Vuit professors de la UPF podran intensificar la seva recerca amb els ajuts Acadèmia d’Excel·lència 2025 www.upf.edu/web/focus/w/...

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Muy contento de haber recibido el reconocimiento ICREA Acadèmia 2025 / Acadèmia d’Excel·lència 2025. Un honor y una motivación extra para seguir investigando. 🎉

*Great news! 🎉 The Political Science department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra rises to *#42 worldwide* in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking. (www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra...) #UPF #ShanghaiRanking #PoliticalScience @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu

A great line-up for a timely phenomenon!

Enhorabuena 👏

Força Cabo Verde!

It's official! Check out the new International Center for Decentralization and Governance, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of decentralization, governance, and federalism. Wish I could attend the conference on Asymmetric Decentralization in Santiago de Compostela in early November...

Love being a part of this: ****************************************************** We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu Home | IDEAGOV ideagov.eu

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We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu

💻 Drawing on over 75 years of data, @rickvanwell.bsky.social of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social explains that when deciding how to behave in parliament, 📊 opposition parties make strategic trade-offs between winning votes, entering government and influencing policy. 👉 bit.ly/3Vtw6WX

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Does anyone know where the 2026 ECPR General Conference will be held?

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

Me ha gustado mucho este artículo: elpais.com/opinion/2025...

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social

Comença el Tour de França, una de les competicions més esperades! @ignaciolago.bsky.social explica per què uns països brillen en esports individuals i altres en equips: desenvolupament econòmic, població i cultures col·lectivistes són clau per a l’èxit en equip. ➡️ https://ja.cat/gy4YD #RecercaUPF

Got two peer review invitations from the same journal within 18 minutes — for two different papers. Either I’m in demand, or someone hit 'send' a bit too fast. 😅

🚨 Call for papers 📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop 📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at @IBEI 📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4. Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 👇

El gran Carles Castro ha escrito este artículo en La Vanguardia sobre la felicidad y la descentralizacion del poder a partir de mi paper con @nuriabosch.bsky.social, @crisdegispert.bsky.social y Maite Vilalta: ¿Las autonomías nos hacen más felices? www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Happiness is officially decentralized now! 🎉🗺️ Check out my new article with @nuriabosch.bsky.social, Cristina de Gispert and Maite Vilalta in Publius @philiprocco.bsky.social , where we link decentralization to happiness across 131 countries: 🔗 academic.oup.com/publius/adva...

1/ Why do some countries excel in team sports while others shine in individual events at the Olympics? This is the research question I explore in my new paper with Carlos Lago-Peñas, published in Social Science Quarterly: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OlympicResearch

Nominations are now open for the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award! Deadline: April 1, 2025. Nominate today! Award Committee: Ignacio Lago (Chair) Jenna Bednar Jonathan Rodden Contact me with nominations! apsanet.org/membership/o...

Per una altra visió sobre la relació de la política i el futbol: repositori.upf.edu/bitstreams/b... (@ignaciolago.bsky.social - @politiquesupf.bsky.social) #RecercaUPF

🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🇪🇺We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Public Policy - European Union (Tenure Track) ⏰Apply by: 13 March 2025 📑 Details & application: www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu

Referee's January balance: Five journal invitations -three accepted and two declined. Not too bad

The salary of a 1st and 2nd year Phd student in Spain is now only about 100€ higher that than the minimum wage

El próximo martes en el Departamento de Economía Aplicada de la Universidad de Valencia:

With so many new #BlueSky users, we want to reconnect with readers and share with a fresh audience a book published a few years ago by @sonagolder.bsky.social , @ignaciolago.bsky.social o.bsky.social, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, & Thomas Gschwend (1/n) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#Recerca La Universitat Pompeu Fabra instaurarà les migdiades obligatòries per a tota la comunitat universitària. A partir del segon trimestre, estudiants, personal docent i investigador i personal de servei gaudiran de 30 minuts de son entre la jornada de matí i la de tarda

Excited to see this paper published with @santiagolagop.bsky.social and the support of Fundación BBVA: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8VDEB...

Reading for the holidays! The IVIE, with funding from the BBVA Foundation, has just published this monograph in which I have participated with @santiagolagop.bsky.social and colleagues from the IVIE. www.ivie.es/en_US/ptproy...

¡Lectura para las vacaciones! El IVIE, con la financiación de la Fundación BBVA, acaba de publicar esta monografía en la que he participado con @santiagolagop.bsky.social y colegas del IVIE. www.ivie.es/es_ES/ptproy...

📢Political Scientists in the job mrkt! Come & work with us!! Our Department is looking for a lecturer on research methods (Quali/Quanti). The candidate will teach courses in Catalan (or at least be committed to do so within 2 years) ⏰Deadline to apply: January 13, 2025 www.upf.edu/web/personal...

Enrollment is now open for the 4th edition of the Master's in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M! No prior knowledge of programming or stats is needed—perfect for social sciences grads. Questions? Contact us or ask to be connected with our student ambassadors! Please, share!

New paper: “Rural Decline and Spatial Voting Patterns. How does rural decline affect electoral politics?” The growing geographical polarisation of populations between prospering major cities and declining hinterlands is emerging as a cleavage of electoral politics…” academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...

‼️ Call for papers for the Barcelona DEC Workshop on Political Behavior and Public Opinion 👉 webs.uab.cat/grdec/2025-w... deadline: January 15th

The People You can Ask for Restaurant Tips Ahead of Your Trip to Lisbon STARTER PACK (includes people in PT institutions and/or born there) go.bsky.app/Mrsz21f

New Textbook on Electoral Systems by @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social and colleagues out!