Delighted to see applications open for the Morelli Scholarship. As the 2024 Scholar, I've had an incredible experience at DPIR and Corpus Christi: encouraging supervision, an intellectually vibrant community, a welcoming DPhil cohort, and a fantastic College environment. Happy to chat if helpful!

Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

Excited to be on a great panel on Politicization and Party Strategies in the EU @ecpr.bsky.social. Featuring @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social , @kovarek.bsky.social , @duarteamaro.bsky.social, @saorhan.bsky.social among others. Come on down to the Polytechnic School (B 5.39)at 13:30 tomorrow (29 Aug)!

O @joaocancel.bsky.social e eu voltamos a olhar para as bases sociais do sistema partidário, desta vez em evolução 2022-2025. www.pedro-magalhaes.org/as-bases-soc...

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵