizens, political organizations, and public institutions through digital technologies? On my way to Brussels again... #Relink2 #CA23114 #BrIAS @ramonv.bsky.social @giuliasandri.bsky.social @lucaskins.bsky.social brias.be/index.php/ev...

The SUPA project has a new webpage! 🌐 👉 www.supa.uio.no/english/inde... There you’ll find: 🌍 project background & goals 👩‍🔬 team members & institutional partners 📢 news, events & publications (with more coming soon!) Check it out — and let us know what you think!

Tired of ‘red tape’? UK planning reforms echo past failures like the "one-in, three-out" scheme. One of our rerearches in progress shows why they fail: ➡️ Narrow Focus ➡️ Weak Enforcement ➡️ Political Reality Result? Rules keep growing. Lasting reform needs smarter governance for true growth. #SUPA

📈 More laws, more policies, more regulations. But administrations aren’t growing at the same pace 🚨 This mismatch risks poor services, unequal treatment & frustration. That’s where #SUPA comes in: from 2025–2028, we’ll study how to improve rule design & strengthen modern democracies 🏛️✨

We’re excited to share that our empirical research from Work Package 3 of the EU-CIEMBLY project is now accessibly on Zenodo! 👉 Explore the datasets and explanatory note here: zenodo.org/communities/...

📢Join Us at Cyprus Forum – October 1–3 2025! 📢 🕥 Our Session: October 3, 10:25–11:25 💡 Title: Power to the People: Unleashing the Future of Citizen Democracy 🔗 Reserve your seat now: 2025.cyprusforum.cy #cyprusforum2025 #citizendemocracy #europe #events #HorizonEurope

🗳️ Term of the Week: Deliberative Democracy Process of active engagement and direct deliberation by citizens amongst themselves or with the participation of other stakeholders on a substantive policy or legislative area. Explore all terms in our glossary: 👉 www.eu-ciembly.eu/en/glossary/...

And a special thanks to the roundtable speakers @giuliasandri.bsky.social (@ecas-europe.bsky.social & @sciencepoulb.bsky.social), @dejaeghere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy (FIDE), and Mara Almeida (JRC), and to the moderator @tverthe.bsky.social

Great event co-hosted with BrIAS on Challenges to Democracy. Grateful to all panelists for their insights and to everyone who joined us for the lively and inspiring discussions! @dfuturevub.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth. The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract. Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome. www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...

⚡ Big news! ⚡ We're thrilled to announce that are teaming up with @psampg.bsky.social to host our *first* joint conference on "Navigating Digital Democracy" 📩 at Bournemouth University on 8-9 Jan, with an online pre-conf session on the 7 Jan - submission deadline is the 26 Sep more details in 🧵

Come see our work on using LLMs to track political science research methods at APSA at 4pm today! We find the latest LLMs beat graduate student RAs at extracting information from academic papers

📊 S. Lecornu entre à Matignon avec 16% d'opinions favorables et 40% défavorables - pas loin d'un Français sur deux (44%) n'a à ce stade pas d'opinion précise sur le Premier ministre et son action.

📊 E. Macron recule fortement au sein de son propre socle électoral : il n'y a plus qu'un sympathisant Renaissance-MoDem-Horizons sur deux pour juger positivement son action (54%, -18). Les niveau sont très bas chez les proches de LR (25%), et abyssaux au PS et au RN (9%).

📊 Dans la dernière vague du baromètre @ipsosfrance.bsky.social pour La Tribune Dimanche, la popularité d'E. Macron chute nettement (17%, -7), atteignant son plus bas niveau depuis son entrée à l'Elysée. www.latribune.fr/la-tribune-d...

Super inspiring workshop on AI and political agency at the university of Valencia !🤩📲💻 I presented on research trends & foresight on social impact of AI

On 10–11 Sept, I’ll be presenting at the University of Valencia workshop on Political Agency between Human & AI. Looking forward to debating how AI is reshaping politics, democracy & civil society. #AI #Democracy

We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

How is AI rewriting the rules of democracy? 🤖🗳️ With @claudionovelli.bsky.social (Yale), we explore AI’s impact on citizenship, participation, representation & the public sphere. Part of A Companion to Digital Ethics (eds. L. Floridi & M. Taddeo) Read here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our COST action CA23114 recently new website -https://relink2.eu/ feel free to register to our periodically newsletters @giuliasandri.bsky.social @michalmaly.bsky.social @techpolicy.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

Les 26-27.06 à SciencesPoLille, colloque "La sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques contemporains". Joie d'être du comité scientifique/constater la qualité des papiers arrivés ! @ludovicgrave.bsky.social @denisrayer.bsky.social @cechene.bsky.social ceraps.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...

C’étaient 2 belles journées de réflexions sur les partis, dont mes étudiant•es - POL3050 @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social Partis politiques - entendront très sûrement parler à la rentrée !

Join us @ECAS & @Crowdhelix for the final @BOLSTER policy dialogue! 🗓️ June 30, 14:00 BST Explore citizen engagement tools for just sustainability transitions in 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇪🇨 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌎. 🔗 Register: events.crowdhelix.com/en/Crowdheli... #ClimateJustice #PublicEngagement

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 Should Data Protection Authorities Enforce the AI Act? Lessons from EU-wide Enforcement Data Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

🚀 Just published! Our study in Party Politics investigates what drives political parties to digitalise internally (member engagement) & externally (campaigning) ✅ Bigger parties digitalise participation more ✅ Competition boosts digitalisation 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #DigitalPolitics

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

🚨 We're Hiring: Communications Coordinator 🚨 Join us and help empower EU citizens! We are seeking a dynamic Communications Coordinator to engage stakeholders and support communication activities for EU projects. 📅 Apply by 25 May More info: buff.ly/3BDnNS4

📢 Happening this week! ⏰Our online BOLSTER policy dialogue is taking place on Thursday! Join us to explore cross-disciplinary methods that shaped policies linking climate action and social justice, with a focus on mobility and energy. 🔗Register: ecas.org/registration...

🚨 New paper: The European Way – A Blueprint for Reclaiming Our Digital Future This is not about #isolationism or #protectionism. It’s a call to lead with values, open standards & trusted global partnerships. 📖 Read the paper: www.ft.com/content/2a78... 
#EUtech #DigitalFuture #EuropeanWay

Check out Liam’s long-read about the Reddit-Univ of Zurich ethics controversy. ⬇️⬇️

Jetzt mitmachen! 📈 Wie fühlen wir uns in Bezug auf Europa und seine Politik? Das Verbundprojekt @mores-project.bsky.social, an dem auch die #Viadrina beteiligt ist, untersucht, wie zentrale Themen der #EU erlebt werden. Dazu wurde jetzt ein Fragebogen entwickelt 👉 crowdsourcing.ecas.org/de/Mores

Our newsletter is out 📰 🔷 Get the latest updates & exclusive insights including: 🛑The University of Zurich’s #AI Ethics Controversy 💰Counting the cost of #DOGE ’s grant termination to our research area 📝Member News & Research 🎓Opportunities/Grants 💼 & Jobs! #Commsky substack.com/home/post/p-...

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📣📣Don't forget to register for our online BOLSTER policy dialogue! 💬 Join us for an engaging discussion on methods that have shaped policies linking climate action with social justice, focusing on mobility and energy. Register: ecas.org/event/9th-bo...

📣📣please help us @ecas-europe.bsky.social understand better the role of emotions 😊😡😵‍💫😖in politics🗳️📉📊! As part of the @mores-project.bsky.social Horizon Europe Project, we invite you to share how EU policies make you feel. Please fill in our quick survey 👉🏻 crowdsourcing.ecas.org/en/Mores

📣New report for the European Commission under the #ActEU project (Horizon Europe): How do identity, territorial attachment & subnational regime types shape trust across Europe? Read here: zenodo.org/records/1509... #Trust #Democracy #HorizonEU

In light of İmamoğlu’s detention on 19 March, this research shows why cities matter in the fight for democracy: “First survive, then thrive: major urban centres and resistance against autocratisation”. By @lucatomini.bsky.social , Adam Szymanski and me. 👉🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone (and follow her on Bluesky!) & I published today in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation” 👇

We are exhausted and full of new ideas at the same time! My 3 favorite takeaways: 1) The human is a Home Faber and #AI is a tool. 2) There is no such thing as "just" a tool. 3) Participation is a complex thing. #Relink² #COST @giuliasandri.bsky.social @michalmaly.bsky.social @ramonv.bsky.social

With everything else that's going on, it was easy to miss this rather strange event: a Likud hardliner invites leading members of the European #farright to attend an anti-Semitism conference. A lot to unpack here

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq