#tbp Why do folks support the #RadicalRight 🗳️ ? A survey of what we know & what we don't know, and what we could learn in the future (free author's version)

Many years ago, the bloody cancer took one of my dearest friends when she was just 48. This song will always be for her.

You've probably heard about this by now,but if you haven't: it's an intriguing 𝘢𝘯𝘥 spectacularly bad idea #SkyNet

A first: an editor told me that I should better engage with @juliusk.bsky.social 's work if I want to see my manuscript published 😉

Geehrt wird sie für ihr herausragendes Engagement in Forschung und Lehre und ihre bedeutenden wissenschaftlichen Beiträge zur Erforschung der digitalen Parteienkommunikation. Wir gratulieren @jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social zu dieser außergewöhnlichen, hochdotierten und hochverdienten Auszeichnung!

IDK, that's just mean

Nostalgia alert to when I became obsolete. 📼🕰️ #Throwback #BackInTheDay

'Reports'? Follow the bot, even if it is extra-awkward, again

Back in the dark ages, I wrote a PhD about political alienation. Little did I know that just a few decades down the road, #genAI would turn 'falling trust in government and institutions ... [into] a marketing strategy'

Self-evident #AcademicChatter #xkcd

In which @tompepinsky.com suggests that #genAI may have is uses for social scientists (and social science?) after all

Don't be the change you want to see in the world #PoorlDrawnLines

Have you published something that should be in the bibliography but isn't? Get in touch 📧

Woke: writing a paper about the extremist, racist, Islamophobic #EDL (2013) Broke: bagging a endorsement from the EDL's extremist, racist, Islamophobic founder (2026)

The bot just said goodbye to Twitter. You should do the same. <brushes a tiny tear away>

Letzte Forschungswerkstatt für dieses Semester: Helen Callaghan spricht über politische Reaktionen auf ausländische Unternehmensübernahmen 🎤💻

"There is now a whole network of agencies in Germany that work mainly for the #AfD and AfD-affiliated groups. These agencies would not exist if there had been no money."

Nordrhein-Westfalen: Jung, rechts, gut vernetzt – die Radikalisierung der AfD in NRW

We've (almost) made it through January, so there's that.

I feel seen

Unsere #Forschungswerkstatt endet in diesem Semester am Mittwoch, 4. Februar (16 Uhr), mit einem Vortrag von unserer Kollegin Helen Callaghan zum Thema "Von De- zu Re-Politisierung: Warum Staaten ausländische Unternehmensübernahmen wieder stärker kontrollieren" Alle sind herzlich willkommen!

An unflinching portrait of 'Alternative for #Germany' #farright

Germany’s far right bangs at the gates to get into the Munich Security Conference

By strange coincidence, I was at a workshop just two weeks ago where Batuhan presented this paper. It's not too long and well worth your time 🇮🇹 #farright

My friend @rrresrobot.bsky.social is about to leave twitter, so I had to visit that site to perform some pre-final rites. This was actually the first post I was shown. I'm generally sceptical about the social media ⇿ brain rot nexus, but what happens over there is beyond self-parody.

Nah

True story

Expanding on last week's theme

🔍 Have you faced a strange request from a publisher? Here's another bizarre tale from the trenches of predatory publishing 📚✨ #AcademicChatter

Diese Woche kehre ich an alte Wirkungsstätte zurück: An der @unimainz.bsky.social moderiere ich eine Diskussion des Fachschaftsrats Politikwissenschaft zur Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz. Wir sprechen über Bildung, bezahlbares Wohnen und Arbeitsmarkt/Wirtschaft. Kommt vorbei! @powimz.bsky.social

Germany's #AfD is now openly courting an international right-wing extremist (with whom they have been playing footsie for years). The whole radical/extreme distinction is moot at this point, and so far, it doesn't make a dent in their support

A helpful reminder: so-called 'remigration' is literally Nazi stuff

Wie lässt sich Renaturierung 🌱🌿🌳 erfolgreich politisch gestalten und umsetzen? 18 Studierende der Politikwissenschaft und des Zukunftsmoduls der JGU auf einer 2-tägigen #Exkursion 🧭 im #Nationalpark Hunsrück-Hochwald. Kalt wars schon - aber ein super Erlebnis!! Dank an die Freunde der Mainzer Poli

The future is now. And once more, past me has been overly generous with future me's time.

Mandatory Bill Murray post

Life is stranger than fiction

Yes, but also: he was never much of an asset 👇

Many years ago, the bloody cancer took one of my dearest friends when she was just 48. This song will always be for her.

Nothing to see here, all perfectly normal stuff #Germany #farright Un-paywalled link: archive.is/202601240520...

Going forward from today, I’ll stop publishing and just repost this meme regularly #AcademicWriting #farright #radicalright

Next thing you know, Badenoch herself defects to Reform

Exploitative publishing is reaching alarming new levels #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter 📚🔍 #AcademicIntegrity

Brilliant post I missed back in December, and I'm not even sure this is irony, which is partly the point (see his second commandment)

But, but, the headlines said the effects occurred overnight and were so positive that Australian parents hardly recognised their sullen teens?