"It’s little wonder voters think net migration is going up when the only debate we have is about how to bring it down” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy. Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

Another story from Gorton & Denton...

2025 open acces {#tbp|#ThrowBackPaper): The Radical Right Research Robot: a model for political science comms on splintered social media #radicalright @rrresrobot.bsky.social#radicalright🤖

New economic research: "We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coming out in June. (when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)

Life is stranger than fiction

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

If only there was a catchy name for an international coalition of #farright actors 👇

Brahmani is presenting "Is there anything Left?: A Global Analysis on Changes in Engagement with Political Content on Twitter in the Musk Era" (journalqd.org/article/view...). Joint work with @rosanavarrete.bsky.social and @giucarny.bsky.social

Last day at @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and time for an @i2sc.net group photo with @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social, @ethel-mensah.bsky.social and @jianlongzhu.bsky.social. Find Brahmani and Ethel at posters #21 and #93 today. Jianlong presented yesterday.

Thank you for everything, Ozzy. 🖤

Right-wing electorates across Europe are becoming more... Italian? doi.org/10.1080/0140...

“The middle”

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Induction for the new postdoc #AcademicChatter #PoorlyDrawnLines

@alexhartland.bsky.social Daniela Braun @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @annreinl.bsky.social observe a gap between the concerns of citizens & the issues political parties emphasise. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Symposium "European Parliament Elections 2024"

🚨⬇️Publication alert ⬇️🚨 How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? Take a look at @alexhartland.bsky.social 's summary on how our work contributes to a better understanding of issue voting. Ah, it's also #openaccess :)

People are correctly comparing the Trump attack on Harvard to Orban’s aggression against CEU, but I recall colleagues/students having (not much, but some) time to see options and consider relocation. The US admin is much faster, more irrational. Truly on steroids.

Romania presidential elections map. Antonescu got the Hungarian vote, steered by UDMR, and some Wallachian, PSD-heartland villages. Dan came out on top in Bucharest and surroundings and a string of other significant cities (Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara, Brasov, etc). Simion pretty much everywhere else.

Some statements from the last two days of #COMPTEXT2025 worth discussing…🧐 🤓 come to the TOP cinema bar tonight to keep the conversation going and to 🥳 party with us after an inspiring conference! 🥂After Drinks & After Thoughts starting at 7pm🥂 @compcommlab.bsky.social @comptext.bsky.social

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

Another fascinating morning at #comptext25 I was happy to join a panel on data and themes from the Horizon project #ActEU with @matildecer.bsky.social on gender and polarisation, @giucarny.bsky.social on gender and climate change. Looking forward to more from ActEU and more panels this afternoon!

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

Schrodinger’s phone call

@alexhartland.bsky.social starting the @politicsunisaar.bsky.social mission at @comptext.bsky.social 2025 conference. How reliable are GPT4 estimates of party positions? Well, it depends ;) #comingsoon

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

woke is when equations

Come be my colleague in one of the best post-doc positions in German academia (imo)! Lovely people, excellent infrastructure, great conditions. Feel free to contact me for questions. #polisky #polscijobs

El 8M y los partidos ¿postureo o compromiso? por @rosanavarrete.bsky.social y @giucarny.bsky.social y en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

Oh dear. VRÂNCEANU, ALINA, and BILYANA PETROVA. "Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe." European Journal of Political Research (2025).

With 160 million users, #WahlOMat is one of the most used digital tools of the German Federal Gov’t. The voting advice tool has been around since 2002. At our local public sector meetup last week, its project manager, Pamela Brandt of the Federal Agency for Civic Education @bpb.de, shared the work

Our poll of Ukraine is now in (N=1000). Mr Zelensky approval at >70%, very few want elections before peace. But also suggests 58% will not want Ukraine to concede territory, and that many also expect the war to end within the year -> www.economist.com/europe/2025/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social

Psychologists will literally start a revolution rather than take a causal inference class 😧

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

💯 this ⬇️

These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory. He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

By a large margin, one of the best pieces of advice ever about academia Write. It. Down.

Vedremo cosa succederà fra qualche mese tra Pd e M5S. Curioso anche di vedere la Lega. Ma tra tanti dubbi una certezza: la fantastica “galassia” libdem, dilaniata da personalismi senza senso, in coda.

Britain has been quietly making significant progress in women's representation across business and politics. Data for all 29 OECD countries in our annual glass-ceiling index 👇 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

The poor person's content analysis: the newsmap package for #rstats helps the RadicalRightResearchRobot to identify topics in abstracts #farright #tbp

Some quick and dirty QTA on gender and political communication in Germany and Spain 👇🏻👇🏻 For more, follow @o3pol.bsky.social ;)