📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... We'll feature two sections each Tuesday & Thursday to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This Tuesday: Party Politics & Historical Political Economy

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics ▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour 🧵

▶️ International Relations 👉🏽 Section chairs: @argohdes.bsky.social & Michal Parizek 📢 Our section welcomes empirically investigate international relations and global affairs, including topics such as: 4/

▶️ Comparative Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @nathaliegiger.bsky.social & @filipkostelka.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes individual papers and panels that engage with states, political regimes, welfare institutions, and governance from both contemporary and historical perspectives. 1/

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

1/4 Download our new book for FREE! Thiago, Laron, and I explain why studying whether and how voters know what parties want (and who goes with whom) is important and layout a framework for how to do this better. Check out the cover, promotional comic, and abstract cup.org/4mkBibw

📢 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 
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Do consider joining the new EPSS conference in Belfast next year! I will be chairing the section on Political Representation with Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live! Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

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.

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Job Opening! We're seeking a Postdoc in Computational Social Science to join our team at GESIS! Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/ins...#jobs#stellenangebote

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

🌍 European Political Science Society is officially launched (EPSS)! 🗓️ June 26, 2025 📍EPSS is a not-for-profit & member-led association for political science in Europe 👉 Visit us: epssnet.org Some updates 👇🏽 🧵

Finally in the same place at the same time! Great to meet up in Madrid and celebrate the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics. Get your copy at OUP now! 📘 @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

I just joined the newly established European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social. It will shape the discource and exchange in our discipline in forseeable future - thanks to all founding members & entrepreneurs.

Some more context on @epssnet.bsky.social founding and the problems with EPSA by Ken Benoit 👇. The not-for-profit model is the only solution for an academic association in the long-run... historical institutionalism will tell you why! 😅😉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/suppor...

Great news for political science in Europe! Excited to be part of the founding council of the new non-profit and member-led political science association in Europe EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social

🚨 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. 🧵

Delighted to be at my favourite political science conference #epsa2025 in beautiful Madrid! Don't miss my Presidential Address this evening at 18:50, followed by the Presidential Drinks Reception in the Ground Floor Foyer Have a great EPSA conference!

Delighted to see the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics 🇪🇺 in print! @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social If you teach EU or European politics, you can order an inspection copy here: global.oup.com/ushe/product...

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Our Team Digital Society Observatory in #Cologne is looking for a #SeniorResearcher & #TeamLeader in Computational Social Science #CSS (Salary group 15 TV-L, working time 100%, initially for four years with possible tenure): gesis.jobs.personio....

🎉 Exciting news! Our Cluster of Excellence @econtribute.bsky.social will be funded for another seven years by @dfg.de! We’re excited to continue our journey together. Many thanks to all involved! Find out more here: econtribute.de/funding-exte... #ExStra @unibonn.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

The first edition instantly became my go to for my European Politics class. The second edition added important chapters, revised throughout and even updated the awesome data exercises! Thanks to the team!

🚨The updated companion site for the 2nd edition of our textbook #foundationsofeuropeanpolitics is now live! Discover all data exercise updates and additions at www.foundationsofeuropeanpolitics.com @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social 🚀🧵1/4

Delighted that the 2nd edition of our textbook - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out now! 📘Foundations of European Politics 📒 Copies can be ordered here: www.oup.com/ukhe/product... Data and exercises here: www.foundationsofeuropeanpolitics.com

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Two weeks left to apply for a post-doctoral position in my project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe. Thanks for helping me alert interested researchers!

The School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring again: Assistant Professor (open field) – Permanent position – €64k-€101k – Deadline: 7 April More details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

Exciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)

University College Dublin is recruiting 50 early-career faculty through the Ad Astra Fellows programme (~ tenure-track Assistant Professorships). – Excellent research support – Salary: €62k–€99k – Application deadline: 21 Feb – All positions: www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin... @ucddublin.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀 I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p... ⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰

🚨🚨🚨 Job opportunity: 3-yr Postdoc on Inequality & Polarization in my team, with 1-yr secondment @ LSE DSI. Pol economy/behaviour research + strong quantitative/computational methods expertise required. Apply here shorturl.at/XzpXi by Jan 7, 2025. Feel free to reach out with any questions! #polisky

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

New article with @sopro.bsky.social at The Conversation. We discuss our publication on nostalgia in European party politics and related research by political scientists and psychologists. @bjpols.bsky.social paper (open access): doi.org/10.1017/S000... 📰 theconversation.com/nostalgia-in...

It has a DOI! 🎉 Our paper “Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach” (with @sopro.bsky.social) is now published in the BJPS. Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1017/S000... PolNos Datasets: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

🚨 New tool to classify text into discrete emotions! I have fine-tuned a mDeBERTa model based on crowd-coded data described in my Political Analysis study (see link below). Unlike the ELECTRA model discussed in the paper, this new tool is MULTILINGUAL (up to 100 languages) #TADAsky #CPSky #Polisky

“Nostalgia in European Party Politics: A Text-Based Measurement Approach” (with Sven-Oliver Proksch) has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science! Paper (PDF): muellerstefan.net/papers/bjps_... polisky cssky 1/5

Wie kann die wehrhafte Demokratie mit der AfD umgehen? GERTRUDE LÜBBE-WOLFF bringt zielgenauere Instrumente ins Spiel: Das teilverbandsbezogene Parteiverbot und eine Norm, die noch nie genutzt wurde - die Grundrechtsverwirkung nach Art. 18 GG.