As the #EPSS2026 is approaching, it is important to remember those members of our academic community whose right to conduct scientific research has been violated or taken away by authoritarian regimes around the world. 👇🏻🧵

ISPP stands with Associate Professor Vladimir Mihić following his expulsion from the University of Novi Sad after supporting student-led anti-corruption protests in Serbia. We call on the university to reverse this decision and uphold academic freedom. Read the letter here: https://bit.ly/4ebbLAb

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Once again, congratulations to @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social on winning @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social best dissertation prize in elections, electoral systems, and representation! Well deserved!👏

Had the pleasure of presenting ongoing work at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) yesterday! Thanks to Erwan Dujeancourt and Emma von Essen for having me and everyone in the GAINS group for great feedback!

We've extended the deadline for our workshop on Migration and Security at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social to this Friday 15 May. If you have a working paper or pre-analysis plan that would benefit from deeper feedback, you still can submit at the link below! And repost for reach, too #migcitsky #polisky

A rare opportunity to discuss security and migration research together👇🏻

Seyla Benhabib, is the 2026 this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science! Read more here: www.skytteprize.com/prize-laurea...

Want a short version of our #polcom study of which sources get more traction on French-language X immigration posts and why? Our new @ecprtheloop.bsky.social blog provides highlights of the full @polcommjournal.bsky.social open-access article here: doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky

*PSA Prize Winners* 🎉Congratulations to Dr William Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social as this year’s academic prize winner of Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional contribution by an early career scholar. ➡️ buff.ly/dvOF0Sa

I have a new #paper available as a preprint on #OSF! 📰 This study introduces "MQ-Class" to tackle two key methodological challenges in measuring #media #ideology : 🟦detecting subtle forms of news bias 💻📱 🟦integrating #human #expertise with LLMs👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 (See more below!) doi.org/10.31235/osf...

👍Very excited to see that my solo-authored article: "Surveying Minoritized Citizens: A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization" has been published in Survey Research Methods✨ I hope survey researchers to reconsider how they survey group membership💪 doi.org/10.18148/srm...

📯📯 I am happy to announce I defended my Ph.D. thesis! Sincere thanks to my examiners @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & Thomas Chadefaux (@conflictresearch.bsky.social) for thoughtful questions and an engaging discussion about the arguments I presented

Periodic reminder that paper-picnic.com is a terrific one-stop-shop to stay updated on the latest publications in the social sciences. Thanks Moritz! Pro tip: installing the website as an app on your phone to easily access it from your home screen: support.google.com/chrome/answe... (Android/iOS)

Had a chance to go through a couple of chapters and it's definitely something worth having at hand if you're researching anything related to trust 👇

A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine. I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors. Hope it's useful. 🙌 djdevineorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

How does cinema shape our understanding of migration? Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration. migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...

Why social trust is failing – and how Psychology can restore it… David Sharpley, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, on a ‘cultural drift’ that has ‘unsettled shared principles’. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

A very nice step in expansion of academic and policy co-operation between 🇷🇸 and 🇮🇪 Looking forward to seeing more mutual efforts in the future!

Submit, submit! 🚨 Pleasant reminder to all, the 5th European PolMeth meeting will be 14-15 May 2026 at Trinity College Dublin 🇮🇪 Submissions close Nov. 15 ⚠️ You can find out more about the conference, including the submission form, here: polmeth.eu If you have any questions, please contact me 😀

Tariffs might be the word of 2025. Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? @grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

This is your heads up that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast is a month from now (Nov 7)! I'm chairing the Migration Politics section w/ @aalrababah.bsky.social and we're excited to receive contributions from across the discipline🕺🏻

I really strongly feel that some fields of research would profit if researchers stopped collecting online data for some time and instead maybe just read a bit outside of their field.

🎉We're back! 24 hours of Political Psychology is once again coming to Vienna - save the dates: 26 / 27 February 2026 ▶️ Abstract submission is OPEN - find the link & further information here: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at Very excited to co-host with @markuswagner.bsky.social and @isabellareb.bsky.social

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

📕We are delighted to kick off our Wednesday Seminar Series for the new academic year with Dr Marco Seegers and his talk entitled "Equalizer or amplifier? The role of further education for social inequality". Join us in College Green this Wednesday from 3-4pm!

The Münster Replication Games will take place on November 28, 2025! + 1 day event to conduct reproduction/replication + connect with fellow researchers interested in OS + refine your coding skills + become a co-author on a meta-paper Register here: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

V important to call out the strategic use of gender in anti-immigrant politics. Our research shows femonationalism is growing across Europe -- used most (but not only!) by the far right, esp when party rivals converge on anti-immigration positions. Working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📢 Call for abstracts - Disentangling the integration paradox ☀️ Destination: IMISCOE! 🧩 Join our panels at IMISCOE - with @sbvanoosten.bsky.social, @nellageurts.bsky.social & @genoni.bsky.social - to further our efforts in debunking, developing and driving studies on the integration paradox! 1/3

Finally, long awaited return of Respect the Marble and it looks more stylish than ever! Sept. 4th and 12th penciled down in my calendar.

A new study finds that ten years after arriving in Germany in 2015, 64% of refugees are now employed. Yet, their average income remains just 70% of that of German citizens, and the gender gap is striking: while 76% of men are employed, only 35% of women have found work. iab.de/en/publicati...

the range of issues it is politically acceptable to discuss – seems to be widening in an alarming manner. The deliberately incendiary juxtaposition of “Muslim” and “migrant” with “rapist” or “illegal” has become almost the norm in some parts of public debate. + the way we debate these issues

Important takeaways from the newest @fraraffaelli.bsky.social piece 👇🏻

@miirna.bsky.social kada kaže ‘ja neću ništa uzimati, samo ostavljam!’

1/4 Download our new book for FREE! Thiago, Laron, and I explain why studying whether and how voters know what parties want (and who goes with whom) is important and layout a framework for how to do this better. Check out the cover, promotional comic, and abstract cup.org/4mkBibw

The Full Release of the ANES 2024 Time Series Study is now available! The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/...

Today, academics, ask yourself: Am I bringing enough of a Flann O'Brien energy to my R&R work?

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

Do you work on immigrant integration or well-being? At this @compasoxford.bsky.social hybrid seminar on 19 Sep, Adam Komisarof (Keio, Japan) and I will each share work on migration attitudes, with commentary from the brilliant @sbvanoosten.bsky.social! www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/promot... #migcitsky

Die Ergebnisse gehen auf die Studie "Does ad hoc language training improve the economic integration of refugees? Evidence from Germany’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis" zurück ⬇️ academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advan...

Advice for junior #academicsky job market candidates: You should apply to all jobs that fit your profile even just a little bit. Job descriptions are a product of committees and not always very... accurate. My first fly out (and almost first offer) came from an ad with 15+ disciplines listed 😅.

Has anyone ever coded Monte Carlo simulations to get power and sample size for a three-arm or a multi-arm experiment that uses causal mediation (as in R mediation package)? I found good methods for two-arm exp. with binary and continuous treatments, but not much more.

This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥

Not a @mpsa.bsky.social member, but this definitely is a worthy opportunity! @williamlallen.bsky.social has been my mentor through another, informal EPSA mentoring programme for 2 yrs now and the support I've received so far is invaluable.

Are you thinking of applying for multi-year research fellowships this summer? Unsure of how you can compellingly write about that ‘next idea’? I shared experiences from my @magdalenoxford.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social postdocs, including examples from the research statements.

👅Can moral language boost pro-immigrant messages and be as effective as anti-immigrant messages? ➡️ @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social shows that pro-immigrant actors are not always bound to lose against the anti-immigrant side www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView #OpenAccess

Likewise, negativity towards migrants is primarily directed towards illegal migrants, those coming to claim benefits, and small boat arrivals yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Almost half of Britons (47%) mistakenly believe that migration to the UK is primarily illegal rather than legal. This view is held by 72% of those who support requiring large numbers of migrants to leave yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

📢 Call for papers: "Political Identities in Europe" workshop, Nov 13-14, 2025 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social How are political identities constructed across Europe? Deadline: Sept 26, 2025. 🔗 Info & submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...