The year 2024 confirmed a global environment defined by: ↔️ pronounced political fragmentation 🗳️ heightened electoral activity 📈 + a deepening wave of autocratisation that continued a 25-year trajectory. ⬇️ Read the 2025 yearbook now! buff.ly/lSheCuB

💡Very excited for our INCONEX Online Kick-off Workshop on 12 December! Mark your calendars, register via the link below & join our conversation on representative absence! Oh, and spread the word. #EUsky #Eursky #polisci @sceus.bsky.social 👇

Happy to have been part of this episode with @clint0475.bsky.social talking all things INCONEX, but also about the EU, what it means to be a political scientist these days, how AI will shape how we teach, and much more. Take a listen! 👂👇

Heute erscheint "Demokratie sucht Zukunft", ein Buch von @gulp1959.bsky.social, @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social und mir zur Rolle politischer Parteien in der österreichischen Demokratie (mit Beiträgen von @nikowall.bsky.social und Othmar Karas). Erster Präsentationstermin hier (weitere s. u.):

💡🇪🇺 Excited to see this article out 👇

Last day to apply! 👇

‼️Reminder - only five days left to apply for the job as a student assistant for @lucykinski.bsky.social! Don't miss your chance!

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📣 Call for student assistant (BA or MA level) to join the INCONEX project in Salzburg as soon as possible! Deadline: 20 October 2025 ⭐ More information at www.inconex.eu and in the call below. @sceus.bsky.social

Es ist eine traurige Nachricht, dass Anton Pelinka nicht mehr bei uns ist. Er hat Politik für Generationen erklärt, sei es an den Universitäten, an denen er gelehrt hat, oder als pointierter Kommentator und scharfer Analytiker. Österreich hat eine bedeutende Stimme verloren. (vdb)

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! 📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests” With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Excited for this! If you work on democracy or representation in multilevel Europe, sign up via your MyECPR account! @ecpr.bsky.social

2024 was a turbulent year in German politics: four elections, a surging far right, and the coalition's collapse. Our new Political Data Yearbook piece (with @lucykinski.bsky.social) traces the events leading to the 2025 snap elections. @hhu.de @sceus.bsky.social

Very happy to have you in the INCONEX team, Clint & looking forward to working together on representative absence! ✨️ And welcome to Salzburg! 🌞 @sceus.bsky.social #EUsky #Polisky

Honored to have been elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! I join an interdisciplinary network of already established & award-winning researchers under the age of 40. Pics (c)ÖAW @ya-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @sceus.bsky.social @unisalzburg.bsky.social #Polisky

#hiring #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods #representation #EUsky

📣​ Less than two weeks left to apply for one of the two PhD positions w/ focus on qualitative #representation #research in @lucykinski.bsky.social ’s INCONEX project on #politics of absence ❗​ Apply by 2 May ❗​ Find more info here: buff.ly/04QmrEw #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

💡New exciting comparative #data on intra-party democracy 👇

Si hablas castellano, has cursado un buen máster en Ciencia Política y quieres realizar tu doctorado en el marco de un proyecto ERC, dispones de una magnífica oportunidad para solicitar una plaza en Salzburg, hasta el 2 de mayo 💫

If you are interested in political representation (and the absence of representation for some groups) I got the perfect PhD for you. @lucykinski.bsky.social is looking for two (!) 4-year PhD positions in her amazing project. A great job in our vibrant #polsci community at @unisalzburg.bsky.social

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

Come work with us! #EU #polisky #jobs #hiring

📢I am looking for a student research assistant in my ERC project INCONEX to join the team as soon as possible! ⭐More information below and here: sites.google.com/view/inconex... @sceus.bsky.social

📆 5 more days left to apply ‼️ Come work with me on my ERC project INCONEX on representative absence: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #hiring #EUsky #polisky #postdoc #academicjobs #representation #parliaments #css More info on the position: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

It was great fun to talk about what political #representation is (Pitkin!), why democratic representation is in #crisis (parties struggle), whether citizens in Hashtag#Europe are actually well represented (pretty well), and whether they also feel that way (less so). Thanks for joining!

Looking forward to talking about the crisis of representation in Europe today in our Jean Monnet Public Lecture series "Forschung von nebenan" (Also nice to see these posters all over town 😀) @sceus.bsky.social #Eursky #representation

A last reminder that SCEUS will host the two-day Young Scholar Workshop on “The State of the EU 15 Years after the Lisbon Treaty” on 15-16 May, 2025. PhD students & postdocs in law, political science, & economics can apply by 31 December. More information: www.plus.ac.at/news/sceus-y...

Our edited volume traveled from London via Vienna to Warsaw and is now off to the European Parliament with the President! 🇪🇺📚 #EUsky #EUrsky @sceus.bsky.social

🎓🇪🇺 Applications are open for our master's in European Union Studies, starting October 2025. This interdisciplinary, English-taught programme covers EU politics, economics and law through courses, study trips and simulations. Apply by 15 February 2025. For more info: linktr.ee/sceus

⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due by 8 January 2025. Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

Politics and Governance is now on Bluesky! We are excited to join this community and connect with new audiences. Here, you will find information about our open access research, online events, journal updates, and much more. Follow us and stay tuned! 🦋

💡 THE interdisciplinary research hub for #EU studies in Austria bringing together economists, legal scholars & political scientists 👇🇪🇺 #EUsky #Eursky

✨️ What an insightful conversation on the future of parliamentary #democracy in the #EU, thanks @simonhix.bsky.social & everyone on & offline for the discussion! And @gillespittoors.bsky.social is also on here, more will come 🤞

💬 Join us online (or in Florence) TODAY for the book launch! 📚💡 👇 Register via the link below to receive the Zoom details. Our book is entirely #openaccess #EU #parliaments #representation

@mblauberger.bsky.social has made it to the bright side! 👋 Nice to have another @sceus.bsky.social on 🦋! Great for those interested in #EU, #ruleoflaw, #freemovement, EU Courts and many many other fascinating topics!

Wer fehlt auf dieser Liste? #politikwissenschaft go.bsky.app/6QwmWT7

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Letzten Samstag diskutierten Forschende der Uni Salzburg, darunter @lucykinski.bsky.social und @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, beim Salzburger Bildungswerk über Demokratie. Zahlreiche Krisen verunsichern viele, populistische Kräfte gewinnen Zulauf. Die frage: Wie stärken wir die Demokratie in Europa?

The starter pack I was searching for but couldn't find. Great for scholars, journalists, and anyone looking for research-based takes on current events. Please reply to this message or DM if you want me to add you, or anyone else, to the list 😊 go.bsky.app/315MyLR

Call for panels & papers for @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference is OPEN and this is a great section to apply to if you are working on #polcom #democracy #resilience #ecprgc25 👇

I'm happy to share this call for papers for a workshop on "The Geopoliticization of #Trade Policy", organized within my ERC-funded project GEOTRADE (geotrade.sbg.ac.at). You can find a pdf version of the call here: lnkd.in/gfpgWXYi. Deadline: 24 November. #Polisky

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

With Bluesky user numbers rocketing, more official news accounts are arriving. Here is a starter pack of major media outlets. Feel free to repost, I’ll keep this updated as more arrive.

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

Jobs: 1 PhD student, 1 Post-doc to work with me on the project "Parliamentary Accountability and EU Action Against Democratic Backsliding". Both positions are for 3 years, starting 1.4.2025. Happy to answer questions. See below or here: www.hhu.de/die-hhu/kont.... PSJMInfo

Und noch ein #Starterpack: hier findet ihr Journalistinnen und Journalisten des #ORF. Lasst gerne Hinweise da, wer noch fehlt. go.bsky.app/FJXtMdH

I am offering a 5-day remote course (3h/day) on Case Study Research from March 24-28 with the ECPR Methods School ecpr.eu/Events/Event... We work with published case and process tracing studies to cover all fundamental issues 1/

Just created a starter package on political scientists *explicitly* working on political representation from my contact list. Let me know if you want to be added! 🙏 go.bsky.app/Tu5YrVx

📆 21 November, 15:00-16:30CET 🗣️hybrid event at EUI on our edited volume w/ Routledge on the Parliamentary Dimension of #CoFoE with @simonhix.bsky.social chaired by Kalypso Nicolaidis. 👉 Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=57... Open Access: www.routledge.com/9781032747644 @sceus.bsky.social EUsky