📊 Does it matter how well "people like you" are represented? Lucca Hoffeller & @nilssteiner.bsky.social Steiner find that the further a government's positions sit from someone's occupational class preferences, the lower that person's satisfaction with democracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Tenemos nuevo post en el blog. Hoy escribe Ignacio Jurado sobre la perspectiva electoral que se abre tras el ciclo electoral de cuatro elecciones autonómicas www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

For those at @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast this June: If you're interested in Place & Politics and want to join our discussions on the (potential) impact of the research in this field, make sure to register for the pre-conference that @lawrencemckay.bsky.social and I are organizing! 👇

Tenemos nuevo post en nuestro blog. Hoy, Marta Romero analiza el escenario y las encuestas preelectorales de cara a las próximas elecciones andaluzas www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

Aquesta setmana hem tret la revista 600 https://directa.cat/papers/directa-600/ i dissabte vinent celebrem que fem 20 anys de periodisme transformador. Si vols que continuem sumant publicacions i anys, suma't a la comunitat Directa, subscriu-te, fes-te sòcia, fes una donació... fes-nos créixer!

Interesting article by @kevinfoxecon.bsky.social on GDP-B: a framework to measure what free services are worth: tinyurl.com/4vs6y2nm Hear more about this ESCoE work in the keynote interview with @erikbryn.bsky.social at our 2025 conference: youtu.be/SstOWPTg7hk

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

📢 Assistant Professor Position in Public Administration. Field: Public Administration / Public Governance Rank: Assistant Professor Dedication: Full-time ⏳ 7/04/26 at 12:00 www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

Geopolítica, inflación, inteligencia artificial, fractura social: claves para entender este 2026 cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026...

The world has 92 autocracies; 87 democracies at the end of 2025 Democracy is back to 1978 levels. The gains of the “3rd wave of democratization”, are almost eradicated The level of democracy for the average citizen in Western Europe and North America is at its lowest level in over 50 years

🔴 En un món on tot es compra, la Directa no es ven. Arribem als vint anys fent periodisme compromès amb 4.500 subscripcions, 13 sòcies de treball, més d’un centenar de col·laboradores i 360 sòcies de consum. També vols formar-ne part? 🔗 Subscriu-t'hi https://directa.cat/subscriu-thi/

La transición climática y energética depende menos del tipo de régimen que de la fortaleza institucional: capacidad estatal, estabilidad regulatoria y credibilidad para sostener compromisos y generar confianza. ✍️ @ainagallego.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/132_c79414?u...

AI really can help education: controlled experiment found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates—without increasing instruction time or teacher workload"

📢 Summer course at @uc3m.es: Threats, Challenges, and Democratic Resilience 🗓 June 29–July 3 🎤 Speakers: @valentimvicente.bsky.social, @ainagallego.bsky.social, @pablofernandezv.bsky.social, @lilypurple311.bsky.social, @lluisorriols.bsky.social More Info: cursosverano.uc3m.es/cursos-de-ve...

La DANA de 2024 no solo dejó daños visibles. También pudo afectar a la salud antes del nacimiento. @leire-salazar.bsky.social y @nereabelloiglesias.bsky.social analizan cómo los picos de estrés provocados por desastres naturales pueden influir en el desarrollo fetal www.eldiario.es/132_c74a3c?u...

Amb els impostos nous que posarem. a les bigtech, espero. A dia d'avui ja hi hauria d'haver comissions de treball a les agencies fiscals fent propostes i escenaris CONCRETS per gravar IA, Robots i, especialment, beneficis de implementadors i proveidors d'aquestws solucions. What tax if happens...

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

New article and special issue! Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread 🧵1/7

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🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵

#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...

Hoy @iurquizu.bsky.social nos invita a reflexionar sobre la relación entre la tecnología y el cambio social al que estamos asistiendo en las últimas décadas. www.eldiario.es/132_c58508?u...

Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social

🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights. Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands. 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...

Cinco plazas de cientifíc@ titular en el IESA CSIC, en cualquiera de las líneas de trabajo del centro (Dimensión social de la biodiversidad (2), Salud, Problemas de las democracias contemporáneas e innovación). Todo en www.boe.es/boe/dias/202.... Plazo: 20 días hábiles desde el 1 de enero.

There are no excuses now for not knowing that X is a toxic cesspit. If you are still on X, these are your values.

💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon

Muchísimas ganas de leer el libro de Marga Padilla, seguramente una de las personas que mejor ha pensado la tecnología y una hacker de las que dan sentido al término.

Recomiendo esta explicación detallada del caso Flecha de abusos en la Universidad de Barcelona escrita por Vicky Bolaños: ojs.eumed.net/rev/index.ph...

¡Llegó nuestro clásico post de libros de fin de año! Ocho propuestas que reflejan los debates intelectuales y las preocupaciones sociales del año que termina. ¡Felices fiestas! www.eldiario.es/132_c4276a?u...

From October 2025 - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - cup.org/3LgxVos - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Hoy escribo en El Diario sobre los motivos y soluciones a los abusos en la universidad www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

Hoy traemos un post de rabiosa actualidad. @lluisorriols.bsky.social hace una radiografía del trasvase de un millón de votos que se estaría produciendo entre el Partido Popular y VOX. www.eldiario.es/132_c0bdc9?u...

🚨🚨 New paper alert: Culture vs. Institutions @ainagallego.bsky.social‬, Ana Tur-Prats and I have a new paper out in the JOP that examines the impact of historical family types on modern-day female political representation.

¿Cómo afectará la IA a las desigualdades de género en el trabajo? Hoy @ainagallego.bsky.social nos muestra en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social la evidencia disponible. www.eldiario.es/132_bc84fd?u...

Va ser un plaer parlar a la Universitat Internacional per la Pau de com la IA afectarà al treball amb Gorka Perez www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjR...

My department is *hiring a PhD* student (3 years, fully funded) for a research project on the social and political effects of AI-related technological change. *Deadline: May 4, '25*. See here for more information & to apply: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PoliSky #Sociology #AcademicSky

📢Special issue and workshop on "The Politics of AI: Citizen Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities" 📢 We aim to bring together cutting-edge research on the political ramifications of AI for a workshop in Oxford and a special issue in a leading political science journal.(1/2)

We just launched a call for a workshop and special issue proposal on "The Politics of AI"! Excited to see many great submissions—join us in Oxford!

🗓️ Submission deadline: February 28 🗓️ Join us to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona 2-3 October 2025). Submission form: forms.gle/daA2S1qcSnxc... Call for papers: www.ibei.org/en/call-for-...

“An effective strategy would combine legal, institutional, and civil resistance methods to advance the pro-democratic agenda. It would spell out a positive and optimistic vision for the country, rather than a defensive strategy.”

Please apply to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona, October 2-3). We seek empirical work on key actors, lobby and regulatory activities, and political conflict related to AI and Big Tech. Submission: forms.gle/o4rwT9km3iPX... by February 28.

Can DeepSeek accurately scale political text? @glemens.bsky.social just replicated the analyses of our joint Political Analysis paper with DeepSeek and with the newest version of Llama (Llama 3.3 70B). Overall, DeepSeekV3 performs at a level similar to Llama 3.3, but definitely not better. 1/5

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

📍 No Paris agreement 📍January 6 pardons 📍Slashing DEI 📍 Border emergency 📍 DOGE created 📍 Unregulated AI 📍 Territory expansions announced Just a few. And then of course TikTok quasi save and the Gulf of America 🇺🇸 Enjoy the morning coffee Europe 🇪🇺 ☕️ 👀

In the executive order flurry: unregulated AI. “Was it too much to ask AI developers for transparency regarding the safety testing of their products?” @alondra.bsky.social thhttps://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-caps-alondra-nelson-condemns-dangerous-repeal-of-ai-executive-order/