Big news - in just two weeks, I’ll be defending my doctoral thesis! 📅27 October 2025 🕐13:00 EET 📍Lecture Hall PII, Porthania (Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki) Public examinations here are truly public: everyone is warmly invited to join - either in person or online! tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6...

Municipal and regional elections are coming in #Finland. In CO3, we argue that the services that the municipalities and regions provide here make up the core of the social contract in Finland. Lately I went to Yle to talk about the elections and how to boost the turnout here. yle.fi/a/74-20153855

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

I am immensely happy to see this book finally out. 📢 Together with @emiliapalonen.bsky.social, we wrote an extraordinary chapter on qualitative approaches to populism. We specifically overview two very different discursive approaches to populism - Ruth Wodak's and Ernesto Laclau's.