Last day to submit a paper or panel for the EPSS conference in Belfast 2026. It's where you will meet the best and nicest people in European political science next year.

Svingdøra spinner som en karusell i norsk politikk for tida. Dette er ikke tegn på et sunt demokrati.

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%. And the gap is growing. Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.

Super excited to finally see this project out in the wild! What a journey it's been! Looking forward to see how people will use this awesome data. See thread below for more details from @jacobnyrup.bsky.social.

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Super excited to finally see this project out in the wild! What a journey it's been! Looking forward to see how people will use this awesome data. See thread below for more details from @jacobnyrup.bsky.social.

Excited to share a glimpse of my book on party families via LSE European Politics and Policy! The book delves into the heart of what constitutes a party family, offer updated categorisations, contemporary descriptions, and an insight into their supporters. #polisky blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Hvis vi mener alvor med at vi trenger å trygge landet, er investering i kunnskap grunnplanken. Nå er planken for tynn til å bære ambisjonene.

Mye klokt her, både om underfinansiering og ny pensjonsalder i akademia. www.khrono.no/takk-for-meg...

Her er min tidlige analyse av stortingsvalget (del av Kristianias Valganalyse-prosjekt). Mye var avgjort lenge før valgkampen begynte denne gangen. www.kristiania.no/forskning/fo...

Super easy way you can send a message, right now, from whatever device you're viewing this post on. #boycottdisneyabc

forskjellsbehandlingen Eirik Jensen nyter godt av i møte med fengselsvesenet er altså helt sinnsykt og dyp fornærmelse mot alle de folka som er alvorlig psykisk syke og ikke får slippe fri eller behandle fotlenke som om det er valgfritt dette er pill råttent www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Jbja...

The world is on fire and the future in question but, small ray of sunshine: Solar-powered cars are coming next year. Yeah, you read that right. Imagine getting 10-40 miles a day of range from just parking your car someplace sunny. It's coming. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

📘 64.4 Our authors find automation risk lowers political turnout for men but not women, while strong populist right mobilization can offset the decline. Job impacts but not awareness, drive these effects. #Automation #GenderGap #PoliticalBehavior #Populism Read more:

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

Annual Norwegian NORM/NORM-VET report released. Norway’s strict antibiotic policies pay off. Record-low use in humans & animals, and some of Europe’s lowest #AMR rates. But ESBL & VRE are on the rise, so vigilance is vital. www.unn.no/4a675d/sitea...

Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

The fact that our governments allowed an ally to massacre the people in Gaza will haunt us forever. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨 If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be! More here 👇🏽

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Sp, Frp, Høyre og KrF har 88 mandater og flertall på Stortinget. Jeg bare nevner det.

Interview in Il Sole 24 Ore about the Norwegian elections, for the Italian speakers out there www.ilsole24ore.com/art/norvegia...

Norwegian democracy is boring. They all congratulate each other, no one storms the parliament, and the results are in so you can be in bed well before midnight. Is it even a 21st century democracy?

My initial thoughts on the Norwegian 2025 elections. whogoverns.eu/minority-lab...

The populist right makes enormous gains (+12pp!) and the clear winner in a campaign dominated by economic issues and despite the immigration issue being almost absent. However they are unlikely to gain much political power from their new seats given the make-up of the incoming Parliament

It's now certain, but the rural-agrarian Centre Party, while suffering heavy losses, will be kingmakers in Parliament. Their leader underlines in his speech that no one can take them for granted - reminding Labour that the Centre party will require influence to not switch sides.

Seems like Labour will continue its minority government but with even more fragmented support base on the left. However still need to pay attention to the small parties hovering around the electoral threshold before we can say for sure

I’m very happy to share that the first paper of my PhD, «From the streets to the ballots: Protests, polls and Polarization in Hong Kong» has been published online in @democratization.bsky.social It is open access, and you can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nå er valgkampen over og jeg synes vi skal takke politikerne som har lagt ned en enorm innsats for demokratiet! Vel blåst! Blir en spennende kveld.

Intervju i VG om effekten av politisk drittslenging på velgerne. Det later til at det reduserer tilliten til politikerne og det demokratiske systemet, men ikke endrer folks partivalg særlig mye. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/4B...

Interview with Radio Monocle on the Norwegian elections (starting around 14, I get in around 16:40). P.S! My interview was recorded in August and reflects the situation at that time. monocle.com/player/?uuid...

Interview in the Guardian about today's elections in Norway (PS! I disagree with the title. We are luckily far from MAGA in Norway) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Mitt spørsmål til journalister: Er dere ikke lei av å bli ljugd til? Jeg blir _sur_ når folk lyver til meg, jeg! Blir ikke dere? Hva med å sjekke disse tallene FØR DERE PUBLISERER? Og når det viser seg å være løgn, hva med å heller skrive saken "Milliardær prøvde å selge inn løgn om formuesskatt"?

Snodig prioritering av #polkvart å ha siste politisk kvarter før valget om politisk spill og enkeltpersoner heller enn saker. Med spørsmål om hva som er fremtidsplanene til enkeltpolitikere hvis de ikke blir valgt. Er dette det viktigste tre dager før valget?

Fra panelsamtalen om valgomater. Det var en hyggelig seanse! Da jeg leste meg opp på forskningen før dette arrangementet ble jeg overrasket over at eksperimenter som er gjort med valgomater finner minimal effekt på både valgdeltakelse, partivalg og politisk kunnskap. www.hf.uio.no/imk/forsknin...

This is so well-deserved. Jacob is not only a brilliant scholar, he is also a very kind colleague and friend. Looking forward to seeing all the great work to come from this project!

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

Intervju i ABC Nyheter om ungdomspartienes rolle www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/ungd...

Intervju i Universitas om folk som bor sammen også likner hverandre politisk www.universitas.no/fredrik-wess...

The Norwegian elections are coming up on Monday. In a campaign dominated by economic issues and the wealth tax in particular, the populist right (and fiscally right-wing) Progress Party is doing very well in the polls and are likely to become largest right-wing party. A 🧵

Intervju i Dagsavisen om gårsdagens skolevalg. Bekrefter ordentlig blå bølge blant ungdom. FrPs dramatiske vekst var som ventet, mer overraskende at Høyre også gjorde det såpass bra. Alle de rødgrønne gikk tilbake. www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/borg...

I kveld skal jeg være med på panelsamtale om valgomatenes rolle ved valget. Kom gjerne innom! Kl 18 på Domus Bibliotheca i sentrum. www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/u...

Tenkte akkurat det samme 😂 Ipsos har oppdaget GAL-TAN 40 år senere og målt det med kjøttkaker. Artig inngang til debatten om man vil gjøre det litt folkelig, men litt stretch å fremstille det som en ny oppdagelse