🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

New POPPA article out in Party Politics by Andrej Zaslove, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social: “The State of Populism: Introducing the 2023 Wave of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

📘 64.4 Who accepts party policy change? @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social use 🗳️ data from 5 countries shows that many see change as necessary but populist attitudes strongly reduce acceptance. Read more:

Bluesky hive mind! Does anyone use their iPad mini for reading and annotating papers? Are you happy with your choice, or do you wish you had a bigger model?

1/ 🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper? We built one: ✅ $1/chapter ✅ Modular & flexible ✅ Written by top scholars ✅ Full (free!) instructor resources 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!

The research is so clear about what the effects of this copycat behaviour is. It's inexplicable why political leadership is so resistant to evidence-based political strategy.

Het NL en D "Nee" tegen een EU begroting van ruim 1% BNP staat in schril contrast met hun enthousiasme voor 5% voor de NAVO. Onderliggende gedachte: de EU klein houden, zodat nationale politici zich groot kunnen voelen. Terwijl juist nu een sterke EU keihard nodig is voor onze veiligheid en welvaart

Quebec: "Hold my beer" In Quebec, the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) will fine anglophone shopkeepers in anglophone Quebec communities for saying "Hi!" before "Bonjour!"

Voor mijn nieuwe Nederlandse volgers, hier zijn enkele andere Nederlandstalige experts op het gebied van uiterst-rechts om te volgen: @sldelange.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social

Very happy to see this out! We show that defending democracy against autocratizing incumbents is possible, but an uphill battle!

Precies. Als een democratisch midden (dat bereid is te besturen) onderling geen alternatieven biedt, komen de middenpartijen gezamenlijk symbool te staan voor de status quo. Kiezers die ontevreden zijn over de status quo, vinden de alternatieven dan alleen nog bij niet-democratische partijen.

Two fully funded PhD positions in political science at the University of Antwerp in @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social's new and very cool ERC project on disinformation and representation. Great opportunity! www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.

The fabulous @frederikthieme.bsky.social will present results from a large-scale field experiment on the mobilization of young voters tomororw @epsanet.bsky.social #epsa2025 @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Amazing initiative! I joined today, and you should, too!

Introducing #EPSS - the European Political Science Society and non-Profit alternative to #EPSA!

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇

Very happy to see this published! Thanks for the great collaboration in these last 5 (!) years, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social & @francesconicoli.bsky.social !

I am proud to announce that I have been appointed Research Professor at the Dept of Political Science at University of Antwerp, starting in June 2025! I will leave Radboud University after having spent 9 wonderful years at the Department of Political Science in Nijmegen. 1/4

To most tarrifs seem like a foolish plan. However, if the goal is to maximize control over your economy, it makes perfect sense. Reducing dependencies on others will allow Trump to exert greater control over the US economy.

This is what the waiting room of an ER in 🇳🇱 looks like. If you'd set a TV-series like The Pitt in a European, properly funded ER with limited waiting time, no mass shootings, no fentanyl epidemic it wouldn't make great TV. 🥱

📢 1 Week left! Call for Abstracts📢 Deadline for #PolEtmaal2025 is fast approaching! Are you working on gender, representation, or democratic processes? Join us in Groningen for the upcoming PolEtmaal, work-in-progress welcome! Submit your abstract here: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-pap...

When universities fall, democracy falls.

Across 26 countries and using a database of 32M tweets, radical-right populist elites are the most likely to spread misinformation, finds @pettertornberg.bsky.social & @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Countries, firms, states, universities: Stop caving on individual points! It is not about “antisemitism”, “DEI”,“trans athletes” or “wokeness”! It is about complete submission! Nothing else will be acceptable! You cannot win alone! United we stand a chance, divided we will fall!

There is a tracker for how much of the Project 2025 agenda has been implemented. By the look of it, they will complete their agenda before their 180-day deadline, July 20, 2025. www.project2025.observer?sort=status-...

Thrilled to welcome you back @sldelange.bsky.social together with the brilliant @tevoelker.bsky.social who will be visiting @SciencesPo_CEE during the same period. Can't wait to work together and have you both here!

The revelation that Meta used pirated Libgen content for training its models is an important warning that open source material can be abused for commericial purposes. If publishing open access means, we give free input to LLMs, we might have to rethink terms and conditions.

Eppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen. Daarom (checks notes): - heftige bezuinigingen - de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL) - morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen

“Vlucht uit de VS en schuil op een Nederlandse universiteit. U vindt daar een stimulerende omgeving vol teleurgestelde en lamgeslagen collega’s die zojuist een grote ontslagronde hebben doorgemaakt…” fd.nl/opinie/15494...

"There are two errors we must avoid if we want to get closer to the truth: we shouldn’t believe things that are false, and we shouldn’t discount things that are true...After all, the easiest way to never fall for misinformation is to simply never believe anything" www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

This is really extremely concerning

Bravo colleagues 👇

New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday, almost all our Associate Editors gathered for a productive Board meeting of Politics of the Low Countries. We discussed ongoing papers, our new publisher Radboud University Press, and the much-anticipated launch event at Politicologenetmaal 2025 in Groningen (Stay tuned!)

Yesterday, I was protesting against budget cuts to higher education in the Netherlands

Today was Nijmegen's turn for the relay strike against budgets cuts in higher education in the Netherlands. We protested against these irresponsible cuts on research and teaching. Stop the cuts! #WoInActie #DoeHetNiet!

Europeans! Drinking wine is the patriotic thing to do 🍷

Keine Sondersitzungen, keine Talkshows, kein 5-Punkte Plan. Es ist klar, welches Ungleichgewicht in medialer und politischer Reaktion herrscht. Dennoch reagieren Medienvertrer:innen und Politik auf Kritik mit der plumpen Rückfrage ob sie denn über die realen Probleme der Menschen schweigen sollten.

Twee dagen na Motie Eerdmans waarin stond dat Nederland principieel tegen gezamenlijke leningen is. Maar wat hebben we aan dogma’s als onze bondgenoten een draai hebben gemaakt & meerderheid van 🇳🇱 publieke opinie 🇺🇦 wil steun & meer 🇪🇺 samenwerking op defensie wil? Mijn stuk @fd.nl ⤵️

"The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global person in 2024 is at levels last registered in 1985." Liberal democracy is now the least common regime type, hosting less than 12% of the world’s population. Meanwhile, autocracies are becoming more autocratic and democracies less democratic.

PLC's archive is now also available open access! Join the open publishing revolution and submit your paper at www.plc-journal.eu!

It was great to present work on parties' willingness to compromise at this nice workshop in Münster last week using new @poppa-data.bsky.social. Thanks again to @friderikespang.bsky.social and Manon Westphal for organizing!

Day 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥 First op Leiden 💪🏽 @woinactie.bsky.social Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! No excuse for #manels (on migration and/or the PRR)👇 @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @katybrown.bsky.social @drjpersian.bsky.social @caterinafr.bsky.social @sabinedvolk.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @saskiabonjour.bsky.social @emmyeklundh.bsky.social

Indeed, the cowardice of the president of the Columbia University is inexcusable.

Correction. APSA put out this statement: apsanet.org/wp-content/u... But I am really surprised by the lack of action.