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Trump has destroyed America’s knowledge infrastructure. This is an opportunity for knowledge workers across disciplines-natural science, social science, humanities-to see their interests in rebuilding this infrastructure on democratic grounds as connected.

Ok, as we are waiting for crunch time, I’m sure you absolutely want to see this rocket political science plot: The trend is clear, even if noisy: countries with higher liberal democracy scores also tend to perform better at #Eurovision #esc2026 (data: @vdeminstitute.bsky.social)

It's Bangaranga Time! Bulgarien gewinnt zum ersten Mal den Song Contest, Israel landete auf dem zweiten Platz. Österreich landete auf dem vorletzten Platz:: https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/3000000320822/countdown-zum-grossen-finale-des-song-contest-mit-regen-ring-sperre-und-demo

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

Yes, they real do. @ceu-press.bsky.social is doing a great job in that department. BTW, our book is now available for pre-order.

Attending a great discussion of @lotemhalevy.bsky.social's work on the expansion of the franchise in the Kingdom of Hungary at this year's final @ces-europe.bsky.social HSSR Research Lab! @uni-konstanz.de

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Eine gute Idee, die wir in der Politikwissenschaft seit Jahrzehnten umsetzen. @siobhangeets.bsky.social

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

A very special first for me: seeing my research featured in the @financialtimes.com. This big read walks through the background of one of the most radical referendums Switzerland has faced: the far-right proposal to cap the country’s population at 10m (currently around 9.1m) on the ballot in June

I Spoke with Jen Rubin: “A Redistrict Race to the Bottom” electionlawblog.org?p=156160

My new one @slate.com: Why is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Governing Divided Societies, my new book with Tom Lorman and Dan Miller, is now up on the CEU Press/Amsterdam U Press website!! Start planning your pre-orders!! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @adriancollege.bsky.social @iwm.at @ceudeminst.bsky.social @iasceu.bsky.social

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

✍️ My take on why Britain’s two-party system has collapsed in the LSE British Politics blog 👇

This was a really great conversation.

“Stop letting candidates label themselves” cityjournal.substack.com/p/stop-letti...

Governing Divided Societies, my new book with Tom Lorman and Dan Miller, is now up on the CEU Press/Amsterdam U Press website!! Start planning your pre-orders!! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @adriancollege.bsky.social @iwm.at @ceudeminst.bsky.social @iasceu.bsky.social

📣 New publication 📣 Delighted to see my article with the brilliant Teresa Bejan and James Tilley now out in the BJPolS We develop and test the concept of 'partisan intolerance' - and find high levels of intolerance in Britain, associated with affective polarisation 👇

❇️ FirstView - 📊Dataset Olga Lavrinenko introduces the FEMPOWER dataset, covering the period 1980–2023 for around 9,000 women’s organisations active worldwide. 👉https://buff.ly/BHTTvNY

“For too long, we ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Ideas with enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from classrooms.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Another problem to which the best solution is mandating multimember districts with PR

💥New | Polls are a “public good”, they deserve to be better understood ✍️ @ozankuru.bsky.social #PolSci #SciComm #Polls

Excellent presentation, interesting project! Sources of Resistance to Autocratization in Hungary and Serbia | CEU Events share.google/sFgmBnmBptT9...

As a long-term student of the Habsburg Monarchy (and fan of its former port cities), I admit to being a bit tickled that Hungarian access to the Adriatic is still a salient political issue. telex.hu/english/2026...?

📣 Call for papers! Final UNEQUALMAND workshop on social groups, mandate responsiveness & political (in)equality 📍 Sciences Po, Paris 📅 24–25 Sept 2026 🏫 Lodging 🚅 Travel≤€500 📝 Proposals due 31 May Details: lnkd.in/gjXsmb7y With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @theresmatthiess.bsky.social

I did not like “The Brutalist.” If you want a story about a visionary émigré architect-designer and his relationship with his American sponsor that rings true (because it is), read my book instead! ceupress.com/book/free-ma...

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On 7 May 2026, Britain ran a PR experiment: Scottish Parliament: a Mixed-Member Proportional system Welsh Senedd: a (new) Low-Magnitude Party List system Same day, same political context, different outcomes. Which version of PR would be better for Westminster? 🧵

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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Excellent conference! Great presentations and talks all round and I met some wonderful new colleagues.

DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENTS: CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL OF THE USA ANDRÁSSY UNIVERSITÄT BUDAPEST 7 – 9 MAY 2026 www.andrassyuni.eu/uploads/esem...

🗺️ Electoral Atlas of the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) Today we are publishing, in beta version and as a first phase (1936 only), the database so everyone can explore it 👇 tonirodon.cat/second-repub... (1/n)

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

Auroras on Neptune💙

IN NEW ISSUE: Rising public dissatisfaction with representative democracy has sparked interest in bottom-up forms of direct democracy, so D Moeckli, F Mendez, M Labud & N Reimann map the European landscape of citizen's initiatives: buff.ly/YOjorx0 (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci

“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

🆕 Is this what you wanted? 🆘 @simonotjes.bsky.social, @sgparliaments.bsky.social's convenor David Willumsen, & Michael Jankowski find that increasingly complex multi-party systems may be leaving the 'winning' voter dissatisfied in the #Coalition's that form 😒

🚨Deadline day: Apply for the Summer School on Political Parties @ecprsgpp.bsky.social 🗓️ 14–18 Sep 📍 University of Bristol ✔Keynote lectures from internationally recognised experts in ✔A methodological day on ‘The Challenges of Limited Data Access’ ✔Chance to win the Peter Mair Prize for Best Paper

Attending this conference today, promises to be interesting! Democratic Experiments: Central Europe and the United States - Otto von Habsburg Foundation share.google/zzGNumwBsUwr...

I am looking for a PhD student to support my ERC Consolidator project INEQCHANGE: Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe. ⏰ deadline: 31 May

New data from the census data shows profound demographic changs ahead for the United States as the population ages and longtime drivers of growth shift. bit.ly/4daHdwx

Pre-print now available! If race is socially constructed, we should study how. We do so by asking who counts as Black. Parentage, skin tone, party id, neighborhood, & spouse's race all shape perceived blackness. Who is doing the classifying matters too. A labor of love. osf.io/preprints/so...

Collective Representation in Congress Collective Representation in Congress By Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University and Shiro Kuriwaki, Yale University The aspiration of representative democracy is that the legislature will make decisions that reflect what the majority of people want. The US…

🔊 One week until Prof. @allansikk.bsky.social's Inaugural Lecture 'All Tomorrow’s Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics'. Free and open to all! 🗓️ 13 May at 6pm BST 📍 Gustave Tuck LT ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Katherine Tate’s “Black Faces in the Mirror” offered one of the first sustained empirical examinations of Black representation, analyzing both how Black legislators represent & how Black constituents evaluate that representation. In light of SCOTUS and VRA, RSVP: fsi.stanford.edu/events/black...

Looking forward to the launch of my book, Tribal Politics, with James Tilley, this evening at LSE Huge thanks to @anandmenon.bsky.social and Sir John Curtice who will be sharing their insights on how Brexit is still shaping politics and the future of UK-EU relations www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...