Zurück vom Abendessen mit großartigen Freunden - alle samt brillante Wissenschaftler*innen 😍: @carolinrapp.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social @silje-hermansen.bsky.social Falls ihr euch fragt: Ja, wir haben in der Tat viel über Wissenschaft geredet - sehr viel 🍷😉😁

👀ICYMI | "Participants who co-wrote with an opinionated language model produced both prose that matched the model’s suggestions and shifted their own stated beliefs on surveys taken after the writing task was over" #AIassistants #AcWri #ResearchIntegrity

The FIFA World Cup kicks off in less than three weeks ⚽🏆 Had the pleasure of discussing my research on sportswashing and its effects on German television @zdfde.bsky.social 👇 (Interview is in German)

The key implication: people have a general tendency to personal favoritism in professional selection, even in highly formalized bureaucracies. If autocrats can instrumentalize this tendency to select people who are in line with regime objectives, it stabilizes the regime instead of threatening it.

Kæmpe fornøjelse at se en fællesnordisk udgave af Debatten i dag - ikke kun pga. af det vigtige emne "Nordens svar på en urolig verden", men også fordi det blev gennemført som et fællesnordisk projekt - også sprogligt. Du kan finde programmet her: www.dr.dk/drtv/se/deba...

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Thrilled to see Making a Career in Dictatorship featured in The New York Times @nytimes.com My favorite line: “[The book] reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the ‘banality of evil’ with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.”

Det er deilig å være norsk - i Danmark!

📝In the latest @theconversation.com piece, @filipkostelka.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social examines the factors driving pro-Kremlin sentiments in the EU. 🔗https://loom.ly/W7Rc2j0

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲” 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? A few months back @movadek.bsky.social & I promised we would try to find out. 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗮: tinyurl.com/2add6c2a (1/7)

Wonderful to see this comment on the Italy-Albania Protocol, together with Eleonora Frasca out with @verfassungsblog.de.

Really enjoyed presenting my new book Making a Career in Dictatorship at the @uni-konstanz.de today. Great discussion and thoughtful questions. Big thanks to @geraldschneider.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @leuffen.bsky.social for organizing the event!

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? 🧵

Since the CJEU's 1963 Plaumann ruling, NGOs have been excluded to bring annulment actions. LAURA HILDT shows how Ćapeta's new Opinion in Medel offers a way to finally revisit this jurisprudence. verfassungsblog.de/an-off-ramp-...

I dag er det den nasjonale vi-skryter av-tallene-våre-i-Samordna-opptak-dagen! Der medier landet rundt direkte videreformidler lærestedenes pressemeldinger. Henger meg derfor på! 👉 Europastudier eventyrlige 29 % økning fra i fjor 👉 Sampol opp hele 12 % Begge på toppen av årelang framgang!

1/ Unusual scene inside Hungary’s Constitutional Court: during a sitting, judge Marcel Szabó reportedly read out a statement calling for court president Péter Polt to resign. telex.hu/belfold/2026...?

And, with error bars, no less

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social & Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 Shaping the Bench: The Effect of Ideology and Influence on Judicial Reappointments 📗 Published in The Journal of Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/740169

*CALL FOR PAPERS* We are happy to invite proposals to the 6th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop at the University of Copenhagen, September 24-25. See politicalscience.ku.dk/events/the-6... for more information and how to submit your proposal (deadline May 29). Please distribute.

Look what showed up in my mail today, my favorite European politics textbook courtesy of @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social. My students love the data exercises built on their custom Shiny apps!

Democratic frontsliding in the EU is real! #Hungary Curious what people think: how does our frontsliding framework travel from Poland to Hungary? In our new paper @chrishillion.bsky.social, @tommasopavone.bsky.social & I examine the challenges of democratic restoration after backsliding. 👇 thread

Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”

Why I don't expect liberal democracy to go away any time soon: My article on the resilience of liberal democracy, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. Perfectly timed to the day after Orbáns defeat and a small spike in "democracy-optimism". There are, I argue, good reasons for such optimism.

In an effort to promote open data, I just uploaded my media-based data collection on political DDoS attacks from 2008-2016 with manual coding of attacker types, targets, and attribution certainty. Feel free to explore the early days of Anonymous and Russian hacktivists: osf.io/preprints/so...

Interested in legal mobilization & strategic litigation? Check out my new open access chapter w/ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social! We ask: who litigates EU law? Who wins @ @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social? W/ what downstream impact? New dat/comparisons to litigation in the US included! tinyurl.com/bdznr98v

Yes, we made a podcast about the Hungarian elections. Bear with us. 🇭🇺🫠 🗳️ Why a poll lead isn't enough 🏛️ Why a new government inherits a system designed to outlast it 🌍 Why rule of law enforcement matters more if the opposition wins With Alida Steigler (@unioslo-jus.bsky.social). 🎧 sptfy.in/arena

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀 Apr 04, 1923 John Venn died in Cambridge, England 🇬🇧 1880: Developed the eponymous Venn diagrams to represent logical relationships

👀ICYMI: "public writing adds a certain texture to a scholar’s profile. It shows an ability to communicate beyond disciplinary boundaries, to enter conversations that move through society rather than only through journals." #AcWri #AcademicSky

Thinking about poster presentations today in our weekly group meeting. Remember to use white space, font size, and graphic design to draw people in. This oldie-but-goodie is a nice reminder of that. 🧪

Denmark climbs the representational ladder worldwide, rising from 17th to 8th rank. The results of the Danish national election show that 86 women were elected, a record of 48 % women MPs. There are still many gendered challenges in parliament, but what a result! #dkpol #fv26

🎧 Audiobook Giveaway Lottery! Dive into the secret logic behind repression & coups with our new audiobook: "MAKING A CAREER IN DICTATORSHIP" I’m giving away 3 FREE copies! 1️⃣ Repost this 2️⃣ Do it by Monday 12 PM (noon) After that, I’ll randomly select 3 winners and send the audiobook links!

Election parties in Greenland, you say? 🇬🇱 Alright. let’s go. Come along for a tour 👇🧵

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Understand Danish and Greenlandic politics:

What happened exactly 69 years ago? On this day, in 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed! 📖✍️

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today that a media report alleging Hungary’s foreign minister regularly called his Russian counterpart to brief him during EU summits “shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.”

If you, like me, spent a lot of time in your school's library hiding from idiots and quietly educating yourself on topics that were never going to come up in class, aided and abetted by a friendly librarian, then you'll appreciate just how bad this story is. HT @klauspforr.bsky.social

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Bored while your Bayesian model samples? Try my basically useless (and massively vibecoded) R package "bayeswatch🏝️"! You can watch some nice MCMC animations directly in your RStudio/Positron while you wait! "bayeswatch" simply wraps animations by Chi Feng on top of brms and rethinking 🧵

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Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

Know your population: "New" vs "old" survey forcasting models. open.substack.com/pub/philippb...

V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

BREAKING: Claude can now research like a Stanford PhD student. Here are 9 insane Claude prompts that turn 40+ research papers into structured literature reviews, knowledge maps, and research gaps in minutes (Save this)

Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize closed on January 31. DAN JERKER B. SVANTESSON explains how the English translation of Alfred Nobel's will misses its core point, focusing solely on peace between nations rather than peace among the people. verfassungsblog.de/the-nobel-pe...

In recent versions of "countreg" the rootogram() has been moved to the "topmodels" package. It is my top priority for this summer to polish and publish both packages for CRAN. Both are fairly mature already, see: topmodels.r-forge.r-project.org/topmodels/ topmodels.r-forge.r-project.org/countreg/

Survey 160 is hiring for multiple contract survey manager roles. This is a particularly good fit for PhD students who are looking for some experience in industry or for someone a few years out of undergrad with some experience in the survey industry already. Please reach out to me with any questions

The Hungarian govt. is suing the EU court for fining them for breaking EU law (read that twice) Their three legal arguments: 1. It’s unfair 2. They don’t like it 3. Give me a break