Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! ➜ doi.org/10.1080/1350... The paper asks why the European Commission @ec.europa.eu increasingly sponsors participatory innovations – such as the European Citizens' Panels – although their strategic and functional value remains elusive 🧵 1/6

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Future is Europe? #PoWi |s aller (drei) Länder kommt und diskutiert mit uns am 17.-19.9.26 in #Friedrichshafen! #CfP 14.11. 👉 www.dvpw.de/dreilaendert... #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft #SpreadTheWord @oegpw.bsky.social #SVPW #ASSP

I am proud to be part of this project - led by the brilliant @turnbulldugarte.com - which has an important take-away for mainstream left parties We show that when Labour adopts exclusionary rhetoric on immigration, it can backfire: core supporters feel alienated and Reform UK gains legitimacy

After many successful years in the US, the musical “Only the left and liberals have agency” gets performed in Germany …

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

Wow -- a lesser spotted Job out in the wild. Not one, but three. Jobs are like buses, etc... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK772/l...

Over a year ago, the editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Wiley) resigned in protest. They launched Political Philosophy, a non-profit, #diamondOA journal now published by OLH. The Wiley journal is now ending. Another reason to ask your institution to support OLH

‘Insofar as climate policy remains a contentious partisan issue, then, climate assemblies are likely to have a difficult time building consensus among the broader population‘ – timely paper on the predictable politicisation of democratic innovations

Terrifying quote from the FT on that: "A student ... recently told me of a fellow student who sat in front of her during lectures. When the professor asked a question, he would type it surreptitiously into ChatGPT, then read out the answer as though it was his own." www.ft.com/content/2d64...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS *PSA26 Annual Conference* We invite paper proposals for our next International Annual Conference in Oxford, 30 March - 1 April, 2026. ➡️ key dates and deadlines online.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

Macron announces France will recognise Palestine as a state in September at the UN General Assembly www.reuters.com/world/europe...

A horrific dystopian reality: ‘If you secure any food and avoid being shot by the Israelis, you may not escape the gangs waiting outside,” said Abdallah, who has brought back supplies from only one of his seven trips. 🙏 @financialtimes.com colleagues for this reporting on.ft.com/4lzxFOQ

🗣️ JOB! 3-year fixed-term lectureship in Moral and/or Political Philosophy at Warwick 📅 Deadline - 20 July 2025 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...

🆕 EJPR NEWS 📰 Find us here on Bluesky 🦋 @ejprjournal.bsky.social for original, peer-reviewed research on comparative European politics. Stay informed, stay connected. #PoliticalScience #EJPR #PoliSky

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

Extreme-right groups in Germany are increasingly targeting LGBTQ+ people as part of a systematic effort to gain popularity and win new recruits.

How did Spain come to be the only nation holding firm on its aid spending? | Ana Carbajosa

A piece of news universities around the world should pay attention to "To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor who was investigating Israel for war crimes" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Cambridge is looking to appoint a professor of sociology, search open until 16 September www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t...

Today and tomorrow Italy votes 🗳️ Five ballots, one referendum to repeal some (socially conservative) laws on labour and citizenship, and it will all boil down to turnout — something the current Italian government has explicitly campaign against. 🧵 on recent 🇮🇹 referendum turnouts and predictions:

Delighted that the 2nd edition of our textbook - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out now! 📘Foundations of European Politics 📒 Copies can be ordered here: www.oup.com/ukhe/product... Data and exercises here: www.foundationsofeuropeanpolitics.com

Financial Times editorial on Israel, calling on Europe to recognise a Palestinian state www.ft.com/content/8856...

“No truths”

My new article in Political Studies: ‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

You can still sign up for our My580 Methods Short Course 👉 Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python, by @gildersleve.uk 📆 Tuesday 27 May, from 10am - 3pm 🖱️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-tex...

📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

Delighted that my paper with @kevincunning.bsky.social on "Still second-order national elections? Evaluating the classic model after the 2024 European elections" has just been published by @wepsocial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/

Merz argumentiert, Netanjahu müsse nach Deutschland einreisen können, da er demokratisch gewählt sei. Es ist aber ein Grundsatz der Demokratie, dass alle an das Recht gebunden sind. Merz verrät damit beide Prinzipien - das Recht und die Demokratie. www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

News from the Far Right International:

1 more week to apply to one of 2 postdoc positions, 5-years each, in my @erc.europa.eu project!

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

Please share widely: PhD workshop in June 2025 with @miguelpereira.bsky.social and Mareike Kleine politicalsciencenow.com/2025-dissert...

Europe is fastest warming continent noted in @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report & greenhouse gas heating +changing wind patterns are driving excess warming, particularly in winter, while less solar shading from declining aerosol particle pollution is adding to summer warmth: doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Lost in the trade war tumult: Gaza is a 'killing field', says UN chief, as agencies urge world to act on Israel's blockade

An die Quali-Kolleg:innen: Unsere Fokusgruppen aus dem Triggerpunkte-Projekt sind nun archiviert und frei verfügbar. Neben Sekundäranalysen zu politischen Debatten eignen sie sich erfahrungsgemäß auch gut für Interpretationsübungen in der Lehre. Zum Datensatz: doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANG...

Having just worked with Princeton on my book I’d very much recommend this opportunity!

My department is on Bluesky as well, and they just put out a starter pack! @lse-ei.bsky.social

We are hiring again for our cluster of Comparative Politics at Reading! Please consider applying for it!

New publication - 'The Future as a Democratic Resource', online now at Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153... @poppublicsphere.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social

❌ Closing soon ❌ Lecturer in US Politics #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 PhD in #PolSci required 🏫 @uclamericas.bsky.social ⌛ Friday 28 March #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

We know it… but seeing it is still mind blowing. Read this piece and search which of your works were used to train AI models. Without remuneration. Dozens of chapters, articles, books www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

#job Lecturer in European and International Politics at the VUB (Brussels, Belgium) academicpositions.com/ad/vrije-uni...

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