📢 Happy to share a new blog post with Archibald Gustin for The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social / @ecpr.bsky.social. We look at how conservative right-wing and far-right parties in Belgium and Spain converge in their opposition to gender equality policies. 👇 theloop.ecpr.eu/conservative...

[Rayonnement] This week, several researchers from SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) presented papers at the #ECPG2026 conference in Newcastle: - @clemencedeswert.bsky.social: Gender, Ideology, and the Mediation of Political Leadership in the 2022 French Presidential Campaign

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.46 🗣️ Reactionary gender politics are not the preserve only of the far right. ↘️↙️ @romainbiesemans.bsky.social & @archibaldgustin.bsky.social show how conservative and far-right parties in Spain and Belgium converge in their opposition to #GenderEquality. 👉 buff.ly/KMlNqnS

What an exciting start to ECPG 2026! I had the pleasure of presenting a paper with my wonderful colleagues Zoë Lardinois and Aloïsa Pilloy on how LGBTQIA+ politicians navigate visibility and identity throughout their political careers in Belgium If you are around and up for a chat, let’s meet up!

Heureux de vous partager ce billet publié sur Bepolitix, le blog de l'Association belge francophone de science politique coécrit avec Archibald Gustin sur notre récente publication pour l' @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. Bonne lecture!

[Media] 'Comment la droite tente de conquérir les électeurs LGBTQIA+: «Le point d’achoppement, c’est la question trans' Une interview de Romain Biesemans, Chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), à Le Vif. www.levif.be/belgique/pol...

🚨 Happy to sharea new research note co-authored with @lucaskins.bsky.social! Based on an analysis of nearly 39,000 posts published by Belgian political parties and party leaders on X and Bluesky between 2022 and 2025, our research note examines how LGBTQIA+ issues appear in party communication. ⬇️

This Thursday 14 of May, I was pleased to give a lecture on anti-trans politics as part of the "Gender, Society and Development" course at @uvic-ucc.cat. It was also a real pleasure to return to the university that hosted me last year and to meet wonderful Catalan colleagues again!☺️

[OUT] 'LGBTQIA+ issues in the social media communication of Belgian parties', new research note of the Social Media Lab at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) by @romainbiesemans.bsky.social and @lucaskins.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

[Rayonnement] Le 5 mai, Romain Biesemans, Chercheur à SciencePo ULB, interviendra sur le thème «Representación y resistencias LGBTQ+ en política: el caso de España y Bélgica» pour le Grupo de investigación Género y Política GEYPO de l'Université Complutense de Madrid. geypo.es/event/semina...

I am delighted to present next week my paper “From Silence to Salience? Issue Competition on LGBTQIA+ Issues in Belgium" within the @geypog.bsky.social seminar "“Representación y resistencias LGBTQ+ en política: el caso de España y Bélgica”. Registration via the link below ⬇️ geypo.es/event/semina...

✨New seminar on May 5, 2026! ✨If you want to come, it's necessary to register at the link. All the information here ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/geypo-...

🎉 Congratulations to @ilheenk.bsky.social for winning The 2025 Loop Best Blog prize #ECPRPrizes @ecprtheloop.bsky.social Her ⭐️compelling⭐️ blog piece, Metapolitical digital wars on gender, race, and queer life, was selected by the jury @dr-akudo.bsky.social, Alejandro Tauber & @priscyll.bsky.social

Yesterday, I was delighted to present my thesis project in the Public Opinion class at the Fac’ de Ciencias de la Información y la Comunicación at the UCM. A big thank you to @beatrizranea.bsky.social for the invitation and to the students for their interest, engagement, and thoughtful questions!

[Out] "Different party families, similar opposition to gender equality? A comparative analysis of conservative and far-right parties in parliamentary debates in Belgium and Spain". New paper out by Romain Biesemans, Researcher at SciencePo ULB... 1/2 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🚨 I am happy to share my new article “Different party families, similar opposition to gender equality? A comparative analysis of conservative and far-right parties in parliamentary debates in Belgium and Spain”, co-authored with Archibald Gustin and published in the @ejpgjournal.bsky.social.⬇️

I am very glad to start a four-month research stay in the Department of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), as part of the @geypog.bsky.social research group. This opportunity will allow me to further develop my doctoral research within the Spanish context!

I had the pleasure to present at the SoF some results from my thesis dealing with LGBTQIA+ issues in Belgian party manifestos. A huge thank you to Petra Meier for chairing this excellent panel and to Robin Devroe, Aloïsa Pilloy and Zoë Lardinois for the great presentations and discussions!

[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) interviendra lors de la table ronde organisée par la coalition genre, dans le cadre de l'évènement "résister aux campagnes anti-genre". 20 février, à la Cité Miroir à Liège.

Why did countries back shared EU debt during COVID-19🦠 after rejecting it in the euro crisis? @tiagomramalho.bsky.social explains how a new “solidarity coalition” formed in 2020 and what it reveals about changing ideas of responsibility in the EU.

[OUT] Out now in @plc-journal.bsky.social PhD Summary: "Crafting campaigns, messages, and identities: Belgian parties in a digitalized political arena" by @lucaskins.bsky.social, postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) plc-journal.eu/article/view...

[Media] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) était l'invité dans le podcast 'Dans de beaux draps - 17 Politiques d'égalité de genre' à écouter ici ⤵️ www.mixcloud.com/48FM/dans-de...

[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) présentera un papier intitulé 'Comment les enjeux LGBTQIA+ influencent la compétition partisane? Etudes de cas en Belgique et en Espagne' lors des midis de STRIGES le 09 décembre, 12h15-14h

[OUT] 'Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024', new paper by @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo ULB (#Cevipol) in collaboration with David Talukder and Daan Delespaul, in The Electoral Bulletins of the European Union geopolitique.eu/en/articles/...

[Activité] Ariane Gemander et @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheurs à SciencePo ULB (REPI et Cevipol) présentent une communication intitulée "L’Arizona, attaque néolibérale contre l’égalité de genre" au colloque du Gresea le 15 octobre à Liège gresea.be/Colloque-Con...

[Rayonnement] Le jeudi 23 octobre, Romain Biesemans, Chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), interviendra sur le thème : "Le genre est-il une cible idéologique" dans le cadre du Certificat 'Populismes et extrémismes' de l'Université de Liège

[Out] «Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024». New paper by Romain Biesemans, Researcher at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), with David Talukder & Daan Delespaul in the Electoral Bulletins of the European Union. geopolitique.eu/en/articles/...

The @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference was a blast in beautiful Thessaloniki! I had the pleasure to present for the first time a longitudinal analysis of the mobilisation of LGBTQIA+ issues by Spanish parties in their manifestos. See you next year in Krakow! #ecprgc26 #thessaloniki

Glad to join my first IPSA conference in Seoul where I presented my paper titled “LGBTQIA+ and Party Politics in Consociational Democracy: Evidence from Belgium” within the panel “Gender Politics in Polarized Societies”. Thank you to the panelists and organizers!

Wrapping up my visiting stay at UVic. It was a wonderful opportunity to immerse myself in the Catalan (and Spanish) academic world, to teach my very first class and seminar in the language of Almodóvar and to meet incredible people and experience life in beautiful Barcelona. 🫶

I had the pleasure this afternoon of giving my first lecture in Spanish on LGBTQIA+ politics in Belgium to the Master's students in Gender Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, as part of the course on Lesbian, Gay, Trans, and Queer Studies.

[Rayonnement] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo (Cevipol) will present a paper titled 'Pro-Women but Anti-Feminist: Vox’s Instrumentalisation of Gender Against Trans* Rights in Spain' at the conference Antifeminisme i extrema dreta org by the Universitat de Barcelona on 18 June

In the context of Pride Month, I had the pleasure of collaborating with the @socialmedialab-ulb.bsky.social to analyze how LGBTQIA+ issues were addressed in the communication of Belgian political parties and their leaders on X, between January 2022 and June 2024. ⬇️

🧵5/5 💬 @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, teaching assistant and PhD candidate @sciencepoulb.bsky.social highlights the low visibility of LGBTQIA+ topics in overall partisan communication on X, which reflects a tacit agreement across the political spectrum on these issues.

🏳️‍🌈 As part of Pride Month, we teamed up with @romainbiesemans.bsky.social and looked at the prevalence of LGBTQIA+ issues and people in the communication of Belgian parties and their leaders on X between January 2022 and June 2024. In this thread, we break down the results for you📎 🧵1/5

♀️ Are women politicians in Belgium getting equal spotlight from their political parties on social media? Short answer: not really 👎 📊 On average in Belgium, fewer than 1 in 3 posts by political parties on X that mention politicians actually feature a woman. Discover our analysis 👇 🧵1/6

🎉 Excited to launch the Social Media Lab (SML) @ULB on Bluesky! 🔎 The SML, a research project led by Caroline Close (@sciencepoulb.bsky.social) in collaboration with @uantwerpen.be, is an observatory of political communication on social media in Belgium. 🧵 1/5 – More below ⬇️

[Media] 'EVRAS, dans le feu des contestations', une interview de @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol) pour La Ligue ligue-enseignement.be/education-en...

[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB #Cevipol participera à la Table-ronde 'Femmes et extrême droite' organisée à l'UNamur le 8 avril

[Prix] 🎉 Félicitations à @romainbiesemans.bsky.social (Cevipol) ! 🎉 Son article avec Archibald Gustin, «Are radical right anti-gender politics so unique? A comparative analysis of conservative and radical right parties in Belgium and Spain », a remporté le Prix du Meilleur papier de l’ABSP 2024. 👏

Nouvelle contribution issue du travail collaboratif de plusieurs chercheur·e·s décryptant l'accord de gouvernement pour la @revuepolitique.bsky.social. Nous revenons avec Ariane Gemander sur le chapitre éthique et la traversée du désert que laisse présager l'Arizona atour du droit à l'avortement.

As part of the Gendering Democracy Series by The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social, we shared key findings from our study on sexism during the 2024 🇧🇪 elections. In this post, we highlight the challenges women candidates face and we outline concrete steps for tackling the issue theloop.ecpr.eu/sexism-in-po...

Le centre interdisciplinaire TRANSFO ULB a quitté le ciel sombre de X pour voler tel un papillon dans un ciel plus bleu, n'hésitez pas à suivre son actualité 👇https://bsky.app/profile/transfo-ulb.bsky.social

[Job] 🚀 SciencePo ULB is hiring! 📢 3 full-time assistant positions available 🔹 Contract: 2 years, renewable twice for a total of up to 6 years 🔹 Role: Teaching & PhD research 📅 Deadline: 15/03 🔗 More info & applications: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... #Hiring #PhD #Teaching #Research #ULB

Coming soon! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/legitimat...

Pour le JT de BX1, je suis revenu sur les négociations à rallonge pour la formation du gouvernement bruxellois et sur la confirmation de la majorité absolue de la Liste du Bourgmestre d'Emir Kir après les élections communales de Saint-Josse. Replay via le lien suivant: bx1.be/emission/le-...

Surreprésentation d'hommes dans le gouvernement fédéral, un problème? ♀️Risque de sous-représentation des intérêts des femmes 👑Opportunité manquée de créer des role models 👫Manque de considération des présidents de parti pour l'égalité Mon analyse ⤵️ shorturl.at/bFkhf @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

Pour BePolitix, nous revenons sur les conclusions de notre étude portant sur la communication des partis populistes en 🇧🇪 Nous y démontrons que les types de groupes mis en opposition varient selon l’idéologie du parti, mais également que l'opposition peuple/élites n’est pas propre aux populistes 🔎

La campagne électorale est bien finie, mais on continue d'en parler 😇 💰 En 2024, 70% des annonceurs liés aux partis en Belgique sont masculins, et ils représentent 75% du budget publicitaire destiné aux candidats. Pourquoi ? Mon explication pour @rtbf.be ⤵️ @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

[Podcast] 'Genres et extrême droite - Rencontre (PopEx)', participation de @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencPo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol) au podcast PopEx PopExhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQFp4pqWxqY