Day 345 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia. Police are physically preventing protesters from blocking Rustaveli Avenue, so some of us are marching in nearby streets.

Deadline tomorrow! If you have a paper on European and EU politics, @chriswratil.bsky.social and I would love to consider it for our section. Hope to see you in Belfast!

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

I kveld kl 19:00 er det igjen duket for rollespill på Det andre teateret - En nydelig liten søndagsforestilling der jeg spiller D&D med skuespillerne i ensemblet! detandreteatret.no/forestilling...

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021. This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏 A short 🧵

Super excited to finally see this project out in the wild! What a journey it's been! Looking forward to see how people will use this awesome data. See thread below for more details from @jacobnyrup.bsky.social.

PRIO is hiring! Specifically, we're looking for two post-docs for the project "Rituals in combatant-to-civilian transformation”, led by my excellent colleague Júlia Palik More information here: www.prio.org/about/career... www.prio.org/about/career...

Come join us at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social !

Online hate isn’t just virtual. Posts with Hindu nationalist hashtags on India’s Koo platform precede real-world attacks on Muslims & Christians. When the internet shuts down, so does the violence. Fresh research from colleague @sschutte.bsky.social et al Read more 👉 www.prio.org/news/3644

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me for the first episode of our new series The Breakdown. Register here to join us live on Monday, 10/20 at 4pm ET: ash.harvard.edu/events/the-b...

I et Venezuela der undertrykkelse og politisk mørke preger hverdagen, er María Corina Machado som et symbol på sivil motstand og håp. Les PRIOs @mariannedahl.bsky.social om hvorfor årets pris treffer tidsånden: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Årets Nobel Fredspris er delt ut i demokratiets navn. Den demokratiske tilbakegangen er blant vår tids største utfordringer – nivået i dag er som i 1986. María Corina Machado risikerer livet i kampen for demokrati – med ikke-voldelige midler. Link til kronikk👇

"Årets fredspris er en påminnelse om at demokratiets fremtid hviler på dem som våger å protestere uten vold" PRIOs egen @mariannedahl.bsky.social i Aftenposten www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

honestly it would have been extremely funny if they just gave Obama another peace nobel

A Nobel Peace Prize for democracy! And democracy promotes peace: academic.oup.com/isq/article/... www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nob...

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

I'm looking for journals on organization/business management with a clear focus on causal inference, but this is a research field I know nothing about. Any tips?

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025! rc08.ipsa.org/post/2025/09... 1/4

Det her er et fantastisk interview med demokratiforskningens nestor @adamprz.bsky.social. Hvis du interesserer dig for USAs demokratis fremtid (og det bør du, for det er afgørende for både din og dine børns egen fremtid) er det læsværdigt!

Echoing Ilaria—what a way to kick off the weekend! Our project just won a three-year grant from Norges forskningsråd the Research Council of Norway 🎉 (I was told only ~8–10% of proposals got funded. What a tough competition!).

Fredag drepte Israel 31 journalister og andre mediefolk i ett angrep alene: cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

Exactly!

Utrolig spennende og å få 12 millioner kroner til å forske på partienes rolle i å etablere den norske velferdsstaten ved hjelp av omfattende historisk datamatrialet og naturlig eksperimenter. Les mer her: www.usn.no/forskning/fo...

Hører på radioen at Christopher Sjuve mener Norge har ost i verdensklasse. Det er i så fall helt sykt. Ingenting gjør meg mer EU-tilhenger enn en norsk ostedisk. Så, hvor får jeg kjøpt all denne gode osten? Er det kun nisjebutikker som Maschmanns og Gutta på Haugen?

Norwegian democracy is boring. They all congratulate each other, no one storms the parliament, and the results are in so you can be in bed well before midnight. Is it even a 21st century democracy?

New article by @amalienilsen.bsky.social in Democratization on the effect of HK protests on pro-democracy voting And there is more to come from Amalie on how protests shape pro- and anti-democratic behavior

Yeah I'm also wondering here, even if my name only appear 5 times.

Whereas traditional media caters to a range of views, with moderate positions well-represented, extreme views — of both left and right — are heavily over-represented on social media. on.ft.com/3HNwX1M

En statsministerkandidat som roper "notorisk løgner" til en ungdomspartileder under hans taletid må vel være noe av det nedrigste denne valgkampen #nrkdebatt

En ting jeg sterkt misliker er når programledere stopper resonnement fordi de mener politikerne sier noe som er for komplisert Jeg tror de undervurderer velgerne. Tar jeg feil og det er for komplisert så får de ikke stemmer Ekstra grelt når de aldri klarer å stanse de endeløse listene til Listhaug

Debatten var vel ikke summen av forskjellige ting Høyre skulle gjøre for barnefamiliene, men hvorvidt AP sa noe feil om hva H mente om barnehageprisene #nrkdebatt

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

This is so well-deserved. Jacob is not only a brilliant scholar, he is also a very kind colleague and friend. Looking forward to seeing all the great work to come from this project!

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

These are a group of men that stays in power by systematically repressing, killing, and torturing their own people, while redistributing the country's wealth to themselves and their friends. We create a false dichotomy, when we frame it as "the West" versus them. It is them versus their own people.

Finished a great WhoGov workshop on political elites, lots of interesting studies in the works! Thank you to @inalkristiansen.bsky.social @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and @jacobnyrup.bsky.social for organizing!

I kveld skal jeg være med på panelsamtale om valgomatenes rolle ved valget. Kom gjerne innom! Kl 18 på Domus Bibliotheca i sentrum. www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/u...

Samtidig i Norge: "Kjøttkaker har blitt så polarisert"....

Jeg vet ikke om kjøttkake-inngangen til debatten er det dummeste jeg noen gang har sett, men det er definitivt topp 5 #nrkdebatt #valg2025

More excellent research at the WhoGov workshop with a keynote by @szakonyi.bsky.social, and presentations by @miguelpereira.bsky.social @rsenninger.bsky.social @jbvalgermo.bsky.social @fiva.no @martesaga.bsky.social @haakongjerlw.bsky.social @mnagawa.bsky.social @antonkronborg.bsky.social and more

Introducing the Opposition Movements and Groups Dataset 1789–2019 in @cpsjournal.bsky.social together with @mariannedahl.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @hannefjelde.bsky.social @torewig.bsky.social Read about the paper👇 Or dive right into the data👉 www.prio.org/data/39

Dette formatet funker bra NRK! #nrkdebatt

The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Kharkiv right now ❤️‍🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.