After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Like any PhD, mine has its share of challenges and mountains to climb. But I’ve never once felt without support or guidance from my amazing supervisory team!

On @ecprtheloop.bsky.social I present key insights from my recent @ausjpolsci.bsky.social article on transnational populist publics. The blogpost includes examples that didn’t fit into the main piece, and shows how leaders like Trump and Meloni are now global icons for the PRR.

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @jholloway.bsky.social, Michelle Evans, & I discuss the key findings from our recent @poppublicsphere.bsky.social article on prospective Indigenous candidates: theconversation.com/indigenous-p...

Thrilled that my first (ever!) and first single-authored article is out in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🎉 PRR parties have built a shared transnational discourse on issues like immigration & culture wars. But do their digital publics also take part in this discursive transnationalisation? A 🧵

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

💡Two super useful resources for when academics (or journalists!) are being targeted - and for institutions to be prepared. (We are underprepared…) 1) expertvoicestogether.org/researcher 2) researchersupport.org #ECPRgc25 @ecpr.bsky.social

In the last 6 months, our wee study of Gen-Z voters & non-voters in Australia has been the 3rd most read of all articles ever published in Political Studies. You can read it too, open access, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Such an interesting piece of research by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ✨ So lucky to work with such a brilliant and generous scholar every day, brava!!

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

This beautiful python was right outside my office at @griffith.edu.au. Reviewer 2, it seems, wanted to supervise that new draft a little more closely.

"Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right", now under contract with Oxford University Press. We've already got a full draft and the reviews were really positive, so this should be out in 2026! @ammassarisofia.bsky.social; @casmudde.bsky.social; @arjupskas.bsky.social

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

🚨 New research! With Milly Stilinovic & @dhutchman.bsky.social, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up. New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461... Conversation theconversation.com/ai-is-moving...

🚨 PhD position in Political Communication at @ascor.bsky.social 🚨 Come work with @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @lindabos.bsky.social and myself on a 4-year project about visual communication & political anger DL June 4 - Thanks to repost for diversity! 🔥 @polcomm.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/8yvbkwxu

It was great to present my work in today’s department seminar! Big thanks to @duncanmcdonnell.com, Ferran, and @ammassarisofia.bsky.social for the constant support – and to the big crowd of PhD friends and staff colleagues attending

I had a great long chat earlier this morning with Steve Austin on ABC about Gen-Z voting, how parties seek to engage with young people, and much else besides! (including my Gen-Z daughter's view of youth wings...) From around 1:43 here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

In today's @theconversation.com, @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma and I write about Gen-Z turnout in Australia: theconversation.com/47-of-gen-z-... A short thread on our main takeaways, based on our survey of over 1,300 Gen-Z Australians:

CALL FOR PAPERS Our annual APSA Political Organisations and Participation @popgroupaus.bsky.social research group workshop is being held 5-6 June at the Uni of Canberra. Limited financial support available for ECRs and HDRs travelling from outside Canberra. Short abstracts due 7 April.

This week, The Australian ran a story all about our recent EJPR article on radicals, moderates, and aligned members of party youth wings. You can read it here: www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/progr...

I'm thrilled to share my open-access paper published in @austjia.bsky.social! In this study, I examine how women's participation is framed within P/CVE policies, identifying three key logics: protection, political agency, and religion. Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Last sunset from my three-week office at @uva.nl. What an intense experience this was: I met so many talented - and welcoming - PhD colleagues, have been in touch with an incredibly rich research environment, and gathered invaluable feedback on my own work. It really felt like home.

My @polstudies.bsky.social article on stigma & grassroots activism in populist radical right (PRR) parties has now page numbers! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Drawing on the 1st ever comparative survey of PRR party members, I ask how stigma affects their participation in party activities.

A foggy start to my research visit at the University of Amsterdam (@uva.nl), kindly hosted by @sldelange.bsky.social and @alessandronai.bsky.social. If you are around in the next three weeks, I'm happy to meet up!

Almost 500 downloads for our new article "Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project" over the past couple of weeks. If you're interested in party organisations and/or young people in politics, this is for you: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

It was great to kickstart 2025 at the University of Milan! Hosted by the wonderful School of Media and Communication, I had the opportunity to share my research on transnational engagement with PRR contents. I presented first insights from a brand new dataset of YouTube comments from 8 countries.

Our article "Inside Party Youth Wings: The YOUMEM Project" is online today & open access in Party Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... [A wee thread 🧵]

Just a normal afternoon walk at Griffith's Nathan campus. @griffithuniversity.bsky.social

It was great to present my work on transnational populist publics at the very last - but excellent - panel of #APSA24 Thanks to my supervisory team and colleagues at Griffith for their endless support!

Is being a proud supervisee a thing? Congrats on this huge (& well deserved) achievement!

Tomorrow, at the APSA Conference, I’ll talk about my research on transnational populist publics. My paper examines the contribution of digital publics on YouTube in building the bridges between PRR parties in France, Italy, and the US. [Thread!]

Six established academics, each paired with three postgrads, 20 minutes per session. The single task: “Talk about whatever you want advice on.” The APSA version of a speed mentoring session at the PhD Symposium, in wonderful Forrest Research Foundation. #APSA2024

Nick Cheesman, April Biccum, Sarah Ball, and Jack Corbett led us through a deep dive into interpretive methods: great talks and engaging discussion! Check out their APSA research group page here: tinyurl.com/2ejxfsm3 #APSA2024

The 2024 APSA PhD Symposium continues with an insightful talk from Kelly Gerard (UWA). "Making sandwiches in academia" tackled the issue of balancing research and service roles in academia when you're a PhD or an early career researcher. #APSA2024

Great to have Michael Hopkin from The Conversation kickstart the 2024 APSA PhD Symposium at the Forrest Research Foundation. Some great insights for how PhDs can engage with media and reach a wider audience! #APSA2024 @phoebehayman.bsky.social

It really looks like a warm welcome, UWA! The AusPSA Conference kicks off tomorrow with the PhD Day, in beautiful Perth #APSA24

I guess that after various drills, this time the migration is real. I've put together a wee starter pack on two of the things I work on, populism and the radical right. Feel free to share & suggest yourself or others! go.bsky.app/Tqmc9sJ