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Marina Costa Lobo
@marinacostalobo.bsky.social
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I am a Political Scientist working on voting behaviour. Director
www.ics.ulisboa.pt, Editor of European Political Science Review.

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · 2d
Feliz natal, Alda! Bjs

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · 4d
Time for high quality academic publishers to deal with this impending AI references’ crisis in academic journals, or else risk witnessing the demise of their golden eggs goose.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Reposted by Marina Costa Lobo, Dean Eckles, Richard M. Carpiano

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 5d
Researchers find that influencers influence. New experimental evidence for old theories around opinion leaders, parasocial relationships, and persuasion, with implications for political messaging in our digitally connected era.

www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics
New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.
www.wired.com

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · 10d
No país da Giorgia Meloni há uma nova lei do femicídio depois do assassinato de 2 jovens mulheres. Em Portugal, até Novembro, tinham sido assassinadas 24 mulheres, mas está tudo bem. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | The Global Story | The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law
www.bbc.com

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Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte.bsky.social · 16d
Os dez anos da classificação de Óbidos como Cidade Criativa da Literatura da UNESCO vão ser comemorados, no próximo dia 11, com a inauguração de um monumento e um programa com a participação de escritores e leitores.

Sabe mais: comunidadeculturaearte.com/obidos-celeb...

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Mattia Zulianello @mattiazulianello.bsky.social · 17d
🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset.

🔗 populistree.org

📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18d
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.

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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 19d
Do #training subsidies improve worker outcomes? Using the German case, Christine Dauth @iabnews.bsky.social shows that training #subsidies significantly increase cumulative #employment duration and #earnings in the short run and middle run for workers, especially #women.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...

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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 21d
💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡
There are two patterns of defection from the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS): towards the radical left and the radical right.

READ the article by A. Espírito-Santo, sofiaserrasilva.bsky.social, and N. Santos 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · 22d
A Constança Cunha Sá vai fazer muita falta. Depois de uma carreira no jornalismo que passou por vários jornais e revistas, conheci-a como uma voz independente, divertida, e destemida. Nunca tinha medo de ir à guerra, fosse com quem fosse. Ficamos mais pobres sem ela. Descanse em paz.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 22d
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Reposted by Marina Costa Lobo

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Público @publico.pt · 22d
Morreu a jornalista Constança Cunha e Sá. Tinha 67 anos

Leia mais: www.publico.pt/2156697

Reposted by Marina Costa Lobo, Virginia Sapiro

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24d
Breaking news: Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born British playwright whose intellectually daring and verbally dazzling works became some of the most acclaimed and frequently staged of the past half-century, has died at 88.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · 28d
Um dia bom para os direitos humanos na União Europeia.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28d
🚨🚨 It is rare that the rulings of @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social make headlines but the judgment yesterday on the recognition of #samesex marriage is a rare exception to this. Very welcome ruling from the CJEU: 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders
The Luxembourg-based court said a decision by Polish authorities infringed on a same-sex couple’s freedom of movement.
www.politico.eu

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · 28d
Mais de metade do debate a falar de corrupção…

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Nov 24
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Nov 24
💥 Online first:

"The irresistible populist force: the Portuguese 2025 snap elections" by Luís Russo

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Abstract of the article "The irresistible populist force: the Portuguese 2025 snap elections" by Luís Russo. Figures 2 (upper panel) and 3 (lower panel), displaying yearly change in frequency of the two most important issues facing Portugal (2024-2025; Figure 2) and the three most important concerns facing Portuguese respondents (Figure 3). Figure 4, displaying political party account engagements in Facebook (left panel) and Instagram (right panel). Figure 10, displaying vote switches from different parties in 2024 (left) into Chega in 2025 (right).

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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · Nov 17
Portugal, Pitagórica poll:

Presidential election

M. Mendes (*-EPP): 23% (+3)
Gouveia e Melo (*): 21% (-6)
Seguro (PS-S&D): 17% (-1)
Ventura (CH-PfE): 15% (+1)
Cotrim (IL-RE): 13% (+4)
...

+/- vs. 06-10 October 2025

Fieldwork: 05-14 November 2025
Sample size: 1,000

➤ europeelects.eu/portugal

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · Nov 17
Como poderão já ter notado, foi publicada a carta hoje, no Público on-line, em defesa de uma reforma da Ciência, com autonomia, ambição e responsabilidade: www.publico.pt/2025/11/15/c...
Se concordarem, era mesmo importante recolher assinaturas neste link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Por uma ciência autónoma, ambiciosa e responsável
Reformas desta escala, quando feitas sem um claro desenho institucional, modelo de governança e plano de transição rigoroso, correm o risco de gerar incerteza, inércia e paralisia administrativa.
www.publico.pt

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Público @publico.pt · Nov 11
De forma algo inesperada, a presidência da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa fica para o ex-ministro socialista do PS André Moz Caldas, que promete ser “isento”.
Socialista Moz Caldas eleito presidente da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa
De forma algo inesperada, a presidência da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa fica para o ex-ministro socialista do PS André Moz Caldas, que promete ser “isento”.
www.publico.pt

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Nov 6
Latest issue from @epsrjournal.bsky.social -

European Political Science Review - Volume 17 - Issue 4 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/4oDPDka

#OpenAccess
Promotional image for the European Political Science Review featuring text that reads "EPSR, European Political Science Review, NEW ISSUE" in a dual-tone beige and purple colour scheme.

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · Nov 4
Útil, num momento em que cada vez mais se fala de outros partidos europeus em Portugal.
dtoshkov.bsky.social Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Nov 3
For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy!
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/

#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
An interactive Shiny app on party positions using the CHES (Chapel HIll expert survey dataset).

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · Nov 4
Obrigada pela dica!

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · Nov 4
Really interesting thread on how social media has become the main channel for communicating science around the world.
nielsmede.bsky.social Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · Oct 21
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

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Marina Costa Lobo @marinacostalobo.bsky.social · Nov 4
Muito obrigada pela partilha.

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Nov 3
For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy!
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/

#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
An interactive Shiny app on party positions using the CHES (Chapel HIll expert survey dataset).

Reposted by Marina Costa Lobo

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Sciencepo ULB @sciencepoulb.bsky.social · Nov 1
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"Legitimating Austerity. The Politics of Crisis in Southern Europe".
A new book by Tiago Moreira Ramalho, Professor at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), by Bloomsbury.
www.bloomsbury.com/in/legitimat...
Legitimating Austerity
This book reexamines the politics of austerity during the euro crisis, challenging conventional narratives of austerity as either an inevitable economic remedy…
www.bloomsbury.com