You deserve all the ridicules you receive if you are reposting stuff from a website called "Dunning-Kruger-Times.com"

In a sense, I would never have guessed………

Vivian Kong, retired 🤺 who won 🥇 for Hong Kong in the Olympic in Paris, announced her candidacy for the Tourism sector seat for the upcoming LEGCO election While it's not uncommon for former athletes to enter politics, this case highlights the absurdity the electoral system in Hong Kong, a🧵 1/

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

In this paper, we will exploit the temporary disruption of mobile signal coverage in a quasi-experimental research design to explore……

Under Pope Leo, the Catholic Church has resumed burning of dissidents 😂

💥Online first: "How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy" by Rosa Kindt @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @kristofjacobs1.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

And the farm is now covered in literal patriotic bullshit 😎

Post for the House of Commons Modernisation Committee's consideration 😏

I suspect that, in a hundred years, "Members cannot vote whilst on a vehicle" is going to be one of those archaic parliamentary rules that political scientists introduce to amusing students in parliamentary study modules

Growing up in Hong Kong, waking up in the middle of the night to watch the world cup is kinda normal

Look! PR is the clear winner under FPTP😜

I fear I can just keep reposting this until the end of the season/whenever he has been sacked 🤦🤦🤦

Said the person who required us to show our photo ID before we could cast our vote

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"For the first time today, a member of parliament stood at the lectern of the German Bundestag with her baby," the parliament announced on its Instagram account.

“There is not only a strong moral case for the UK to keep its word to those who are already in the UK under various visa schemes awaiting permanent residency, but in the case of Hongkongers, a significant economic rationale as well.”

So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?

He should invite Eminem to perform Without Me in his first show 😂

Maybe those who have been complaining about pronouns do have a point 🤦🤦🤦

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

Superhappy to see this paper out in Politics & Governance. Together with Gijs Jan Brandsma (Radboud University) I show that size of PPG staffs increases parliamentary activity but decreases social media activity www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

I want my country back. The country that welcomed my Grandfather fleeing from the Armenian genocide. That welcomed the Polish grandfather of our political editor, who then fought against Hitler. That welcomed the Indian parents of our editor-in-chief, as citizens of the British Empire. That country

Not that I doubt the impact of AI on MPs speeches, but some of the examples here seem to show a)Gradual increasing trend on either side of the treatment, and b)Delayed explosive growth post-treatment. Could some of these be partly explained by high turnover from GE24?

The Hong Kong Legislative Council has just rejected the second reading of the same-sex partnership registration bill proposed by the govt. This is a rare occurrence of a govt defeat in LEGCO, especially since the purging of any meaningful opposition in the chamber after the 2021 electoral "reform".

Thanks for taking part……

Who wants to bet that these are the same people who decried recorded lectures and demand immediate return of in-person teaching during COVID?

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

After three wonderful years, it is time to move on. Yesterday was my last day at the University of Reading. I would like to thank the assistance and kindness of everyone I've met in the past years. I will miss all of my colleagues and students. /1

To paraphrase Enoch Powell: All football managerial careers end in failure

Fight breaks out in the Mexican Senate between an opposition senator and the President of the Senate when the former tries to storm the podium. According to our FISTS dataset of physical violence in parliaments, this would be the first incident in the Mexican parliament since 2014

🎉Now online (open access): "Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems" at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. @alicirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, Gary Cox, @fiva.no. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🤭Best joke of the day:

We just released version 3.1 of WhoGov, a global dataset on members of government from 1966-2023. The update fixes the mistakes that came to our attention while creating the Paths to Power dataset + mistakes users have notified us of More additions and updates to WhoGov are on their way, including:

🎼Don't say yes Run away now I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the backdoor🎶

As it is, I accidentally happened across a protest against the Chinese embassy in London yesterday which I’m pretty sure was bigger than any of these individual protests and maybe them collectively. And…basically zero coverage.

🚨NEW STUDY: Do Americans support a woman president? Our list experiment during the 2024 election, when @kamalaharris.com was on the ballot, reveals hidden bias, and it's more widespread than you'd expect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

🚨New book alert!🚨 Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month. Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

In our new study, @rozemarijnvandijk.bsky.social and I looked at who gets interrupted during debates in the parliaments of 🇦🇺🇭🇷🇬🇧. We find that women and men get interrupted just as often. Yet, when more women join the debate, politicians interrupt less. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Who'd knew that the authority of an atheist communist regime would extend to the afterlife

Kemi Badenoch is asking us to acknowledge her change in self-identity…… please let that irony sink in

This is outrageous! Instead of protecting the safety and freedom of residences in the UK, the Thames Valley Police is instead doing the dirty work for China!

This must be the most brutal friendzone in history