📣 Are you an early career researcher? Did you present a paper at #ECPRgc25 in Thessaloniki as part of our Extremism & Democracy endorsed section? Then why not nominate yourself for the 2025 E&D Best Paper Prize? Just send us your paper via email by 5 Sept. 📧 [email protected] 🏆

📢 Hello E&D Colleagues! We’ve got several updates from the @ecpr.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group (@ecpr-ead.bsky.social). Whether you’re joining us in Thessaloniki or following from afar, here’s what’s coming up. 🧵👇

You have the choice next year between the for-profit and the not-for-profit model of a European political science conference👇. I don’t think there needs to be said anything more on this. Looking forward to seeing many at @epssnet.bsky.social

Really important PSA: it currently looks like there may be both an EPSS and an EPSA conference next summer. Please make sure people in your networks understand this distinction (see thread below).

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 🧵

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 🧵

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Very excited to discuss party pledges, whether parties keep their promises and what citizens think about it with this fantastic lineup of scholars. Thanks to @theresmatthiess.bsky.social for bringing us together!

I am very happy to have signed up with a Lifetime Membership to the new @epssnet.bsky.social If you are in a position to do so, please consider doing the same to give our new community-based EPSS a boost. We’re in this together!

1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support! The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join Let’s do this together.

I am very happy to have signed up with a Lifetime Membership to the new @epssnet.bsky.social If you are in a position to do so, please consider doing the same to give our new community-based EPSS a boost. We’re in this together!

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. 🧵

💐 We´re about to close the first standalone conference organised by the @ecpr.bsky.social SG E&D. THANK YOU from the organising team to everyone who made this event a success! 💐 @sajuria.com @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social

Even back in the day @ecpr-ead.bsky.social discussed extremism’s effect on democracy. @kai-arzheimer.com builds the large historical bridges in his Keynote at our Standing Group Extremism & Democracy conference. @ecpr.bsky.social

What a great Roundtable on the Challenges to Democracy at our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference at QMUL. Fantastic and varied insights by @terezacapelos.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social Kathleen Blee and Andrej Zaslove. Special thanks to @sajuria.com for expert moderation.

Join us in London next week for our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. Keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com, roundtable and panels on populism and radicalism. Observer only registration available- with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @sajuria.com

Mega presence for @sotonpolitics.bsky.social at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social! #PSA25 @dbonansinga.bsky.social and @profannikawerner.bsky.social on populism @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic resilience @elizabethjevans.bsky.social on feminism Myself on urban-rural divides in trust (1/2)

Three days to go to apply for our very first Extremism and Democracy Standing Group conference. I am chairing a section on political actors, so send your papers on parties, social movements etc this way. Deadline: Monday, March 3.

As authoritarianism is on the rise, one way for liberal democracies to fight back is to show they can also deliver the goods. New research out this morning with @profannikawerner.bsky.social on how voters see the balance between democracy and policy outcomes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's happening! 😍 Our first @ecpr.bsky.social standalone conference, from 9-10 June at @qmul.ac.uk! 👉 Registration for papers & panels is open! 🍿 👉 Kindly brought to you by @profannikawerner.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @sajuria.com @stijntvankessel.bsky.social 🙌

📯 Introducing a ✨ NEW conference ✨ for researchers specialising in extremism, democracy, and populism 🥇 Inaugural Conference of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social 🕰️ New and Old Challenges of #Populism and #Radicalism 💂‍♂️ Hosted by @qmul.ac.uk 📅 9–10 June 2025 ✍️ Submit your Panel or Paper by 3 March

What a way to end 2024. Another output from the YOUMEM project, with fab collaborators @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @niklasbolin.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social @cwegscheider.bsky.social and Marco Valbruzzi

What a way to end 2024. Another output from the YOUMEM project, with fab collaborators @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @niklasbolin.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social @cwegscheider.bsky.social and Marco Valbruzzi

A very welcome arrival just before midnight on New Year's Eve... Another youth wings article on the way!

Our article "Inside Party Youth Wings: The YOUMEM Project" is online today & open access in Party Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... [A wee thread 🧵]

Happy to be a part of the YOUMEM Project with stars like @duncanmcdonnell.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @rheinisch.bsky.social @cwegscheider.bsky.social, Valbruzzi and Jungar. Here is a pre-print of our first output. More to come! osf.io/preprints/os...

📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

We are super pleased to announce the new 2023 wave of the Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey! The data offers info on party characteristics for 312 parties in 31 🇪🇺 countries, based on 324 expert judgments The data is available on HarvardDataverse. A quick 🧵: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 1/

Not only that, @profannikawerner.bsky.social & I have studied the prevalence of populist attitudes here in Australia, and they're pretty common. So yeah, populism works in Australia journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Apparently I picked a day to move here that many others also chose. Total coincidence, I promise.