Why do movements leverage “nationalist discourse” to reclaim popular sovereignty, and what can it tell us about global modernity regimes shaped by neoliberalism and imperialism? 👉 Out now in Social Movement Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Iraq #Tishreen

If a Democratic president started a war of choice, spent $100s of billions, blew up international military & economic alliances, then completely surrendered giving opposing nation $100s of billions in reparations while empowering their anti-US regime: Corporate Media would have justly crucified him.

My department, @iepolisci.bsky.social has three TT lines in CP, IR, and PE to start in Fall 2027. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer any questions about the lines, the department, the university, or Madrid (spoiler alert: they're awesome).

📢 New article out in Social Networks (co-authored w/ @corneliusholler.de, @snannabell.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, and Cristiano Vezzoni): "Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers" 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2026.05.003 A 🧵 with the main takeaways 👇

Last few days to submit your application!

In just a week at UNED we will gather a group of amazing colleagues to discuss social movement struggles in LATAM and MENA during the neoliberal era. Organized with AU Cairo and AU Beirut.

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Gearing up for the 5th edition of our Summer School! Keynote lectures are open to all. @casmudde.bsky.social @pietrocastellig.bsky.social @ecpr-ead.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

We couldn't have a better audience and venue for the first presentation of our forthcoming @oxfordunipress.bsky.social volume "Protests of the far right" based of Farpo.eu. Thanks for hosting us D. della Porta, @mportosg.bsky.social L.Zamponi & L. Bosi. @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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🌟 New in Social Forces As a protest wave builds, its tactics don't stay fixed. Spain's Great Recession protests show the repertoire growing more flexible and transferable as the cycle unfolds. By @alexciordia.bsky.social & Martín Portos ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag048

📢 New article out (co-authored w/ @mportosg.bsky.social), just published in Social Forces (@sfjournal.bsky.social): "Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... A 🧵 with the main takeaways from the article 👇

🆕 How history shapes political generations 🧒 🧑 🧓 @laiabalcells.bsky.social & Francisco Villamil ask what the is the long-term impact of authoritarian repression on society, using survey data to assess differences in civic engagement across generations of regime

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)

A reminder that applications for this 3-year fully funded PhD position close at the end of next week (May 17). This is a great opportunity to work on climate politics comparative politics in a vibrant environment, with loads of freedom to develop your own project. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

🗺️ 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)

📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III is recruiting for a fixed-term 2-year position in Political Science. This is a two-year opportunity to conduct research, teach, and and collaborate in a vibrant and interdisciplinary academic environment. More info: lnkd.in/eyVbmPRJ

📢 Funding opportunity for a top MA in Social Sciences (UC3M – IJL) 🏛️ Rigorous training, strong methods, and a direct path to top PhD programs • 3 full scholarships (Deadline: April 30) • 3 tuition grants (Deadline: May 31) Apply for full scholarships and tuition grants 👇 ijlinz.es/en/postgradu...

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

📣 PhD Scholarship Opportunity Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD scholarship (4 years) attached to the project “DE FRANCO A AIRBNB: VIVIENDA, MOVILIDAD Y ELECCIONES” hosted at UC3M (AEI funds). 📌 Deadline is 27 March 2026 and starting date is 1 June 2026: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...

La transición climática y energética depende menos del tipo de régimen que de la fortaleza institucional: capacidad estatal, estabilidad regulatoria y credibilidad para sostener compromisos y generar confianza. ✍️ @ainagallego.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/132_c79414?u...

This post raises a several important questions about the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social indices that I'll try to discuss broadly, then specifically in the case of Mongolia. Important caveat: I am not a Mongolia expert, so can't speak substantively about the case; I can discuss the V-Dem methodology.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

New study. We had adults place historical figures on the left-right ideological spectrum. Folks most often place history's villains (Hitler, Stalin, etc) as extreme examples of their opponents. But they place heroes (Jesus, MLK, Lincoln) are on their own team. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨CALL for papers AECPA 2026. 📍Granada: 9 al 11 de septiembre de 2026. Algunos de los grupos de trabajo coordinados por miembros del DEC (🧶)

'Pro-Palestinian activism in Brussels' New commentary on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Dounia Largo: identitiesjournal.co... Aaron Winter @nasarmeer.bsky.social Ashlee Christoffersen

Happy to start March 💜 with a newly created research group on Gender and Politics 👉🏽 genderandpolitics.sns.it at @sns.it ! 🎉🎉🍾🥂

This is bleak.

If you happen to be in Madrid, don’t miss the opportunity to join us. 8M is approaching, and having @francescafeo.bsky.social is a good way to remember the need to recognize and study the existence of gender inequalities in the political realm. Are you going to miss it?

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

La propuesta de Zucman aportaría a nuestro país más justicia económica: un impuesto del 2% a los ultrarricos con más de 100 millones de euros. Supondría una recaudación de 5.200 millones. España puede ser referente. elpais.com/economia/202...

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

How does cinema shape how we think about migration? In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen. 🧵 1/3 academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social . Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇

You are/know of an early career researcher interested in social movements? Look no further, do join us for the 2026 Cosmos Summer School cosmos.sns.it/all-events/c...

The Spanish right supports banning the use of burka and niqab in public spaces. The argument for the policy seems to be (partly) that it will promote the emancipation of women. We happen to have evidence that a similar policy in France had the *opposite* effect. 1/2 elpais.com/espana/2026-...

Lost autonomy events, that is, sudden transformative shocks symbolizing a loss of autonomy for minorities, can be profoundly disruptive, eliciting pro-secessionist backlashes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ONLINE FIRST New in TSQ: Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) examine how people view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics. Read more at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

20 years of #protest #survey #data now available @gesis.org! 📝 The ipb has systematically processed and harmonized a collection of 31 protest surveys collected over 20 years at various #demonstrations in 🇩🇪 and 🇵🇱, on #peace, #climate, #trade, #migration, & more. For more information:

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW IN TSQ Donatella della Porta, Federica Stagni, Stella Christou, and Martín Portos (@mportosg.bsky.social) discuss how pro-Palestine student camps served as eventful forms of protest that transformed social relations, identities, and temporal horizons. Read more at bit.ly/3YDwq7d