PolCom early view: Forestal on "How Should We Study Multiple Platforms? Lessons from Deliberative Systems Theory." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tokyo doing its thing

🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live! The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver. Explore this resource here 👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Support for liberal democracy in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic - https://cup.org/3X0aJ0i - @vinarceneaux.bsky.social, Bert N. Bakker, Sara B. Hobolt & @catherinedevries.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView #COVID19

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

🚨🚨Breaking and welcome news: Rob Jetten’s centrist-liberal D66 party has won the #Dutchelection according according to the national press agency ANP, toppling #GeertWilders’ far-right Party for Freedom (PVV). 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/rob-...

How do you say “wag the dog” in Spanish?

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

New Paper Alert 🧵📣 There is a growing concern that the negative valence in climate stories paralyses consumers & perhaps even prevents them from taking pro-environmental actions. However, we found that climate anxiety is a robust and universal driver of pro-climate behavioral intentions.👇

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

One of the boldest way I have seen in a while to defend the position that jelly is, actually, food

Hey blue hive (?) does anyone around here have a subscription to the Times - and, if so, would this awesome human being perhaps be willing to share with me the pdf of the article below? Thanks much, beautiful people www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

We are finally out!! Thanks to my fantastic co-authors, the anonymous reviewers, and @thejop.bsky.social editorial team. Publishing my first registered report has been an incredibly instructive and rewarding experience 🤓 Much has been said about political incivility, but does it actually exist? 🤷‍♀️

Happy to share that my new book with Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser is now available from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! (preorder elsewhere til 12/2, but available now through Chicago) 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Absolutely brutal McSweeney's “I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok."

🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*? In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."

sort of like a reverse high jump - can the bar really be lowered another notch? - yes, yes it can

Hear me out: AI NFT

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A haunted house for academics whose walls are covered with “next year I will” stuff you said. The darkest room is covered with “next year I won't” quotes

Current administration keeping up with the trend of identifying wth the bad guys in blockbusters movies

In one week, we will have the privilege to welcome @gefjonoff.bsky.social in Münster for the 2nd semester of our speaker series! 🤩 If you are not in Münster, you can join via Zoom as well! : uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/62265873291 co-organized w @danbischof.bsky.social and @mwegemann.bsky.social

Of course in France they will be called Caniche Vuitton

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

Iron Maiden 🤝 Iron Lady www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...

I like precision as much as the next Swiss, but this level of detail is a tad unnecessary

We are hiring! We are looking for two post-docs in our interdisciplinary research group “SCEPTIC” at the University of Oldenburg, 4+years, on the dynamics and drivers of (dis)trust in digital environments, more info below 👇

Great project, great people, great department! (From a completely unbiased member of the same department)

🆕 Formateur expectations & #VotingBehaviour Looking at #CSES and German 🇩🇪 pre-election surveys Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, @liranharsgor.bsky.social & @ortuttnauer.com discuss "formateur optimization" – when voters back parties likely to lead. 📖

Japanese neo brutalism taking no prisoners

Vacancy! @actapolitica.bsky.social is looking for a new co-editor to lead the journal together with yours truly! This is a great opportunity to help shape the future of the most important political science journal in the Netherlands and Flanders.

A EU politics tenure track position at Ghent university 👇 #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

My father died a few weeks ago. He was a lovely man and had a fascinating life. I wrote his obituary for the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I feel like the original meaning was slightly lost in translation here

French version Dernière Danse (Indila): 9 Dernière Danse (Kyo): 8 Total : 17

Breathe (The Prodigy): 10 Breathe (Taylor Swift): 8 [Breathe (Sean Paul Ft. Blu Cantrell): 8] Total score: 18

Angel (Mattafix): 9 Angel (Aerosmith): 8 Total score: 17

A Sociologist's lamentation.

New Louise Kennedy novel out next year

Maybe a coincidence. But the fact that it very well might not be one says a lot about the current situation. And about disturbing times ahead. Solidarity with Mark Bray

Solidarity with & ❤️ for Mark Bray. #FCKNZS www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Bubbles expert here. This is not normal behaviour, these bubbles are afraid; they seem to move erratically, suggesting high levels of anxiety and distress. Being jumped at by large flightless birds tends to generate frenzied group responses in bubbles, that in turn exacerb

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides." OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article... It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages. (And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

Oh nothing, just our cat entering Dark Mode

Oh and!! @kellyclancy.bsky.social and I have opened up applications for our next writing retreat - July 2026 in war torn (joking!) Portland, Oregon. Come write with us where you get to experience long duration, high frequency, high intensity all at once!