🚀 StanDat Database Update & Move! The database has moved and been upgraded: solveig.shinyapps.io/standat/

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

📢 New article 👥 @sunny369.bsky.social, Solveig Bjørkholt 🔎 Presenting the StanDat database on international standards: Improving data accessibility on marginal topics.. 📖Open Access in Political Science Research and Methods 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️

Happy to announce that my first article is finally in print in Political Science and Research Methods (PSRM).

New paper, coauthored with @sunny369.bsky.social, out in LSQ. We find very low levels of conflict between government and opposition in the Norwegian Parliament through sentiment analysis of WPQs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a book! What a refreshing perspective on life and what to do with it, i.e; time management! This book made me sigh with relief. Lower the standards, make do with the present, accept finitude, and be there for the average four thousand weeks of a human life.

Excited about our new Code Café for BA and MA students learning to code in R! Friday afternoons, conveniently located at the student bar, Diskuterbar! www.uib.no/sampol/16557...