📢 Since launching EPSS in June 2025, we’ve been thrilled by the positive feedback from across the political science community. Now that Call for Papers for EPSS Conference in Belfast has closed, we want to share the response has been extraordinary! 🧵

this is objectively hilarious

Highly recommend adding the @paper-feed.bsky.social feed - only papers from people you follow!

"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"

✔ Claims the power to execute people he deems a threat ✔ Claims the power to spend public funds however he wants, ignoring the Constitutional powers of Congress ✔ Deploys the military in American cities ✔ Purges military and law enforcement who aren't loyal to him ✔ Posts AI slop saying he's a king

so happy to *officially* share that I have been awarded an APSA DDRIG this year! I'm thrilled and honored to be a part of this cohort and very excited to get started on some field work in the UK soon.

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

👏 Maxwell Ph.D. candidates Nicholas D’Amico, Hannah Radner and Jingding Wang have been honored by the @apsa.bsky.social for research on global finance, elections and LGBTQ political identity. @supolisci.bsky.social

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

By Dennis Rasmussen, one of my colleagues here @supolisci.bsky.social -- also got a very enjoyable audiobook version, highly recommended.

📢 EPSS community updates!
 We’re excited to share some milestones and announcements with you 👇 epssnet.org/news/

Now this is new tech I can get behind: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congrats @catherinedevries.bsky.social! And I second Vicente’s excitement, what a great move for the department.

this guy is savage

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 🧵

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

🚨 Very excited to share that the call for papers for the EPSS annual conference in Belfast 2026 is live. 🔝 Lots of innovation to enrich the way we exchange ideas in political science in Europe. 🙏🏼 Sharing is caring!

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025

When is the last time you sent someone a (quick) email to tell them you appreciate their work? It takes only a few minutes and means a lot to people, junior or senior, (pony) famous or not. Particularly important in today’s world, where people get so much negative feedback from anonymous trolls.

Motherfucking wind farms…

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

My take on the dangers we face as Trump learns to wield power more effectively www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing. We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it. I wrote up some reflections here: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin... A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

My article about the EU Commission and infringements won the EUP Sage Award for 2024! @eupthejournal.bsky.social‬ Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XC7UG... Link to the award announcement here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... ‪

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking. Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public. Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us. But clear communication is essential for democracy. So how do we do it? 🧵 New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Great post. When I give the advice to students that you shouldn't lit review for lit review's sake, but make it work for your argument, I will point them to @catherinedevries.bsky.social's post for more detail!

Out now🎉 - Evidence (from distribution analyses and machine learning models on EES 2014-2024 data) of strong similarities and growing convergence in EU public opinion, particularly on economic issues. Common right-ward shifts on immigration, yes - but underlying drivers still vary. shorturl.at/KCx0S

Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬ and free to read and download!

My recent book "Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy" (OUP 2024) argues that minorities can help strengthen and protect democracy. I explain the lessons of the book in a podcast hosted by Licia Cianetti from the @unibirmingham.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/ethnic-minor...

1/ Happy to report an unfortunately timely new (open access!) pub in EPSR. A short 🧵: doi.org/10.1017/S175...

Here is yet another week: adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-17

Huge scale of destruction - on science, technology, on students and researchers' careers, on patients, caregivers, private industry and for no discernable gain.

Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've really enjoyed @catherinedevries.bsky.social newsletter on academic writing, but this new piece on formulating the right kind of questions is especially brilliant. It's exactly what I'm working through in a new project. catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

Good morning and welcome to infrastructure week, probably.

So I built something. Not a solution, but a scaffold. My Doom-Containment Protocol: - One Rant Per Week - Strict scroll limits - Ask: “How does this help me?” - Turn care into craft - Protect the writing zone like a fragile ecosystem I hope it inspires you to build your own. /6

Read it here: 
📬 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/youre-not-... Thanks for reading & rereading & do share your own thoughts. /end

With much thanks to @ndelacerda.bsky.social & a great @chesdata.bsky.social team, we have a new JOP article (early access) comparing expert evaluations of party positions from Europe to Israel to North America to Australia. doi.org/10.1086/736578

The first edition instantly became my go to for my European Politics class. The second edition added important chapters, revised throughout and even updated the awesome data exercises! Thanks to the team!

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

⏰ You’re probably not going to read this…that’s a writing problem. “It’s the deeper, slower discipline of reading itself that seems to be eroding. The consequences extend beyond comprehension, they ripple into how we write too.” My latest: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-probab... 🧵