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Carlos Bravo-Laguna @cbravuna.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congratulations Luigi! A very well-deserved prize.

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Luigi Schiavo @luigischiavo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Many thanks to the jury for the award and their appreciations: it is truly an honor to receive it!

A special thanks also to my brilliant colleague Alejandro, who saw the potential of an idea born almost by chance during a half-hour chat a year and a half ago, and which we later turned into a paper!

PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Sep 1

It was our pleasure to personally award the Best Paper Prize presented at the previous ECPR conference in Dublin. @ecpr.bsky.social 🏆

The jury, consisting of Maria Brockhaus, Katia Pilati, and Volker Schneider, unanimously decided for @alexciordia.bsky.social and Luigi Schiavo.

Congratulations! 👏

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · Sep 1

Honored to receive the Best Paper Prize 2024 from @politicalnets.bsky.social together with the brilliant Luigi Schiavo. Many thanks to the jury and colleagues!

PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Sep 1

It was our pleasure to personally award the Best Paper Prize presented at the previous ECPR conference in Dublin. @ecpr.bsky.social 🏆

The jury, consisting of Maria Brockhaus, Katia Pilati, and Volker Schneider, unanimously decided for @alexciordia.bsky.social and Luigi Schiavo.

Congratulations! 👏

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PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Sep 1

It was our pleasure to personally award the Best Paper Prize presented at the previous ECPR conference in Dublin. @ecpr.bsky.social 🏆

The jury, consisting of Maria Brockhaus, Katia Pilati, and Volker Schneider, unanimously decided for @alexciordia.bsky.social and Luigi Schiavo.

Congratulations! 👏

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Daniela Irrera @danyir.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our #ecprgc_25 has been intense and productive in beautiful Thessaloniki. Thanks to the Aristotle Univ for hosting us and to all participants. We are a big @ecpr.bsky.social family!

PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Aug 30

The conference is behind us. 👋 Many thanks to all of you who participated! #ecprgc_25

Thanks also go to the @ecpr.bsky.social #ECPR organizers and the Aristotle University. 🙏

Looking forward to meeting again in Krakow! ⬜🟥

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PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our last panel was packed! ⚡#ecprgc26 @ecpr.bsky.social

Once again, thanks to all who participated. 🙏

#socioecological #systems #networks #environmental #governance

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 Welcome to Day 1 of #ecprgc25!

⭐ An exciting day ahead awaits:

🎓 Methods Taster by @politicalnets.bsky.social, 15:45-16:30
🎙️ Plenary Welcome, 17:00-18:00
🍸 Welcome Reception, 18:15-19:30

📲 View highlights on event app ecpr.eu/App

Download event app

ECPR 2025 General Conference

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PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Aug 28

✌️ Two more panels behind us. @ecpr.bsky.social

✅ #Climate policy networks chaired by @anttigronow.bsky.social

✅ Comparing political networks chaired by Manuel Fischer and @petrocelik.bsky.social

Thanks for the great presentations and discussion! ⚡ We continue today with three more sessions.

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Carlos Bravo-Laguna @cbravuna.bsky.social · Aug 27

Excellent turnout and insights at our panel on Comparing Political Networks today at the ECPR General Conference! Thessaloniki is a perfect location to reconnect with older and newer members of the #polnets gang.

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Marlene Kammerer @marlenekammerer.bsky.social · Aug 26

There is little better than 🏖️💻beach office to start into an exicting week at @ecpr.bsky.social in beautiful Thessaloniki - and a great turnaround of our panel on political networks affect output or outcome 🙏 @helgej.bsky.social Maria Brockhaus @anttigronow.bsky.social Bruna Rodriguez Aasa Karimo

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PoliticalNets ECPR @politicalnets.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚀 We kicked off with the panel on the challenging issue linking #network structures and #policy outputs. #climatechange

6️⃣ There are six more panels to go - check the schedule attached.

⚡ Looking forward to seeing you at our panels! @ecpr.bsky.social #ecprgc25

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Lydie Cabane @lydiec.bsky.social · Jun 12

📣 GREAT post-doc! work with me and my best French colleagues on the PROTECCT project : Protecting against the social risks associated with climate change in Europe: a comparative perspective

Duration: 28 months.
Deadline July 6
Location: Sciences Po Paris

www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/...

Recruitment : POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW to work on the PROTECCT project

Application to be sent before 6 July 2025

www.sciencespo.fr

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Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · Jun 11

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

The title page of a paper listing the title: "Blame Shifting in Autocracies Following Large-scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey"; the authors: Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, and Fulya Apaydin; and the abstract: "Large-scale disasters, particularly when handled poorly, often spark popular outrage and threaten
an autocrat’s hold on power. Autocrats frequently employ blame shifting strategies to redirect
public anger and weather these storms. We examine whether blame shifting after a large-scale
disaster helps or hurts an autocrat’s popularity through a mixed-methods research design in the
electoral autocracy of Turkey in April-July 2023, following the February 2023 earthquakes.
An online survey experiment (n=3,839) identifies the effects of blaming the aftermath of the
earthquake on the opposition, a force majeure, private construction companies, or a govern-
ment minister, while focus groups explore the mechanisms behind these effects. We find that
blaming the opposition or a force majeure leads to a backlash, especially among those more
able to critically evaluate information. Focus groups reveal that these backlash effects are
driven by voters’ dismay at electoral opportunism and the incumbent’s polarizing language
following a large-scale disaster."; and the note that the paper is forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.

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Fulya Apaydin @fa190.bsky.social · Apr 28

I don't know how our wifi at the uni continues to work at the moment, but this is where we are at right now: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal

There are reports from Madrid of traffic lights not working and the underground system being evacuated.

www.bbc.com

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Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · Apr 20

Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️

Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?

There is a wide range of labels, such as electoral autocracy, hybrid regimes, or multiparty autocracy, and corresponding empirical measures to describe and measure political regimes that combine au...

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Carlos Bravo-Laguna @cbravuna.bsky.social · Mar 14

It has indeed been a great pleasure to introduce some basic notions related to policy networks and social network analysis to ISPOLE UCLouvain doctoral researchers. Many thanks @ccrellin.bsky.social for the excellent organization and hospitality!

Chris Crellin @ccrellin.bsky.social · Mar 14

Glad to have had organized the ISPOLE PhD capacity building session on #PoliticalNetworks.

It was a pleasure to have invited @cbravuna.bsky.social to present such a rich and informative seminar!

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Chris Crellin @ccrellin.bsky.social · Mar 14

Glad to have had organized the ISPOLE PhD capacity building session on #PoliticalNetworks.

It was a pleasure to have invited @cbravuna.bsky.social to present such a rich and informative seminar!

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Mar 6

An #unacknowledgement - we need more of these

Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Lydie Cabane @lydiec.bsky.social · Feb 21

How do you get a PhD position in the Netherlands?

As a PhD coordinator @fggaleiden.bsky.social I receive many requests about how to get into our PhD programmes. Most of the time, I politely turn them down for all kinds of good reasons, so here are my 2 cents about how to apply.

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Daniel Fiott @danielfiott.bsky.social · Feb 12

Think tankers and academics to European leaders this evening…

Dear Leaders,

Don’t look at us now please. Just read our past papers (yes, the ones from years ago). We literally put it in black and white for you.

Thanks and best regards.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Feb 6

This is absolutely gross! Even for Labour!

Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations

Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Karolina Pomorska @karolinapomorska.bsky.social · Feb 4

We are hiring! Two PhD positions in EU Foreign Policy at Leiden University within the EUFOG project (which has in total 18 PhD positions!). Please help us spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

PhD candidates in European Union Foreign Policy

PhD candidates in European Union Foreign Policy (two positions, each 1.0 fte)The Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites applications for 2 PhD candida...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Carlos Bravo-Laguna @cbravuna.bsky.social · Jan 31

Enhorabuena, Juan!

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Lydie Cabane @lydiec.bsky.social · Jan 30

Welcome @fggaleiden.bsky.social !

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