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We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're politically induced

You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

Political emotions are experienced differently in the body compared to everyday feelings, and the intensity of these embodied emotions predicts higher political participation. doi.org/hb3qbz

Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk @mtsakiris.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

Strong endorse, for so many reasons. Two of the reasons are that thinking takes time and creativity takes time. The productivity machine turning everything into a numbers race is bad for the work and bad for the people doing the work.

New publication! Unelected representation may influence how satisfied people are with democracy, opening up important discussions on the role activists play in shaping the legitimacy of liberal representative democracies. You can find out more below 👇

If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇

🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬 Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻‍♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us! 📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay

New preprint with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park & @mtsakiris.bsky.social : 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Key takeaways: 🎨 Political emotions create distinct embodied signatures ⚖️ These bodily patterns shift with ideology. 🗳️ The embodied impact of political emotions predicts participation

🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)! We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome! 👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop @erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation

Election Day in Norway today 🇳🇴 safe to say I’m a little anxious about the outcome…

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 🧵

If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇

It’s a wrap! Had the best time at #ISPP2025 in gorgeous Prague 💖

🚨🚨job opportunity! Come join us at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings in London.

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

As promised: I’ve just uploaded all course materials of the Open Science in Social Sciences summer school on @cos.io: osf.io/s8mxd/? 🚀 Feel free to explore, reuse, and share (under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license). #OpenScience @forrt.bsky.social

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

Come join us in Amsterdam for a fully funded 4-year PhD position on the topic of "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics", with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social! All info here, deadline is June 4 👇👇👇 (Please share!) #polcom #commsky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them. https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4

If you think that now is the time to take unelected representation seriously, as we are seeing an unelected billionaire gain unprecedented political influence, you may want to read this: osf.io/preprints/os...

Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Dette er også tilfældet på min Instagram-konto. Om det er en fejl eller ej, ved jeg ikke. Men der er en påmindelse om, at vi skal være opmærksomme på, at vi har ladet vores informationsmiljø blive afhængig af et land, som vi nu må berede os på bevæger sig i en mere autoritær retning.

How did I start working from home today? Spending half an hour looking at the incredible sky full of polar stratospheric clouds 💜

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

Helt absurd at Vedum påstår at en *politisk debatt for fire år siden* skulle ha påvirket 16-17-åringers bruk av kokain i dag (som tilfeldigvis øker over hele Europa samtidig). Jeg tror ikke han tror på det selv heller, dette er ren valgkampskremsel. #dax18

📢🎓 PhD position in my new "The future of EUrope" project 💶 Good salary & project money for data collections, travels, etc. 📝 International supervision team 🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ DL 10.12. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Thanks for sharing and RT! polisky EUsky

Exciting opportunity in Trondheim!

@andreavik.bsky.social’s trial lecture🔥🔥Fantastic insights on how perspectives from political psychology can inform our understanding of the legitimacy of unelected representation. Amazing lecture by an amazing scholar

TLDR: Science works if you follow basic principles.

🚨 PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT 🚨 We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences 150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them! Wanna know more? peerreviewstudy.com Plz repost!