📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over het fenomeen "pinkwashing": het strategisch verpakken van extreemrechtse politiek in een feminien jasje. 👇

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Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

Met zojuist de uitslagen van Amsterdam toegevoegd, staat D66 ongeveer 15.000 stemmen voor op de PVV in de tussenstand met 99,7% van de stemmen geteld. Ik kan me niet indenken dat dit verschil nog overbrugd wordt met de laatste uitslagen. Dat betekent dat D66 de grootste partij is in stemmenaantal.

Why “the center wins” or “the center beats the far right” is the wrong way of looking at the Dutch election outcome…

ELECTIONS! My favourite thing about NL elections (cos lets be honest its never the result that is my favourite the last years) is seeing colleagues doing their thing! e.g. @sldelange.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social on the live broadcast, also all the colleagues I know are behind the scenes!

Ready to rumble! Live commentary on exit poll and results with @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social and yours truly from 8.30 PM till very late on NPO1

In case anyone missed it, today is election day here in NL... Look at the last polls from peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl Exit polls @ 21h... 🫣

We are finally out!! Thanks to my fantastic co-authors, the anonymous reviewers, and @thejop.bsky.social editorial team. Publishing my first registered report has been an incredibly instructive and rewarding experience 🤓 Much has been said about political incivility, but does it actually exist? 🤷‍♀️

Ook de laatste dagen van deze verkiezingscampagne is het belangrijk dat redacties en duiders - zeker ook die van talkshows, podcasts, of internetpagina's - peilingen op een juiste manier gebruiken. stukroodvlees.nl/peilingen-du... Dus niet cherrypicken: één bron is geen bron.

Dit is óók een aanklacht tegen Dick Schoof en zijn incompetente, kwaadaardige kliek. Niet in onze naam. Stop de genocide. Stop de Nederlandse medeplichtigheid. Free Palestine. ❤️✊🇵🇸

Verry nice opportunity that comes with awesome colleagues who do super cool research!

Uitstekende bijdrage over de positie van de universiteit, bedreigingen voor academische vrijheid, en in het bijzonder het gevaar van politieke inmenging

🎓 Upcoming Friday (26.09), we are delighted to host Professor Atsushi Tago to the #HotPoliticsLab! He will give a talk on disgust and the perceived costs of war. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... See you Friday!

Uiteraard komt de beste analyse over her geweld van zaterdag van collega @leoniedejonge.bsky.social

Alles is politiek aan de rellen in Den Haag

kay so, rioting fascists attacking political party buildings and trying to storm the binnenhof complex isn't political? My bad, how naive of me to jump to such a conclusion

We are a country with a violence problem and a political problem, and sometimes those overlap, and we don't always know whether they're overlapping." - Dr. Lilly Mason

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

Did some of the politicians that voted on the "anti-fascists are terrorists" motion ended up speaking at the fascist riot in the Hague today in the end?

i mean there’s a guy from a Dutch far-right group sitting in custody right now on terror and weapons offences and another foiled neo-Nazi attack on Eurovision 2020 where the guy planned on using chemicals like cyanide and ricin but ok tweede kamer nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/d...

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Sinds wanneer doet NOS mee aan de verkiezingscampagne van de FvD? Er worden hier amper feiten genoemd, Baudet aangehaald als martelaar van de vrijheid van meningsuiting en als een Nederlandse Kirk nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

Asking Baudet about this really really REALLY annoys me. Diversity of views? I'm sorry but when you set up a hotline to intimidate scholars by encouraging students to video them and report them for being left-wing, you should not be being treated as an 'expert' to quote on this matter.

Below more information on the research note on how citizens view their political opponents, I have had a pleasure to work on with brilliant colleagues @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social and @jnareal.bsky.social.

✨ New Academic Year, New Speaker Series! ✨ We hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We’re thrilled to announce the #HotPoliticsLab Speaker Series lineup for the first semester of the 25/26 academic year. We look forward to welcoming you back for another year of thought-provoking discussions!

In Thessaloniki for #ecprgc25 which starts (bright and early) tomorrow morning! Looking forward to a week of interesting panels, talks and catching up with colleagues from all over. (...and making friends with cats, of course!) 🥳🥳🥳

Call for Papers: "Knowing Without Knowing: How False Confidence Shapes the World" 🗓️ Deadline: 23.4.2026 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Co-Edited with: M. Adamus, S. Chen #Misinformation #ConspiracyBeliefs #Polarization #ScienceDenial #Overconfidence 🧪 🔄 Help us spread the word!

My bad, it's also already up on the Vrankrijk website :) vrankrijk.org/events/horro... So come! Horror Vacui = one of my absolute favourite bands, I guarantee you it will be a great evening, and all monies raised are going straight to folks in Gaza who provide their communities with water & food.

Most of the people following me here probably aren't Amsterdam folks, but nonetheless: Coming up on the 12th of August at the Vrankrijk in Amsterdam we've got an amazing benefit show (funds going straight to a mutual aid initiative in Gaza). More info: radar.squat.net/en/event/ams...

Completely forgot to promote the panel I was part of this morning at #ISPP2025, but am looking forward to the coming four days, catching up with people and of course, all things poli psy 🤓

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

How it should be! Exciting news!

Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

😍My first single-authored article just got published in @polstudies.bsky.social. I am so excited about this one! In this article, I discuss how Political Party Think Tanks (PPTTs) help parties to transcend daily political pressures, and focus on long-term political thinking and policy development

Our flagship dataset of the German Longitudinal Election Study is out. Get your computers ready for analysis of the latest German election💻. Big thanks to the amazing @gles.bsky.social team for preparing the data so quickly🚀!

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

Hey fellow lowlands ECR buddies - check this out!

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

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I completely forgot today is Trump's military parade I don't know if I'm just getting old and remembering other times through a biased nostalgic lens but I swear **gestures at everything** wasn't like this before....

That Poundland was sold for a pound...

I am also an em dash lover and now I'm constantly wondering if people reading my writing think AI wrote it 😫

Gek hoe je in mediataal pas ‘burger’ wordt als je je discriminerend en intimiderend gedraagt. XR? Dat zijn ‘activisten’. Jongeren op straat? ‘Relschoppers’. Maar wie op asielzoekers jaagt, is ineens ‘bezorgde’ of ‘boze’ ✨burger✨

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

...and suddenly I'm still awake at 2am watching this all on social media like it's a telenova I can't turn off?? Help

I can't seem to look away from this but this is my favourite part so far.... Also WHY am I paying attention to this help