Here I am again to witness my academic funeral.As I did some years ago with my job at Oxford, here I come to advertise my EUI chair. It has been a great job and I am happy to answer Q's. Also, fyi, I am not (yet) leaving the EUI. I do need, however a new name for my chair:suggestions very welcome.

📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴! The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School. 👇 More details in the next posts.

El candidato a alcalde de NY expone aquí un nuevo ejemplo de gentrificación del fútbol. Entradas con precio dinámico. El ticket más barato del Mundial 2026 arranca en $60, pero puede encarecerse según demanda, como un billete de avión. Una barrera para la working class neoyorquina en su propia casa.

Gran columna sobre la fragilidad de la paz y sus procesos. Para lxs que tengan más tiempo, se recomienda complementar con Disidencias por Dentro (open.spotify.com/episode/4OOQ...) de Akorde Podcast y Fundación Core.

Now Out on First View: "Re-Stigmatizing the Radical Right: A One-Way Street?" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We have a new paper out in @jepsjournal.bsky.social, with @laiabalcells.bsky.social, @sergisme.bsky.social and Ethan vanderWilden. We test a number of experimental treatments aimed at strengthening social norms against radical-right support, but find mostly null results. 1/3

As these events pile up, there is a risk of desensitization and that they start to seem less shocking. But each one makes matters worse and should increase our anger and pressure on politicians to take action to end this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don’t forget to apply to present your work at MESS! The first edition was absolutely amazing and I can’t recommend it enough.

Feel free to stop by the Junior Workshop in Historical Political Economy tomorrow at UC3M Puerta de Toledo. We can promise you lots of interesting papers and very nice people

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN! Apply to the Latin American Peace Science Society (LAPSS) 2026 Conference! www.eafit.edu.co/lapss Details below 🧵

I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

If you are attending #EPSA2025 and are interested in social identities, attitudes about others, networks, violence, and their measurement, I (co-)author 4 papers on the program. 👇

🎓 Heads up! Apps are OPEN for the SPS Summer Academy 2025 at @eui-eu.bsky.social 📍 Florence | 🗓️ 1–5 Sept 📝 Deadline: 15 May (spots = limited!) 💶 Free + support available www.eui.eu/apply?id=the... #SummerSchool #EUISPS #SmartSummer

Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy? In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this. A short 🧵 with some results Citizens are deeply divided about this issue Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

🚨 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

New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵

📢 Special #call for funded research visits for PhD researchers (September-December 2025). Under #EUIWidening Europe Programme, this call gives the chance to work with faculty members, enriching their research and contributing to the Institute's activities. 📆 #Apply by 31 March 👉 buff.ly/iyabnUF

Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

120 million people are displaced worldwide. Advocates try to promote refugee inclusion by providing information that corrects common misperceptions, and by sharing refugee narratives that try to generate empathy; do these work? (1/9)

El otro día @miweintraub83.bsky.social comentaba en el Seminario de Políticas y Desarrollo de la FEG EAFIT cómo podemos evitar la llegada de alguien como Bukele a un país como Colombia. Aquí van algunas pistas:

Does cleaner air improve student performance? New study by @mvaldes1989.bsky.social @marespadafor.bsky.social & @conteristo.bsky.social finds Madrid’s low emission zone boosted exam scores. Policy rollback raises questions about the future. #Mapineq 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ary5ce77

⌛ The deadline to apply to the EUI's PhD programme is fast approaching. Complete and submit your application by 31 January 14:00 (CET)! 👉 www.eui.eu/phd

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social

Thanks for your visit, @miweintraub83.bsky.social! We are very happy to have started our Politics and Development Seminar Series with your presentation.