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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 2d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · 16d

As a first-gen student this step feels particularly unreal and more than ever I feel blessed for having had the chance to go to university. I cannot thank my mentors, companions and students in and outside academia enough for your continued support.

Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · 16d

Just in time for the courses starting at @Upf.edu, I am joining this vibrant institution as Assistant Professor today. I am beyond excited for the new chapter and grateful for the opportunity to continue doing what I love: conducting and teaching political science research.

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Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno @vchengm.bsky.social · 17d

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

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Inga Ulnicane @ingaulnicane.bsky.social · 20d

✨ Read all about our terrific ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies section with its 9 exciting panels on academic freedom, Artificial Intelligence, science diplomacy, universities & more at #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki in August here era.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/09/21/e... @ecpr.bsky.social

ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies 2025

The 2025 edition the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, 26-29 August. T

era.ideasoneurope.eu

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Sebastian Diessner @sebdiessner.bsky.social · 27d

💥 New article out @reggovjournal.bsky.social

Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden & Britain

@ndurazzi.bsky.social @federicofiletti.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social David Hope, Hanna Kleider

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Skill‐Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden and Britain

How have advanced capitalist democracies transitioned from a Fordist to a post-Fordist, knowledge-based economy? And why have they followed seemingly similar policy trajectories despite different eco...

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Anna Wilson @awilson1.bsky.social · Sep 9

Now open access 🥳

Anna Wilson @awilson1.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system

Political economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance ...

www.tandfonline.com

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DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social · Sep 1

The #Call for Proposals for the joint #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 of DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP is open. We are looking forward to panel and paper proposals until 14 November 2025!

👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun...

#CfP 11/14 #PolSci #PoliticalScience #Europe #Future #SpreadTheWord

Foto des Wandgemäldes "The Future is Europe" von NovaDead in Brüssel. Foto von Jeremy Segrott, Wikimedia. Oben links in blauer Schrift: Dreiländertagung. 17.-19. Juni 2026. Zeppelin Universität. Friedrichshafen. Darunter die Logos von DVPW, ÖGPW und SVPW/ASSP in Schwarz. Quer über das Bild blaue Streifen wie Absperrband, darauf in gelber Schrift: Call for Proposals bis 14. November 2025. Europas Zukunft - Zukunft Europa. Innere Spannungen und äußere Herausforderungen.

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Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Sep 1

2 weeks until deadline! :)

Mari Elken @marielken.bsky.social · Jun 26

Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!)

www.neonnet.no

Nettverk for organisasjonsforskning i Norge

www.neonnet.no

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality

Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · Aug 12

As a European studies scholar, I have always wanted to contribute with my research to @jcms-eu.bsky.social and now the time has come.
Find out how universities do not only benefit from EU project funding but actively shape EU policy at:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using, Promoting and Shaping Europeanisation Through Projectification: The Case of Higher Education Institutions

Actors who benefit from the European Union's (EU) opportunity structures strive to expand EU policy-making. A central manner of benefitting from EU opportunity structures is the acquisition of EU fun...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · May 7

JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚

We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues.

For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · May 2

📖 I am happy to have another publication announcement for anyone interested in the #EuropeanUniversitiesInitiative and/or #stakeholderconsultation when developing #flagshipinitiatives.
Martina Vukasovic and I delve into ressources exchanged to develop the EUI: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who you gonna call … when developing a flagship initiative in an area of limited EU competence? A resource exchange perspective on the development of the European Universities Initiative (EUI)

This study focuses on the role of stakeholder organisations in decision-making in an area of limited EU competence. Our case is a rather fast process of development of the European Universities Ini...

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · May 2

📚 My chapter "Allies in the Combat Against Climate Change? The Role of Climate Change for University Alliances" I contributed to the book "Higher Education Policy for Tackling Climate Change" (eds. Jouni Kekäle and Romulo Pinheiro) is published.
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Allies in the Combat Against Climate Change? The Role of Climate Change for University Alliances

While the formation of higher education institution (HEI) alliances is usually driven by purposes of internationalization, the European Union has recently turned to HEI alliances as problem solving to...

link.springer.com

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Stephanie Hofmann @stephofmann.bsky.social · Apr 22

How to organize European security? In this International Politics forum, we discuss European actors' choices between orchestrating existing and new institutional layers (compartmentalized multilateralism) or escaping consensus-making with new&old layers @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · Jan 24

Who is going to UACES @uaces.bsky.social conference 2025 and would be keen to act as discussant on a book panel?
The book is my forthcoming monograph on the territorial dimension of EU knowledge policy. Happy to provide more details! 📚
@uacesgf.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/The-Territor...

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Katarina Weßling @kadwe.bsky.social · Jan 24

Publication alert - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A while ago I realised that my Dutch colleagues found it quite unusual that German high-school graduates (Abiturient*innen) enter vocational training (VET) although they could enrol for higher education. So, we decided to write a paper about this.

tandfonline.com

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · Jan 16

Attention: Open call for a Ph.D. scholarship in my Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (we include all sub-fields). Excellent PhD Programme, great salary and it's in the middle of wonderful Copenhagen! Deadline for application: 25 February 2024. Start date: 1 September 2024

PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

jobportal.ku.dk

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · Dec 23

So thrilled to be signing off for Christmas break with a book contract under the tree. 📖
Stay tuned for next fall and wish me smooth editing! Also: happy Christmas everyone 🎄

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Inga Ulnicane @ingaulnicane.bsky.social · Nov 13

Calling all early career researchers working on knowledge politics & policies

Please submit your work for the excellent paper award from the @ecpr.bsky.social Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group

Deadline 1 February. More info here standinggroups.ecpr.eu/ecprknowledg...

Excellent Paper Competition 2023 | Knowledge Politics and Policies

standinggroups.ecpr.eu

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · Nov 10

🚨Publication alert🚨
Very pleased to see this article with @nilsstockmann.bsky.social out in the very first issue of Contemporary European Politics.
Find out more what we started looking at during an EU crisis themed PhD workshop here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Benjamin Leruth @benleruth.bsky.social · Nov 3

Call for papers 👇

On 21 February 2024, we will be hosting a workshop on "Exploring the Politics of Long-Termism", as part of my NWO-funded EXPLOT project.

There is some (at least partial) funding available to attend the event.

I'd be most grateful if you could share! polisky

Call for Papers:

Workshop: Exploring the Politics of Long-Termism
University of Groningen, Wednesday 21 February 2024

The “Exploring the Politics of Long-Termism” (EXPLOT) research team invites scholars from various disciplines in the social sciences to submit proposals for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop focused on exploring the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities associated with long-term thinking in politics. This workshop aims to foster meaningful discussions, exchange of ideas, and collaboration among researchers interested in the intersection of political science, public policy, history, sociology, (behavioural) economics, environmental studies, philosophy, and related fields.
Within the framework of this project, we seek to understand how political systems, institutions, and actors engage with long-term considerations in their decision-making processes.

Selected contributions will be invited to contribute to the edited volume “A Research Agenda for the Politics of Long-Termism”, contracted with Edward Elgar (to be submitted in the course of 2025), as well as a special issue proposal on the subject matter. Most importantly, this workshop aims at building an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars working on different aspects of political long-termism.

Partial financial support will be provided for selected participants who require it in order to come to Groningen, with priority being given to early-career researchers. This workshop will also be given in a hybrid setting, should interested colleagues be unable to join in person. Contributions from scholars based in the Global South are very much encouraged.

If you are interested in contributing, please send a short abstract (approx. 300 words) and a short biography (one paragraph) to b.j.j.leruth@rug.nl and r.kremer@rug.nl.

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European Societies @europeansocieties.bsky.social · Oct 30

NEW ARTICLE by @andreashaupt.bsky.social and Dafna Gelbgiser: More cognitive labor goes along with higher work–family conflict for women, but not for men.

OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

The unequal division of cognitive labor within households, and its potential association with mental load and stress, has gained substantial interest in recent public and scholarly discussions. We aim to deepen this debate theoretically and empirically. First, going beyond the question of whether the division of cognitive labor is gendered, we connect cognitive household labor with existing stress theories and ask whether men and women typically perform cognitive labor tasks that involve different levels of stress. We then discuss whether women perform these stressful tasks more often, making them more prone to higher levels of family–work conflict. Second, we test the association between the division of cognitive labor and family–work conflict empirically using large-scale survey data from 10 European countries within the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP). Results based on logistic regressions confirm that a high share of cognitive labor increases women’s family–work conflict, but

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Alina Felder-Stindt @europraline.bsky.social · Oct 29

Hi Paul :) I‘d also like to be added! Thank you for your time!