Very excited and happy to be part of this team, and looking forward to working together with you all in the years to come! 🔎👤

It's a great honor to work with such a talented team of young scholars! Welcome to @statsvitenskap.bsky.social @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @andreinathoma.bsky.social, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social and @gelonn99.bsky.social. I am looking forward to expanding knowledge on political elites with you!

We are happy to announce that our team has been strengthened by four new members who will code many, many ministers with us in the years to come! Welcome to our new PhD @gelonn99.bsky.social and our new Postdocs @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @andreinathoma.bsky.social & @jonaswschmid.bsky.social!

Version 4 is also the last business as usual update of WhoGov. We are working towards a more automated workflow using coding agents. This will allow us to release updates more frequently and move away from the yearly format. Furthermore, we are adding Wikidata ID, more portfolios, and more.

We are happy to release Version 4 of WhoGov, which expands WhoGov to 2025. It now contains data on cabinet members from 1966-2025. The update is supported by UiO:Democracy and can be downloaded through GETGOV's page or through Nuffield College: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/whogov-datas.... 1/2

This is a great project with a great PI with the opportunity to get great colleagues in a great city which has great frozen pizzas and great brown cheese and has great weather all year around

Donald Trump spent the Christmas holiday bombing Nigeria and issuing a wave of social media threats against late-night hosts and Democrats, as he once again drew attention to his Epstein scandal. Read more about Trump’s airstrikes and meltdowns over the holiday: zeteo.com/p/trump-nige...

Exactly!

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 What do we really know about political violence in democracies? In their introduction to JPR's upcoming Special Issue, @andrearuggeri.bsky.social , Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social outline key insights and introduce 14 articles that push the field forward.

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

NEW: Tomorrow’s front page of Scottish newspaper, The National.

Oops: On Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2018, Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Rogan called it “amazing” that it took until 2016 for foreign election influence to become a major issue in the U.S.

"Unlike January 2021 — when the Big Lie scheme failed — by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Go, go, go Georgia! Don't let russia steal your bright future. Photo Katie Shoshiashvili.