Celebrating 10 years in @nclpolitics.bsky.social (Newcastle) with a new staff card. Still can't believe I didn't lose it in all those years 😅

Politoloog @maarja.bsky.social kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest. Sest nagu restoranis ei saa tellida rooga, mida menüüs pole, nii ei saa ka valida kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole.

📣Out on #FirstView 📣 In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility. polisky gendersky buff.ly/vkcPI2Y

Research led by @nclpolitics.bsky.social's @maarja.bsky.social reveals female politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media than others in the profession. Read the full article article here >> bit.ly/3GOr97K

We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods 👧🏻📊 So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Super excited (and relieved!) to see this paper finally published. Both men and women politicians experience incivility and, overall, the more famous they are, the more abuse they receive. BUT women in Europe receive uncivil tweets even when they're not well known www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Democratic Resilience in Challenging Times” workshop - connecting Northern UK scholars of Elections, Parties and Public Opinion (EPOP) and hosted by the Governance and Political Organisations research cluster in Newcastle University - is in full swing @nclpolitics.bsky.social

@nclpolitics.bsky.social Research Seminar series had the great pleasure to host the amazing @anjaneundorf.bsky.social yesterday with an extremely timely talk about how we can "sell" democracy better

My favourite part of the job also happened this week. Huge congratulations to @jihedncib.bsky.social for an outstanding viva and excellent thesis!!! Very much looking forward to the publication that will follow ☺️

🎉🎉🎉 Super excited that our paper -- on how changing public attitudes on gender equality don't seem to affect parties' candidate selection strategies -- with the amazing @ThomasDäubler and @mihailchiru.bsky.social is now accessible OnlineFirst at the EUP: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A quick interview at Estonian Public Broadcasting Service's breakfast program early morning yesterday on the (potential) reaction of UK parties and public on Starmer's statement of potentially sending British troops to Ukraine jupiter.err.ee/1609609172/b...

This is probably my most preferred way to get back to work from a holiday. Thank you so much @clint0475.bsky.social & @unibas.ch for hosting us and for all the insightful comments and questions. @nclpolitics.bsky.social

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What a start to the week! Huge congratulations to Rob for a great thesis and an excellent viva! @nclpolitics.bsky.social

📣Announcement📣 Politics & Gender Conference 2025 A conference celebrating 20 years of P&G for scholars working on all aspects of women, gender, & politics. 📅 May 28-29, 2025 📍 Rutgers University CFP: mlkrook.org/PAGC_CFP_202... Website: www.pagconference.org Submit: forms.gle/nc6ZpaEX7qnz...

Today's the deadline to submit your new exciting research to #MPSA2025. I'm delighted to chair Section 2 on Representation and Electoral Systems and can't wait for your submissions!! www.mpsanet.org/conference/

We're hiring @nclpolitics.bsky.social!!! Lecturer in International Politics: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM298/l... (15-4-2024) Research Associate on Demetra project: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM239/r... (1-4-2024) Don't hesitate to get in touch: [email protected] or find me at #PSA & #MPSA conferences.

The joy to support Louise Luxton on her PhD journey has come to an end. Huge congratulation to Dr Luxton for passing her viva with minor revisions last Friday! Louise's PhD thesis on "Women's Political Parties' Issue Concerns & Communication Strategies" is a must-read to any gender/parties scholar!

Heading back from Lund, feeling more excited about Gender and politics research that I have had for a very long time. Thank you @floriso.bsky.social for organising such an amazing workshop, bringing together so theoretically innovative and methodologically rigorous empirical research! Had a blast!!

Visited Estonia via radio yesterday at Vikerraadio Uudis+ discussing the electoral and party political motives behind Sunak's u-turn on environmental politics vikerraadio.err.ee/1609097306/u...

Extremely excited to be part of this incredible program this week at Lund!