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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 16d

🚨🚨 "Europe cannot afford to forget a fundamental truth: values and principles are not luxuries to be set aside when the pressure mounts". Great @theguardian.com opinion piece by @onethuthree.bsky.social & @jannikjansen.bsky.social:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Politica (ALACIP) @alacipcp.bsky.social · 20d

Colóquio Breve
La teoria politica frente al avance de las extremas derechas
Del diagnóstico a las alternativas utópicas
Responsables André Kaysel y Alejandro Sahui
Grupo de investigación teoría política
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TK6...

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 23d

A new paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social with a great team of researchers (inc @katemason.bsky.social). We lay out an updated framework for thinking about housing as a social determinant of health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Housing as a social determinant of health: a contemporary framework

Housing is a key social determinant of health. Healthy housing is affordable, suitable, and secure. It is characterised by warmth, dryness, and proper…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Rick van Well @rickvanwell.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why do #opposition parties sometimes support the government? My analyses show that parties use their votes in #parliament to shape how voters see them, what policies they can influence, and where they might end up after the next election @polscileiden.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Sep 3

💻 Drawing on over 75 years of data, @rickvanwell.bsky.social of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social explains that when deciding how to behave in parliament, 📊 opposition parties make strategic trade-offs between winning votes, entering government and influencing policy.
👉 bit.ly/3Vtw6WX

Why opposition parties sometimes help governments pass laws

Opposition parties are expected to challenge the government, but they do not simply oppose for opposition's sake. Drawing on over 75 years of data, Rick van Well explains that when deciding how to beh...

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a terrifying but unfortunately realistic description of how well coordinated and effective the demolition of law-based democratic institutions and norms has been — and how far from an effective counterforce the fragmented and disjointed resistance has mounted

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now

www.nytimes.com

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

32 USC § 502(f)(2) would violate Article IV of the Constitution if applied to support deployment of un-federalized out-of-state National Guard troops into a state that didn’t want those troops there, as with Trump’s proposed use of the Texas National Guard to invade Illinois

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Aug 27

"An 'overwhelming majority' of respondents said that Bluesky has a "vibrant and healthy online science community," while Twitter no longer does.."

#BlueskyforScience 🧪

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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Esteban Szmulewicz Ramírez @eszmulewicz.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you! It went great! Constructive feedback and great ideas for future research as well as more general advice about academic life.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

www.scrippsnews.com

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · Aug 7

🧁 Happy birthday to Elinor Ostrom!
Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. The committee recognized her work on "economic governance, especially the commons." We are not doomed to overuse our shared resources - sustainability through collaborative governance is possible.

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Esteban Szmulewicz Ramírez @eszmulewicz.bsky.social · Jul 28

@tarunkhaitan.bsky.social brilliantly quoting John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn", particularly the poem’s final lines: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”. impressive panel about desinformation, truth, and how to streghten democracies

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Esteban Szmulewicz Ramírez @eszmulewicz.bsky.social · Jul 27

Excellent! So many interesting panels and presentations!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · Jul 26

💥 📄Check out the 2025 ICON•S Conference Booklet!
It includes the full program and a complete index of speakers, chairs, and discussants.

Access it here 👉 icon-society.org/2025conferen...
#iconsbrasília

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Esteban Szmulewicz Ramírez @eszmulewicz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Super excited to be presenting 2 papers next week at the @icon-s.bsky.social conference in Brasilia!! So looking forward to discussing and learning new ideas and meeting old and new colleagues and friends. Hope to see you there!

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Jul 23

Europe has replaced the lost US aid to Ukraine in 2025.

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Boomerang Effect: How Disrespect for International Law Threatens Democracy | by Matthias Goldmann

The Boomerang Effect: How Disrespect for International Law Threatens Democracy

The allegiance of governments in the Global North to international law (sometimes endorsed in reductionist form as “the rules-based international order”) is currently experiencing an abrupt collapse. ...

www.ejiltalk.org

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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · Jul 18

🗓️ Just 10 days to go! Here's a glimpse of what's in store at the 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference in Brasília, Brazil 🇧🇷

Explore all plenary sessions, panels & events happening July 28–30:
🔗 app.oxfordabstracts.com/dashboard/ev...
#iconsbrasília

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · Jul 21

A leading Finnish software and methodologies company revealed that a Russian disinformation campaign was behind the non-confidence motion presented by Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea, vice-chair of the ECR Group. The motion was signed by 77 MEPs from various other far-right European political groups.

Motion against von der Leyen, Kremlin led the campaign since March; what the report reveals

We have been following Russian operations against the EU and the Commission President for some time

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 18

How wide is the margin of appreciation that states have when setting national carbon budgets under the ECtHR’s KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? 🌍📉

@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social and @orlakelleher.bsky.social explain why the margin is narrower than argued on this blog.

verfassungsblog.de/quantifying-...

Quote: An obligation to quantify each country’s fair share of the remaining global carbon budget associated with limiting global heating to 1.5°C flows from the judgment in KlimaSeniorinnen.

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adriennestone.bsky.social @adriennestone.bsky.social · Jul 19

Public discourse and comparative constitutional law: a research agenda by Ngoc Son Bui, out now and OPEN ACCESS @compconstudies.bsky.social 👇https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/ccs/ccs-overview.xml

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ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social · Jul 17

📽️📚 Check out the latest edition of the ICON•S New Scholarship Showcase, featuring "The Story of Constitutions" 🖋️ Wim Voermans
Maja Sahadzic in conversation w/ author.

🎧 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-J...

New Scholarship Showcase: The Story of Constitutions

YouTube video by ICON • S

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 13

On 11 June, Colombia’s President Petro defied the Constitution by decreeing a national popular consultation on social reforms – after the Senate had rejected it.

VICENTE F. BENÍTEZ-R. & FABIO PULIDO-ORTIZ detect a Schmittian turn in Colombia. 🇨🇴

verfassungsblog.de/colombia-aut...

Quote from the article by authors Vicente F. Benítez-R. & Fabio Pulido-Ortiz: “President Petro’s move is a repudiation of the Constitution’s core [...]. And it is a warning sign that an already powerful presidency may be sliding toward discretionary sovereign rule.”

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Jul 9

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking.

Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.

But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?

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New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

Why Clarity Feels Dangerous (Especially If You’re an Academic)

The Hardest Work in Writing Is Saying What You Really Mean

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Jul 8

Happy to contribute to this story on fertility decline in Chile by @aljazeera.com www.livetube.tv/news/video-c...

LiveTube News | Video: Chile's 'structural infertility': Deaths are outpacing births across Latin America

The number of women in Chile having children has dropped significantly. It has the lowest birth rate in Latin America, a region where motherhood is plummeting faster than anywhere else. Al Jazeera’s ...

www.livetube.tv

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 5

SCOTUS's last term was marked by more than a few disturbing developments.

LEAH LITMAN ‪(@leahlitman.bsky.social‬) on the delegitimization campaign against the lower federal courts and how Republican justices are legitimizing & enabling a lawless executive branch.

verfassungsblog.de/the-law-of-l...

Quote: As is too often the case, the Republican justices are legalizing the bad vibes of a Republican Party and president – here, utter lawlessness.

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