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

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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.

Ukraine declared independence in 1991. Russia has been trying to crush it ever since. Today marks 34 years of a nation that refuses to disappear, no matter how much imperial force Moscow throws at it. Read about the struggle for independence here ⬇️

💰Partienes Pengegaver Del 7: KRF KRF pleide å få en del fra privatpersoner, men dette har falt over tid. I stedet får de nå langt mer fra selskaper—og de mottar rekordstore bidrag foran årets valg, samlet sett. Imorgen: MDG

Reminder that Trump is also discarding sanctions, putting pressure on Ukrainians and ending support for Russian-language indepdendent media, all of which encourages the Kremlin www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets. No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The correct way to cover this post is: In an utterly deranged post, the president advocates a dictatorial takeover of the electoral system, raising serious doubts about his ability to govern. He should be impeached.

📢 New article 👥 @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, @haakongjerlw.bsky.social & @liserakner.bsky.social 🔎 The politics of litigating and adjudicating electoral disputes: Evidence from Zambia. 📖 Open access In Electoral Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

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I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anas Al Sharif myrdet av Israel. Verdt å dele Wolasmal sine artikler om Anas, og Israels angrep på pressefriheten www.nrk.no/urix/xl/anas... www.nrk.no/urix/_-bryr-...

As things stand, Ukraine and Europe are on the verge of being confronted with exactly the kind of Faustian deal they feared would emerge back in February. The fact that Europe hasn’t moved to block such a deal in the past six months is a failure of leadership and diplomacy. /1

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Setningen "jeg synes mange nyanser om krigen ikke har kommet frem og det ansvaret Hamas har" er helt tom. Alle de seriøse partiene har fordømt Hamas. Det er sjokkerende at disse politikerne tyr til slike billige retoriske knep for å mykne kritikken av Israel slik situasjonen er nå

Look at how exercising close to bedtime can destroy your sleep quality.

BREAKING: new study just dropped that shows compelling evidence that cell phone bans cause student grades to modestly increase. Grade increases are largest among low performing students.

New paper by @antonkronborg.bsky.social, based on our project with the archive of parliamentary debates in Zambia. Patterns in speechmaking in the national assembly suggest that the parliamentary floor is used by established politicians to seek ministerial office: doi.org/10.1080/1357...

Zambian politics have been quite dramatic in the last 20 years (timeline below). With that kind of competition, you’d expect MPs to fight to gain an edge in every arena, especially MPs elected on a thin margin. However, I find the opposite in Zambia’s parliament: doi.org/10.1080/1357...

Mens Helleland får over 1,1 mill. i året av fellesskapet for å sitte i et av landets høyeste tillitsverv, får hun også 650.000 for å sitte i styreverv for kommersielle aktører. Hun er taus om sammenheng mellom egen votering og styrevervene. Viktig sak: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Oo...

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@vldjuve.bsky.social og jeg har skrevet litt om formelle og uformelle regler og institusjoner i møte med anti-demokratiske bevegelser. Nå er et godt todsptidspunkt for å ta en titt på deler av det norske systemet. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years. 🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...

Recall elections in Taiwan -- will DPP regain parliamentary majority? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Nordic design — winning since the Palaeolithic Age!

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Great pitch for @jacobnyrup.bsky.social presentation on #ipsa2025 on Wednesday: "Why our leaders are getting older and the consequences thereof"