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Emelie Karlsson @emeliekarlsson.bsky.social · 3d

One week into my stay at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, visiting the research group on Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda led by Dr Elizaveta Kuznetsova until mid-December. So grateful to spend time in such an inspiring academic environment!

www.weizenbaum-institut.de/portrait/p/e...

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 3d

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EPL published a leading article based on my research ahead of Estonia's local elections.
Disheartening that parties still disadvantage women candidates with nominations & list placement, but after 10+ years researching this, nice to see it break into mainstream media.

Politoloog: naisi on poliitikas nii vähe, sest neid pelgavad teised poliitikud, mitte Eesti valijad

Kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole, valida ei saa. Asjaolu, et Eestis ikka veel märksa vähem naisi poliitikas ilma teeb ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade poolt ette antud valikutest.

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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 4d

Our own @elinbja.bsky.social (chair) and @grahn.bsky.social (treasurer/secretary) have been elected to the new board of SWEPSA! Congratulations!

swepsa.org/index.html?f...

SWEPSA

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 10d

EJPG is looking for a new team! So many thanks to @payoub.bsky.social and @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and the rest of the current team for everything they did for the journal! Hope to see many bids from different teams in the pot! :)

European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 10d

WE WANT YOU! 🫵

The call for a new editorial team for the EJPG is now open❗
The mandate of the journal's sitting stellar team led by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social will come to an end in July 2026.

📆 Applications must be received by November 23rd

Details of call here: rb.gy/lqidii

Application deadline: 23 November 2025

The Editorial Management Board of the European Journal of Politics and Gender invites applications for the editorship of the journal to run for a period of three years from July 2026, with the possibility of renewing for a second two-year term. The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender. The journal has an Impact Factor of 2.3, ranking in the top quartile of both Political Science and Women’s Studies journals. The journal understands research in ‘politics and gender’ to include both gender and LGBTQIA+ politics. The new editorial team is expected to continue the journal’s LGBTQIA+-inclusive approach to gender and politics scholarship.

The current Lead Editors, Phillip Ayoub and Jennifer Piscopo, are stepping down with their Associate Editor team in July 2026. We are looking to appoint a team of two to three new Co-Lead Editors to shape the journal. The newly appointed Co-Lead Editors may work alongside one of the outgoing Lead Editors for a period of several months to ensure a smooth transition.

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 10d

WE WANT YOU! 🫵

The call for a new editorial team for the EJPG is now open❗
The mandate of the journal's sitting stellar team led by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social will come to an end in July 2026.

📆 Applications must be received by November 23rd

Details of call here: rb.gy/lqidii

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 16d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Do #Gender quotes increase political knowledge? 🧐

Focusing on Western Europe 🇪🇺 @gventurini.bsky.social investigates the political influence of #Quotas and the impact on the gender gap in political knowledge amongst younger citizens 👶

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Do gender quotas increase political knowledge?

GIULIA VENTURINI

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Matt Polacko @mattpolacko.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨New Publication🚨

Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships.

Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
#polisky

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 20d

On October 3rd at 14:15 (CEST), professor Herbert Kitschelt gives his Skytte Prize Lecture, livestreamed in Brusewitz Hall at the Department of Government, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala.

All are welcome to attend. The lecture will be followed by a mingle.

More at: www.skytteprize.com/news/the-202...

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 22d

A very sad development! Not in my name…♥️🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 23d

Just nu massor med tjänster inom statsvetenskap vid Linköpings universitet. BUL i offentlig förvaltning och internationell politik samt UL i internationell politik. Tex: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853...

Biträdande universitetslektor i statvetenskap med inriktning mot offentlig förvaltning

Dina arbetsuppgifter Syftet med anställningen som biträdande universitetslektor är att innehavaren av anställningen får möjlighet att

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Federico Trastulli @fedetrastulli.bsky.social · 25d

w/ @massimoprearo.bsky.social on @qoe-ijes.bsky.social, we introduce our 2024 Italian LGBTIQ+ Electoral Survey: the first large-N evidence on the political behaviour & attitudes of Italian LGBTIQ+ citizens. We discuss data, methodological challenges & relevance here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 25d

Quota-representative? Prolific.

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you to everyone who attended our 20th Anniversary roundtable at #APSA2025!

@mlkrook.bsky.social , Karen Beckwith, Mary Caputi, @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cwolbrecht.bsky.social had an insightful conversation about their time as editors and the role of P&G in Political Science.

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Poster of the masthead of Politics & Gender with a blue background and the words Politics and Gender in blue and yellow. At the top of the poster the banner reads 20 years of high-quality scholarship on women, gender, and politics. At the bottom are the APSA and Cambridge University Press logos.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 29d

Delighted to see @melissamichelson.bsky.social announce @sophiemainz.bsky.social as this year's recipient of the @epovb.bsky.social John Sullivan Award for her fantastic experimental work on femonationalism from APSA 2024 🏆

Sophie will be on the job market soon & any uni. would be luck to have her!

Photograph of Prof. Melissa Michelson announcing Sophie Mainz as the John Sullivan Award winner for her paper "Femonationalism and Citizens' Preferences: A Multifactorial Survey Experiment"

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Här skriver @sandrahkansson.bsky.social och jag om orsakerna till ungas politiska underrepresentation i Sverige, varför det är problematiskt och vilka åtgärder som kan vidtas. www.altinget.se/rikspolitik/...

Demokratin hotas när unga trängs bort - Altinget

Trots ett växande politiskt engagemang bland unga minskar deras representation i förtroendeuppdrag. Det hotar både ungas inflytande och demokratins legitimitet. För att vända utvecklingen krävs tydlig...

www.altinget.se

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · Sep 12

Politicians in at least 51 countries used anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric during elections, NGO finds

Rights group also finds rise in openly gay, bisexual and transgender people running for office in 36 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Off to APSA in 🇨🇦 to present work with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @turnbulldugarte.com on the effects of segregation on voter turnout among non-straight people of 🇸🇪. @sophiemainz.bsky.social will present our joint work on counterspeech to femonationalism in 🇩🇪. Hit me up if you are around!

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ALT: a cartoon drawing of a maple leaf with blue legs

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Many congratulations! Looking forward to following this exciting project and the many interesting publications that will come out of it!

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Aug 30

👥 @grahn.bsky.social & Theodor Thisell: Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection

🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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