Happy to be at #EPSS2026 in Belfast today. I'm chairing panel PP03 — four papers on youth wings as recruitment grounds and early arenas where patterns of political representation take shape. Drop by if you're around! 🕞 15:20–17:00 · Meeting Room 3a (ICC).

Say hello to our incoming Editors in Chief @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social at #ecpg2026! Michal and Maarja will lead our new Editorial Team from July 2026

Congrats to incoming editors @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social! Go, go, go! #ecpg2026

2nd stop: European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) in Newcastle, where I’ll be talking about my book as well as presenting brand new work on LGBTQ+ party wings in democracies with @grahn.bsky.social and @rozemarijnvandijk.bsky.social.

Very happy to have this paper on a promising sexual harassment intervention published! For those interested in a non-technical summary, we have also written a policy brief based on the paper. freepolicybriefs.org/2026/05/25/c...

Out and voting: LGB candidacies surge across democracies. This analysis by @grahn.bsky.social maps the closet-to-spotlight shift, linking visibility to openness and party incentives. doi.org/10.1080/1350... @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Presenting our new paper on electoral support for trans rights retrenchment in the UK today at the Uni of Bergen Together with @sophiemainz.bsky.social, we find that candidate who endorse the 2025 UK SC ruling on women's rights enjoy an electoral premium. Watch here: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

Or check out a critical review of the PhD dissertation by @grahn.bsky.social (Uppsala University): plc-journal.eu/article/view... #underrepresentation #womeninpolitics #candidateselection #politicalambition

In the dissertation titled “From Ambition to Admission: The Recruitment of Women in Politics”, Rozemarijn investigates the demand side (political parties’ candidate selection) as well as the supply side (women’s political ambitions) of the Dutch political recruitment process.

Had the pleasure of presenting ongoing work at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) yesterday! Thanks to Erwan Dujeancourt and Emma von Essen for having me and everyone in the GAINS group for great feedback!

❗ New paper out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! 😯 @bertous.bsky.social and I used a conjoint experiment to investigate whether name-based preferences influence adoption decisions. We take Catalonia as the case study, where linguistic boundaries overlap with contested political identities.

🆕 How does that make you feel? 📝 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @versteegenluca.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social ask how #AffectivePolarization feels, using cross sectional data from 5 European countries, to see what emotions corrleate with #AffectivePolarization scores 💯

@grahn.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com explore the effects of far-right parties' first-time entry into municipal politics on general representation of immigrants and sexual minorities (aka frequently targeted groups by far-right rhetoric) within mainstream parties (🔓): doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

We are delighted to present the new editorial team of the @ejpgjournal.bsky.social ! Led by @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social as co-EIC, the six-strong team represents a new generation of gender and politics and LGBTQ+ politics scholars who will take the journal forward from July 2026.

Extremely happy - and even more honoured - to be trusted with one of the most exciting journals @ejpgjournal.bsky.social to co-edit with such an amazing team, starting July 1 2026! We'll celebrate already next month at #ecpg2026newcastle 🥳 @nclpolitics.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social

🇸🇪 Does far right entry into local politics affect minority representation? ➡️ Using an RDD, @grahn.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com show far right entry reduced immigrant candidates on the right, while left parties increased immigrant recruitment www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity? - https://cup.org/4e7fAqk - @grahn.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com#OpenAccess #FirstView

Does far-right legislative representation change the descriptive make-up of candidate lists among mainstream parties? Using a RDD with registry data from Sweden, this paper led by @grahn.bsky.social provides an answer doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Really happy about this wonderful collaboration with @grahn.bsky.social – together we contributed the chapter "The Political Behavior of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Trans+ People" to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics by Zoë Lefkofridi. Just out! 🏳️‍🌈📖 www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Seyla Benhabib, is the 2026 this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science! Read more here: www.skytteprize.com/prize-laurea...

Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming @payoub.bsky.social to @uu-polisci.bsky.social and @uppgap.bsky.social Phil presented his new book with Kristina Stoeckl — The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights. A real privilege to host him in Uppsala! 🤩

Our new article on gender differences in why young people join political parties is now out, open access, in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ✨ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @duncanmcdonnell.com @profannikawerner.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social Marco Valbruzzi @cwegscheider.bsky.social

Today I received my official appointment as a W2 Professor of Political Behavior and Representation at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. As of April 1, this marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life and career—one I am very much looking forward to.

Are gendered institutions real powers or just ideas in our heads? Grounded in critical realism, this piece by @grahn.bsky.social bridges the divide, advocating abductive methods to uncover their elusive mechanisms shaping practices. doi.org/10.1017/s174... @politicsgenderj.bsky.social

🌀 🗳 Far-right parties are growing increasingly hostile towards LGBTQ rights. In the European Parliament elections, 6–9 June, such parties are expected to make major gains @grahn.bsky.social shows that non-straight voters might, through mobilisation, help keep far-right forces at bay bit.ly/4avuIYY

📯📯 I am happy to announce I defended my Ph.D. thesis! Sincere thanks to my examiners @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & Thomas Chadefaux (@conflictresearch.bsky.social) for thoughtful questions and an engaging discussion about the arguments I presented

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

New paper out! Working with geospatial data is cool.

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816

Join us the 17 February at @sns.it in Florence (and online) to discuss equality in academia!

Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus. We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.

How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐 And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents? I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out! Hope this sparks some conversations 💡 tally.so/r/447Xxk

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

Happy new year 2026 from up north! ❄️

Happy holidays! :) 🎄

This is where your e-mail finds me. Happy holidays! 🎄🎄🎄

Ph-Done, as they say. I’m feeling relieved to be done, happy to have passed, privileged to have so many wonderful friends around me, tired after a hectic week, and excited for what comes next.

In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat. Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Had the pleasure to serve on the examination committee today at Lund University for @jwa.bsky.social brilliant PhD dissertation on feminist activist solidarity and mobilization in Egypt and Tunisia. An insightful work, rich both theoretically and empirically.

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

We're happy to announce at least three vacant PhD positions starting in fall 2026! Read more and apply here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

@elinbja.bsky.social and I are leading SWEPSA (Swedish Political Science Association) for the coming two years! Looking forward to it! :) www.uu.se/en/departmen...

This is a terrible move that will hurt the trans community as well as the Labour Party in the long term.

Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good. Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

New article by @rmuriaas.bsky.social and I: While seniority can benefit all parliamentarians and serve as a powerful resource, it does not confer power equally. Women face structural barriers to accessing seniority, and even when they attain it, their legitimacy and influence remains contested.

New article out! 🔥 I’m excited to share our new piece on how political seniority works as a gendered informal institution that shapes access to power in parliaments. The article draws on interviews with the French National Assembly. gendersky polisky academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

Huge congratulations to the best @turnbulldugarte.com & @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social for getting Wallenberg fellowships (equivalent to two ERC grants!!!) So well-deserved!!