Actually the hardest hit group would be Americans who want to live in a democracy instead of a dictatorship. The next group will be those who value our system of education; this is going to undermine everybody at Harvard & every other university in the US as well.

Island of strangers? On our floor there are 4 flats. We're Scottish, French, Swedish, American, German, & Iraqi. We're young & old. We work in education, health & the private sector. We water each other's plants, & sometimes have dinner together. We're a lot of things. Strangers we're not.

Why were “evil cults” able to thrive in China during the reform era despite the CCP’s repressive policies? Read about it in the March issue: State Coercive Power and the War on Cults in China by Xi Chen & Jing Xu Free to access for one week! doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪: 🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map. 🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East. 🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%! Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇

Polisky Dictatorsky Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!! While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!

Two of my abstracts are accepted at #PSA25🎉 My solo paper analyses China’s media frames that construct state-wide nationalism, and my co-authored paper with @drsarahliu.bsky.social looks into the Taiwanese legislators’ framing strategies when they introduce new bills to combat sexual violence!

Me being Victoria during PhD supervision meetings

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

**POLCOMM PUBLICATION FRIDAY** A just-published, all-open-access special issue of Computational Communication Research (@CCR_OpenJournal) provides various highly timely perspectives on “Multilingual Text Analysis” 🧵⤵️ www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Finally landed at BlueSky! Thank you @redatamtam.bsky.social for the invitation;)