Falls ihr dieses wirklich sehr kluge Interview mit @valentimvicente.bsky.social noch nicht gelesen habt, kommt hier ein Geschenklink ohne Paywall. Und ich freu mich wahnsinnig auf das Buch! www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

Großartiges Interview mit @valentimvicente.bsky.social. "Es gab ein Stigma gegenüber extrem rechtem Denken, und dieses Stigma hat sich aufgelöst. In der Politikwissenschaft sagen wir: Die sozialen Normen haben sich verschoben." www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

The Nuffield PPRF is an amazing postdoc - a brilliant community, lovely college, and yes, great food. And, usually, also with a family of ducks.

Delighted to be visiting Harvard's Department of Government as a Fellow. Loving the free food at most seminars here (EUI take note)! I have an office at the CGIS during the Fall and Spring Semester, so if you are around and would like to talk about research or play a game of chess, let me know 🙂

I was privileged to be a Nuffield PPRF and it was nothing short of career changing. 3 years with ample time for research, surrounded by some of the most supportive people out there. The call is out now; do apply! www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/s2wd5j...

Interview mit @valentimvicente.bsky.social:

Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.

„Es führt leider kein Weg zurück in die Zeit vor der Normalisierung der AfD.“ @valentimvicente.bsky.social argumentiert, dass extrem rechte Parteien erfolgreich sind, weil sich soziale Normen verschoben hätten. Extrem rechte Ansichten seien schon vorher da gewesen. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

Worth translating: interview w/ @valentimvicente.bsky.social on a very plausible explanation for the rise of the radical right in Europe: Norms that made voting far-right parties socially undesirable have eroded - and the availability of far-right parties met a certain "demand" that already existed

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

20 Minuten, wie @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social sagt, Druckbetankung, warum es zu diesem politisch-medial-gesellschafftlichen Rechtsruck kommt. Es ist immer schon da gewesen. #NoAfD #NieMehrCDU

Wenn @valentimvicente.bsky.social im Deutschlandfunk ist, dann sollte man sich das natürlich auf jeden Fall anhören

Ein Politikwissenschaftler aus Portugal, @valentimvicente.bsky.social, lenkt die Diskussion auf genau diesen Punkt. Denn es sei total unwahrscheinlich, dass sich die politischen Ansichten so schnell geändert haben. Sein Buch erscheint kommendes Jahr auch auf deutsch. academic.oup.com/book/57946 2/

Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/

Anand Menon has a rare gift: making the hardest political questions feel answerable. As professor at King’s & director of UK in a Changing Europe, he’s done more than almost anyone to make British-EU relations intelligible. 👉🏽 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

Die Rolle kippender Normen beim Erstarken von Rechtsaußen. Machen wir heute in den Dlf-Systemfragen, anknüpfend an die Theorie & Studie von @valentimvicente.bsky.social "Normalization of the radical right". Oder anders: Das war schon in den Köpfen, wird jetzt nur gelebt. Ab 20.10h Dlf / online.

NEW - Exposure to Confederate Monuments: The Political Effect of Non-Intervention - https://cup.org/42ZHRc0 "results highlight the potential negative consequences of maintaining controversial commemorations" - Ana Ruipérez Núñez #OpenAccess

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Multiverse studies seem doomed to perpetuate a cycle of "look it varies!" "but not that much" "does too!". Here's another exchange that I had missed. "Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Normalising ideas which just a few years ago would have been regarded as career ending extremism but now are seen as legit, because they are constantly in every centre right MP and journalist's X replies, may end being Elon Musk's most lasting, and most destructive, impact on British politics.

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

Just uploaded a new version of my Job Market paper ahead of the USC HPE workshop. Comments, concerns, and inquiries welcome! I look forward to answering any questions about how this does or does not relate to "current events". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excellent set of suggestions by @valentimvicente.bsky.social about how to deal with rejections plus additional reading tips! 👇🏽

Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:

So here’s a rough guide to fail bette that I’ve learned the hard way: 
– Feel the sting, then return later.
– Separate tone from substance.
– Keep a shadow CV.
– Measure risk by stretch, not safety.
– Share your rejections. It helps. 6/

I think key is to look towards books rather than papers. Vicente's work would qualify: academic.oup.com/book/57946 But I can also think of a few other books, Mathias' Creating Partisans, for instance (www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...)

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

#OpenAccess from August 2025 - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social#OpenAccess

Os meus 5 cêntimos acerca de ontem: tiram-se demasiadas ilações dos resultados das autárquicas. São umas eleições sui generis e o que nelas acontece não representa, nem influencia, muito do que acontece em legislativas (com a exceção das câmaras mais importantes).

jaeyk.github.io/essays/acade... It's or going to be a flyout season for academic job market candidates. Here are my reflections on how to give a job talk or have a good conversation around your research agenda.

Gigantic news for European academia:

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

A recent article in @theguardian.com references an article from @bjpols.bsky.social - cup.org/46HrmUe You can read 'How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms' by @valentimvicente.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social here - cup.org/4mANXXT #OpenAccess

Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social at the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. Submit your abstracts by Nov 7!

Despite the grim topic, this is a very good paper: monuments that signal white supremacy can substitute performative violence and thus reduce it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

O que os estudos acerca disto sugerem é que uma aproximação à direita radical não reduz o seu sucesso eleitoral. E o nosso trabalho sugere também que fazê-lo contribui ainda mais para a normalização da retórica de ultra direita. expresso.pt/politica/ele...

🎉 Congratulations to our alumna @nerealidad.bsky.social, PhD supervised by Prof @eliasdinas.bsky.social, who has received the Juan Linz Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Political Science from cepcgob.bsky.social !👏 Read more 👉 www.cepc.gob.es/noticias/res...

🆕💼 Today marks a new chapter: I'm starting as a Researcher at @moreincommonuk.bsky.social in Spain! After 4 years working on my PhD, it was time for the next step. Grateful to my supervisors and colleagues, I learned so much and will miss working alongside them.

Im Februar hat @tabouchadi.bsky.social die Forschungsergebnisse dazu mal gut zusammengefasst. Auch @valentimvicente.bsky.social und @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social haben tolle Beiträge geliefert. verfassungsblog.de/aus-dem-abse...

Loyalty oaths for universities. The thing of the Third Reich. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

I loved this post (like all in this substack). Reminded me of the argument by Geddes (2003) that most good research ideas come from annoyance with established wisdom that clashes with one's inner sense of how the world works. Really recommend reading this one:

York has seen a steep rise in racist assaults -both verbal and physical- in recent weeks. This should not be tolerated. If you are around on Saturday, join.

Work with great people. Live in Madrid. Eat like this all the time.

A paper from #APSA2025 has been uploaded to @apsa-preprints.bsky.social - Real-World Sanctioning of Stigmatized Political Preferences - https://cup.org/4mF6MbO - @amaliaab.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social#APSA2025 #preprint

One week left to apply for the three tenure track positions at IE University (details below). Come join a great department in a great city. Deadline October 6th!

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Poll after poll shows corruption is THE issue voters care about. And Jeffries goes out of his way to praise Adams, whose public corruption charges were dropped after Trump’s DOJ unceremoniously shut the case down? Democrats have the winning hand right in front of them. Wild that they won’t play it.