Congratulations for a great piece of work, Sofia!

🧲 We are hiring! ✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social 🏁 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English 📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected] 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

📘 64.4 @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes #OA 🔗

It's time again for a new episode - episode 6 - of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": If you are not yet following @mwegemann.bsky.social, please hurry to do so!

Looking forward to kicking off our South America seminar tour in Rio de Janeiro next week 🇧🇷 Many thanks to IESP for hosting us!

CC: @andrewwneal.bsky.social @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social @patricktbrandt.bsky.social @rkotsch.bsky.social @clint0475.bsky.social @beluabdala.bsky.social @loranevisart.bsky.social @robert-a-huber.bsky.social 🧵END

We want to thank the @fwf-at.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, and @ecprsgir.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social for their support. We thank all paper givers and other participants for their time and effort. We hope that this workshop will leave a mark on all papers presented. Thank you for joining us! 🧵3/4

We had 12 papers, collectively authored by researchers from around 20 universities at different career stages and from across the globe. We were also very fortunate to welcome a stellar group of participants without papers. Clearly, LLMs are on many political scientists’ minds these days. 🧵2/4

Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

Happy to see that my paper w\ @jochemvanagt.bsky.social now has issue- and page-numbers. Also check-out our post @ecprtheloop.bsky.social to learn more about why unsuccessful coalitions - like those that we see across the EU right now - do not mitigate polarization! theloop.ecpr.eu/coalition-go...

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

We - @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social, @kgattermann.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social, @sziaja.bsky.social & I - are very excited to start the work of the RN on #DataLinkage! If you are interested in why, when & how to link data formats in PolSci research, do not hesitate to join our Network!

New city, new job, new term! After a wonderful time at the @ipz.bsky.social, I’m very excited to have joined the Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social at the University of Vienna as Assistant Professor. If you’re in Vienna and up for a coffee, let me know!

📘 64.4 ✅ Coalition governments reduce affective #polarization when perceived as successful; ❌ when seen as failing, they increase polarization says @jochemvanagt.bsky.social & @markuskollberg.bsky.social #OA #PoliSky 🔗

Excited for this! If you work on democracy or representation in multilevel Europe, sign up via your MyECPR account! @ecpr.bsky.social

📘 64.4 🗳️ Survey data from Poland’s 2023 election show that simply exposing PiS’s anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric didn’t shift voter support but when that rhetoric was tied to Putin’s anti-LGBTQ justifications for war, support swung significantly toward the opposition.

📘 64.4 @legalmusings.bsky.social, @klueserthan.bsky.social & M.Haselmayer address how left‑wing parties have prioritised social progress over economic equality 💱 in recent decades. #PoliSky #OA

I'm getting my 15 pages of fame. Awkward. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079

Social media bots: often annoying, sometimes useful. In this open access research note in @prxjournal.bsky.social, I tell the origin story of @rrresrobot.bsky.social (which you absolutely want to follow) 👀. The 🤖 exists to showcase research on the #farright by posting six times per day, every day.

🍊 Fresh out! @kai-arzheimer.com introduces The Radical Right Research Robot (RRRR) 🤖 to demonstrate how 'bots' can play an important role on social media by sharing research, building connections and posting references. 👇 🗒️ buff.ly/NfTWBSY 📺 buff.ly/e2nsJmc

🥲 Thank you for the kind words, @nilssteiner.bsky.social! It was a great honor and pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for @dvpw.bsky.social #AKWahlen for 6 years and to work with you, @conradziller.bsky.social, @heikogiebler.bsky.social and @melff.bsky.social in the steering committee.

Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us. Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️ Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

🚨New pre-print🚨 "Do citizens’ views of democracy and its actors vary with how they feel?”, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social and I ask in a new paper. Why would they? While citizens widely endorse democracy in principle, temporary factors often shape their views. Also, work on “irrelevant events" 1/8🧵

Proud to congratulate you, @azadekakavand.bsky.social, on your PhD defense – “Technology Affordances, Social Media Platforms & the Networked Far Right.” A remarkable achievement that combines years of hard work & building of skills that you now use at @bredowinstitut.bsky.social. Missing u already🥳

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

🔎✒️ How can we keep research teams and ourselves safe when studying politically sensitive topics? @britanlar.bsky.social and I present a new framework for protection and support drawing on feminist care ethics. The report is now available on the @men4dem.bsky.social website 👇

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)! 🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée! Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland! Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

🍊Fresh out! How did THAT Oval Office meeting between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy affected the German public perceptions of the US? 🤵‍♂️ @ronaldschleehauf.bsky.social, @mariusfroehle.bsky.social, @judithreinbold.bsky.social & Sebastian Jäckle discuss 👇 buff.ly/RbnrAmi @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social

It’s acknowledgements time, as I prepare to re-submit my revised manuscript to Oxford University Press. To mark this important milestone, I’m pairing the task with a delicious Riesling from South Australia.

If you work on climate politics, EPSS 2026 in Belfast is for you: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

📊 Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum? ➡️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki & @drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

📘 64.4 @aslunn.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social & @tonirodon.bsky.social look at Merkel’s 2020 COVID‑19 🦠 address and its impact on public trust and support for government measures showing the power of #CrisisComms. 🔗 buff.ly/LZD9tjI

🍊 Fresh out! Pedro Emanuel Mendes explores the interaction between material and normative power in international politics through a comparative analysis of Timor-Leste 👇 buff.ly/MvVLarl

@jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social and I wrote the ‘last word’ for the latest Political Insight issue @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social. We discuss the global rise of authoritarianism, its implications for domestic and international politics, and the future of democracy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

📘 64.4 📊 Citizens strongly resist trading off free elections for income, but show more willingness to compromise on other liberal norms according to @sergiferrer.bsky.social @ehernandez.bsky.social @enprava.bsky.social @damjantomic.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/2uIi1YT

🍊 Fresh out! 🤔 Ruben Van Severen, Tessa Haesevoets & Arne Roets (all #Ghent University) examine the limits of top-down referendums to re-engage political cynics in a Belgian-Flemish municipality. 👉

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

Tour de France 2027 lasting 5 months and going through every village and voilà we avoided President Le Pen

📘 64.4 These authors look at German 🇩🇪 city councils, MPs’ parliamentary questions ❓ show uneven attention across neighbourhoods: some areas are well represented, others systematically neglected. 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 #OA #PoliSky #Representation

📘 64.4 🔥 MPs often invoke local cues in Tweets, especially during campaign periods, but these authors study finds no clear electoral reward. Local references don’t boost voters’ support or preference votes. 📊 #PoliSky #VotingBehaviour #OA

Every strong team needs time to pause, reset, and grow together. #TeamRetreat #DientenAmHochkönig

📘 64.4 🚧 Do COVID-border closures shape political attitudes? Herbig, Unan, Kuhn et al. find that sudden intra-EU border closures reduced support for the EU and increased hostility towards immigrants — though effects were short-lived. #PoliSky #OA

📘 64.4 @celytadeas.bsky.social looks to 🧭 left-wing partisans in Europe and their alignment across cultural & economic dimensions; the right’s views are more diverse? Implications for polarization are wide-ranging. #OA #PoliticalScience

Such a neat paper by @ankuepfer.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & @jocmuel.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social – really glad to see this published! 🎉

Undecided which section to submit your paper to for the 2026 EPSS conference? Look here for short explainers by our stellar set of section chairs:

I'm very honored to have received the Frances Rosenbluth Best Paper Prize for the best paper published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social in 2024, together with Jonathan Rodden. Many thanks to the Editorial Board for appreciating our study! Here is the paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ich habe heute meine Ernennung zum Professor für Regierungslehre und Policyforschung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg entgegengenommen. Ab dem Wintersemester lehre und forsche ich hier zu Demokratie, Parteien, Populismus. Ich freue mich auf die gemeinsame Arbeit mit Studierenden und KollegInnen!

New article published by our own @bertjanverbeek.bsky.social Jutta Joachim, Chris Nijhuis, and Andrej Zaslove (with @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social ) in @cambridgecria.bsky.social 👉 'The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war' 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0955...

New article on parliamentary reactions 👏 (with @jocmuel.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social) online first at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

📘 64.4 Why all these promises? M.VESTERGAARD claims parties make bold promises to boost credibility with mainstream parties and hot issues see the most commitments, but more competition can curb this strategy. #Politics #Elections #PartyStrategy Read more: