Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:

Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef! Closing date is 1 Oct 2025 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Great work on democratic resilience by my @larslott.bsky.social & Aurel Croissant

Wow, Princeton UP got bamboozled into this like a travel vlogger.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

Are tailored ads in political campaigns as persuasive as conventional wisdom holds? 📢 In joint work w/ @heikekluever.bsky.social we present evidence from a field experiment with the German Greens ahead of the 2024 European Elections calling this into question 🤔 #epsa2025 ⏰: Friday, 16:50 📍: 0A.10

🚨In PNAS🚨 The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out this great work by @griffith.edu.au colleague @ammassarisofia.bsky.social on women's party engagement on the radical right.

Friends in Germany interested in #deliberative #democracy, this is THE event for you. "Can citizen councils strengthen representative democracy?". I wish I could make it to Berlin for this one.

Re-upping this as I continue to find it helpful for normalizing rejection: I need to remember it’s the modal outcome! Plus didn’t @mirya.bsky.social have a thing about rewarding X number of rejections, as a way of marking how much you’re putting your work out there?

Here's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right. The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social www.rtbf.be/article/comm...

Two in three Australians say they have encountered misinformation in the lead up to the election. How concerned should we be? Read about the results of our recent survey w @acarson.bsky.social theconversation.com/fake-news-an...

🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

What a well-argued thread about the benefits of semi parliamentarism.

I highly recommend following @adamprz.bsky.social's substack.

My department at Southampton is offering a 2 day summer school June 23-24 on “Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment and recovery.” Not only is this free to attend, but travel support may be available. Spots are limited. www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

Congrats, @breznaunate.bsky.social @emrinke.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social and team. Taking part in this project was not only eye-opening in terms of #metascience but also great fun. Even with shared data and code, reproducibility is not a given. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

What a fantastic opportunity to talk with Alex Fischer and Selen Ercan about the role of research for democratic practice. I learned about communicating democracy research for better impact + suggested we listen to scholars of #authoritarianism to address the current moment @deldemucan.bsky.social

Exhibit #1099: The most dangerous disinformation isn’t spread by anonymous accounts on the internet—it’s the disinformation crafted & amplified by elites through legacy media. When those in power distort facts, they shape public perception & influence policy on a scale no anonymous troll ever could.

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

!! "you can’t fact check your way to a win in this kind of frame game. You have create alternative frames, support people in telling stories that resonate with those frames, and make sure those stories are heard"

When the autocratic past becomes frighteningly relevant: Vera Kempe, one our panelists at today's workshop on Science under Autocracy www.scibeh.org/events/works... has recorded her experiences in USSR and East Germany here: substack.com/home/post/p-.... She offers some recommendations, too.

IN NEW ISSUE: What explains interest group prominence in parliamentary speech? D Halpin, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social, @bertfraussen.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social & Z Zhou argue it's more aligned with policy agendas than partisanship or ideology: https://buff.ly/3EL7Kmz (OPEN ACCESS)

Everyday authoritarianism is mostly boring and tolerable, but it is always maddening and stupid

"U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration" Levitsky & Way analyse the capture of the US state in comparative perspective. By far the best read on what's going on. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index

Curious about targeting strategies in the 2025 German elections? 🗳️ favstats.github.io/de25/targeti... Updated daily, my dashboard tracks how much € German parties spend on targeted ads. For example 1M on “lookalike” audiences to reach people similar to a pre-defined audience (often supporters). 📊

Worth a read ! How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wie kriegt man diesen post in die filter bubble der Politiker*innen aller Volksparteien? Was ich nicht verstehe ist, wie eine solche Masse sozialwissenschaftlicher findings immer noch auf taube Ohren stößt.

Starkes Signal!! Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“ Liste der Beteiligten hier:

“If Meta decides to stop the program worldwide, it is almost certain to result in real-world harm in many places.” Letter from global fact checkers to Zuckerberg. www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...

Community Notes don't work by themselves. So many things don't get labeled because people don't reach "consensus" on them, which is really what Community Notes optimize for, not factuality What an utter failure. So disappointing

Christmas came early this year. Absolutely great condition this one.

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

Many thanks to @tsourapas.bsky.social who supported this shift to partial triple-anonymous reviewing which takes effect in the new year. While peer-review is obviously not perfect, I personally hope this is a positive step towards recognizing good work regardless of name, institution, or location.

Union report out today finds: - 306 senior uni execs earn more than their state premiers - average Vice Chancellor salary over $1 million - Unis spent $734 million in 2023 on "consulting” etc Meantime, we're constantly told by execs we have to cut spending newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/11/new-...

📢 New article w @acarson.bsky.social, @timgravelle.bsky.social et al studies election #disinformation during Australia’s 2023 Voice referendum: Trust in the AEC remains high, but disinformation has a small, measurable impact. Ping me for access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SBAHXY... #polisky 1/5

@ansoniels.bsky.social presenting research conducted with ANU colleagues @darrenhalpin.bsky.social and @maxgroemping.bsky.social about interest group appearances in Australian newspapers, featuring an analysis of over 2 million news articles! #media #auspol #auspsa2024 #polisky

Uzbekistan 2015 vs Florida 2024

📢 Please share widely. PhD Scholarships ($37k/yr) on Mapping & Harnessing Public (Mis)Trust! 🎓 @griffithuniversity.bsky.social and @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Join an ARC-funded team exploring public trust in Australia. Start 2025. Deadline 6 December www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... #polisky #commsky

What attributes of a government lead citizens to view it as trustworthy? Our article - led by @danjdevine.bsky.social - is out in EJPR today... Competence, benevolence and integrity all matter - but perceived benevolence matters most. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I asked my students to use #ChatGPT to write a public policy brief, as part of their my policy course: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'm happy to see this discussion paper by Andrea Carson (La Trobe U) and myself on causes, consequences, and countermeasures of #misinformation out in the world. csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/research/pub... #polisky #dictatorsky

This is the one I've been waiting for! 👍🏼

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... Again, well done, The Onion.

Three handy tools for 🦋 1) Find your friends from Twitter: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f... 2) Widen your network bsky-follow-finder.theo.io 3) Bring over your tweets: blueark.app/en-us/

The only commentary I can tolerate today. Well done, The Onion. 👍🏼

Just in time for the 2024 elections my expanded partisan electoral intervention dataset (PEIG) now going all the way up to 2014 (& 37% more cases) is now out at Conflict Management and Peace Science! Some key patterns 1.One in every 8 /1 #IntSec 🗺️ #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

As someone who, 10yrs ago, researched crowdsourced election monitoring á la Kawal Pemilu, Reclaim Naija, or Kartanarusheniy, I find it enraging but also quite logical to engineer a "wisdom of the crowd" this way. Guess I was too optimistic back then.