🚨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/

📣Summer school on "Challenges to Electoral Democracy", Paris, July 1-5, 2025📣 Organized with @rdassonneville.bsky.social Guest speakers: @ainagallego.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social @jrovny.bsky.social More info👇

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Thank you to all participants to the Workshop on AI & Politics at @cpoliticaub.bsky.social It was great to debate so much great work: aipsr.net/workshop-2-ai/

"Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people" by Gábor Scheiring www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Hoy tenemos a @lavezzolo.bsky.social analizando qué características sociodemograáficas y políticas están asociadas con el apoyo a opciones de gobiernos no democráticas. ¡Datos de encuesta para España en 2024! www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

📢 Call for papers: Workshop on using LLMs and text-as-data in Political Science Submissions: forms.office.com/e/5Y0XJErgxj

Hey, first post here :) Gael Le Mens and I just uploaded a paper about scaling political text using ChatGPT. This approach is fast, cost-efficient, and reliable. We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2311.16639