The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

🚨 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 Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live! Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

So, European and EU politics folks, this 👇 is where we need your newest work to be submitted and discussed next year @epssnet.bsky.social first conference in Belfast! I am happy to co-chair the section with Bjorn Hoyland, and looking 👀 forward to your submissions.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread. 1. Quantitative methods

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

This sounds promising (👋🇪🇺...) www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

So Schengen. Much Freedom. Very Movement.

Signing up for @epssnet.bsky.social and it's time to learn who the truly nasty reviewers are

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Delighted to see the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics 🇪🇺 in print! @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social If you teach EU or European politics, you can order an inspection copy here: global.oup.com/ushe/product...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

Wow! "The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty" ‪@egenpolisci.bsky.social‬ @sotonpolitics.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Super happy to see this paper now in print! We show that parties which do not enter coalitions, but have formal (written) support agreements with minority cabinets- such as Tidö Agreement in Sweden - are likely to be punished at the next elections, similarly to junior coalition partners.

Always have a healthy dose of scepticism on Eurobarometer polls. But they are very good comparable between themselves, and it is remarkable to see the EU back to levels of trust from before the many crises of the 2010s and 2020s hit Europe.

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫 “Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os... Thread: 1/8

From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x

📢 🇪🇺📘 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

📣 Looking forward to presenting #ParlLawSpeech as part of the #TaDa Speaker Series today! Tune in if you would like to learn more about #ParlLawSpeech or parliamentary text data collection in general. The King of Scraping 👑 @janschwalbach.bsky.social will also be joining for the discussion!

Next Tuesday (!) at 17:00 (CEST), @lukashetzer.bsky.social will join us to present the ParlLawSpeech dataset, an interlinked collection of machine-readable full texts of parliamentary speeches, bills & laws from 7 European countries & the EP. More details on the #TaDa Speaker Series & how to join ⬇️

…but don't worry about your parliamentary text input during this time: already tomorrow, @lukashetzer.bsky.social and @chrauh.bsky.social will be giving an introduction to our new #parllawspeech dataset at @comptext.bsky.social \3

Excited to be presenting my and Frederik's paper on elite rhetoric and group-party linkages in a few hours at the TaDa Spring Speaker Series! Tune in at the link below.

One puzzle of Trump’s trade war is that he simultaneously argues America is the greatest country on earth and a victim of global trade. That contradiction suggests a deeper insecurity, understood less through policy than psychology and ideology. 🧵 1/

Next week, the TaDa Speaker Series is thrilled to host @chdausgaard.bsky.social from the University of Copenhagen presenting new work with @fghjorth.bsky.social on Elite Rhetoric and the Running Tally of Party-Group Linkages. 📅 April 16, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time 🔗 Subscribe: tada.cool

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩 Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social! 📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

Happy to present: Unser Kompaktbuch zum Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW). Veröffentlichung steht zeitnahe an. Open access! #BSW

This final publication from the project on #technocratic attitudes among citizens, serves to boost confidence in the survey measure, to trace the stability of the construct following the #COVID19 pandemic and to provide evidence on technocratic attitudes in the #US (plus some bonus thoughts!) 🧵below

In about a month, we submit our application for the ESFRI Roadmap 🇪🇺 Help us reach 1,000 researchers by showing your support here: forms.gle/dm8K4xFgXD9b... ⚙️ Regardless, we’re sure you’ll find MEDem’s tools & services useful once they’re live. We’re already working on first prototypes this year! 🏗️📊

Super excited to be part of the #TaDa Speaker Series presenting #ParlLawSpeech and how we use it in our own research together with @janschwalbach.bsky.social!

The most important thing to identify here is the strong inversed relationship between “conservative” (moderate) right and “hard” right. One might think that Conservative parties are a Trojan horse of far right success.

New data out for studying party politics and elections across levels in 21 democracies worldwide! 🗳️🧐🥳🤓😎 Check out our online data visualization tool, too: multi-level-cross-level-politics.eu And our data: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

We finally dropped #ParlLawSpeech! 🥳 Excited to see how this data and especially the links between documents will be used in the future! Check out ParlLawSpeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data!

#ParlLawSpeech is part of the EU-funded project #OPTED on political text infrastructure in Europe (www.opted.eu). The #ParlLawSpeech team includes @janschwalbach.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, @miklossebok.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social, and myself. Dive in and analyze! 📊😉 (2/2)

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

So happy to see #ParlLawSpeech out there after years of scraping, cleaning, validating... have a look at our website parllawspeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data (free access via @gesis.org here: doi.org/10.7802/2824)

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Indeed. Fantastic speech. Just one minute and everything is said!

Excited to start my research visit @uva.nl in Amsterdam. Many thanks to @gijsschumacher.bsky.social for hosting me at the Hot Politics Lab! I will be around until the end of February and happy to discuss research or meet for a coffee! ☕️☀️

Dataset alert ⏰ We just uploaded the preprint for a novel dataset of German politicians' public broadcast interviews (around 100 interviews, 30 politicians, 28k sentences) sourced from YouTube & manually validated + speaker identification and timestamps, ready for re-use 👍 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04484?

Pretty much exactly 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the richest man in the world uses the Nazi salute at the inauguration of his close ally as US president. What should rationally not be surprising is still so deeply shocking and simply difficult to comprehend.

In a new working paper, @fghjorth.bsky.social and I show that party elites have significant power to shape group linkages through their rhetoric, suggesting that such linkages are more dynamic and elite-driven than suggested by predominant structural accounts. 🧵

Can't believe this wasn't a thing yet— 50 *women* in political economy I follow & you should too! 💡 Send me more! 🙋‍♀️ go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3