Delighted to co-convene the track on EU Elections and Legislative Politics with Lukas Obholzer at @ecprsgeu.bsky.social 2026, next July in Catania! 🇪🇺 Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341

Cheers to 10 great days of political science conferencing in Spain 🇪🇸 After all the sun ☀️ I’m looking forward to a cooler Belfast for next year’s @epssnet.bsky.social already. Thanks to @marcgeddes.uk and the organisers of @sgparliaments.bsky.social for a great conference in Barcelona!

It’s the final day of our conference but the fun isn’t over - here are our morning panels starting at 9.30am #sgop25

🌟 Scholar Spotlight 🌟 @wdaniel127.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social reveal how changes in #EuropeanCommission cabinets impact #EU policy-making. More diverse cabinets boost legitimacy but don’t affect proposal quality or political processing. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How do politicians campaign on social media? @wdaniel127.bsky.social & Lukas Obholzer explore campaign data from the 2024EP elections on Facebook, Instagram & TikTok, showing party-based differences. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Symposium: European Parliament Elections 2024

🚨New Elections Article Alert!🚨 Lukas Obholzer and I have been writing about online campaigning in European elections 🇪🇺 since 2014. This past year, we broadened our focus from Twitter (now X) to see where else Members of the @europarl.europa.eu were campaigning.

Quite pleased to see that my new book with Andrea Aldrich is now hot off the (physical) presses and ready to ship across the US, UK, and Europe.

▫️ Research with Impact series ▫️ Read more on how @wdaniel127.bsky.social advised the Welsh government on its plans to promote gender equality under the expanded Senedd 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/366u6vfe @uonresearch.bsky.social @uoninstitute.bsky.social

A well-resourced European Parliament is so vital for democracy! But MEPs often blur the line between parliamentary work and campaigning. Some go too far: Le Pen today, Farage during Brexit, Bayrou in his post-election blues. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

News of 🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen's temporary barring from seeking public office for diverting of 🇪🇺 European Parliament funds to national work, reminds me of an article that I wrote for the @jei-publication.bsky.social about a decade ago.

@nottspolitics.bsky.social is hiring! We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in Political Science (with a focus on quantitative methods). This full-time, fixed-term post is available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2027.

Looking forward to discussing this work, later today!

Looking forward to this next week!

Looks like Oxford snuck in the e-book publication day for our new gender quotas book without telling Andrea Aldrich or me! Time to request a copy of your libraries and reading lists :-)

Proud brother alert, loading. as.virginia.edu/recent-grad-...

And all the people said, Amen.

Really looking forward to this, as always! We could especially use a few more submissions for our Gender & Sexuality track, which I am co-convening. Find out more and propose your paper here! www.uaces.org/liverpool

One more week to get your applications in!

Great to chat about my ongoing research on cross-platform social media campaign strategies with @zoecrowther.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social

🔈Job Alert 🔈 I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.

British politics in 2024: American public services with Scandinavian taxes Dutch electoral fragmentation with Westminster majoritarianism

🗳️ Women are not a demographic minority, but they are a minority in politics. Laura Sudulich, Siim Trumm & @makropoulos.bsky.social of @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social show how a significant gender resource gap remains a feature of contemporary parliamentary campaigns bit.ly/498OFWA

Very happy to be co-convening the Gender and Sexuality track again for #UACES both panel and individual paper proposals for inclusion on to its Gender and Sexuality track. We are keen on developing a space for feminist and queer approaches to European Studies (broadly defined). /1

Really delighted to see this all come together, albeit during a much happier and more productive time on that other platform. Thanks to our France 🇫🇷 team for doing such amazing work - and looking forward to diving in with the comparative data!

Not me clicking “follow all” to dozens of interesting starter packs, like a first year signing up for clubs and societies during a freshers fair.

Want to follow experts on European politics, check out this starter pack ⤵️ Big thanks to @tiagomramalho.bsky.social for putting it together!

Checking back in on Bluesky means finding your co-author’s been posting about your recent work. Give it a look, 🇪🇺 politics types! (Sorry, lawyers)

What leads candidates to diverge from stated party messaging strategies during election campaigns? I examine the drivers of candidates' toxic campaign discourses during the 2022 🇫🇷legislative elections with Laurence Rowley-Abel, Elise Frelin, and Max-Valentin Robert. doi.org/10.1080/014023…

Delighted to see my new article with Andrea Aldrich out @thejop.bsky.social We use new data on >6k EU🇪🇺 legislators to combat stigma that gender quotas lead to a reduction in quality, showing those elected via quotas have higher degree qualifications than those who were not. doi.org/10.1086/727603