For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars. My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

First #COSMOSTalk of the term this afternoon w/ Alborz Ghandehari @utah.edu. Do join us!

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social! This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia. Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it. We only work in English, so language is not an issue. Apply!

The program for our COSMOS TALKS in the Fall'25 is here. What a stellar lineup!

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖 We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed working on this! Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Listen: Why Israel’s Gaza hospital strike could constitute multiple war crimes

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

New paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social‬: Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

🚨 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social 🔥 How did far-right parties go from political outcasts to election contenders in Germany, Portugal, Spain & Sweden? Turns out, stigma doesn’t last forever… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 ‘Free Palestine!’: protesting Israel’s war on #Gaza in #Italy and #Spain Read the article by D. della Porta, L. Mendoza Sandoval, @mportosg.bsky.social and F. Stagni here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Full article just out! "‘Free Palestine!’: protesting Israel’s war on Gaza in Italy and Spain" @sespjournal.bsky.social, with Donatella della Porta, Laura Mendoza & Federica Stagni www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JCBPC...

Just finished reviewing the final proofs of my forthcoming book on #techworkers. It sheds light on the high-paid professionals in the tech industry. The book is coming out open-access with @mitpress.bsky.social this December. Very excited about it!

This is the kind of article APSR used to be famous for. The ones that make your brain explode, that challenge you, confuse you, test your patience, and make you smarter by making you realize your limitations. Well done Erica Simmons and @nickrushsmith.bsky.social‬ 👏

Notable post-tenure publishing differences across fields. One thing that distinguishes these are authorship norms, e.g. in some lab fields, co-authorship reflects status more than work

A guiding framework to help learners write more analytically by focusing on the Description, Analysis and Interpretation stages of the research process (GReDAI) www.raulpacheco.org/2025/07/a-gu... Have you been told your writing is good description but poor analysis? This post is for you. #RPVSky

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany 📔 Social Movement Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474... In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis. Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

New publication in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with Delia Baldassarri. We show that in the US, social relationships remain politically heterogeneous, and that heterogeneous close ties and acquaintances lower partisan animosity through distinct mechanisms. A thread on the main findings:

“Since 1900, average life span in US has increased by more than 30 years.” Of that, ”25 years attributed to public health.” By @pagankennedy.bsky.social. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/o...

Great timing for our new publication on how the Hungarian opposition reacts to democratic backsliding, after this weekend's huge #BudapestPride2025 march! We study the strategic choices of the United for Hungary coalition in the 2022 elections. 🧵with link and takeaways👇

No os perdáis a nuestra compañera Hania Faydi en La Noche en 24 h de @rtvecom.bsky.social de los minutos 0:31:45 a 1:01:17 hablando de #BDS, de las demandas a los gobiernos para poner fin a la complicidad con el genocidio, a #StopArmasConIsrael: www.rtve.es/play/videos/... #PalestinaLibre

1/6 How resilient are liberal democracies when faced with extremist violence? @andreafelicetti.bsky.social and I have just published an article in @psrjournal.bsky.social‪ examining the discursive effects of the 2018 Macerata attack in Italy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Excited to share that my first single-authored article is now published in @wepsocial.bsky.social! In light of the current backlash to climate policy, I explore the (rural) geography of support for climate policies in Europe. 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase dem. satisfaction? Using 7 election panels, Lukas Linek, @jrovny.bsky.social, @skvrnami.bsky.social, and I find that—unlike in the West—both mechanisms may operate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 1/n @eui-sps.bsky.social

Do strikes work? Looking at “teacher strikes from 2007-2018” study finds “strikes more than double probability congressional candidates air education ads… and shape support for ed funding, resulting in $600+ increases in district revenues and expenditures per pupil.” jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

We just finished this map from our sample of participants in the #NoKings day of action (survey closed yesterday). I'm still marinating on the data but thought I'd share it now. Toplines coming soon...⌛

I have completely missed the drama behind this but this report by @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social is very instructive: I had no idea EPSA was tied to a for-profit company and membership fees went to its 3 shareholders(!) epssnet.org/wp-content/u...

Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)

I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid! The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below). To express interest, complete form (by 06/24) 👉 n9.cl/qdjvz 1/n

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

CBSM Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award goes to Tomás Gold ‪@tomasgold.bsky.social‬ and Ann Mische @amische.bsky.social‬ for “Channeling Anti-partisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave (2008-2016).” Congratulations!

"So, is it really that hard to find a date when you vote radical right? The answer, unsettlingly, is no. But for democracy’s sake, maybe it should be." theloop.ecpr.eu/how-hard-is-... A short piece with my current professional boyfriend @bertous.bsky.social in the @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

Our article "‘Free Palestine!’: protesting Israel’s war on Gaza in Italy and Spain" was just accepted at @sespjournal.bsky.social

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Officially in my Rogue Radical Professor era. Let's GOOOOOO.

📣 "Contentious Politics in Catalonia" Join us June 20, 2pm @wzb.bsky.social Book launch "Organizing for Independence" by @hajogu.bsky.social (WZB) Discussion: @laiabalcells.bsky.social (Georgetown) on aff. polariz. & nat. conflicts Info & registration (on site/Zoom) www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...

Data collection is underway with the hosts for the 1000+ events scheduled across the US for the #NoKings day of action. If you're organizing an event, please fill out the survey when asked: our findings will only be as good as the data we collect 💪 @indivisible.org @sarahdohl.bsky.social

New paper in Sociological Methodology with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @alexciordia.bsky.social, & @nuriatargarona.bsky.social about the measurement properties of aggregated relational data (responses to "how many people do you know who..?") and NSUM estimates: doi.org/10.1177/0081...

📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a *2-year fixed-term faculty position* in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? [email protected] 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...

Sharing a similar struggle as the Italian media keeps labelling Italian far-right parties as ‘centre-right’ and their partners abroad as ‘sovereigntist’, ‘conservative’, ‘nationalist’, or ‘populist’—doing everyone a huge disservice. Why so difficult to call the far right ‘far right’? 🤔

You don’t need more ideas. You need a better question. A thread on clarity, chaos, & what a Nobel Prize winner, a mosquito net & a PhD meltdown taught me about writing (+ thinking) better. 🪨 Here’s my new Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... 🧵

New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich