Immigration raids during Trump II have increased daily student absences by 22 percent in the California Central Valley, with largest increases among the youngest students.

Deadline for 2026: Passed Colleagues: off to Belfast. Me (and likely the rest of the Swedish delegation): doing fieldwork on rural intoxication

Der gik intet som helst galt. Hvis man bilder sig ind, at et spritnyt socialt medie på et par år skal nå på omgangshøjde med Twitter (der har næsten to årtier på bagen), har man spist søm.

Our SPS department @eui-sps.bsky.social invites prospective PhD candidates to join the SPS Virtual Open Day 2025. A unique opportunity to discover onlnine our doctoral programme, meet faculty and researchers, and learn about life at the EUI. 📅 04-12-2025 | Online 🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Grateful (and a bit stunned): 4.7M SEK from the Swedish Research Council for our project on why young men in rural regions turn to the radical right, with @jensrydgren.bsky.social and Sirus H. Dehdari

Pairwise visual conjoint experiment in the wild

Let’s be honest: Beamer makes figures and tables look great, but the slides still look like a government website from 2005.

Big congratulations to @zethis.bsky.social, whose doctoral thesis has now been published! Outstanding work. And it is almost as thick as Tolstoy's War and Peace...

Submission: I did a thing. Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract. Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.

No good paper has more than three hypotheses. Preferably one.

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

YOU GET A COPY! YOU GET A COPY! EVERYBODY GETS A COPY! Dissertations = posted

”Your complimentary access to a selection of Elsevier research tools including Scopus is about to expire in 7 days. You receive 30 days of access for every review invitation you accept. You can claim your reward access directly in Reviewer Hub under Rewards”

When you have to submit via Research Exchange instead of Manuscript Central. (Different circles of hell)

Pretty sure Niemöller didn’t mention late-night hosts. Looks like we’re adding a verse.

Brilliant!

Update! @epssnet.bsky.social 2027 is not scheduled on Midsummer.

Latest update: moved to Florence, started as a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI. Reporting live from the Tuscan hills 🤌

In other news: I have submitted my dissertation 🤘

Stages of a relationship: casual, serious, Reagan Foundation endorsement.

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Waiting for the final proofreading of my dissertation before submission like:

Every academic has one core theory they don't actually believe in, but can't stop using because it’s so **neat**

Our paper is now out in an issue! Summarizing thread below and link for access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

I'm not sure who has to hear this, but it is NOT normal that the government sends the military into its own cities. In fact, in many countries, this has led to mass protests... 🙄

Har ministern missat att vi inte har ministerstyre i Sverige? Detta i sig är skäl att kräva Forssells avgång. Han har uppenbarligen inte förstått sitt uppdrag och är inte lämpad för sitt jobb. www.dn.se/sverige/hard...

"Våra universitet är statliga myndigheter som lyder under regeringen" - Johan Forssell (M) Ah jo, men rimligtvis så borde inte heller universiteten vara statliga myndigheter. Helt orimligt att ge det här uppdraget till SU och GU.

WZB Berlin Social Science Center are establishing a new department for the study of democracy and are looking to appoint its first director. wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

that summit could've been an email

3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data: 1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead 2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative 3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts #academicsky www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

📢 New Publication 📢 📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries? (with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto) Short 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025). If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

Highly recommend!!! Fantastic seminars.

Sure, why not

🚨Paper Alert🚨 Excited to share our registered report forthcoming in The Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social! In "Borderline Democracy?", @armenon.bsky.social and I ask: Do voters punish governments for curbing civil liberties to tackle salient issues like migration? 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1086/737687

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany 📔 Social Movement Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474... In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis. Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

Nobody is born reviewer #2

Nobody is born reviewer #2

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

They made me a reviewer but never sent the manuscript. Now I wander the purgatory of Manuscript Central.

Wow, #EPSA2025 was amazing! Shame EPSS decided to schedule 2026, 2027 and 2028 right on top of midsummer. (Maybe) see you all in 2029!

If you're still looking for a panel at lunchtime, join @zethis.bsky.social, @bdellasala.bsky.social, @hannohilbig.bsky.social and me, it's BYOF 🥡 #epsa2025

Looks great, but real question — are we saying E.P.S.S. or just EPSS like 'steps'?

That’s it. I’m logging off everything else — the chat in the EPSA conference app is my one and only social media now. #EPSA2025

P.S: Gave my presentation in shorts - no riots. For everyone still in doubt about shorts in Madrid: it can be done. Next stop: #EPSA2025 👋🏻

Potentially in shorts (still undecided), I'm presenting the last chapter of my dissertation, on Friday 13:10 - 14:50! #EPSA2025

If any help, I had a professor way back who claimed that his main reason for staying in academia, as opposed to going to e.g. government or the private sector, was so that he could wear shorts to work.

Alright, the most important (non-research-based) question of the year: Are shorts acceptable during presentations?